{"id":3833,"date":"2016-04-29T17:37:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T22:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=3833"},"modified":"2016-04-29T17:39:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T22:39:10","slug":"paxton-and-the-hall-bathroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=3833","title":{"rendered":"Paxton and the Hall Bathroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve been a reader of this blog for any amount of time, you will know that my pudgy pooch, Paxton, is a doofus. \u00a0He loves wearing neckties. \u00a0He is addicted to Nutty Bars and he hates storms. \u00a0When thunderstorms arrive, you find him cowering in the hall bathroom and he Will. Not. Come. Out.<\/p>\n

I knew that we were supposed to have storms this afternoon. \u00a0Paxton had been taking a pretty serious puppy nap most of the morning and I was getting concerned that he wouldn’t wake up before the storms arrived.<\/p>\n

I decided to take matters into my own hands.<\/p>\n

What did I do? \u00a0Simply opened the coat closet.<\/p>\n

Paxton knows that his leash is in that closet. \u00a0If I open that closet, that means he gets to go for a walk! \u00a0That is one of his most favorite things to do!!! \u00a0So, yes, I opened the coat closet.<\/p>\n

*BOINK!*<\/p>\n

Paxton’s eyes opened and he jumped up and started doing his puppy *Happy Dance.*<\/p>\n

“I get to go for a walk!\u00a0I get to go for a walk!\u00a0I get to go for a walk!\u00a0I get to go for a walk!”<\/p>\n

He was a very happy puppy.<\/p>\n

After clipping on his leash, I opened the front door and he was out like a flash. \u00a0Immediately, he did what I was hoping he would do. \u00a0Paxton headed for the grass and did his “good-boy.”<\/p>\n

We were ready for the storms. \u00a0Whew!<\/p>\n

After visiting the grass, Paxton began to walk down the road. \u00a0Usually when Paxton goes for a walk, our dark kitty, Kali, tags along. \u00a0Today she wasn’t with us. \u00a0Instead, Castro, our white kitty decided he would like to go for a walk, too.<\/p>\n

Seeing as it was pretty toasty outdoors, I knew Paxton wouldn’t want to walk too far and I was right. \u00a0We probably only walked a half mile total before we were back at the house. \u00a0He was panting. \u00a0He was hot. \u00a0He was most sincerely done.<\/p>\n

We got to the driveway and Castro plopped down in front of my feet where he immediately proceeded to take a kitty bath. \u00a0What is it with cats doing that!?! \u00a0They’re so funny!<\/p>\n

Paxton waited at the door for me to un-clip his leash then walked into the house the rest of the way. \u00a0He really was a hot dog.<\/p>\n

Quickly, I went into the kitchen and put a handful of ice cubes into a dish. \u00a0I gave him the dish of ice cubes and he gratefully started crunching them. \u00a0He cooled down quickly and I took the rest of the ice cubes away.<\/p>\n

That was Paxton’s walk today. \u00a0We had a lovely time and now that the storms are here, he has firmly planted himself in the hall bathroom. Goofy dog.<\/p>\n

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If you’ve been a reader of this blog for any amount of time, you will know that my pudgy pooch, Paxton, is a doofus. \u00a0He loves wearing neckties. \u00a0He is addicted to Nutty Bars and he hates storms. \u00a0When thunderstorms arrive, you find him cowering in the hall bathroom and he Will. Not. Come. Out. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,10,9,6,8,5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3833"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}