{"id":16878,"date":"2012-10-18T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=16878"},"modified":"2012-10-17T23:16:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T04:16:17","slug":"so-youve-rescued-dogs-and-cats-but-how-about-a-baby-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=16878","title":{"rendered":"So you&#8217;ve rescued dogs and cats, but how about a baby elephant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Moses-baby-elephant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16879\" title=\"Moses-baby elephant\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Moses-baby-elephant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Moses-baby-elephant.jpg 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Moses-baby-elephant-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve rescued many cats and dogs, but some folks in\u00a0Malawi have an unusual rescue going on. They&#8217;re raising a baby elephant.<\/p>\n<p>Moses is almost 8 months old now, but when he was found in the\u00a0Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve in Malawi, he was alone and close to death.\u00a0Jenny Webb, who owns the Jumbo Foundation, took the tiny elephant in and adopted him. He&#8217;s being raised with an interesting assortment of humans, dogs and other animals. If you love animals, <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.mercurynews.com\/2012\/10\/16\/photos-moses-the-orphan-elephant-gets-a-home\/\" target=\"_blank\">I think you&#8217;ll enjoy the pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As much as I like elephants, I&#8217;m not sure whether he&#8217;d fit in here at my townhouse, so I&#8217;m glad Webb and Co. found him instead of me. I can&#8217;t look at the pictures without hearing &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kf8BT3wbZSo\" target=\"_blank\">Baby Elephant Walk<\/a>&#8221; in my mind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Moses-baby-elephant-with-dogs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16880\" title=\"Moses-baby elephant-with dogs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Moses-baby-elephant-with-dogs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Moses-baby-elephant-with-dogs.jpg 458w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Moses-baby-elephant-with-dogs-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve rescued many cats and dogs, but some folks in\u00a0Malawi have an unusual rescue going on. They&#8217;re raising a baby elephant. Moses is almost 8 months old now, but when he was found in the\u00a0Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve in Malawi, he was alone and close to death.\u00a0Jenny Webb, who owns the Jumbo Foundation, took the <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=16878\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-4oe","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16878"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16885,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16878\/revisions\/16885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}