{"id":1243367,"date":"2022-11-04T04:48:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T04:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/04\/wii-more-like-woof-as-video-games-for-dogs-become-a-thing\/"},"modified":"2022-11-04T04:48:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T04:48:38","slug":"wii-more-like-woof-as-video-games-for-dogs-become-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/04\/wii-more-like-woof-as-video-games-for-dogs-become-a-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Wii? More like Woof, as video games for dogs become a thing \u2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\">File this in the \u201cdid not see that coming\u201d category; JoiPaw, an U.K.-based startup, is building a series of video games for dogs, with the ultimate goal of helping do further research into dementia among our four-legged furry friends.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below and go \u201cawww,\u201d if you like, but the company\u2019s founder is eager to highlight that this goes beyond entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to help the dogs live healthier lives through enrichment and also want to show the world how intelligent dogs are,\u201d shares Dersim Avdar, founder at JoiPaw, in an email to . \u201cWe humans tend to empathize and take better care of others when we realize they\u2019re closer to us than we think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I mean, with a pitch like that and a video like this, it would be im-paw-sible to say no.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"XYnvto0rJ2g\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dogs playing video games with Joipaw\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XYnvto0rJ2g?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File this in the \u201cdid not see that coming\u201d category; JoiPaw, an U.K.-based startup, is building a series of video games for dogs, with the ultimate goal of helping do further research into dementia among our four-legged furry friends. Check out the video below and go \u201cawww,\u201d if you like, but the company\u2019s founder is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1243369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}