{"id":46751,"date":"2021-02-26T02:24:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T02:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46751"},"modified":"2021-02-26T02:31:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T02:31:27","slug":"puppy-tales-part-88-brave-and-skittish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46751","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Tales, Part 88: Brave and skittish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Toby the Puppy has a remarkable memory.<\/p>\n

He once was fearless. Nothing seemed to bother him when he joined our family in early September 2014. Then we went to a Fourth of July celebration in the summer of 2019. He heard fireworks exploding and, shall we say, became frightened by its sound.<\/p>\n

Toby the Puppy hasn’t been the same ever since.<\/p>\n

It is stormy tonight in North Texas. The sky is lighting up. The thunder is loud. My wife and I enjoy the sound. Not our beloved puppy.<\/p>\n

The sounds that never used to make him flinch, now send him scurrying for cover.<\/p>\n

Bear in mind that this is the same pooch who acts tough in the presence of much larger doggie beasts. He acts — and sounds with his big, throaty bark — like the meanest Rottweiler you’ll ever hear.<\/p>\n

However, he isn’t mean. Not at all. He is gentle and let’s not forget that he weighs about 13 pounds.<\/p>\n

Not even a Rottweiler could overpower the sounds we’re hearing tonight. So, our puppy is in good company.<\/p>\n

If only we could persuade him that the thunder and lightning won’t hurt him. Or us.<\/p>\n\n

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By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Toby the Puppy has a remarkable memory. He once was fearless. Nothing seemed to bother him when he joined our family in early September 2014. Then we went to a Fourth of July celebration in the summer of 2019. He heard fireworks exploding and, shall we say, became frightened by … Continue reading Puppy Tales, Part 88: Brave and skittish<\/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":[7493,6016],"class_list":["post-46751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-north-texas","tag-toby-the-puppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46751","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=46751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46754,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46751\/revisions\/46754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}