Lots of news......

Quite a lot to catch up on!  Firstly and most exciting,  I was finally able to bring my new Burmese boy home last weekend.  Eros de Grainoge had travelled by car all the way from Perpignan when I met his "courier" at Thurrock Services last Saturday.  We then had a further 3 hour journey home!  However, he is settling in and certainly has a very good appetite -  he couldn't have much fresh or canned food in France due to the heat,  so he's enjoying the food here :)
He is still very shy and is changing his coat at the moment - his front half is new, sleek coat but the back half is still fluffy kitten coat!  Goodness knows what effect the change of climate will have,  but hopefully his colour will even out to a nice pale milk chocolate eventually.

I have kept a chocolate boy from Molly's litter -  his name is Sid (Vervain Mocha-Sidamo) and he looks quite promising so far -  I would like to take him to a show or two if I get the chance.  Here is Sid -  I love his wide muzzle, and his nose is short although he does have the dreaded roll-off! Eye colour & shape not bad either :)

Alice's kittens are 7 weeks old now and doing well -  they are eating well and very playful.  I'll be getting them vaccinated at the end of this week if all goes according to plan.   My main concern is being able to find homes for them,  as I've had no serious enquiries so far,  but then I haven't actually advertised them yet!  

Finally -  Greg has been neutered and has now gone back to his previous owner, Lynn.  I took him there last Thursday and was astonished to see that he seemed to recognise the house -  he walked straight out of his carrier and headed upstairs,  ignoring the 2 large Irish Setters!   It has been a great privilege to have owned him for the last 15 months -  I have very rarely met a stud with such an amazing temperament.  I'm so glad he is now going to have a lovely life as a pampered pet!

Ocicat Kittens!

I'm so pleased that my first Ocicat litter since October 2008 has arrived!  Alice has 5 beautiful babies,  born in the early hours of this morning.  The biggest surprise of all is that 3 of them are classic tabbies -  I have never had anything other than spotted kittens and I certainly didn't antiicipate that Alice would carry classic.  She appears to have inherited it through her grandmother's line.

There are 3 boys (2 silver classics and a chocolate spotted) and 2 girls (tawny classic and black silver spotted)

They were all a good weight at birth (mostly over 100g) and seem to be doing well so far.  Alice has had a lot of help from my lilac Burmese girl Cherry (again,  somewhat unexpected because they are not normally the best of friends!)

Here are the first pics of the new arrivals:

Ocicat Kittens!

I'm so pleased that my first Ocicat litter since October 2008 has arrived!  Alice has 5 beautiful babies,  born in the early hours of this morning.  The biggest surprise of all is that 3 of them are classic tabbies -  I have never had anything other than spotted kittens and I certainly didn't antiicipate that Alice would carry classic.  She appears to have inherited it through her grandmother's line.

There are 3 boys (2 silver classics and a chocolate spotted) and 2 girls (tawny classic and black silver spotted)

They were all a good weight at birth (mostly over 100g) and seem to be doing well so far.  Alice has had a lot of help from my lilac Burmese girl Cherry (again,  somewhat unexpected because they are not normally the best of friends!)

Here are the first pics of the new arrivals:

Kitten news

After saying last time that Spring had arrived,  I can now say that Summer has arrived, albeit probably only temporarily.  We have bright sunshine and a temperature of about 23C here today.

Molly's kittens are looking very promising -  there are still 3 boys to find homes for (2 chocs and a lilac) -  I am very tempted to keep a boy,  as Molly will be spayed shortly.  Can't decide between the 2 chocs however! 

Also,  there's good news about Alice - she is finally pregnant and kittens are due sometime in the first 2 weeks of June.  Unfortunately I'm not 100% sure of the dates as she was mated numerous times over a period of 2 weeks or so!  She does look a reasonable size so I think there could be more than 2 kittens - now that will be a novelty after my last 3 Ocicat litters of 1,1 and 2.  It would be amazing if there were any classics,  but I really don't think Alice carries the pattern.  Will still be interesting to see what colours she has -  at last the chance of something other than tawny!!

We seem to be in Spring mode -  can't quite believe it after the winter we've just had!  The house martins arrived 2 days ago and immediately investigated last year's nest......   I do wish they'd find somewhere else!

Molly's kittens were 3 weeks old last Thursday and had already started climbing out of the kitten box -  they are now in the small pen in my bedroom and today I took some more photos.  They look very promising,  in fact one of them is really quite extreme in type,  but going by years of experience I know his nose will get longer.........

I've put 20-odd of the photos on Facebook,  but here's a few to be going on with :)