{"id":602655,"date":"2026-02-20T04:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/602655\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T04:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:59:17","slug":"former-bait-dog-competing-to-be-americas-favorite-pet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/602655\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ‘bait dog’ competing to be ‘America’s Favorite Pet’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Former <\/p>\n

HUNTSVILLE, Texas<\/strong> – Robin<\/a>, the now-former bait dog, could win $10,000 and grace the cover of Modern Dog magazine.<\/p>\n

Former \u2018bait dog\u2019 in national competition <\/p>\n

The backstory:<\/p>\n

Kati Krouse, who’s fostered hundreds of dogs, found the nearly dead pittie in Sam Houston National Forest. She rushed the emaciated dog to the vet.<\/p>\n

In addition to numerous open wounds and bone-eating bacteria, part of Robin’s face was gone from dog fights.<\/p>\n

What you can do:<\/p>\n

Kati became Kati’s foster family. Now she’s hoping Robin can become America’s Favorite Pet<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You can cast your vote here<\/a> for free or for a fee until February 27.<\/p>\n

Kati wants Robin’s participation in the program to show the public that pitties used as bait dogs can become great family dogs.<\/p>\n

Pets and Animals<\/a>Huntsville<\/a>Walker County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Robin, the now-former bait dog, could win $10,000 and grace the cover of Modern Dog…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":602656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,14877,50,8047,358,3187,68,259415],"class_list":{"0":"post-602655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-huntsville","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pets-animals","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-walker-county"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116101196332612383","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}