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I have boasted about my own adaptability in the face of upcoming big changes in our life.\u00a0However, I am a piker compared to Toby the Puppy when it comes to adaptability. For that matter, so is my wife.<\/p>\n

Toby has adjusted quite nicely to RV living. That, full-time<\/em> RV living.<\/p>\n

We have taken the plunge. We have vacated our house and moved full-time, all the time into our 28-foot fifth wheel.<\/p>\n

How has Toby the coped with the change? Just fine. Thanks for asking.<\/p>\n

He’s a puppy with relatively few needs. All he seems to insist on is for Mommy and Daddy to be nearby. We are happy to oblige.<\/p>\n

Yes, he has been forced to make his share of adjustments, just as my wife and I have made them. Perhaps the major adjustment in Toby’s life has been for him to tell<\/em> us he needs to go outside. It’s a non-verbal request, to be sure. He goes to the door of our RV, stands there looking anxious. My wife and I have become quite fluent puppy body language.<\/p>\n

It used to be easier for Toby. Going outside meant he would open the back door of our house and turn him loose into our fenced-in backyard. These days, the process requires us to attach a leash to his collar or his jacket. Then we have to go out with him.<\/p>\n

That is not an issue for either my wife or me.<\/p>\n

We still toss his toys and he still fetches them and brings them back to us.<\/p>\n

Toby sleeps through the night and in fact gets so comfortable he’s often the last one to roll out of the sack in the morning.<\/p>\n

Adaptable? Yep, Toby the Puppy is the canine definition of the term.<\/p>\n\n

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I have boasted about my own adaptability in the face of upcoming big changes in our life.\u00a0However, I am a piker compared to Toby the Puppy when it comes to adaptability. For that matter, so is my wife. Toby has adjusted quite nicely to RV living. That, full-time RV living. We have taken the plunge. … Continue reading Puppy Tales, Part 42<\/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":[9],"tags":[3920,4058,6016],"class_list":["post-26588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-retirement","tag-rv","tag-toby-the-puppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26588","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=26588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26591,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26588\/revisions\/26591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}