{"id":324,"date":"2008-11-21T08:22:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T15:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=324"},"modified":"2009-04-05T14:27:29","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T21:27:29","slug":"one-smart-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"One Smart Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-325\" title=\"one-smart-dog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/one-smart-dog.jpg\" alt=\"one-smart-dog\" width=\"310\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/one-smart-dog.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/one-smart-dog-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/one-smart-dog-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/>So I am watching a documentary on the migration habits of the Northern Flicker &#8230; ok, it was Banned Sex Commercials in the UK on YouTube &#8230; and there is a squeak noise on the sound track that grabs my dog&#8217;s attention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;See the ball Dalai?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She cocks her head like the RCA dog with the victrola.\u00a0 I always wondered if dogs can really <strong><em>see<\/em><\/strong> objects on the media screen.\u00a0 But Dalai is watching intently as the squeekie noise and colorful ball is tossed from side to side.\u00a0 What a bright dog!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Want to see a kitty Dalai?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I do a search for meowing cat.\u00a0 Once again, Miss Dal becomes absorbed with the action in front of her eyes.\u00a0 She follows the cat and perks up her ears.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, Dalai.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a kitty &#8212; on the computer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am almost sorry to interrupt her.\u00a0 But she seems to have a longer attention span than I do!\u00a0 So I&#8217;m off again searching for another video to watch with her.\u00a0 This time I find a big dog.<\/p>\n<p>The dog in the video let&#8217;s out a big bark &#8211; WOOF!\u00a0 WOOF!\u00a0 WOOF!<\/p>\n<p>And my wonderfully bright puppy who has been watching the squeekie toy and then the cat both on my computer &#8230; leaps off the bed and rushes downstairs to see what dog has come in to the house and is making all that noise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I am watching a documentary on the migration habits of the Northern Flicker &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-talking-paws"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}