{"id":3012,"date":"2017-10-14T18:35:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T22:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2017-10-14T18:45:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T22:45:43","slug":"23-days-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=3012","title":{"rendered":"23 Days Old"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of playing with each other and with us!<\/p>\n

Eating little bits of Royal Canin Puppy Mousse.<\/p>\n

They have a startle reflex now (but no fear associated with it yet), so we’ve suddenly become very clumsy and are dropping things and slamming doors and generally being obnoxious. You want to exercise their startle\/recovery reflex a lot before they start to associate the startle with fear (which happens later in their development).<\/p>\n

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Frito trying to snooze on Ruffles, who is playing bitey face with Chex<\/p><\/div>\n

They all have teeth in varying stages of eruption, some almost all the way in, some just poking through. Poor poor Zhora. I have been putting lanolin on her teats to try and keep her as comfortable as possible.<\/p>\n

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Ruffles and Chex<\/p><\/div>\n

They are ridiculously cute. They are all at least trying to use the litter pan, some closer than others, but all at least trying.<\/p>\n

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Unpopped Popcorn!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Orson in the “off” position<\/p><\/div>\n

Jim being attacked by Popcorn:
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