I partly decided on this title because it’s the first thing (yes I know, how unkind) that came to mind and I’m curious about why people love dogs so much. Especially the ugly ones.<\/p>\n
Perhaps there’s a clue in a song written by Cat Stevens over 51 years ago, ‘I Love My Dog’. A quick YouTube search will reveal countless versions. Many versions are personal and heartfelt tributes to lost friends.<\/p>\n
Those who are dog lovers will show a devotion to their canine companions to rival the very best of soulmates. Those who are not just don’t get it.<\/p>\n
I photographed this guy with his owner snoozing on a bench outside of a cafe in Kinsale. I’m not sure if the dog wanted to say hello or scare me off. Either way I stand by my title.<\/p>\n
Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Ugly Mutt’, 1\/30s f\/4.5 ISO100 200mm<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I partly decided on this title because it’s the first thing (yes I know, how unkind) that came to mind and I’m curious about why people love dogs so much. Especially the ugly ones. Perhaps there’s a clue in a song written by Cat Stevens over 51 years ago, ‘I Love My Dog’. A quick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[220,2060,176,2062,1991,2061,458,154],"class_list":["post-7241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animals","tag-canine","tag-dogs","tag-gaurddog","tag-kinsale","tag-mutt","tag-portrait","tag-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7243,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions\/7243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}