{"id":6548,"date":"2025-07-23T21:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T04:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6548"},"modified":"2025-07-23T21:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T04:05:14","slug":"when-ones-owners-dont-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/07\/23\/when-ones-owners-dont-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"When One\u2019s Owners Don\u2019t Get It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hank, a large German Shepherd, wouldn\u2019t hurt a fly; his owners knew he was a good dog, so they let him roam their street with a leash on, but nobody holding it.<\/p>\n<p>However, Hank learned that many viewed with suspicion the apparent lack of human-affiliation that his unmanned leash seemed to signify.<\/p>\n<p>Small children would take one look at him and turn to quivering jelly. Dogs on human-attended leashes preemptively barked so much, their owners had to reroute their walks.<\/p>\n<p>Hank finally learned to bring the loose end of his leash to his owners whenever he wanted to walk around.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Susmita Ramani<\/p>\n<p>Susmita\u2019s work has appeared in over thirty different publications, including 100 Words, and she has a novella coming out in 2026. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband, two teenage daughters, and a dozen pets. See her WordPress for fiction and Instagram for poetry.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hank, a large German Shepherd, wouldn\u2019t hurt a fly; his owners knew he was a good dog, so they let him roam their street with a leash on, but nobody holding it. However, Hank learned that many viewed with suspicion the apparent lack of human-affiliation that his unmanned leash seemed to signify. Small children would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13460,113,13458,13459,2717,13461,2966,13462,8194,1971,7305,7702],"class_list":["post-6548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-affiliation","tag-children","tag-german-shepherd","tag-good-dog","tag-human","tag-jelly","tag-leash","tag-loose-end","tag-owners","tag-street","tag-suspicion","tag-walks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6549,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions\/6549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}