{"id":444,"date":"2009-12-29T20:19:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T03:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=444"},"modified":"2009-12-29T20:19:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T03:19:51","slug":"shamu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"Shamu!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few days (i.e. Christmas), Nina has started growing at an amazing rate (the puppies do most of their growing in the last three weeks of gestation, which we are in&#8230;holy crap!).\u00c2\u00a0 She is HUGE!\u00c2\u00a0 She weighs 24.9 pounds today (her good lean agility weight is 19 to 19.5)!\u00c2\u00a0 And she is still\u00c2\u00a0reasonably lean, she has a small layer of fat (as she should have at this point), but the rest is all puppies!\u00c2\u00a0 She is happy and content and loves going for her walks as much as ever, but she is much slower than usual and is happy with shorter walks.\u00c2\u00a0 She&#8217;s eating a few small meals a day instead of two bigger ones (there&#8217;s no room in there!).\u00c2\u00a0 We have a few inches of snow here and she is leaving belly prints as well as pawprints in it, which is really cute.<\/p>\n<p>Hard to imagine that it&#8217;s only 9 days since that last picture was taken!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_448\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/nina_dec_29_2009_03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-448\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-448\" title=\"nina_dec_29_2009_03\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/nina_dec_29_2009_03-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nina December 29 2009\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/nina_dec_29_2009_03-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/nina_dec_29_2009_03.jpg 499w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nina - December 29, 2009<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_447\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/nina_dec_29_2009_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-447\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-447\" title=\"nina_dec_29_2009_02\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/nina_dec_29_2009_02-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Nina December 29, 2009\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/nina_dec_29_2009_02-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/nina_dec_29_2009_02.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Girlish Figure?<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_446\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/nina_dec_29_2009_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-446\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-446\" title=\"nina_dec_29_2009_01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/nina_dec_29_2009_01-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Nina December 29 2009\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/nina_dec_29_2009_01-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/nina_dec_29_2009_01.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Her belly is sitting on the couch!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_445\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/nina_dec_29_2009_04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-445\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-445\" title=\"nina_dec_29_2009_04\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/nina_dec_29_2009_04-300x253.jpg\" alt=\"Nina December 29 2009\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/nina_dec_29_2009_04-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/nina_dec_29_2009_04.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Nina &amp; the Grublets!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She has beached herself on the couch beside me as I type.\u00c2\u00a0 The front half still looks like Nina, the back half is looking like an elephant seal or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few days (i.e. Christmas), Nina has started growing at an amazing rate (the puppies do most of their growing in the last three weeks of gestation, which we are in&#8230;holy crap!).\u00c2\u00a0 She is HUGE!\u00c2\u00a0 She weighs 24.9 pounds today (her good lean agility weight is 19 to 19.5)!\u00c2\u00a0 And she is still\u00c2\u00a0reasonably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,62,67,51,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/444","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=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}