{"id":29894,"date":"2018-05-22T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29894"},"modified":"2018-05-22T03:00:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T03:00:16","slug":"puppy-tales-part-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29894","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Tales, Part 50"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am absolutely certain that a number of you are concerned about Toby the Puppy’s adjustment to his new home.<\/p>\n

The three of us — my wife, Toby and yours truly — have moved to Fairview, Texas. My wife and I spent more than two decades in the Texas Panhandle. Toby’s time there? All four years of his life on Earth.<\/p>\n

How’s he doing? Better than I am, to be candid.<\/p>\n

Our puppy is the most adaptable creature God ever produced. Nothing — not a single thing<\/em> — bothers him as long as he is within earshot and eyesight of his mother and me. I kid you not!<\/em><\/p>\n

He hasn’t lost a single night of sleep. He hasn’t missed a meal. He continues to insist we dote on him constantly, which my wife and I are more than willing, let alone able<\/em>, to do.<\/p>\n

Here might be the coolest part yet: Our move puts us closer to our granddaughter and to her puppy, a hulking black Lab named Madden — who happens to be one of Toby’s best friends.<\/p>\n

Emma is so very loving with Toby; she’s gentle and she is acutely aware of how to approach him. As for our puppy, he loves little Emma — a lot!<\/em><\/p>\n

And Madden, aka “Mad Dog”? Toby cannot wait to see him every time we approach our son and daughter-in-law’s house in Allen. He pulls on his leash, quick-stepping his way to the front door, as if he’s saying, “Let me at him!” <\/em><\/p>\n

Our move now enables Toby the Puppy and his BFF, Madden\/Mad Dog, to spend more quality time together running at dead sprints across Madden’s back yard.<\/p>\n

This retirement journey on which my wife and I have launched doesn’t just involve our lives. We have Toby the Puppy to consider, too.<\/p>\n

I am happy to report here and now that our puppy is doing just fine.<\/p>\n\n

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I am absolutely certain that a number of you are concerned about Toby the Puppy’s adjustment to his new home. The three of us — my wife, Toby and yours truly — have moved to Fairview, Texas. My wife and I spent more than two decades in the Texas Panhandle. Toby’s time there? All four … Continue reading Puppy Tales, Part 50<\/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":[6613,3920,6016],"class_list":["post-29894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-emma","tag-retirement","tag-toby-the-puppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29894","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=29894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29896,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29894\/revisions\/29896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}