{"id":40583,"date":"2020-01-01T14:34:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T14:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40583"},"modified":"2020-01-01T14:35:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T14:35:31","slug":"puppy-tales-part-hey-hes-got-his-foibles-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40583","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Tales, Part 81: Hey, he&#8217;s got his foibles, too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=TobythePuppy%20%23HappyNewYear%20%23FourthofJuly%20%23fireworks&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/toby-the-cute-puppy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39681\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/toby-the-cute-puppy-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/toby-the-cute-puppy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/toby-the-cute-puppy.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am obligated to report that despite what you might have inferred, Toby the Puppy does not leap tall buildings in a single bound, or is faster than a speeding bullet. He is not a version of Super Dog.<\/p>\n<p>He has his foibles. One of them is fireworks. He hates &#8217;em. They make him super jumpy. We saw evidence of it this past Fourth of July attending a fireworks show at Lake Bob Sandlin in East Texas. The rockets&#8217; red glare &#8212; accompanied by plenty of noise &#8212; frightened our brave watchdog.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight as the world welcomed in 2020, fireworks were going off all over our Collin County neighborhood. Toby the Puppy heard &#8217;em. He didn&#8217;t like it one little bit.<\/p>\n<p>We tried to turn in at our regular time, a little after 10 p.m. Our granddaughter, Emma, had conked out earlier. Was the puppy ready to snuggle with us at the normal time? <em>Hah!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even after the fireworks began to subside, he was having none of it. Up and down all night. He didn&#8217;t want to go outside to, um, take care of his business. <em>Oh, no!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dogs, of course, can hear things we mere humans cannot hear. So I&#8217;m guessing this morning he was hearing noises that were beyond our earshot.<\/p>\n<p>I remain immensely proud of our Toby the Puppy. However, he has his limitations \u2026 just like the rest of us.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=TobythePuppy%20%23HappyNewYear%20%23FourthofJuly%20%23fireworks&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am obligated to report that despite what you might have inferred, Toby the Puppy does not leap tall buildings in a single bound, or is faster than a speeding bullet. He is not a version of Super Dog. He has his foibles. One of them is fireworks. He hates &#8217;em. They make him super &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40583\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Puppy Tales, Part 81: Hey, he&#8217;s got his foibles, too<\/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":[1785,6808,6016],"class_list":["post-40583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-happy-new-year","tag-toby-the-puppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40583","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=40583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40585,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40583\/revisions\/40585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}