These are the photos we took of Dasha and Tima last weekend, when Balzhan, Ildar, Sasha, Dr. Natalya, Sveta, Losha, Igor & his wife, as well as Asen’s mum all came round randomly on one day!
First we have the traditional weigh in, which shows he has almost doubled in one week!
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Next we have a couple of close up shots of mother and son
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Now we have Dasha investigating what exactly is going on with the grey plastic box these weird humans keep putting in her box…
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Finally we have Ira holding Tima, to try and give an idea of scale
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PS Sorry for any blog readers who don’t find kittens cute. Tough. I do ![]()

They are so adorable. I am more a dog person but I think certain cats are nice. Yours look to be very cute and lovable.
Karra and Muska live with us in our flat, and Tima lives with the in-laws, but as we normally visit them at the weekend, we still get to see the cute little fluff ball quite often
Before moving to Kazakhstan, I was the same as you - I felt more comfortable around dogs than cats. Cats seemed to enjoy clawing me, whereas dogs normally understood who was boss. Now that we have our own cats, I don’t feel guilty telling them off if they mis-behave, and can happily fall asleep with them both on our bed - in the past when we crashed at Ira’s parents, I could not sleep with Dasha in the same room!