{"id":37563,"date":"2019-06-19T00:33:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T00:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37563"},"modified":"2019-06-19T00:33:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T00:33:12","slug":"puppy-tales-part-72-running-afoul-with-a-neighbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37563","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Tales, Part 72: Running afoul with a neighbor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Well, this is a “life experience” I didn’t anticipate commenting on in this blog. But I will anyway.<\/p>\n

My wife and I routinely take Toby the Puppy on walks through our neighborhood. We have the routine down pat. We put his harness on him and grab a small plastic “poopy bag” — or maybe two. We use the bag to, um, pick up after Toby in the event he needs to relieve<\/em> himself.<\/p>\n

We did all of that this evening.\u00a0We strolled west along our street, then south along a short street, then headed east on a street parallel to our own.<\/p>\n

Toby then had to go. So \u2026 he did. I stooped over with the bag and picked up his “calling card.”<\/p>\n

That’s when the sh** kinda\/sorta hit the fan — if you will please pardon the pun.<\/p>\n

The gentleman who owns the house that sits on the yard told us that we were standing on “private property.” My first reaction was that I thought he was making some sort of joke. He wasn’t. He was angry that Toby pooped on his lawn.<\/p>\n

I told the fellow that I picked it up. His yard was clean. The fellow’s anger wasn’t assuaged. He said “that doesn’t matter. You need to teach him not to do that.”<\/p>\n

Huh?\u00a0At that point, we walked away. We deposited the soiled poopy bag in the trash receptacle down the street.<\/p>\n

I am unaware of any training techniques one can use to “teach” a dog not to do what comes naturally to a pooch. I’ve always figured that the best option is to be ready to pick up after a dog — which we do without fail.<\/em><\/p>\n

I think I’ll add this little caveat to the fellow who got angry with Toby the Puppy: Our un-neighborly neighbor<\/em> spoke in what sounded to my ear like an East Coast accent, <\/em>quite possibly from, say, the New York area.<\/p>\n

Hey, I’m not casting aspersions on those who hail from that part of the country. I’m just sayin’ \u2026 man.<\/p>\n\n

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Well, this is a “life experience” I didn’t anticipate commenting on in this blog. But I will anyway. My wife and I routinely take Toby the Puppy on walks through our neighborhood. We have the routine down pat. We put his harness on him and grab a small plastic “poopy bag” — or maybe two. … Continue reading Puppy Tales, Part 72: Running afoul with a neighbor<\/span> →<\/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-37563","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\/37563","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=37563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37564,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37563\/revisions\/37564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}