Thank you, Tarn.
A couple more pics, my boyfriend helped me find MS Paint on my computer, which I'm very grateful for. <3
First one is a single image of Sypha, from where she was laying on my boyfriend's lap:
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Her original owners threw her out unspayed just because they didn't want her anymore, and she ended up in a foster home together with Ridley and the two became buddies, so they shared a page together on the website. Her eyes caught my attention immediately, so we contacted them about her and Ridley, though we thought she was a boy at first because of her huge paws, and the page didn't specify her gender and had only Ridley's listed. She has her bouts of hyperactivity and is curious to absurd amounts (we have to be careful when opening doors especially), but we love her to bits.
She's the friendliest of the three and she'll go running to the door when someone knocks, so we have to keep an eye on her so she doesn't get out. A friend of my boyfriend's believes that she'll be a monster when she's done growing and she's already as big as Samus, but only time will tell.
Second is of Ridley, from when he was being cute on the loveseat:
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It's probably hard to tell from this image, but he's tiny for his age. The adoption agency we got him from found him when he was on Death's door, pretty much. He was tiny, malnourished and covered in fleas. It took him three months to gain two pounds and they fed him way too much wet food (five cans a day) so his stool is runny, but we have special dry food that should take care of that soon, and he only gets a third of a can once a day. He practically attached himself to me the third day we had the kittens home, and if he's not on the loveseat or in the big window, he's laying by my feet. He's not much of a cuddler, sadly, but he's still very lovey and he'll rub all over my hands when I pet him. The first day we had the kittens home, he spent most of the day hiding under the bed and didn't come out till it was evening. In spite of how nervous he was in the beginning, he's less jumpy than Samus is, but he's wary of new people, and he'll bolt down the hall towards our bedroom when somebody knocks on the door.
We don't have any up to date single photo of Samus yet, so here's one I took of her back when we first got them in October:
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She's the most skittish of the three and it's pretty easy to accidentally spook her because she's still jumpy. It took her two weeks to stop being afraid of us, and we suspect that she was traumatized when her sister was immediately adopted by one of their rescuers, while she wasn't. She and her sister were found in a dumpster by a gas station and Samus's whiskers had been singed, so my boyfriend and I suspect possible abuse. She was also at the same foster home as Ridley and Sypha, and was kind of sprung on us last minute when we were learning about the other two, as her own page was separate from theirs on the website. She gets along with Ridley and Sypha very well, so we ended up giving in (we were originally only wanting two cats) and adopting her as well, and I'm glad we did. She's made a lot of progress and she's very much a lap cat, and she'll meow when she comes into a room to see if anyone else is there. Like Ridley, she'll also bolt when someone knocks on the door but, lately, she's become braver and now watches from underneath the table.