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Welcome to the ATB blog "J & A's Brittanys" where we love to write about, share stories, post videos and pictures featuring our beautiful, well bred Brittany family bird dogs. With their established and recognized hunting heritage our dogs also measure up to the breed standard regarding health, appearance, movement, and temperament. Enjoy the stories of whelping puppies, tips on field training, bragging rights on accomplishments, sharing joys and sorrow, announcements and as the name implies - ALL THINGS BRITTANY! With a love of God, family, friends, and dog we welcome you.

Sunday, December 29, 2013

ATB Video: Seeing is Believing !!


December 28, 2013 = 2 weeks old
Brittany Puppies
Starting to watch and listen! (They can see blurry shadows of movement as their eyes open and their vision begins to develop.  They hear noises as muffled sounds as their ears begin to open. I was amazed truthfully at the obvious reactions seen above.  Their sensory perception seems to be keenly developed at a very young age according to notes in my whelping journal.  The pups are overly reactive in a positive way not only as seen in this video in regards to sight and sound but also to the pattern of simple petting from head to tail (touch) and detecting John coming into their area by the scent of his cologne (smell). They are definitely adventurous as they 'explore' their surroundings and with every wobbly, uncertain step they learn something new.  Seeing, touching, hearing, smelling are 4 out of the 5 traditional  senses that seem to be highly developed at the age of 2 weeks.  This leaves taste as the final sense so as we introduce them to solid foods in the future I'll be interested to see their reaction to that!

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