{"id":8959,"date":"2026-01-24T12:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/?p=8959"},"modified":"2026-01-26T06:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:27:32","slug":"troy-goes-to-penn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/troy-goes-to-penn\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Goes to Penn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>7-month-old Troy leaves to join Zack and Ashley in Philadelphia. Zack is a surgery resident at Penn. In addition to being part of Zack &amp; Ashley&#8217;s household, Troy is going to be a therapy dog at CHOP (Children&#8217;s Hospital of Pennsylvania). Troy&#8217;s calm temperament &#8211;rare in a working collie&#8211; is exactly what Zack needed for his work with children. <em>What a super life for Troy!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1014\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20260124_1651332002-1014x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20260124_1651332002-1014x1024.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20260124_1651332002-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20260124_1651332002-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20260124_1651332002-768x775.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/PXL_20260124_1651332002.jpg 1435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Zack and Ashley drove all the way from Philly today to pick Troy up. Conditions so bad that Zack didn&#8217;t even chance my drive way in an AWD and chains, so they walked the last 1\/2 mile of my driveway in 0\u00b0f temps to get their new boy. <strong>\u2713<\/strong> Seriousness and commitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Addendum<\/span>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a message from Zack after Troy&#8217;s first full day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"577\" height=\"64\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screen-Shot-2026-01-26-at-6.18.10-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screen-Shot-2026-01-26-at-6.18.10-AM.png 577w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screen-Shot-2026-01-26-at-6.18.10-AM-300x33.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7-month-old Troy leaves to join Zack and Ashley in Philadelphia. Zack is a surgery resident at Penn. In addition to being part of Zack &amp; Ashley&#8217;s household, Troy is going to be a therapy dog at CHOP (Children&#8217;s Hospital of Pennsylvania). Troy&#8217;s calm temperament &#8211;rare in a working collie&#8211; is exactly what Zack needed for<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/troy-goes-to-penn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Troy Goes to Penn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8959"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9000,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions\/9000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}