{"id":30758,"date":"2018-07-05T01:46:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T01:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30758"},"modified":"2018-07-05T03:21:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T03:21:36","slug":"puppy-tales-part-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30758","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Tales, Part 53"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It’s settled. Toby the Puppy has proven to me that he has deductive reasoning skills.<\/p>\n

I’ll give you a case in point.<\/p>\n

When my wife and I leave our new home for any length of time — and we keep the puppy at home by himself — we return and are greeted with tail wags and lots of love at the door by Toby.<\/p>\n

He doesn’t make a sound. He just is happy to see his parents return.<\/p>\n

Now … when we all are together — my wife, Toby the Puppy and yours truly — and someone knocks on the door, Toby goes nuts. He barks angrily with a bark that belies his diminutive size. In other words, he sounds much bigger<\/em> than he is. My wife and I are grateful that he isn’t a yipper\/yapper dog. He sounds<\/em> tough.<\/p>\n

My point? It is that Toby knows to bark when his mother and I are with him; when he’s alone, he presumes that we are on the other side of the door waiting to walk in.<\/p>\n

Yes, Toby is one smart puppy. I keep telling you this. Please take my word for it. He knows many things.<\/p>\n\n

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It’s settled. Toby the Puppy has proven to me that he has deductive reasoning skills. I’ll give you a case in point. When my wife and I leave our new home for any length of time — and we keep the puppy at home by himself — we return and are greeted with tail wags … Continue reading Puppy Tales, Part 53<\/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":[6016],"class_list":["post-30758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-toby-the-puppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30758","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=30758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30764,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30758\/revisions\/30764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}