{"id":42346,"date":"2020-04-20T17:36:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T17:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42346"},"modified":"2020-04-20T17:36:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T17:36:19","slug":"puppy-tales-part-84-no-yapping-from-this-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42346","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Tales, Part 84: No yapping from this guy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=retirement%20%23TobythePuppy&#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>You know by now that we consider Toby the Puppy to be just about perfect and I am going to provide you with a brief explanation of why we believe it.<\/p>\n<p>We like taking Toby on walks through our neighborhood. It&#8217;s often a twice-daily ritual. When we do, we are greeted almost always by barking dogs locked up in homes along the way. We walk by the front yard, the dogs start barking.<\/p>\n<p>If they are small pooches, the barks are more yippy and yappy. You know what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>Toby the Puppy&#8217;s reaction to that commotion? He doesn&#8217;t even flinch. He keeps on walking. He doesn&#8217;t respond to the barks, the yips and yaps directed &#8212; I am quite certain &#8212; squarely at him.<\/p>\n<p>You also know that Toby the Puppy is not a big dog. He is a Chihuahua mix, a mutt who tips the beam at roughly 13 pounds. He&#8217;s more or less a lap dog.<\/p>\n<p>He also has a bark that sounds as if it comes from a much larger pooch. I mean it. Toby&#8217;s bark is not a yip. He barks<em> loudly<\/em> \u2026 on the infrequent occasions he chooses to bark. That is not often at all.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t bark at other dogs walking in front of <em>our<\/em> house. He barely pays them any attention at all. He barks when people come to the front door. He&#8217;ll issue a warning bark to the visitor and then, when we instruct him, he quiets down.<\/p>\n<p>We have had friends with smallish dogs. One in particular had a pooch that would start barking incessantly whenever we crossed our legs while sitting in our friend&#8217;s living room. Fortunately, we do not have that issue with our precious puppy.<\/p>\n<p>He makes us proud \u2026 and we certainly tell him so.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=retirement%20%23TobythePuppy&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know by now that we consider Toby the Puppy to be just about perfect and I am going to provide you with a brief explanation of why we believe it. We like taking Toby on walks through our neighborhood. It&#8217;s often a twice-daily ritual. When we do, we are greeted almost always by barking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42346\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Puppy Tales, Part 84: No yapping from this guy<\/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-42346","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\/42346","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=42346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42347,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42346\/revisions\/42347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}