{"id":32061,"date":"2018-09-02T00:45:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T00:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32061"},"modified":"2018-09-02T00:45:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T00:45:44","slug":"puppy-tales-part-56-memory-never-fails-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32061","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Tales, Part 56: Memory never fails him"},"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\/2018\/09\/Puppy-Two.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32062\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Puppy-Two-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Puppy-Two-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Puppy-Two.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Toby the Puppy&#8217;s memory is like a steel trap. A vise. He never forgets. Anything.<\/p>\n<p>We returned home to Fairview today after spending more than two weeks on the road. We hauled our fifth wheel north and west: through Denver, through Wyoming, to West Yellowstone, Mont., then to Grand Coulee, Wash.<\/p>\n<p>Then we came back home.<\/p>\n<p>More than two weeks on the road, man!<\/p>\n<p>What does Toby do the instant we walked into our digs in Fairview? He ran straight for where he stashed one of his toys and dropped at his Mommy&#8217;s feet. He wanted her to throw it. Now! It was time to play fetch\/catch.<\/p>\n<p>Holy cow! I was stunned. Our puppy was home. He knew immediately where to find the item he knew was to be tossed, so he can fetch it and bring it back.<\/p>\n<p>All the activity we saw on our marvelous sojourn out west was ancient history in Toby&#8217;s mind.<\/p>\n<p>He was ready to resume the fun of being home.<\/p>\n<p>Man, I am worn out. It will have to wait until the morning.<\/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&#8217;s memory is like a steel trap. A vise. He never forgets. Anything. We returned home to Fairview today after spending more than two weeks on the road. We hauled our fifth wheel north and west: through Denver, through Wyoming, to West Yellowstone, Mont., then to Grand Coulee, Wash. Then we came back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32061\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Puppy Tales, Part 56: Memory never fails him<\/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":[7949,3920,6016,7980],"class_list":["post-32061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-grand-coulee-dam","tag-retirement","tag-toby-the-puppy","tag-yellowstone-np"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32061","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=32061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32063,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32061\/revisions\/32063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}