{"id":994,"date":"2012-04-02T08:29:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T08:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/interactive\/?p=994"},"modified":"2012-04-02T08:29:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T08:29:34","slug":"the-y-litter-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"The Y-litter has arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"

They have finally arrived, and the five boys and one girl are no fools.<\/p>\n

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It took the whole night with the assistance of the vet at 4 this morning. Mary and I were busy helping swing puppies about in order to help them start their lives. It was also a very fraught time, as it took quite a while for a few of the pups to come around.<\/p>\n

Zaffre still remains a little dopey as she begins her new role in the house. She keeps looking at these little white rats as they speed about the vet bed with some bewilderment. Now the “proud Mum” of a reasonable size litter, she is quickly adapting to the role. This family just appeared “while she was sleeping” but she is happily tending to them, although still as I type in a half-asleep state. However, she is getting back to her normal self.<\/p>\n

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The house is now filled with what DV thinks are very strange sounds which have been constant since everyone came home from the vet. DV will all of a sudden bark because of the squeeking of the pups in the whelping room. Soon everyone will take a nap – including the humans in the house and there will descend the usual calm quiet here – at least for a little while.<\/p>\n

Those naps won’t last too long; Mary and I will have to catch up on two days of things. Yesterday and the day before were spent in awaiting the birth, so no chores except the necessary were accomplished. The back yard has been tidied up almost completely, just a few more things for me to do. Mary has kept up all the day-to-day tasks. Now the “hard work” of puppies will begin.<\/p>\n

More later on throughout the next eight weeks with the Y-litter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They have finally arrived, and the five boys and one girl are no fools. It took the whole night with the assistance of the vet at 4 this morning. Mary and I were busy helping swing puppies about in order to help them start their lives. It was also a very fraught time, as it … Continue reading “The Y-litter has arrived”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}