{"id":7305,"date":"2025-07-21T11:43:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/?p=7305"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:59:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:59:45","slug":"puppies-are-cutest-at-4-7-weeks-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/puppies-are-cutest-at-4-7-weeks-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppies are cutest at 4 &#8211; 7 Weeks Old"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Puppies just nurse and sleep their first 3 weeks.  At 4 weeks, they are running about playing with each other.  At 5 weeks, they begin exploring their world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 7 weeks, they start to get feisty &#8230;even with their human.  They start to get &#8216;nice&#8217; again around 14 weeks.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three weeks 4 &#8211; 6 are when puppies are at their cutest, whether playing or sleeping. This is the 4-1\/2 week old Jazz x Pete litter [2M\/2F] crashed on the dog sofa after a morning of activity (and being picked on by older pups) while I prepare their breakfast. They sleep lying down AND upright when they are that tired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250721_1216305792-1024x563.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250721_1216305792-1024x563.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250721_1216305792-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250721_1216305792-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250721_1216305792-1536x844.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250721_1216305792-2048x1125.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250721_1216305792-1568x862.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250721_1221259482-1024x557.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250721_1221259482-1024x557.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250721_1221259482-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250721_1221259482-768x418.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250721_1221259482-1536x836.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250721_1221259482-2048x1114.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PXL_20250721_1221259482-1568x853.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The upright male pup is fast asleep.  The other male pup is on his side at the right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puppies just nurse and sleep their first 3 weeks. At 4 weeks, they are running about playing with each other. At 5 weeks, they begin exploring their world. At 7 weeks, they start to get feisty &#8230;even with their human. They start to get &#8216;nice&#8217; again around 14 weeks. The three weeks 4 &#8211; 6<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/puppies-are-cutest-at-4-7-weeks-old\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Puppies are cutest at 4 &#8211; 7 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-7305","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\/7305","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=7305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7311,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions\/7311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}