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Della trying to get Toby to play at our play date on Wednesday, he comes home on next Wednesday. He'll be a foster for the first couple of months.

Awww. sweet

hah!! They look really well matched :)

Very sweet MTP :)

Chloe is in our bedroom, with assorted feline support equipment. Bootsie will freak when we go to bed here pretty soon.

The boys snoozing this morning.

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Great pic! They look so completely content.

My daughter is taking one of the young adult cats from my former cattery out west with her today. I'm going to miss Naughty Zoot. :( But my daughter needs her more.

Thanks :) They are totally spoilt!

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Gorgeous pic :)

beautiful cats limey. i'm drooling thinking what i could make with those lush pelts

Love the cats miss having one. Haven't had one since I have had the Belgian Sheepdogs they think they are chew toys.
What breed did you breed Ortho? Its sad when one leaves but you know its a good home. This is Mia wondering when the pizza will be ready....


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Cute, Nirv!

I bred Siamese and Balinese - moderns and intermediates mainly, a few appleheads. The Balinese were all appleheads/traditionals. I would've liked to get into breeding Balinese moderns but closed the cattery before I made that transition (went back to medical practice).

Love those cats - so intelligent and beautiful! - but doing things properly was incredibly time-consuming and expensive. A labor of love. I couldn't do it while working full time, though. The queens and kittens needed more supervision, the studs needed human contact - it's a full time job, done properly.

I had a Chinchilla Persian most recently a lovely couch ornament, ;) very sweet. After visiting catteries, dogs, IMO are easier to have and breed than cats I am sure :)

I think so. Purebred breeding cats take a lot of work to keep healthy. Part of it is the inbreeding that's ubiquitous - you can't avoid it in any purebred animals - and part seems to be that hormones, breeding, and queening are very hard on cats. When I spayed/neutered all my adults on closing the cattery they all became much easier to manage in terms of health.

The queen I have with me is able to open any lever-handled door in either direction, in spite of weighing only 7 lb. She has to jump up, balance on the handle, push it down, leap down, and push or pull the door before it re-latches. She also turns on faucets (not every day, thank goodness!) when bored. During her labors/deliveries she was always super-high maintenance - she would vocalize at every contraction, would not tolerate me leaving the room, and if she'd been able to speak English I know she would've been swearing at me! I practically had to hold her paw. But she was a fantastic mother and had gorgeous kittens. :)