{"id":6160,"date":"2025-05-21T14:03:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T18:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/?p=6160"},"modified":"2025-05-21T14:53:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T18:53:28","slug":"exploring-their-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/exploring-their-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Being 8 Weeks Old!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">21-May-2025<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 3 Gail x Max puppies turned 8 weeks over the weekend.  They are out exploring their world together on fine spring days.  THIS is why I keep my pups until at least 12 weeks.  They need those extra weeks together, as a unit, for socialization and development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are no boundaries here, only the puppies&#8217; good sense. I trust they will not go too far and they will look after one another. This is a particularly nice litter. A happy, &#8220;Babies! Bay-bees!!&#8221; brings them running. [The name &#8216;puppy&#8217; is taken by one of the now-adults, so they are &#8216;babies&#8217;.] I will miss their joy when they leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"360\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 360;\" width=\"640\" controls src=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Untitled.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21-May-2025 The 3 Gail x Max puppies turned 8 weeks over the weekend. They are out exploring their world together on fine spring days. THIS is why I keep my pups until at least 12 weeks. They need those extra weeks together, as a unit, for socialization and development. There are no boundaries here, only<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/exploring-their-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Joy of Being 8 Weeks Old!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6160"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6170,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160\/revisions\/6170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}