Raaawr!

Amientje's head is darker on the photo than it is in reality, and he's getting a lot more brown/orange now. He looked a bit grey at some parts before, but it's a male and because of that he can't have both red and grey in his fur, so it was a bit of a color mystery but that seems to be solved now :O

Yesterday I took the kittens downstairs, one at a time. I gave my own cats some canned food first so they were all happy, and then brought each kitten down for a short while. Both Amin and Naeva have been downstairs before, and they did great now as well, especially when they smelled the canned food! I let them eat for a bit so it would be extra fun to be downstairs, then took them upstairs again. Taartje already got scared on the way down, but I hoped she would enjoy it with the food. Boy was I wrong! >.< She instantly went under the table with her fur all standing up and hissed, so I quickly grabbed her and took her upstairs again. She panicked so much that she held on to me, and she's a bit bigger already, so that wasn't so nice. She even got stuck with a nail in my neck for a bit, that's how deep she clawed into my skin, ouch! :( Ysera was scared on the way over as well, but hmm that food was pretty nice as well, so lucky it was a positive experience for her. I let Naeva walk around downstairs for a bit after that, but Dew wasn't so happy with that, and his soft pokes were enough to slide her over the floor :O

Now they all want to get out of their room a lot, but that doesn't go so well yet with Tara (and soso with Yse). I don't want to give them a lot of space because then it's quickly too much for her, but at the same time she does need to get used to new areas, especially because she's a bit older already. So I'm putting them in a new room every now and then, and show her that I'm not scary in that room either, and take it one room at a time. Earlier I let them upstairs in the hallway, but the stairs is there as well of course, and both Amin and Naeva were downstairs in no time! Little Naeva is stretched out about the same height as one step of the stairs, it looked so silly when she climbed back upstairs, brave little thing :O

Tomorrow I'll take Ysera back to the vet for a checkup, and her mouth now also has some scabs so it looks like that's healing a bit more as well. I'm very curious to hear what they think! :)

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I just got home with good news! Yse is healing well :e Her mouth is doing well, and it looks better to me now too (the scabs were off this morning) and her teeth are standing a bit more secure in her mouth now again. Her nose will always be a bit misformed according to the vet but it's fine further. I can stop giving her the eye meds so often, only have to do it a few times a day now. She's not blind according to the vet, she does have some scar tissue on her eye (she had a hole in her cornea) but she probably just looks past that. The white sheen on her eye is a lot less bad now too!
She's really hissing a lot now, she kinda had a fall back ever since I picked her up to go to the vet. But I'm sure that'll turn around again :) I also brought Naeva for some support and to accurately weight her. My kitchen weightscale is accurate, but not with wobbly kittens :D She gained a 100 grams since she arrived here, so that's good. They're all gaining nicely, but she's the smallest, so it was nice to find out exactly how well she's doing :)

I originally posted this on a forum on Thursday, July 12 and Friday, July 13. Roughly translated and posted here afterwards.