For those of you new here, this is called “activated sleep” & is critical to the proper growth and development of newborn pups. 🐾 Because pups sleep about 22 hours a day, their bodies would atrophy if they just laid there. But as part of their genius design, their brains send signals to their body to “twitch”, causing the central nervous system and the musculoskeletal system to engage despite the fact that they are asleep. 🐾 So while we humans look at them & think, “so cute!” (which is of cour

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