{"id":33262,"date":"2018-11-05T00:38:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T00:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33262"},"modified":"2018-11-05T00:38:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T00:38:51","slug":"puppy-tales-part-61-canine-intution-you-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33262","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Tales, Part 61: Canine intution? You bet!"},"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 hereby declare my belief in canine intuition.<\/p>\n<p>Toby the Puppy embodies it. I know it whenever we approach home. And by &#8220;approach,&#8221; I don&#8217;t mean walking up to the front door of our dwelling. He exhibits his understanding of his bearings blocks away.<\/p>\n<p>We came home this evening from a weekend trip to the Panhandle. We drove for more than six hours from Amarillo to our home in Fairview. As we made the exit off U.S. 75 about a mile from our residence, Toby perked up. He had been dozing for hours.<\/p>\n<p>He sat straight up. He looked around. He recognized his surroundings. He was ready to get out of the car. He knows where he is at all times.<\/p>\n<p>I have boasted through numerous previous blog posts about how smart Toby is. We&#8217;ve known it almost immediately upon his joining our family in September 2014. He adapted himself right away to life with a new family.<\/p>\n<p>And as we hit the road on our various travels around the country, he has shown himself to be an outstanding traveler. Toby is a road warrior <em>par excellence.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He also knows when he&#8217;s coming home. Even when he&#8217;s knocked out. Unconscious. Lights out!<\/p>\n<p>He wakes up. He&#8217;s ready to get out and make himself at home.<\/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 hereby declare my belief in canine intuition. Toby the Puppy embodies it. I know it whenever we approach home. And by &#8220;approach,&#8221; I don&#8217;t mean walking up to the front door of our dwelling. He exhibits his understanding of his bearings blocks away. We came home this evening from a weekend trip to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33262\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Puppy Tales, Part 61: Canine intution? You bet!<\/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":[6016],"class_list":["post-33262","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\/33262","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=33262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33263,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33262\/revisions\/33263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}