{"id":26081,"date":"2017-11-11T13:40:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T13:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26081"},"modified":"2017-11-11T13:40:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T13:40:30","slug":"puppy-tales-part-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26081","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Tales, Part 41"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/puppy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25813\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/puppy-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/puppy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/puppy.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Toby the Puppy is going to have to share this blog post tribute with another member of our family &#8230; but he&#8217;s still a champ.<\/p>\n<p>Toby is comfortable around virtually all human beings. The only group of people that makes him slightly uncomfortable is young ones, mainly those of toddler age.<\/p>\n<p>Well, you can scratch little Emma Nicole &#8212; our precious granddaughter &#8212; from the list of young ones who give Toby the Puppy the heebie-jeebies.<\/p>\n<p>Emma and her Daddy &#8212; the younger of our two sons &#8212; arrived this weekend for a visit. We were waiting outside for them and the moment Toby saw little Emma jump out of the car &#8230; well, let&#8217;s just say he went nuts.<\/p>\n<p>He greeted Emma the way he greets his Mommy and me when we&#8217;ve been away for any length of time. Indeed, he gets hyper-excited when we&#8217;re gone for <em>20 minutes<\/em>, let alone for two hours! Emma got the treatment he reserves for those he recognizes, which is a very good thing, given that we still live some distance from Emma &#8212; <em>for the time being<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>How did our little 4-year-old react to the enthusiastic greeting? She loved it! Indeed, she loves Toby very much and showers him with plenty of tender, loving care.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, I should add that Toby and Madden &#8212; our granddaughter&#8217;s large and loving black Lab &#8212; also are big-time pals. Toby weighs about 10 pounds; Madden, aka &#8220;Mad Dog,&#8221; tips the beam at around 80 pounds, give or take. They play and tussle with great enthusiasm whenever they&#8217;re together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/emma-and-madden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26082\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/emma-and-madden-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/emma-and-madden-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/emma-and-madden.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The weekend figures to be a fun event for little Emma, who gets to play with her &#8220;other&#8221; puppy. As for Toby, he too will be in his element, enjoying the endless supply of TLC that Emma will deliver.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toby the Puppy is going to have to share this blog post tribute with another member of our family &#8230; but he&#8217;s still a champ. Toby is comfortable around virtually all human beings. The only group of people that makes him slightly uncomfortable is young ones, mainly those of toddler age. Well, you can scratch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26081\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Puppy Tales, Part 41<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[9],"tags":[7410,6016],"class_list":["post-26081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-pet-parenthood","tag-toby-the-puppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26081","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=26081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26083,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26081\/revisions\/26083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}