{"id":55,"date":"2009-01-01T18:35:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T01:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/letterstofamouspeople\/?p=55"},"modified":"2009-01-01T18:35:57","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T01:35:57","slug":"dear-william-wegman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/dear-william-wegman\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear William Wegman,"},"content":{"rendered":"

My husband and I bonded as we courted over your photos. We have just about every book you ever published — children’s and art. The only missing one is a counting board book that had one entry featuring a stuffed bear with really googly eyes. It totally freaked out my son so we had to banish it. But aside from that, we have them all. Every year, Husband’s office has your regular calendar and mine displays the puppy calendar.<\/p>\n

I don’t understand, as someone who loves dogs so much, how you could continue to dock the tails of your dogs. The American Veterinary Medical Association<\/a> is against cosmetic docking of tails and ears; it’s illegal in much of Europe and in Australia. There is no good reason for it other than some people thinks it looks better. So you are subjecting dogs to surgery and its potential risks and the pain of recovery for the sake of how it looks. Frankly, I like the way a natural tail demonstrates a dog’s opinion of his world, of how she feels about herself, or you.<\/p>\n

You are an artist, and that makes how things look important to you. But really, would you force your child to have unnecessary surgery just to make a piece of art look better? That’s what you’re doing every time you dock a puppy’s tail.<\/p>\n

We still love your work. We just hope to see some with the curved exclamation point of the dogs’ tail soon.<\/p>\n

Happy New Year.<\/p>\n

Lisa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My husband and I bonded as we courted over your photos. We have just about every book you ever published — children’s and art. The only missing one is a counting board book that had one entry featuring a stuffed bear with really googly eyes. It totally freaked out my son so we had to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[239,778,310],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","tag-avma","tag-pets","tag-william-wegman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}