{"id":57573,"date":"2024-09-19T15:53:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T15:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57573"},"modified":"2024-09-19T15:53:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T15:53:17","slug":"getting-used-to-a-pooch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57573","title":{"rendered":"Getting used to a pooch"},"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>Even though it hasn&#8217;t been too terribly long since I lost Toby the Puppy to cancer &#8212; and I should be familiar with a pooch&#8217;s particular behavior&#8211; I am finding that those pooch-handling skills had gotten a bit rusty.<\/p>\n<p>I now have Sabol prancing through my North Texas home. I anticipate a smooth transition to a dog-friendly environment for my newest family member. She is 6 years old and needs to shed some weight.<\/p>\n<p>I do have some quite good news to report: the distance between Sabol and our kitties, Marlowe and Macy, is closing. The cats seem increasingly comfortable sharing their home space with Sabol. As for the puppy? Pfffttt! She couldn&#8217;t care less what they think or what territory they claim as their own.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, I am having to get used to tending to a puppy&#8217;s needs. That&#8217;s never been an issue in all the years my wife and I were exclusively kitty parents.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting the hang of it.<\/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>Even though it hasn&#8217;t been too terribly long since I lost Toby the Puppy to cancer &#8212; and I should be familiar with a pooch&#8217;s particular behavior&#8211; I am finding that those pooch-handling skills had gotten a bit rusty. I now have Sabol prancing through my North Texas home. I anticipate a smooth transition to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57573\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting used to a pooch<\/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":[10226,10385,6016],"class_list":["post-57573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-macy-and-marlowe","tag-sabol-the-pooch","tag-toby-the-puppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57573","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=57573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57574,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57573\/revisions\/57574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}