{"id":58466,"date":"2025-06-04T00:05:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T00:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58466"},"modified":"2025-06-04T00:05:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T00:05:33","slug":"sabol-the-puppy-ruthless-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58466","title":{"rendered":"Sabol the Puppy: ruthless killer!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Sabol the Puppy has become a cherished member of my family but I admit to being a little remiss in reporting on her progress since she joined me in September 2024.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I have something of interest to report. Here goes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Sabol loves to spend time outside. She mastered the doggie door immediately after moving in with me. <em>In and out, in and out! <\/em>It&#8217;s constant. Rainfall? Pffftt! She likes the rain, too &#8230; unlike Toby the Puppy, who hated water, unless it was for his bath.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Here&#8217;s what happened last night that deserves a brief comment. I was away from home for a while during the evening attending a city council meeting in another community; I was on assignment for my part-time gig as a freelance reporter.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I kept the back door open for Sabol to use at her pleasure. She long ago discovered some rodent activity near the back of the yard. She&#8217;s always back there sniffing around where the mice come into the yard. What&#8217;s more, I always wondered what my Chihuahua mix pooch, who&#8217;s now around 7 years old, would do if she ever caught one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I got my answer last night when I returned home from my reporting assignment. She found a rodent, mauled it viciously, killed it deader &#8216;n dead &#8230; <em>and brought it into the house!<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>So help me, I didn&#8217;t think she had that instinct in her. I am glad to know I was mistaken about her.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>As my sis told me, &#8220;She&#8217;s a cat in puppy&#8217;s clothing.&#8221;<\/p>\r\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>Sabol the Puppy has become a cherished member of my family but I admit to being a little remiss in reporting on her progress since she joined me in September 2024. I have something of interest to report. Here goes. Sabol loves to spend time outside. She mastered the doggie door immediately after moving in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58466\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sabol the Puppy: ruthless killer!<\/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":[10406,6016],"class_list":["post-58466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-sabol-the-puppy","tag-toby-the-puppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58466","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=58466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58468,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58466\/revisions\/58468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}