CUTE!

Breaking: 7 lb Vakka is now is now just about big spooning 18 lb Diddy. With tail blanketing.

I half hope to die happy before encountering the news again.

I shall endeavor to post them!

... So this development is a balm to my much abraded heart in these times.

I'm honored to have been chosen as human to be present in case intervention was needed, too.

Didymus at a healthy weight is more than his younger sisters weight together, though, and is, well, orange. And Zhem is as jumpy as he used to be. And Vakka takes no sass from anyone. So Didymus has just been pinning the last three years. But Zhem seems to half consent to playing sometimes lately, &

So when some months after we lost Hob we adopted a these bonded sisters, who'd spent half their nearly 3 years of life at the pound, we hoped they'd help Diddy heal. That's Vakarinye, dust sprite, on the left, and Zhemyna, tabby, on the right. After 3 years, they sometimes brave laps for pets.

But Didymus took it especially hard and has basically tried, desperate, to make my spouse Gob's proxy. He was less frantic in his snuggles with Gob but still sometimes seems to try to inveigle himself under M's skin (or into his armpit) to hide.

Hob died around 4-5 years ago and that is still what my kid thinks about whenever there is grief. He was the sort of cat we will all miss forever. He took care of us all in a way that made everyone who met him feel seen and loved.

Except with his friend, Hobgoblin, who I found emaciated and alone at a rural rest stop several years before and who was absolutely made of love.

Didymus, orange, has been with us almost nine years. We adopted him as a nearly full grown kitten who'd been abandoned with his mother and sister into the care of a friend who was only briefly supposed to be pet sitting them. He was terrified of everything, especially kids. Eyes always like this.

Thank you! There's rubber sealant all over the wood inside and various other attempts to prevent mayhem. Still working out temperature and humidity, and will probably add more lights.