{"id":8701,"date":"2025-12-26T12:09:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/?p=8701"},"modified":"2025-12-26T17:18:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:18:44","slug":"puppy-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/puppy-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wanted to see if the 8-week-old Nel x Blu pups could &#8216;<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">assist<\/span><\/em>&#8216; me opening and spreading some more wood shavings in their kennel.  They were only too happy to oblige.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a <strong><em>very active and curious <\/em><\/strong>group.   None of them holds back!  If there is &#8216;shyness&#8217;, I haven&#8217;t seen it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Puppies Spreading Wood Shavings\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/evA5aYJ2i_U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The other attraction in the kennel is a lid to a container.  Everything has to be investigated and &#8216;reversed engineered&#8217;.  I just toss it in and see what comes of it.  Guaranteed it won&#8217;t return as it arrived!  And the pups will have learned something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to see if the 8-week-old Nel x Blu pups could &#8216;assist&#8216; me opening and spreading some more wood shavings in their kennel. They were only too happy to oblige. This is a very active and curious group. None of them holds back! If there is &#8216;shyness&#8217;, I haven&#8217;t seen it. The other attraction<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/puppy-assistance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Puppy Assistance&#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-8701","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\/8701","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=8701"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8711,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8701\/revisions\/8711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}