{"id":47021,"date":"2021-03-15T01:22:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T01:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47021"},"modified":"2021-03-15T01:22:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T01:22:32","slug":"puppy-tales-part-89-the-reaction-is-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47021","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Tales, Part 89: The reaction is clear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By JOHN KANELIS<\/strong> \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Toby the Puppy is the first pooch to join our family in … ever! <\/em>We had a couple of dogs but they didn’t stay long enough to become assimilated into our household.<\/p>\n

My wife and I, therefore, became pretty fluent in kitty speak over many decades of welcoming cats into our home. It has taken a bit of time to learn puppy speak, but Toby the Puppy makes it a bit easier.<\/p>\n

Lately, he has adopted a new way of communicating whether he is ready to embark somewhere with his parents, my wife and me.<\/p>\n

What does he do? Well, we will say, “Do you want to go for a walk, Puppy?” If he does, then he runs for any one of about six or seven toys scattered around the house. He grabs the toy and shakes it violently. That means, in puppy speak, that “yes, I want to go for a walk.”<\/p>\n

He will do the same thing if he is ready to go for a ride in the truck. Or if he is ready to see our granddaughter Emma when she comes over for some play time.<\/p>\n

We already are aware of how he recognizes certain words, such as treat, or walk, or Emma. We don’t say those words until we are prepared for his enthusiastic response. Plus, we don’t want to let him down if we let those words slip out at the wrong time.<\/p>\n

However, our puppy has become very adept at letting us know when we say the right word at the right time.<\/p>\n\n

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By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Toby the Puppy is the first pooch to join our family in … ever! We had a couple of dogs but they didn’t stay long enough to become assimilated into our household. My wife and I, therefore, became pretty fluent in kitty speak over many decades of welcoming cats into … Continue reading Puppy Tales, Part 89: The reaction is clear<\/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-47021","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\/47021","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=47021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47023,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47021\/revisions\/47023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}