{"id":57632,"date":"2024-10-14T01:04:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T01:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57632"},"modified":"2024-10-14T01:04:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T01:04:56","slug":"sabol-earns-her-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57632","title":{"rendered":"Sabol earns her spurs"},"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><strong>DRIPPING SPRINGS, Texas<\/strong> &#8212; Our first overnight trip away from home resulted early in a case of my new puppy, Sabol, showing her intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s a keeper.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Cliff&#8217;s Notes version of what happened.<\/p>\n<p>My brother -in-law and I went out for breakfast this morning. I sent Sabol outside to take care of business before we left. She came back inside and I closed the back door to the patio. We were gone for an hour and returned home.<\/p>\n<p>Awaiting us in the driveway was my pooch. Her tail was wagging and she said something that I interpreted to be, &#8220;Hey Dad and Uncle Mike, I&#8217;m glad you came back!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How in the world did she get out?<\/p>\n<p>I checked the back door. It was wide open. Sabol pushed it open and ventured out to wait for us to return.<\/p>\n<p>This is an astounding event on a couple of levels. First, she was in a location that was new to her. She could have panicked and run off, but she didn&#8217;t. Second, and this is my niece Mary&#8217;s theory, she might have recognized that my Ranger pickup was in the driveway; Sabol might have realized I was coming back. She applied her canine common sense.<\/p>\n<p>I merely concluded that I didn&#8217;t allow the door to latch shut when I let my puppy into the house.<\/p>\n<p>Yep. This smart girl has earned her spurs.<\/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>DRIPPING SPRINGS, Texas &#8212; Our first overnight trip away from home resulted early in a case of my new puppy, Sabol, showing her intelligence. She&#8217;s a keeper. Here&#8217;s the Cliff&#8217;s Notes version of what happened. My brother -in-law and I went out for breakfast this morning. I sent Sabol outside to take care of business &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57632\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sabol earns her spurs<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57632","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=57632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57638,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57632\/revisions\/57638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}