Four years ago, Anna-Lena Kaati from the village of Geljeheden outside Överkalix bought a reindeer mark.
She then resumed a tradition that had previously existed within the family.
At the beginning of the summer, she received a request from another reindeer owner if she could consider taking care of a small reindeer calf that the vulture (the reindeer's mother) had abandoned.
- We went and picked him up.
Two days later he called again and said he had another calf.
I thought it would be better if they were accompanied by each other, says Anna-Lena Kaati.
The diapers go on when they sleep indoors
The reindeer calves listen to the names Násti and Mánno and at night they are allowed to be inside the house.
- But then it is the diaper that counts, says Anna-Lena.
Once inside the house, they often share a bed with one of the family's three dachshunds - and it goes like a dance.
- They play and fool around together and can also be really close and just cuddle.
It's nice to see.
Baby bottle every three hours
The small calves should have food from a bottle every three hours.
- We also have fantastic friends who help me with lamb nutrition and colostrum for the cows, she says.
What does this mean for the reindeer's future in the future - when they grow up?
- It will be difficult for the reindeer calves to fend for themselves in the wild after such an upbringing.
The mother teaches them dangers, hiking trails and where it is appropriate to eat.
These two will be allowed to stay here at home on the farm.
In the clip above, you meet the whole large animal family with three dachshunds, two reindeer calves and a driver with eight puppies!
Anna Lena Kaati with one of her adopted reindeer calves.
Photo: Joakim Nordlund