{"id":14989,"date":"2016-06-03T03:50:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T03:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14989"},"modified":"2016-06-03T03:50:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T03:50:04","slug":"puppy-tales-part-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14989","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Tales, Part 20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Toby the Puppy has thrown us another curve ball.<\/p>\n

I’ve told you already about the kennel, about how we sought — upon acquiring him in September 2014 — to “train” him to sleep in it.<\/p>\n

He refused.<\/p>\n

We gave it about a week. He’d whimper and whine. We gave up. He’s been bunking with us every night since. We lay out a blanket. He curls up on it. We throw it over him and he spins twice and then lies down. Lights out for the night.<\/p>\n

That’s been the drill more or less ever since we surrendered to his sleeping whims.<\/p>\n

Lately, though, he’s done something a good bit different.<\/p>\n

He’s walking into the kennel voluntarily. On his own. No prompting. No cajoling. No bribery.<\/p>\n

Last night, he sauntered into the kennel at bed time.<\/p>\n

He curled up inside the carrier — and slept there for almost the entire night.<\/p>\n

Do I expect this to continue? Do I anticipate Toby has found a new favorite place to sleep? Umm. No. He remains a Mommy’s boy. He’ll want to cuddle with his mother at night.\u00a0Toby might give me a nod on occasion. That’s OK.<\/p>\n

As my wife and I have learned since we joined the ranks of dog owners (we’ve always been dog lovers<\/em>), our pooch is capable of surprising us daily.<\/p>\n

Toby already has\u00a0figured how to make us laugh at him daily.<\/p>\n

I’m sure there’ll be more surprises on the way.<\/p>\n\n

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Toby the Puppy has thrown us another curve ball. I’ve told you already about the kennel, about how we sought — upon acquiring him in September 2014 — to “train” him to sleep in it. He refused. We gave it about a week. He’d whimper and whine. We gave up. He’s been bunking with us … Continue reading Puppy Tales, Part 20<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6275,6016],"class_list":["post-14989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-puppy","tag-toby-the-puppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14991,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14989\/revisions\/14991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}