New scratching pole

Yesterday I gave the kittens a slightly higher scratching pole with a basket at the bottom, and they liked it straight away!

Tara in the basket

Ysera with a mouse on top

Unfortunately Dew is acting a bit different and less fun towards the kittens since yesterday, could be caused by the scratching pole which is from my cats? It was never used by them, only Dew lay in it every once in a while. He seems confuzed now, he wants to go to the kittens but for example, he tried to carry Naeva out of the room with his mouth, and he went for Tara as well. Still a bit soft, but too harsh already imo, and he included a mild version of his battlecry. I'm gonna call someone about this later, because I don't have enough experience with adult cats with kittens to know what's the wise thing to do here (correct him, let them sort it, keep him away from the kittens, ...)

Little stalkers! When I see this, I can understand Dew as well :P

Ysera's favo sleeping position

Naeva sneaking up on a toy

Stubborn little missy!

It's often not so easy to make photos, Naeva and Amin discovered the cord on my camera ^_^

And Tara discovered my belt loops and loves them. Not so nice, because I often get nails in my back as well! But she thinks I shouldn't whine, it's fun :e

Amin is a little dragon as we'd say in Dutch, a "draakje", he slaps and bites a lot atm. But his adorable face makes up for a lot :) Naeva discovered how to climb my pants, I hope it'll take a while before Amientje discovers that!

Sleeping together

The kittens are doing well, they gain weight like they should, use the litterboxes, and there's barely any hissing anymore. Only Yse hisses sometimes when she gets spooked by something. Tara (Taartje) was meowing this morning and searching for a litterbox (I was cleaning them) and she even held it in until I could quickly put her on a litterbox :) Both Tara and Ysera are more relaxed when I pick them up now, at start they really started to panic and tried to get away, so yep, I think they're doing well! :)

I originally posted this on a forum on Tuesday, July 10. Roughly translated and posted here afterwards.

Names!

I finally found some names for the kittens, although it's not really helping yet. It doesn't matter what kind of sound I make, they don't look anyway! :) I called the blue one Tara, the red/white one Ysera, the creme Amin and the black one Naeva.

Tara is just a name I liked and I found it matched with her attitude and character, Ysera is a name from WoW, the description of that character in game matched well with this kitty I think (like this kitten is often a bit in her own world as well). Amin -Amientje as I'd say in Dutch- is the name from an online friend (although I found out later that it's not a name that should be given to pets according to their religion, oops! >.<) and Naeva apparently means child of the evening, which I thought would go well with her pretty fur.

Tara starts to find me more interesting, meows a bit more and is by far the biggest kitty now. If they'd told me she was from a different litter than her brother I would've believed it straight away! She's really a little lady already, and also a little foodjunkie :D

The bench is still comfy!

Naeva starts to turn into a real cuddlycat, she loves to curl up in my neck and hair and give my face kisses while purring like mad. Tiny wet nose against my nose :L She also greets me with meows I can barely hear, so cute! At first it was Amientje who focussed on me the most, now that's Naeva.

Lying upside down to show that she also has white in her fur

Amin attacked my nose this morning with 2 paws and a little kittenjump! Luckily he was gentle, because this little mister is the worst when it comes to teeth and nails. Every little thing on my skin needs to be attacked as well, so he keeps me quite busy :)

But he can also be adorable (when he sleeps) :angel

Ysera all of a sudden made good progress this morning, she actually stayed with me for a little while instead of running away instantly. And when the others came to me, she joined them too, including a little meow to me. And as it turns out, there's a big engine hidden in that tiny body! <3 I just cleaned her up a bit as well, and she really liked it this time, prrrr. It's só nice that she starts to trust me a little, she has enough to deal with already.

Her little head is improving as well, but she just lacks some bits of her nose and mouth, I don't know how else to describe it. Her eye has a milkywhite layer which isn't getting any less yet, and her mouth is open a bit, but she just can't close it further. But with eating and other things it doesn't seem to be an issue for her! There was a big piece of scab hanging loose from her nose yesterday, poor girl, that looked really awful :( But after that got loose and I put cream on her nose again, it looked like she felt a lot better all of a sudden and she even went nuts for a bit. It was really nice to see her like that, I often find it hard to see such a tiny little creature having so much issues already. Later this week we're going to the vet for a checkup, curious to see what he thinks of her now.

These pics show the position of her mouth and teeth, which isn't so visible when she looks straight forward. She gets eye ointment at least 10x a day, cream on her nose several times a day, and painkillers of course, but there's nothing else I can do about her mouth. But I hope it'll improve when she grows!

On my lap together with Naeva

And some more lapcats

Look at little brave Naeva here! :o

I'm so glad she didn't try to do that with Sue :O

Getting them socialized is so much easier with some friendly kittens there as well! I already knew that, but now that I see it for myself, it still surprises me. And Tara just greeted Dew with her tail up (she was the worst towards him) and he sat with her and Amientje in the window :)

I originally posted this on a forum on Sunday, July 8. Roughly translated and posted here afterwards.

Dew and the kittens

The kittens are all doing fine, and their bowel movement is ok again as well. I am a lot more fun already, and Dewey is a lot less scary as well. At first they were hissing to him with arched backs, but now they're watching him closely (when they're tired) or start to follow him. But Dew's still a bit impressed from all the staring and following, especially when they close up on him or sit on a row just looking!

Dew jumped in their room and that spooked Amin...

...who then started to follow Dew

His sister Tara also noticed that big thing. I would also feel a bit weird if I were Dew and there's 4 pairs of eyes staring at me like Tara does here :O

Dewey ignores Amin's high back

Both following Dew

Dew and mini-Dew!

Dewey loves flies (the bigger, the tastier >.<) and there was one between the door and the doorframe. Amientje got brave and went to sniff Dew while he was going for his snack, and after that Dewey went back on his scratching pole on the other side of the door.

Tara played with Dew's tail shortly earlier when he was lying near the door, and she got a very soft poke against her head when she was sitting behind the door. That grey thing moving behind the door was pretty interesting for Dew as well! He seems to know well that she's the biggest of them all, but that he has to be very careful still. So adorable together :)

Bindi and Sue dislike the whole kitten-thing, they hiss and Sue looks angry at them as well. Bindi is interested in their food (nothing new there), but she's too scared to go into their room and take it, haha. But my girls have plenty of space in the rest of the house and choose to just stay away from them, which is fine of course.

I originally posted this on a forum on Sunday, July 8. Roughly translated and posted here afterwards.

Aaaand some more photos...I keep clicking!

This little one plays very enthousiastic, but after that she's really tired as well! I do find it a bit tricky to photograph her fur! So most photos that I took so far were a bit blurry unfortunately.


That toy mouse looks very big all of a sudden :)

Rolled over by accident, but doesn't matter, just continue sleeping!

When I went to check on them earlier, a few of them were sleeping on the mattress, but this little lady woke up straight away. She's improving a bit already, she's hissing a lot less to me :)

Part of the camera moves...what's that! :o

She wants to play, but it's all bit harder for her, and I can notice as well that her sight isn't ok. On the background you see brother and sister playing together.

Then we have brother and sister, it's obvious that they're a bit older already!
Sleeping on the bench

She really likes the Catit rails! Even though her paws are still a bit too short :O

But that's ok, you can also have fun and be silly near the rails!

On my lap, the little miss is ok with that a bit more often now, and she can purr well then! And if I stop petting her, she sometimes already throws her head against me <3

Of course her brother had to mix in as well :)

He keeps following me, he's really interested in humans!

Huh? What's moving there! *poke*

I'll go bug the poor thing with her ointments again, and give them the activity board (without the cups). I think the blue/creme will enjoy that one :)

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The kittens are doing well further, but their bowel movement got a bit thin, especially from the black one. It's probably from the warm weather, but I'll keep a close eye on her, although it seems she's doing a bit better already again :)

The red/white one has improved a little bit already, but well, it's too early to tell if she'll be able to see with that eye later on. Although I do think she's not completely blind on that side. Her mouth and nose look a bit weird from up close, I hope that'll get better! I'm still pretty scary, but my cats are scary too! Poor Dew even got a panick-slap from her, but he didn't do anything back <3

I originally posted this on a forum on Saturday, July 7. Roughly translated and posted here afterwards.