{"id":70452,"date":"2026-03-31T04:58:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/our-little-savior-partly-blind-new-mexico-dog-hailed-for-warding-off-bear\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:58:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:58:56","slug":"our-little-savior-partly-blind-new-mexico-dog-hailed-for-warding-off-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/our-little-savior-partly-blind-new-mexico-dog-hailed-for-warding-off-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our little savior\u2019: partly blind New Mexico dog hailed for warding off bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Bear slayer\u2019 Honey injured during confrontation to protect family and animals from ursine home invader <\/p>\n<p>A half-blind, 12-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/newmexico\">New Mexico<\/a> dog is being called \u201cbear slayer\u201d after she fended off an ursine intruder at her family\u2019s home, protecting dozens of chickens and other animals but only narrowly surviving the violent encounter.<\/p>\n<p>As told by her caretakers, the story of Honey demonstrates the extreme loyalty of dogs to their owners.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/31\/new-mexico-dog-bear\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Bear slayer\u2019 Honey injured during confrontation to protect family and animals from ursine home invader A half-blind, 12-year-old New Mexico dog is being called \u201cbear slayer\u201d after she fended off an ursine intruder at her family\u2019s home, protecting dozens of chickens and other animals but only narrowly surviving the violent encounter. As told by her &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Our little savior\u2019: partly blind New Mexico dog hailed for warding off bear\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/our-little-savior-partly-blind-new-mexico-dog-hailed-for-warding-off-bear\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Our little savior\u2019: partly blind New Mexico dog hailed for warding off bear\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}