{"id":219,"date":"2009-01-01T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pet-goddess.com\/5-kid-friendly-pets-4\/"},"modified":"2009-01-01T06:00:53","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T06:00:53","slug":"5-kid-friendly-pets-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guru-goddess.com\/petgoddess\/5-kid-friendly-pets-4\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Kid Friendly Pets 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><strong>Hamsters, Guinea Pigs, Gerbils<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">These members of the rodent family are inexpensive to purchase,<span>\u00a0 <\/span>and quite cute, but the incidentals such as cages, food, and toys may be a bit costly.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">They can provide hours of fun for kids, but the main drawbacks are chewing and gnawing, and not being able to put males in the same cage with one another.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">They also have a short lifespan.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>They require low maintenance as compared with a dog or cat, or dealing with the fish in a tank, but their cages should be cleaned regularly. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Note: Gerbils have large incisors which means they tend to bite, so its important to provide them with baby carrots or other vegetables since they love to chew on just about anything. Hamsters and guinea pigs tend to be a bit less lively.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamsters, Guinea Pigs, Gerbils\u00a0 These members of the rodent family are inexpensive to purchase,\u00a0 and quite cute, but the incidentals such as cages, food, and toys may be a bit costly.\u00a0 \u00a0 They can provide hours of fun for kids, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choosing-a-pet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guru-goddess.com\/petgoddess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guru-goddess.com\/petgoddess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guru-goddess.com\/petgoddess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guru-goddess.com\/petgoddess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guru-goddess.com\/petgoddess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guru-goddess.com\/petgoddess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guru-goddess.com\/petgoddess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guru-goddess.com\/petgoddess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guru-goddess.com\/petgoddess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}