{"id":9264,"date":"2026-03-05T08:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/?p=9264"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:16:13","slug":"the-urge-to-renew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/the-urge-to-renew\/","title":{"rendered":"The Urge to Renew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

About half the females here are in or approaching or exiting their estrus cycle –that is to say ‘in season’. Nature synchronizes the female’s reproduction cycles. 2026 is a no-breeding-year. And yet, we are already dealing with ‘accidents’, seen and presumed. The urge to renew in dogs is strong –much stronger than in humans. Dogs will do just about anything to procreate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One young female did THIS while I was away doing errands. Happily, the males were locked up in steel crates. That is 5\/8 in plywood she tore and ate through!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When renewal is successful (and planned), it brings forth beauties like this…<\/p>\n\n\n

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About half the females here are in or approaching or exiting their estrus cycle –that is to say ‘in season’. Nature synchronizes the female’s reproduction cycles. 2026 is a no-breeding-year. And yet, we are already dealing with ‘accidents’, seen and presumed. The urge to renew in dogs is strong –much stronger than in humans. DogsContinue reading “The Urge to Renew”<\/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-9264","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\/9264","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=9264"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9301,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264\/revisions\/9301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}