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3 weeks - Day 21

 He hit 3 weeks old today!  How exciting!  Will try to keep today's blog post short, since it's been fairly uneventful today!


Benefits of Warmth

The weather has been warm again recently.  Our area hit 100F today.  Unfortunately, more fires up north have caused the air quality to become poor again.  It's not nearly as bad as it had been when we first found Phoenix, but it's bad enough that we've opted against opening the windows.  We also don't have AC here either.  The house thermostat is reading 87F now, and it's 8:30pm in the evening.

So despite Nguyen and I roasting today, we had an added benefit.  Phoenix slept extra well!  He didn't even bother sleeping on top of the heating pad today.  But the little guy was super knocked out and seemingly enjoying life.  Check out the two videos below:




Phoenix was pretty active after I moved his pen from the office to the living room area.  He was "running" around and meowing away.  He's not quite fast, but he's using his hind legs decently well now.  It's also a good thing his pen has a lid, because I wouldn't be surprised if he could make an escape overnight.  

All in all, today was a pretty good day.  Phoenix's poops are starting to improve a big.  He's still a bit messy, but his poops are starting to get formed!  He's also almost gone up 10g, hitting 259g.  And there was a lot of less blood today.  All fantastic signs.  Also, as of today, we are down to only 200 cotton balls left.  Time to buy more?  Maybe - though truthfully I think I'd like to get some baby wipes to help out instead.

Curios Cat

This new pen has allowed Asher to be a bit more curious about our new house guest.  He's seen Phoenix before during feedings and he seems to be fine.  However, Asher was quite suspicious about this new pen that showed up in the bedroom yesterday.  Take a look!

Asher was starting to approach the pen.  If you make any moves or touch him, he'll panic.  In this case, Nguyen went to throw something in the hamper, which cased him to stop approaching.

Asher cam back a little later and went to check out whatever was in the pen.  After sniffing at the front for a bit, he joined me on the bed to go to sleep for the night.

Asher also came into the room while I was feeding Phoenix this afternoon.  Phoenix was out in front of me on a blanket.  Asher came to about 3-4ft away, before deciding there was nothing exciting happening and he walked away.  We still haven't let them come close to being in physical contact.  We do want to make sure we don't spread any kind of illnesses between the two!  I was taken by surprise when I saw Asher in the afternoon today.  I'm glad he hadn't come closer, otherwise I would have had to tell him to go away (which I usually try to avoid when he's clearly a bit nervous).

Photos and Videos

Sleepy-time shots!

Searching for something.  Me?  I'll never know.

Phoenix awake and stuck inside his pen.

Walking around and exploring the world.  He didn't go very far in this video, but you can see him using his hind legs and moving around before he decided that he was done exploring and wanted to sit down.

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