This thread is made of gold and I love everybody's little babies! Bunch of absolute sweethearts in here!
When the pandemic hit, I started working from home... almost a year in one day I was here rendering a bunch of videos for the office and kept hearing something outside through my noise-cancelling headphones... went on for like a half hour or so. I took the phones off and could then tell it was a critter in distress. The acoustics from outside get weird in the house, so I was thinking it was an injured bird or something. Lucky for both of us, it was the introduction to my son Buddy. I took this minutes after finding him stranded in the yard:
...his big ole head was the same size as his body! He was about 2 weeks old when I found him, and I started bottle feeding the guy every couple of hours until he was ready for real food. He was so small he fit well inside the palm of your hand... within a few hours I had this boy hooked up with a heated pad, more toys than I grew up with, and all the stuff ya need for a healthy little kiddo:
My wife and I wanted him to have a sibling, but we had to wait a few weeks since they have to be a certain age before they can be adopted out... we met and fell in love with his one-week-older brother Lotti (this was his first day at his home):
At one point (weeks later), they both weighed six pounds, and we were thinking that Buddy was gonna be built like a linebacker and Lottie was gonna wind up being a ferret, but Buddy wound up being a sleek little ninja and Lotti's an 18 pound chonk. Bud's always got his left fang hanging out and Lotti's default face always has a proper blep:
A long time ago my wife and I had adopted and raised a brother and sister from kittens to old age, and neither of us ever had the heart to adopt any little ones again... I'm so glad Buddy found us... he and Lotti filled a huge gap for us, and they're just the most loveable kids we could have ever asked for.
This is poor quality, but it's one of my favorite pics... right after I had a plate and pins put in my leg, I rearranged the workstation in my studio so I could kind've lay in a loveseat with my broken shit elevated and braced, and these two homies would not leave my side. I think they knew their old man was in a lot of pain, so whenever I was in this room (15+ hours a day as I work and make art in here), they were both right by or on me, which made me feel great as Buddy isn't a lapcat, and Lotti is mos definitely a momma's boy. I love these boys so much.
Sorry for rambling on and on, this thread just has me hyped up and in a good place.
Topic: Kitty cats (Read 4559 times)