{"id":32740,"date":"2018-10-10T19:17:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T19:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32740"},"modified":"2018-10-10T19:17:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T19:17:27","slug":"puppy-tales-part-59-speaking-in-complete-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32740","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Tales, Part 59: Speaking in complete sentences"},"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\/10\/Puppy-Two.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32741\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Puppy-Two-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Puppy-Two-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Puppy-Two.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know I am repeating myself, but I&#8217;ll do so anyway: Toby the Puppy is the smartest canine God ever created.<\/p>\n<p>He demonstrate this morning what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>We had a visitor early today. Our younger son stopped by at the start of his day to have a cup of coffee and a pastry with his mother and me.<\/p>\n<p>I told Toby about 20 minutes before our son&#8217;s arrival to be sure &#8220;not to bark. It&#8217;s going to be your &#8220;brother,&#8221; and when he knocks on the door, you don&#8217;t need to bark. Have you got that?&#8221; That pretty much repeats what I told him.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned it to Toby because the drill usually goes something like this: When my wife and I are inside our residence, Toby barks at the knock on the door; when either of us is coming into our place, Toby knows instinctively its either his &#8220;mother&#8221; or me. He doesn&#8217;t bark.<\/p>\n<p>Today, when our son knocked on the door \u2026 Toby was quiet. He didn&#8217;t bark. He wagged his tail and when his &#8220;brother&#8221; walked in, Toby delivered the requisite licks &#8212; and then brought one of his fetch toys for our son to throw for Toby to retrieve.<\/p>\n<p>What staggers me at this moment as I recall this bit of brilliance from our puppy is that I spoke to him in complete sentences, kind of like the way Lassie&#8217;s family talked to her, or the way Flipper the fish, er, dolphin would receive instructions on how to save a boater from disaster.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tellin&#8217; ya, this puppy continues to amaze me <em>every single day.\u00a0<\/em><\/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>I know I am repeating myself, but I&#8217;ll do so anyway: Toby the Puppy is the smartest canine God ever created. He demonstrate this morning what I mean. We had a visitor early today. Our younger son stopped by at the start of his day to have a cup of coffee and a pastry with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32740\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Puppy Tales, Part 59: Speaking in complete sentences<\/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":[8032,6016],"class_list":["post-32740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-lassie","tag-toby-the-puppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32740","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=32740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32742,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32740\/revisions\/32742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}