Yesterday, our beautiful girl, Maya, brought 7 healthy pups into the world. They are blind so they ‘root’ around for the nipple, then zero in. This is a blatant, and very loose, opportunity for me to put up a blog post in a challenge with our new puppies in it. Added for WPC Eye spy
Mick's Cogs 
Precious… 🙂
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Mommy Maya is going to be very busy for a while 🙂
Congratulations to the “grandparents”!
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oh cute. Any excuse for a tenacious link to a photo prompt 🙂
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Mazal tov!!! Newborn mammals find the year by means of scent molecules that they follow like a breadcrumb trail. Then once they get a strong enough signal in the rhinencephalon, the part of the brain that perceives smell, the rooting reflex kicks in and helps them bump into the nipple. The same with people, but puppies only need one scent molecule to set off their scent receptors. Humans can actually do it with five if there are no strong artificial odors around. Yay smell! Yay dogs! I bet your little mommy is glad not to be preggers any more….busy though….!
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Thanks for that – I thought it might be a odour issue, but google let me down there. I work in olfactometry, so this is great to confirm. As for mum being glad about not being preggers – well she enjoys it when she is away from them. She can’t help herself as soon as one of them squeaks, back she goes. They’re put on the weight fast. Cheers!
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Wow, cool! What’s your area in olfactometry? I got stuck fitting gas masks once, used banana oil to test fit…one molecule of that and it’s olfactory funtime…I think the sense of smell is the nuts. I love it so much, I have olfactory seizures! Usually I smell cinnamon buns baking, which isn’t bad…sometimes it’s less pleasant things…But antiseizure drugs fix it. Cheers back!
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I test people for the odour sensitivity. Check the link below 🙂
https://regionalcognisance.wordpress.com/2015/10/02/sense-of-smell-olfactometry/
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