`{"id":34,"date":"2011-08-18T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T05:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rhonda.kkuiper.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2011-08-18T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T05:36:00","slug":"no-peeking-just-twitching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lakielove.com\/2011\/08\/18\/no-peeking-just-twitching\/","title":{"rendered":"No peeking, just twitching"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s a picture of mother and daughter, taken early this morning:<\/p>\n

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Puppy is a day and a half old in this picture, huddled in between London’s legs. She\u2019s deaf and blind at the moment… her eyes won\u2019t open until day 10 or so. Also, she cannot walk or crawl, just wiggle a little bit by shifting her weight around. But luckily she has her mommy London and step-mommy Judy to take care of her, so she\u2019s not worried whatsoever.<\/p>\n

Most important in these first two weeks is that puppy keeps warm (snuggling is a prerequisite!), that she gets plenty of nutrition (London\u2019s milk will help her get the antibodies she needs) and that she keeps twitching. The twitching part may sound kind of strange, so let me explain… At this stage, puppy\u2019s legs are still very weak. The twitching movements that happen during puppy\u2019s activated sleep will help strengthen her muscles so she can crawl by the end of week three and walk, even run, around week four! It\u2019s a true miracle!<\/p>\n

Right now, though, puppy sleeps 90% of the time (which makes total sense, because if you can\u2019t watch tv, listen to some music, read a book or even get up for a walk, what\u2019s the point, really?!). And since she\u2019s the only puppy, I imagine things are pretty laid-back. No competing for mom\u2019s attention… No brothers or sisters to push you out of the way when trying to find a nipple… (which I imagine can be quite the task when you\u2019re deaf, blind and nearly immobile!) Our little pup has it made!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s a picture of mother and daughter, taken early this morning: Puppy is a day and a half old in this picture, huddled in between London’s legs. She\u2019s deaf and blind at the moment… her eyes won\u2019t open until day … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakielove.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakielove.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakielove.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakielove.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakielove.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakielove.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakielove.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakielove.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lakielove.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}