{"id":13390,"date":"2021-01-02T13:15:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T13:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=13390"},"modified":"2021-01-02T13:24:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T13:24:39","slug":"sonorous-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=13390","title":{"rendered":"Sonorous Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today is 2nd January 2021 and Spaniel The Senior is two years old. Yet, bizarrely, it seems like she&#8217;s always been part of our lives. I&#8217;m serious. No idea how this works, it just does. I struggle to remember a time she wasn&#8217;t around. Perhaps my medium-term memory is over-writing itself on a loop?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Festive Period we diverted from our usual &#8216;buy two Christmas Trees for a lot of money at the Garden Centre&#8217; tradition and instead bought one notChristmas Tree online (because Covid, obviously).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The absolute benefit of having a notChristmas Tree is we don&#8217;t need to spend the next eight months removing pine needles from the furniture\/rugs\/items of clothing\/dogs\/cats\/soft toys\/cushions, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, last year Spaniel The Senior discovered that whenever she swished her tail against the main tree, it made a delightful noise. See above re pine needles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back to the plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She does love making sounds. She bings the fire tools (small ash spade, tongs, brush, poker) with her nose because they make a nice ringing noise. She also pokes the coal scuttle with her noise so it makes a deeply satisfying &#8216;thud&#8217; noise. So this year, to fill the &#8216;gentle swishing of the torrential fall of pine needles&#8217; gap, a couple of small &#8216;Christmas&#8217; bells were hung low on the notChristmas Tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yes, she bings them with her nose, and swishes them with her tail, and manages to make a fine tinkling &#8216;Christmas&#8217; bell-type sound. She clearly loves making sounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I only hope she doesn&#8217;t take up playing the recorder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"538\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DogRecorder.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DogRecorder.png 538w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DogRecorder-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DogRecorder-150x110.png 150w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DogRecorder-205x150.png 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(not Spaniel The Senior, obviously)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is 2nd January 2021 and Spaniel The Senior is two years old. Yet, bizarrely, it seems like she&#8217;s always been part of our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}