{"id":33784,"date":"2018-11-25T00:15:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T00:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33784"},"modified":"2018-11-25T00:15:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T00:15:02","slug":"puppy-tales-part-62-his-vocabulary-expands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33784","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Tales, Part 62: His vocabulary expands"},"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>You are looking at the face of a puppy with an ever-expanding English-language vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p>Toby the Puppy amazes my wife and me almost daily. This morning, though, the amazement rose to a new level. Here is what happened.<\/p>\n<p>I rolled over this morning and started to wake up. As I was getting my wits about me and preparing to roll out of the rack to start my day, Toby jumped on my chest.<\/p>\n<p>I started stroking the side of his face, the front of his neck . . . you know, the usual places puppies like to be stroked.<\/p>\n<p>Then I told Toby what my wife and I tell him multiple times every single day: <em>I love you<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>With that, he reached down and<em> licked my nose<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ah, hah!<\/em> A coincidence?<\/p>\n<p>I said it again: <em>I love you<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Toby did the same thing, again!<\/p>\n<p>What in the name of canine affection am I supposed to surmise from that? I didn&#8217;t do it a third time, but I will conclude only that our puppy understood what I was telling him. He knows the words. He responds quite appropriately.<\/p>\n<p>Who knew that a pooch could respond with such, umm, <em>humanity?<\/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>You are looking at the face of a puppy with an ever-expanding English-language vocabulary. Toby the Puppy amazes my wife and me almost daily. This morning, though, the amazement rose to a new level. Here is what happened. I rolled over this morning and started to wake up. As I was getting my wits about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33784\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Puppy Tales, Part 62: His vocabulary expands<\/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":[7410,6016],"class_list":["post-33784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-pet-parenthood","tag-toby-the-puppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33784","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=33784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33785,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33784\/revisions\/33785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}