 | "Two"
Sunday, 17 of June 2001:
The kittens are on the way. Here two of them has been born.
The mother, Mimmi, is only one year old herself.
age: 0 and 10 minutes
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 | "#4"
Here's the fourth.
age: 0 to 1 hour 10 minutes
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 | "Four"
They were born two at a time, and then a long pause.
So the first one was born 14:30, next one 14:40,
then 15:30, 15:40 and 16:30.
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 | "Four 2"
They quickly seek out the food source.
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 | "Protector"
She was counting them too, I think.
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 | "Clean"
Lots of cleaning to do.
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 | "Four 3"
We did speculate a lot about the colour.
Time here is
around 16:00, when the four of them were clean and the
fifth weren't born yet.
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 | "Small"
They are so small. We speculated a lot about the colour.
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 | "Five"
Here the fifth of them has showed up.
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 | "Curious dog"
Here Isak the dog checks out what all the commotion is about.
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 | "Bigger 1/9"
I compiled a sequence to show how they grows.
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 | "Bigger 2/9"
They grew...
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 | "Bigger 3/9"
...and grew... Check the colour change...
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 | "Bigger 4/9"
...and ate and grew...
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 | "Bigger 5/9"
...
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 | "Bigger 6/9"
Now the colour is starting to show for real.
Look how striped they seem to be.
age: 30 days (4 weeks)
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 | "Bigger 7/9"
Now they are turning dark too.
age: 37 days (5 weeks)
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 | "Bigger 8/9"
...and grew... And the stripes are turning black too.
age: 53 days (7 weeks)
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 | "Bigger 9/9"
...and grew and left home... Two cats left here.
age: 77 days (11 weeks)
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 | "Cozy"
Isn't that cozy? There are five of them in there,
but you'll have to look hard.
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 | "Cozy 2"
Close up. They seem to enjoy themself in that catlike way already.
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 | "Cozy 3"
Yawn.
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 | "Cozy 4"
Time passes. This is a little later, and the colour is
starting to make sense.
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 | "Grass adventure"
The first tour outdoors. Grass is so... odd.
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 | "Grass adventure 2"
But they did eventually walk out on that odd surface.
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 | "Grass adventure 3"
It's strange but fun.
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 | "Grass adventure 4"
Doing like the big cats do.
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 | "Grass adventure 5"
What a savannah!
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 | "Grass adventure 6"
Now they start to get comfortable in the grass.
Lets play!
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 | "Grass adventure 7"
...and hunt!
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 | "Big cats eat real food"
They don't get all their food from the mum.
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 | "Climbing the Fence"
Here's Ruben climbing the fence to my room. (Count the toes.)
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 | "Cute Simon"
Here's Simon, probably thinking big thoughts, maybe about
that guy with the camera...
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 | "Cute Simon 2"
Simon peeking out between the furniture outdoors. He didn't
enjoy the grass as much as the hideouts.
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 | "Dinner"
Dinnertime.
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 | "Dog Water"
This is the dogs water bowl. Fascinating, I think he thinks.
age: 37 days (5 weeks)
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 | "Exploring the Window"
It was just a matter of time until they could climb up to
my window. Here's the first two of them (Simon and Randi, I think).
age: 51 days (7 weeks)
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 | "Exploring the Window II"
Randi, Uno and Truls.
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 | "Gnaw"
Truls checking out if those power coords are fun.
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 | "Oops, bad move"
That was a tricky path. Whoops!
Fraction of a second later, Simon fell
down.
age: 50 days (7 weeks)
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 | "Oops, bad move II"
Randi repeated exactly the same trick a few seconds later.
age: 50 days (7 weeks)
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 | "Laundry Basket"
If one finds somewhere cozy, the other follows.
age: 51 days (7 weeks)
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 | "Randi"
Randi, the only girl. She came to be called Aaliyah later, and then
simplified to Alice.
age: 70 days (10 weeks)
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 | "Randi 2"
Typical kitten. Still Randi.
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 | "Randi in a Box"
Here's Randi halfway out of a box we made a hole in.
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 | "Randi the Writer"
Here's Randi with a pencil. Maybe she'll write when she grows up?
age: 51 days (7 weeks)
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 | "Ruben 1/2"
Ruben. Check the number of toes.
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 | "Ruben 2/2"
And lick your nose.
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 | "Mimmi play"
Mimmi the mother seems to teach them how to wrestle.
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 | "Simon and Unna"
Simon and Unna the dog checking each other out.
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 | "Unna and Simon"
Later, Simon learned not to purr when he was near Unna,
because the sound disturbed her and she would leave.
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 | "Truls"
Truls. He were the king of the bunch, almost twice as big,
at all time.
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 | "Monitor Box"
My monitor broke, and I had to get a new one.
Of course, there's nothing more fun for kittens then a new
box.
The cats still enjoy new boxes. Randi and Ruben and Simon,
the only cats we had left at this time.
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Even big cats enjoy new boxes.
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 | "Uno 1"
I made a series to compare them from newborn to youth.
Here's Uno.
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 | "Uno 2"
Uno as grownup. Quite a change.
age: 59 days (8½ week)
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 | "Truls 1"
Truls. Notice that he's already bigger, even though
he's newborn.
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 | "Truls 2"
He has a certain air around him, doesn't he?
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 | "Randi 1"
Randi, the girl.
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 | "Randi 2"
Randi, the big hunter.
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 | "Simon 1"
Simon, the kitten we kept. No white on the nose.
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 | "Simon 2"
He and Randi were the smallest, but probably the most
intelligent.
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 | "Ruben 1"
Ruben, the one with five toes on each rear paw.
They don't normally have that and we were a little
concerned, but he didn't have any problem with it.
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 | "Ruben 2"
Ruben. This is the last photo in the kitten series.
(Actually, I took around 1,500, but these are the good ones.
And not as many repeats.
The trick of photographing kittens
and puppets is to take many pictures.)
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Kattungar (Kittens)
