{"id":1776,"date":"2012-09-05T18:11:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T22:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2012-09-05T18:33:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T22:33:41","slug":"first-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=1776","title":{"rendered":"First Bath!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The puppies have been doing a stellar job of using the turf, as it turns out, since I just cleaned it!<\/p>\n<p>They also had a bit of whelping box aroma about them (which is a nice way of saying that they smelled like pee), so I decided to give them their first bath! Warm water and a blow dryer on low heat and low setting. My friend Diane who breeds Rottweilers says that she can learn a lot about temperament by the way a puppy handles a bath. I thought they all did very well, but here are the specifics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aniston &#8211; crouched in the sink but wasn&#8217;t shaking, eventually stood up, happy to eat lots of baby food while being blow-dried<\/li>\n<li>Beals &#8211; wandered around in the sink, not concerned about the blow dryer and ate lots of baby food<\/li>\n<li>Connelly &#8211; crouched in the sink but wasn&#8217;t shaking, ate lots of baby food while being blow-dried, sniffed at the dryer<\/li>\n<li>Donnelly &#8211; stood in the sink, ate lots of baby food while being blow-dried, sniffed at dryer<\/li>\n<li>Esposito &#8211; wandered around in the sink, sniffed at sponge on edge of sink, looked at dryer, ate lots of baby food<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nobody was too worried to eat, everyone ate quite happily. They got the sillies after they were done like most dogs do! They smell MUCH better now.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and you may notice a measuring cup and wooden spoon in the box. The puppies have not taken up cooking, that is so that they have different materials to explore, and those are what I had handy (thanks for the suggestion, Jan!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The puppies have been doing a stellar job of using the turf, as it turns out, since I just cleaned it! They also had a bit of whelping box aroma about them (which is a nice way of saying that they smelled like pee), so I decided to give them their first bath! Warm water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,48,62,67,51,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-litter","category-breeding","category-dogs","category-nina","category-puppies-dogs","category-vallhunds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}