{"id":53796,"date":"2022-12-18T03:52:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T03:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53796"},"modified":"2022-12-18T03:52:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T03:52:22","slug":"toby-the-puppy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53796","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Tales, Part 99: He&#8217;s dressing himself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tobypuppy-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51209\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tobypuppy-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tobypuppy-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tobypuppy-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You know by now that Toby the Puppy is a smart pooch, perhaps the smartest pooch who ever lived.<\/p>\n<p>I want to provide a brief report on a skill that our puppy has just acquired: He can &#8220;dress himself.&#8221; Yes, you read that correctly.<\/p>\n<p>How does he perform such a &#8212; um &#8212; <em>human<\/em> task? It goes like this:<\/p>\n<p>We use a harness when we take him for walks around our neighborhood. We prefer the shoulder restraint over a collar for one obvious reason: We don&#8217;t want to choke him if we need to tug on his leash.<\/p>\n<p>When I tell him I have his harness ready for him to wear, he runs to me and then sits down. I lower the harness below his face. Toby the Puppy then lifts one leg for me to slip one loop over him. Then he lifts the other leg.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bada-bing, bada-boom!<\/em> He&#8217;s dressed. No fuss whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Being a puppy parent has been loads of fun for my bride and me. These little tricks or habits he has learned make it easy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know by now that Toby the Puppy is a smart pooch, perhaps the smartest pooch who ever lived. I want to provide a brief report on a skill that our puppy has just acquired: He can &#8220;dress himself.&#8221; Yes, you read that correctly. How does he perform such a &#8212; um &#8212; human task? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53796\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Puppy Tales, Part 99: He&#8217;s dressing himself<\/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":[10091,4622,6016],"class_list":["post-53796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-puppy-parenthood","tag-texas-gop","tag-toby-the-puppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53796","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=53796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53798,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53796\/revisions\/53798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}