{"id":21980,"date":"2018-06-29T08:33:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T16:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=21980"},"modified":"2018-06-29T08:34:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T16:34:30","slug":"spike-2002-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/spike-2002-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike 2002-2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Until one has loved an animal a part of one&#8217;s soul remains unawakened.&#8221; &#8212; <strong>Anatole France<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21981\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Spike-McKee-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Spike-McKee-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Spike-McKee-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Spike-McKee-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Spike-McKee-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Spike-McKee.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Part of Jennifer&#8217;s and my soul was unawakened until we adopted <strong>Spike<\/strong>\u00a0last Nov. 25. He was discovered through an online ad in the <em>Augusta Chronicle<\/em>. Jenny fell in love with his face and when I read &#8220;He is sad at the shelter,&#8221; my heart just broke. Spike made a seamless transition into our three-cat household and enjoyed his new role as alpha male of the group. (He also gave <!--more--><strong>J<\/strong><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><strong>&#8216;Adoube<\/strong> somebody to chase.) Although he was only with us a short time, he left indelible memories in our minds and little footprints on our souls. His fatal illness &#8212; liver cancer &#8212; may have been incubating when we adopted him but it seemed to come on quite suddenly, his ultimate decline happening in the space of a week. This morning, around 4:30 a.m., he died in Jennifer&#8217;s arms, well-loved to the last. Now he goes to romp with <strong>Fasolt<\/strong>, <strong>Mr. Bit<\/strong>, <strong>Shadow<\/strong>, <strong>Rascal<\/strong>, <strong>Tiger<\/strong> and <strong>Christmas<\/strong> in that big rumpus room in the sky. Thank you, Spike, for\u00a0the gift of yourself. We are much the better for it. Portrait by Jennifer McKee.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Until one has loved an animal a part of one&#8217;s soul remains unawakened.&#8221; &#8212; Anatole France Part of Jennifer&#8217;s and my soul was unawakened until we adopted Spike\u00a0last Nov. 25. He was discovered through an online ad in the Augusta &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/spike-2002-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[98,28,99],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21982,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21980\/revisions\/21982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}