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[DanaC]

Gorgeous pic

[Big Sarge]

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

[Nirvana]

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....

[limey]

Cute, Nirv!

[orthodoc]

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.

[Nirvana]

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

[orthodoc]

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.

[Chocolatl]

"You did this to me, you bastard! Mrow!"

Gorgeous pics, all!

[fargon]

She finally came out from under the bed and ate and shit and allowed us to pet her. She still hisses at Bootsie so we have a bed room cat and a rest of the house cat. I had to remind my self that it took two weeks for Bootsie to come out from under the bathroom sink. We have to take her to get a rabies shot and check up, that should be fun. Well here is the pic you have been dying to see.

[orthodoc]

She's lost no time cuddling up for human company - a good sign! Bet she'll be a sweetie.

[DanaC]

You can see the beginnings of trust in that shot.

[regular.joe]

I see me and Omar are not the only ones hanging out on the bed on a lazy day.

[Gravdigr]

That's one chuckle-headed kitteh.

...could be the camera angle.

[Trilby]

I'm posting here so I don't have to look at teh Nightmare Fuel thread which is fecking gross and now i"m sick.

[DanaC]

Joe, that pic of you and Omar is great. He looks like a proper Cat. Stick a white chin on him and he would look a lot like the cat we had when I was little. He was awesome. And woe betide any dog who tried to play hunt the kitteh with Mush. He was spotted at least once chasing a bad ass local German Shepherd all the way up the back street.