{"id":995,"date":"2021-05-14T17:37:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T17:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-583903-1890774.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=995"},"modified":"2021-09-02T21:50:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T01:50:47","slug":"shes-missing-a-paw-shes-like-me-how-a-dog-breeder-helped-create-a-lasting-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/05\/14\/shes-missing-a-paw-shes-like-me-how-a-dog-breeder-helped-create-a-lasting-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;She\u2019s Missing a Paw, She\u2019s Like Me\u201d: The Story of a Lasting Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Barb Felt isn\u2019t a matchmaker; not in the traditional sense. But she\u2019s helped create a relationship that seems destined to go the distance.<\/p>\n<p>Felt breeds golden retrievers, and one of her recent pups \u2014 Marvel \u2014 was born without a front right paw. \u201cWhen she was born, we knew right away: she has a special purpose,\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2021\/05\/09\/waconia-boy-with-prosthetic-leg-gets-puppy-born-without-paw\/\">Felt told CBS Minnesota<\/a><\/strong>. \u201cWe wanted her to go in a home with someone who had a limb difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That \u201csomeone\u201d turned out to be 7-year-old Paxton Williams, who at age 4 had his right foot amputated. Felt was introduced to the Williams family by Paxton\u2019s occupational therapist, and it wasn\u2019t long before Paxton and Marvel were becoming fast friends.<\/p>\n<p>Paxton\u2019s mom, Stephanie, says that the friendship runs deeper than just a boy and his dog. \u201cAs he\u2019s introducing Marvel to kids in the neighbourhood, it gives him the opportunity to tell the kids, \u2018Oh, she\u2019s missing a paw, she\u2019s like me.\u2019 It gives him that voice to advocate for himself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Barb Felt isn\u2019t a matchmaker; not in the traditional sense. But she\u2019s helped create a relationship that seems destined to go the distance. Felt breeds golden retrievers, and one of her recent pups \u2014 Marvel \u2014 was born without a front right paw. \u201cWhen she was born, we knew right away: she has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3438,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/3438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}