Well, I can finally call Klickitat 1.5 and Kaleetan "wearably done," meaning that at this point I don't have to do anything more to the suits for them to be able to go out in public.

They debuted at Bellfurs this weekend and sadly we didn't enjoy ourselves at all. I was really disappointed that the furries there were so rough on our suits, both Kaleetan and myself were tackled/glomped/ear-tugged/tail-tugged/squeezed/groped the entire time we were in character. It's a huge bummer that furries, who have seen fursuits before and know what they are, didn't use common sense around people in suit. Klickitat had her salmon forcefully stolen from her (and she ended up on the ground trying to get it back), and Kaleetan had his butt touched way too much, "bear tail! bear tail!" YES BEARS HAVE TAILS. WE KNOW THIS. Won't be suiting at Bellfurs again unless we have better handlers or people learn to keep their hands to themselves. I would have expected it from a park full of little kids but not from a bunch of adults who knew exactly the amount of time and money that goes into these costumes. Anyways, lame.

Damage check when we got home revealed that Klickitat had part of her right ear torn open from grabby hands pulling on it, fortunatley that's a quick hot glue fix. Kaleetan seems to have made it out alright, I need to check the seams in his tail to make sure none of the thread was popped. We used upholstry grade thread on it but it was handled really rough.