{"id":831,"date":"2025-12-01T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/?p=831"},"modified":"2025-06-05T22:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T22:37:58","slug":"bodega_cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/bodega_cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodega cats aren&#8217;t just cute; some in N.Y. also consider them working animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_832\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-832\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/04\/24\/nx-s1-5339780\/bodega-cats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-832 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bodega-cats-300x200.png\" alt=\"Bodega Cats\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bodega-cats-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bodega-cats-1024x681.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bodega-cats-768x511.png 768w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bodega-cats-1536x1022.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bodega-cats.png 1710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lanna Apisukh for NPR\/Lanna Apisukh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Bodegas are convenience stores, which sell everything from beer to batteries to lottery tickets. Many of them have cats, not just as companion pets, but also to take care of rodents and attract customers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But since many of these bodegas serve food, their feline residents are, strictly speaking, illegal in New York City&#8230;.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/04\/24\/nx-s1-5339780\/bodega-cats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bodegas are convenience stores, which sell everything from beer to batteries to lottery tickets. Many of them have cats, not just as companion pets, but also to take care of rodents and attract customers. But since many of these bodegas serve food, their feline residents are, strictly speaking, illegal in New York City&#8230;.\u201d More&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets","tag-cat-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}