{"id":467,"date":"2013-03-06T16:52:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T23:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=467"},"modified":"2013-03-06T16:52:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T23:52:45","slug":"leash-aware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/leash-aware\/","title":{"rendered":"Leash Aware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed for a long time when walking Apollo that he seems unusually aware of where the leash is in relation to him and me.  He never walks on the opposite side of a tree, pole or bush, unless the item is shorter than he is.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally I see him glance back at me, as if to determine where I am in relation to him, before he decides on which side of a tree to walk.<\/p>\n<p>My hypothesis is that huskies were bred and selected for their ability to pull a sled without tangling the lines, and that some intuitive understanding of how a leash works would be an important part of that ability.<\/p>\n<p>Or do all dogs do that, and am I just noticing something that isn&#8217;t special?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed for a long time when walking Apollo that he seems unusually aware of where the leash is in relation to him and me. He never walks on the opposite side of a tree, pole or bush, unless the item is shorter than he is. Occasionally I see him glance back at me, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}