Well, I'm not sure where the month went but it's nearly done.
Kittens are growing and getting into more mischief as each day goes by. Several have left for their new homes now, from Scotland to Austria!
A couple of our available Selkirks will be on exhibition at the Bengal Cat Club of Great Britain show held at Stoneleigh Park on 3rd & 4th October, so feel free to come to find us and have a cuddle with them!
Lexi's British kittens had their second vaccines today so will be able to leave from next week. I have finally made a decision about Honey's boys (thanks Dee!) and Thriller will be staying with us, so Bugsy is now available and Milan is also still here, she is a beautiful girl and she knows it!
TTFN
Claire
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Sunday, 30 August 2009
Sunday afternoon
Was spent, playing with the curly kittens!
I actually remembered to get my camera out this time and you can see the result here
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=118729&id=684581996&l=3fec54c693
TTFN
Claire
I actually remembered to get my camera out this time and you can see the result here
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=118729&id=684581996&l=3fec54c693
TTFN
Claire
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Kittens and decisions
Tootsie had to have her litter by C-Section last Thursday (13th Aug) and sadly we only had one survivor, a curly colourpoint girl. I've waited 6 years for one of my own so she is being wrapped in cotton wool! Tootsie became extremely unwell after the surgery and her kitten, now called Tessy, is being fostered by 'aunty Stella' a big thank you to Clair for taking Tessy on and of course Stella for doing such a great job. Toots is now improving but won't be able to rear Tessy.
The older kittens are having a great time running riot around the house, Abbie's now 12 weeks are like limpets, they love to be with you and hang off your trouser legs! I made the mistake of wearing shorts this week, all I can say is - ouch!!! Ivy's, now 10 weeks are growing into little stunners and Sparkle, staying here, has the loudest purr going. Candy's, 9 weeks, are just downright gorgeous, baby Candy will be moving to Austria and Electro is off to France so just the bonkers and beautiful Evo left from this gang. Honey's British babies are developing well, the two Lilac girls are proper chocolate box kittens and Bugsy is so striking with his classic bicolour markings. Echo, Zinny's singleton, is now living with her British cousins who are a week younger (Lexi's kittens 6 weeks today) and has immense fun running rings round them, they are proper British dumplings, gorgeous to look at and not a lot going on upstairs!
I have made some big decisions this week, over the next few months we will have some lovely young adults looking for new homes as I reduce my breeding cats. As we don't breed from our girls every year anyway we won't be having fewer litters but we now have the type and the colours we want in our cats so it is time for those that have played their part to become spoilt lap cats. Some will stay with us but the majority will be looking for their perfect forever home. This is never something I take lightly but the cats are my priority and I have wept buckets over letting cats go that despite my best efforts are not 100% happy here as a neuter but every time I have been rewarded by seeing them blossom in their new homes.
I have also decided to take a break from breeding Dalmatians for the foreseeable future. I will be keeping Storm entire and may at some point in the future look for another bitch puppy again but we will see. In the meantime our two entire girls Breeze and Summer will be spayed.
There are various reasons but a big factor is giving me more time to concentrate on Lincolnshire Police's breeding programme. I have been a volunteer puppy walker for the last 18 months and it has filled a huge hole that I didn't know was there. We have also had a potential brood bitch placed with us and as anyone who knows me well will understand I always want to give 100%. This is still a fledgling breeding programme and I want to do everything I can to make it a success for the force. Breeding and producing happy, healthy animals that can excel at what they were bred for has always been my aim and even though these will not be my puppies it does not alter my goal.
Not much news on the show front as I am concentrating on showing our American Curl Aimee this year, but, delighted to announce that Misti, Lelaurier Coldfeet is now a DGCA and just needs points to get her up to Triple!! I may be showing the Selkirk and British kittens I am keeping later in the year, only time will tell!
TTFN
Claire
The older kittens are having a great time running riot around the house, Abbie's now 12 weeks are like limpets, they love to be with you and hang off your trouser legs! I made the mistake of wearing shorts this week, all I can say is - ouch!!! Ivy's, now 10 weeks are growing into little stunners and Sparkle, staying here, has the loudest purr going. Candy's, 9 weeks, are just downright gorgeous, baby Candy will be moving to Austria and Electro is off to France so just the bonkers and beautiful Evo left from this gang. Honey's British babies are developing well, the two Lilac girls are proper chocolate box kittens and Bugsy is so striking with his classic bicolour markings. Echo, Zinny's singleton, is now living with her British cousins who are a week younger (Lexi's kittens 6 weeks today) and has immense fun running rings round them, they are proper British dumplings, gorgeous to look at and not a lot going on upstairs!
I have made some big decisions this week, over the next few months we will have some lovely young adults looking for new homes as I reduce my breeding cats. As we don't breed from our girls every year anyway we won't be having fewer litters but we now have the type and the colours we want in our cats so it is time for those that have played their part to become spoilt lap cats. Some will stay with us but the majority will be looking for their perfect forever home. This is never something I take lightly but the cats are my priority and I have wept buckets over letting cats go that despite my best efforts are not 100% happy here as a neuter but every time I have been rewarded by seeing them blossom in their new homes.
I have also decided to take a break from breeding Dalmatians for the foreseeable future. I will be keeping Storm entire and may at some point in the future look for another bitch puppy again but we will see. In the meantime our two entire girls Breeze and Summer will be spayed.
There are various reasons but a big factor is giving me more time to concentrate on Lincolnshire Police's breeding programme. I have been a volunteer puppy walker for the last 18 months and it has filled a huge hole that I didn't know was there. We have also had a potential brood bitch placed with us and as anyone who knows me well will understand I always want to give 100%. This is still a fledgling breeding programme and I want to do everything I can to make it a success for the force. Breeding and producing happy, healthy animals that can excel at what they were bred for has always been my aim and even though these will not be my puppies it does not alter my goal.
Not much news on the show front as I am concentrating on showing our American Curl Aimee this year, but, delighted to announce that Misti, Lelaurier Coldfeet is now a DGCA and just needs points to get her up to Triple!! I may be showing the Selkirk and British kittens I am keeping later in the year, only time will tell!
TTFN
Claire
Monday, 20 July 2009
825 miles later...
.... Vee is in her new home and Lucy is home with us!
Doesn't everybody pop over to The Netherlands for lunch??
We left here at 3.30am Sunday morning, drove to Dover, crossed the Channel and arrived in Calais at 10am local time. 30 minutes to get off the boat and through customs and then we were away for a 3 hour drive through France, Belgium and on into The Netherlands the whole time accompanied by Vee 'singing' or sleeping.
It was absolutely wonderful to see Genevieve and Raymond again, they are true friends and I can't wait for our next get together :-) Their cats, as ever, were gorgeous and it was wonderful to see Cc and Bunny looking so happy. I think we had about 4 of their adults squeezed into the carrier at one point but I didn't manage to sneak them out! So, we had some lunch had a chat and then had to start on our return journey back to Calais.
The boat was delayed for the return trip and then at gone 10 o'clock at night the M25 was solid through the Dartford tunnel and then solid again just before the M11 junction, only in England!! We eventually arrived home in an exhausted heap just before 1am!!
Many thanks to Clair and Chris for checking our beasties during the day and an enormous thank you to Genevieve and Raymond for Lucy, she is utterly wonderful and I can't tell you how delighted I am to have a Jarod baby :-)
Lucy 'Uskaya URASTR8 du Hovali' is a Chocolate & White Selkirk Rex straight female, her sire is the stunning SGCA Jethro Jarod du Hovali and her dam our very own Lelaurier Backtosquareone. We had wanted a Jarod baby from the day we met him and since he only sired a few litters, one to Bunny, one to Ollie's mum and one to Ollie's sister we knew we'd be bringing part of a line back in to the UK but Jarod's pedigree is a one off and one we are delighted to have been entrusted with.
TTFN
Claire
Doesn't everybody pop over to The Netherlands for lunch??
We left here at 3.30am Sunday morning, drove to Dover, crossed the Channel and arrived in Calais at 10am local time. 30 minutes to get off the boat and through customs and then we were away for a 3 hour drive through France, Belgium and on into The Netherlands the whole time accompanied by Vee 'singing' or sleeping.
It was absolutely wonderful to see Genevieve and Raymond again, they are true friends and I can't wait for our next get together :-) Their cats, as ever, were gorgeous and it was wonderful to see Cc and Bunny looking so happy. I think we had about 4 of their adults squeezed into the carrier at one point but I didn't manage to sneak them out! So, we had some lunch had a chat and then had to start on our return journey back to Calais.
The boat was delayed for the return trip and then at gone 10 o'clock at night the M25 was solid through the Dartford tunnel and then solid again just before the M11 junction, only in England!! We eventually arrived home in an exhausted heap just before 1am!!
Many thanks to Clair and Chris for checking our beasties during the day and an enormous thank you to Genevieve and Raymond for Lucy, she is utterly wonderful and I can't tell you how delighted I am to have a Jarod baby :-)
Lucy 'Uskaya URASTR8 du Hovali' is a Chocolate & White Selkirk Rex straight female, her sire is the stunning SGCA Jethro Jarod du Hovali and her dam our very own Lelaurier Backtosquareone. We had wanted a Jarod baby from the day we met him and since he only sired a few litters, one to Bunny, one to Ollie's mum and one to Ollie's sister we knew we'd be bringing part of a line back in to the UK but Jarod's pedigree is a one off and one we are delighted to have been entrusted with.
TTFN
Claire
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Kittens!
Well we have kittens everywhere! Our girls have given us big healthy litters of absolutely gorgeous babies and I couldn't be happier. Due to this we have quite a few available to pet or show homes as I have been able to pick out and keep the very best and have also been really strict with myself.
The website is up to date with photos and availability for the Selkirk kittens and the British will be updated soon, although they are still quite young.
Feel free to contact us about our babies and we'll see if we can help.
TTFN
Claire
The website is up to date with photos and availability for the Selkirk kittens and the British will be updated soon, although they are still quite young.
Feel free to contact us about our babies and we'll see if we can help.
TTFN
Claire
Monday, 22 June 2009
Sleep tight
It is with immense sadness that I let you know our beloved Ice (Lelaurier Htwoo) died in the early hours of Sunday morning. Ice had for some unknown reason, other than being a Dally, decided to eat some of the wadding from his bed. On Saturday afternoon he underwent a four and a half hour operation to remove the wadding and repair the subsquent intussusception. He came through the surgery fine and was up on his feet by 10pm but unfortunately never made it to the next morning. He would have been 6 in August.
Ice sired our most recent litter of puppies and was the calmest Dally we had ever known. As a puppy we had no intention of keeping him but he just wormed his way in, with the whole attitude of 'if my sister stays I stay' and so he did.
Both us and the dogs are lost at the moment.
Claire
Ice sired our most recent litter of puppies and was the calmest Dally we had ever known. As a puppy we had no intention of keeping him but he just wormed his way in, with the whole attitude of 'if my sister stays I stay' and so he did.
Both us and the dogs are lost at the moment.
Claire
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Catch up
It's been a busy and stressful couple of weeks here. Abbie succumbed to acute septic mastitis and despite surgery to remove the dead and infected tissue the infection has spread, she is extremely unwell and as an added insult developed a uterine infection as well, she is too poorly to be spayed so we are nursing her round the clock and keeping everything crossed she can fight it off.
Her kittens have been taken under Disney's (our American Curl) wing and she is now looking after a troop of ten!
Ivy had her babies on the 8th June, 4 gorgeous boys and a striking girl all curly except one boy. They are doing well and just starting to open their eyes.
Candy had 3 babies yesterday, all curly and details will be posted about them in a day or two. Honey is due babies today so we are just waiting for those to appear!
TTFN
Claire
Her kittens have been taken under Disney's (our American Curl) wing and she is now looking after a troop of ten!
Ivy had her babies on the 8th June, 4 gorgeous boys and a striking girl all curly except one boy. They are doing well and just starting to open their eyes.
Candy had 3 babies yesterday, all curly and details will be posted about them in a day or two. Honey is due babies today so we are just waiting for those to appear!
TTFN
Claire
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