The white one is Schlomo and was trying to clean himself - between cuddling with me

Fenri was a bit asleep, but seems to already react to his name

And finally, another group photo :⁠-⁠)

Edit: I also need to say, this is their 3 week birthday :⁠-⁠)

    • naeap@sopuli.xyzOP
      24·
      1 day ago

      I’m trying my best o⁠:⁠-⁠)
      They’re just in their dark room - chosen by the mother, because my perfectly built cat cave with blankets was seemingly to exposed.

      And it’s very dark in the room and I will not use a flash on eyes, that have never seen the sunlight.

      So it’s hard to get good pictures.
      Especially I’m currently alone with them. But my wife comes back from her business trip tomorrow night, and then I’ll hopefully have a hand free - currently I’m missing one, as mother and both little ones demand attention…

      • fiat_lux@lemmy.zip
        19·
        1 day ago

        Bless you for trying anyway. They’re truly precious, and I appreciate holding tiny sleeping babies takes absolute priority over photos.

        • naeap@sopuli.xyzOP
          17·
          1 day ago

          Thanks :⁠-⁠)
          I was very reluctant to even pick them up in the first place.
          But they were sneezing sometimes and vet told me to weigh them daily then.

          I wasn’t sure, if Fenri/red one was just more open to being picked up, but at their checkup the vet picked him up and he was fighting with everything he got.
          Vet and assistant even discussed, if it is really already possible for him to hiss.

          I did the obvious move and said completely cool, to just hand him to me, while they finish their checkup with the rest.
          I was so prepared, that I was falling on my mouth by being so cool, but the second he touched my hand, he calmed down and cuddled with his head on my thumb.

          That really completely broke my heart.
          Had tears in my eyes then ;⁠-⁠)

    • naeap@sopuli.xyzOP
      13·
      1 day ago

      😁

      Vet told us to start weighing them about 1,5 weeks ago. I picked up Fenri/little red one and he immediately curled up on my hand and fell asleep.
      Was really hard to actually put him on the scale ;⁠-⁠)

    • naeap@sopuli.xyzOP
      4·
      1 day ago

      Hehe, well it’s a great name for a pet with the same confidence as Freud ;⁠-⁠)

      Our Schlomo also seems to be very interested in little things, his brother isn’t
      So that speaks for it as well

    • naeap@sopuli.xyzOP
      15·
      1 day ago

      I can understand that, but I won’t promise anything

      I’ll try to though :⁠-⁠)
      At least I’ll give updates on their bigger steps

      Talking of steps, mother showed me, that Fenri had some problems walking
      Which in itself was rather cute (she called me in the nest, waited for them to be in my arms and then moved away a bit to only call Fenri over)
      I saw, that he was doing frog legs and couldn’t get his ass up.
      Which happens, when they grow too fast.

      So, we started some physiotherapy with him, by providing a stable hand to push against, when he wanted to stand up - and sometimes gently corrected the position of his feet. During that mother was holding back Schlomo, so we could actually do some work.

      After 4 sessions (1,5 days) he started to show off and proudly walked around :⁠-⁠)

      Now I need to give Schlomo more attention, because he started to just lay with his mother.
      So I told her yesterday, that we also need to take care of him.
      After that, she was letting them take turns with me and both had their time.

      I’m still so fucking amazed of the intelligence of the mother, who is a stray, and we needed to teach her and play and everything.
      But she is a fast learner and seems to understand every word

      Ok, I’ve told this story now already in Lemmy 2 or 3 times.
      But it was such a success, I just can’t stop talking about it o⁠:⁠-⁠)