{"id":889,"date":"2009-07-14T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/07\/14\/the-keenest-hound-in-the-adirondacks\/"},"modified":"2009-07-14T12:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T16:27:00","slug":"the-keenest-hound-in-the-adirondacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/07\/14\/the-keenest-hound-in-the-adirondacks\/","title":{"rendered":"The keenest hound in the Adirondacks?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My family adopted a hound-mutt a few years ago from the Humane Society shelter in Saranac Lake.<\/p>\n

Sara the Dog was famous for a while for scouring garbage cans in Lake Placid. Now she’s a wonderful, gray-muzzled part of our clan.<\/p>\n

She is not, however, particularly keen.<\/p>\n

She loves rambling with me in the woods, but she’s oblivious to wildlife: deer, squirrels, rabbits, they just don’t register.<\/p>\n

With the exception of one very nasty porcupine, her nose is set on “garbage can” and not “critters.”<\/p>\n

But last week Sara took obliviousness to new heights.<\/p>\n

We were sitting down on our creek when she flopped in the tall grass and stretched out to snooze.<\/p>\n

I looked over and saw an enormous toad sitting on her face. I mean ON her face — not an inch from her eye.<\/p>\n

I’m not entirely sure how it got there, but it seemed perfectly content. Sara never noticed.<\/p>\n

A good half-minute later, she pawed lazily at a deer fly and the toad hopped away.<\/p>\n

Sara still didn’t notice.<\/p>\n

But rattle a potato chip bag half a mile away? That dog is on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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