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He Didn't Know What to Do with His Hands (Sgt. Puppy's Field Notes, June 9)

Erin Wood
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Today's field note from Sgt. Puppy and the morning watch at Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont.

<!-- FEATURED IMAGE: sgt_puppy_2026_06_09_blog_1400x788.png — 1400×788 closing-paragraph card goes at top, inserted manually via Drop-In-Blog's image tool -->  <p>Today's field note from Sgt. Puppy and the morning watch at Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont.</p>  <!-- IN-BODY IMAGE: sgt_puppy_2026_06_09_ig_1080.png — 1080×1080 full-monologue square card, inserted manually via Drop-In-Blog's image tool -->  <p>Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont. The honor stand with the cash box and the notebook. The bulletin board nobody takes anything off of. Forty miles of sometimes passable dirt roads, and a furnace nobody can fix till December. The dogs run the rest.</p>  <p>It was Tuesday, June 9th. It was warm in Camp Puppy Haven, sun for the full day expected. We were working the afternoon watch out of Phone-In-The-Hand Task Force. My partner’s Murph. The boss is Lieutenant Hatch. My name’s Puppy.</p>  <p>A man had been sitting on the porch for twenty minutes. His phone was inside. He didn’t know what to do with his hands. Murph and I had some ideas.</p>  <hr>  <p>Sgt. Puppy’s Field Notes are published most weekday mornings.</p> <p>Read the full series at <a href="https://think-like-a-dog-store.com/a/blog/category/camp-puppy-haven" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Camp Puppy Haven</a>.</p> <p>Standard issue at Camp Puppy Haven: <a href="https://think-like-a-dog-store.com/collections/camp-puppy-haven" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tees, sweatshirts, and hoodies</a> for the humans on morning watch.</p>

Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont. The honor stand with the cash box and the notebook. The bulletin board nobody takes anything off of. Forty miles of sometimes passable dirt roads, and a furnace nobody can fix till December. The dogs run the rest.

It was Tuesday, June 9th. It was warm in Camp Puppy Haven, sun for the full day expected. We were working the afternoon watch out of Phone-In-The-Hand Task Force. My partner’s Murph. The boss is Lieutenant Hatch. My name’s Puppy.

A man had been sitting on the porch for twenty minutes. His phone was inside. He didn’t know what to do with his hands. Murph and I had some ideas.


Sgt. Puppy’s Field Notes are published most weekday mornings.

Read the full series at Camp Puppy Haven.

Standard issue at Camp Puppy Haven: tees, sweatshirts, and hoodies for the humans on morning watch.

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