{"id":9066,"date":"2026-02-05T14:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/?p=9066"},"modified":"2026-02-08T03:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:54:12","slug":"competing-to-stay-on-the-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/competing-to-stay-on-the-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Competing to Stay on the Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"9085\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260203_180558668.PORTRAIT2-COLLAGE-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260203_180558668.PORTRAIT2-COLLAGE-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260203_180558668.PORTRAIT2-COLLAGE-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260203_180558668.PORTRAIT2-COLLAGE-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260203_180558668.PORTRAIT2-COLLAGE-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260203_180558668.PORTRAIT2-COLLAGE-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260203_180558668.PORTRAIT2-COLLAGE-1568x1568.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260203_180558668.PORTRAIT2-COLLAGE.jpg 2046w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Between 10 and 16 weeks, puppies start to show their temperamental and working aptitude distinctiveness. Mindi, Nova and Jac, now 14 weeks old, are finalists for retention on the farm.  They are the pups with the combination of temperament and working aptitude I look for in breeding.  While I focus on them, the remaining pups in the litter will be available for new homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 10 and 16 weeks, puppies start to show their temperamental and working aptitude distinctiveness. Mindi, Nova and Jac, now 14 weeks old, are finalists for retention on the farm. They are the pups with the combination of temperament and working aptitude I look for in breeding. While I focus on them, the remaining pups<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/competing-to-stay-on-the-farm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Competing to Stay on the Farm&#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-9066","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\/9066","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=9066"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9087,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066\/revisions\/9087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}