Another year comes to an end......

Here we are nearly at the end of 2011 -  yet another year I'd rather not have experienced......

Still, one good thing has been achieved with the setting up of my new business - now I need to get it fully established and earn some money!

I would like to share a few photos of my current kittens -  5 chocolate Burmese,  and 5 Ocicats (4 blue; 2 classic & 2 spotted - and a tawny spotted)

They are now old enough to receive visitors,  so please feel free to contact me if you're considering adding to your family!

The Big Day!

So the Royal Wedding has come and gone - what a marvellous spectacle it was. Britain at its best!  

It's time for a kitten update.  Sadly, things did not quite go according to plan and only 2 kittens survived of the 5 born.  These are a boy (chocolate) and a girl (brown).  I'm still not 100% sure of the patterns but I think the boy will be ticked and the girl silver shaded.   They are very pretty :)

Here are some recent photos.

Brown silver girl with mum Sophie

Chocolate boy

There's some news of an anticipated Burmese litter too -  Cherry (lilac) and Errol (chocolate) are expecting babies around June 14th (chocolate or lilac are the possible colours).  Errol is the boy I imported from France last year and this will be his first UK litter.  He is only very distantly related to Cherry,  so this is a very nice outcross.  I'll post further updates soon. The 2 Asian kittens will be available to new homes in June -  I've decided to stop breeding Asians for a while until I can bring in some "new blood" -   for the last few years I've wanted to breed Burmillas specifically, but my current cats don't seem to want to co-operate!

New Asian Litter

We have a new Asian litter at Vervain -  it's been a very long time since the last Asian kittens, because I've been determined  to breed purely with the aim of producing full expression silver and smoke.   Therefore,  Dexter (Vervain Eldarion, black smoke) was mated to Sophie (Vervain Sophie-Elisabeth, brown silver ticked tabby) and the result was 4 kittens born in the early hours of March 17th.
Sadly I missed the births-  I checked Sophie at just after midnight when she was showing no apparent sign of labour -  then woke up at 3.30 am to find all kittens clean and tidy!
Even more sadly,  one of the kittens has since died for no apparent reason although Sophie and her friends took to moving them several times on the 18th and I suspect some damage may have been done.  Thankfully the 3 remaining kittens are now settled and putting on weight well.
I think we have a black silver (girl),  brown silver (girl) and bumese colour restriction chocolate silver (boy).  The boy who died was a chocolate self.
Here is a picture of Sophie with the 4 kittens taken on the 17th.