{"id":260964,"date":"2026-01-01T03:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/260964\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T03:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:21:14","slug":"i-wonder-if-friends-come-to-see-me-or-my-assistance-dog-mozart-everyone-loves-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/260964\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I wonder if friends come to see me or my assistance dog Mozart \u2013 everyone loves him\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Grace McIntyre can\u2019t imagine life without the six-year-old poodle she got through Irish Dogs for the Disabled \u2013 now she wants everyone to know how invaluable these animals are\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"grace mcintyre and Mozart\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dcc5ddf9-58e1-4f48-891f-a2ef336a6a6e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">grace mcintyre and Mozart<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Before she got Mozart, Grace McIntyre says people would stare at her and her wheelchair. \u201cNow they don\u2019t, because they don\u2019t see my disability \u2013 they just see Mozart,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mozart is a six-year-old poodle, an assistance dog that Grace got through Irish Dogs for the Disabled, the non-profit organisation based in Cork that trains dogs to assist people with physical disabilities to achieve greater independence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grace McIntyre can\u2019t imagine life without the six-year-old poodle she got through Irish Dogs for the Disabled \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,23,81745],"class_list":{"0":"post-260964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-latest-news-ticker","13":"tag-news-in-90-seconds"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115817695442242073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}