{"id":33102,"date":"2018-10-27T13:07:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T13:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33102"},"modified":"2018-10-27T13:09:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T13:09:33","slug":"puppy-tales-part-60-yes-were-a-trio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33102","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Tales, Part 60: Yes, we&#8217;re a trio"},"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-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33103\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Puppy-Two-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Puppy-Two-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Puppy-Two-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Toby the Puppy is out of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been moping around the house. His &#8220;team&#8221; has been separated.<\/p>\n<p>You see, my wife &#8212; aka Toby&#8217;s mother &#8212; has been out of town the past few days. It&#8217;s just been the Puppy and me at home. He does all the things he normally does with me: He awakens every morning around the same time; we eats breakfast, we goes outside for his morning, um, potty walk; we play fetch with one of his squeaky toys for a good part of the day; he eats dinner and then we turn in for the night.<\/p>\n<p>However, he does none of it with quite the same gusto and joy that he displays when all three of us are together.<\/p>\n<p>My wife tells me that when she takes Toby for walks that he is anxious to return home to see &#8220;Daddy.&#8221; Since I cannot verify that with my own eyes (if you get my drift), I rely on my wife&#8217;s testimony. Given that I married the most honest woman on Earth more than 47 years ago, I have no reason to doubt that she&#8217;s telling me the unvarnished truth.<\/p>\n<p>And she informs me routinely that Toby loves yours truly, but he loves &#8220;he just loves me <em>more.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Toby the Puppy considers us to be a trio. He loves it when we&#8217;re all together. He&#8217;s in his element. He is safe and sound and he gets all the attention he deserves \u2026 which happens to be every ounce of it we can spare.<\/p>\n<p>OK, so he&#8217;s a bit out of sorts. He&#8217;s a little under the emotional weather at the moment. I keep telling him that Mommy is coming home soon, which seems to perk him up.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just not soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Toby the Puppy has just me.<\/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 is out of sorts. He&#8217;s been moping around the house. His &#8220;team&#8221; has been separated. You see, my wife &#8212; aka Toby&#8217;s mother &#8212; has been out of town the past few days. It&#8217;s just been the Puppy and me at home. He does all the things he normally does with me: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33102\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Puppy Tales, Part 60: Yes, we&#8217;re a trio<\/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":[3920,6016],"class_list":["post-33102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-retirement","tag-toby-the-puppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33102","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=33102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33106,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33102\/revisions\/33106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}