{"id":883,"date":"2015-08-29T10:20:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T14:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=883"},"modified":"2023-01-10T22:19:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T03:19:20","slug":"the-talking-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=883","title":{"rendered":"The Talking Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 The following amusing story <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 can be found in our publication<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 By George Treasury<\/strong>. \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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A guy is driving around the back woods of northern Ontario and he sees a sign in front of a broken down shanty-style house: \u2018Talking Dog For Sale.\u2019 He rings the bell and the owner appears and tells him the dog is in the backyard.<\/p>\n

The guy goes into the backyard and sees a nice looking Labrador retriever sitting there.<\/p>\n

“You talk?” he asks.<\/p>\n

“Yep,” the Lab replies.<\/p>\n

After the guy recovers from the shock of hearing a dog talk, he says “So, what’s your story?”<\/p>\n

The Lab looks up and says, “Well, I discovered that I could talk when I was pretty young. I wanted to help the government, so I told our Canadian Security Intelligence Service. In no time at all they had me jetting from country to country, sitting in rooms with spies and world leaders, because no one figured a dog would be eavesdropping. I was one of their most valuable spies for eight years running.”<\/p>\n

“But the jetting around really tired me out, and I knew I wasn’t getting any younger so I decided to settle down. I signed up for a job at the Ottawa airport to do some undercover security, wandering near suspicious characters and listening in.”<\/p>\n

“I uncovered some incredible dealings and was awarded a batch of medals. I got married, had a mess of puppies, and now I’m just retired.”<\/p>\n

The guy is amazed. He goes back in and asks the owner what he wants for the dog.<\/p>\n

“Ten dollars,” the guy says.<\/p>\n

“Ten dollars? This dog is amazing! I’ll take him – here’s the money. But tell me now, why on earth are you selling him so cheap?”<\/p>\n

“Because he’s a liar. He never did any of that stuff. ”<\/p>\n

.<\/p>\n

(ed. – You can order your e-copy of this first collection, the <\/em>By George Treasury<\/strong>, at our E-bookshelf \u2013 CLICK HERE<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 The following amusing story \u00a0\u00a0 can be found in our publication \u00a0\u00a0 By George Treasury. \u00a0   . A guy is driving around the back woods of northern Ontario and he sees a sign in front of a broken down shanty-style house: \u2018Talking Dog For Sale.\u2019 He rings the bell and the owner…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15172,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/15172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}