This Year's Girl
Well of course, you all already knew that Anansi would stay at home ;) We did not fight to resist her charming personality and fell for her good looks. We are quite pleased to finally keep a promising girl with our cattery name in our home. We also look forward to working with Enigma's lines combined with something different than Kiwawa's in the future. Both China and Kiwawa are strong-built girls with different qualities and Enigma has been a marvellous breeding male so we feel we have three special breeding cats in Tigrinya, Bridget Jones and Anansi.
China has been at her first HCM test and her heart looked just perfectly normal and her values was well within limits.
In the beginning of a new year it is time to reflect over the past year and think ahead.
2007 was a year where plans failed time after time... We had hopes for kittens after both Bridget Jones and Tigrinya but it just did not work out. In the end we mated China a bit earlier instead as she had a weight of 4.6 kilos at 10 months and was mature enough. She got Enigma's last litter and thereafter he was neutered. It felt quite strange but we are so happy to see him walking around freely on our grounds without the troubles of a hormone-filled stud. We had a great show year ourselves with Älva's EC-title (and 6 NOM at 9 shows) and Bridget Jones' IC-title (and 5 NOM at 6 shows). Our offspring Syriana in Spain and Desperado in Finland had remarkable show successes and got a JW-title each. We are ever so thankful to their owners Vestvegr and Foxypaws for taking them to shows in perfect show condition. Memento in Germany visited fewer shows but with just as great results - thanks Elrilars! We are also happy for the positive reports of our other former kittens - thanks everyone for taking great care of them all!
2008 will hopefully give us successes and no sorrows... Bridget Jones will (if all goes well) give birth to her first babies already in late January and Tigrinya will meet a boy as soon as she starts calling (anyday now...). Thereafter we will take a break from kittens until late 2008 or even early 2009 whenever Älva will meet her next boyfriend. In the meantime we will take our girls to cat shows and work within Norsk Skogkatt United. Jean-Paul is finally fertile and will meet a handful ladies and thereafter he will most likely be neutered during spring. He has developed just great during late 2007 and is finally turning more and more into a strong-built male instead of a slender teenage.
In the end, plans are just plans and who knows what 2008 will give...
China has been at her first HCM test and her heart looked just perfectly normal and her values was well within limits.
In the beginning of a new year it is time to reflect over the past year and think ahead.
2007 was a year where plans failed time after time... We had hopes for kittens after both Bridget Jones and Tigrinya but it just did not work out. In the end we mated China a bit earlier instead as she had a weight of 4.6 kilos at 10 months and was mature enough. She got Enigma's last litter and thereafter he was neutered. It felt quite strange but we are so happy to see him walking around freely on our grounds without the troubles of a hormone-filled stud. We had a great show year ourselves with Älva's EC-title (and 6 NOM at 9 shows) and Bridget Jones' IC-title (and 5 NOM at 6 shows). Our offspring Syriana in Spain and Desperado in Finland had remarkable show successes and got a JW-title each. We are ever so thankful to their owners Vestvegr and Foxypaws for taking them to shows in perfect show condition. Memento in Germany visited fewer shows but with just as great results - thanks Elrilars! We are also happy for the positive reports of our other former kittens - thanks everyone for taking great care of them all!
2008 will hopefully give us successes and no sorrows... Bridget Jones will (if all goes well) give birth to her first babies already in late January and Tigrinya will meet a boy as soon as she starts calling (anyday now...). Thereafter we will take a break from kittens until late 2008 or even early 2009 whenever Älva will meet her next boyfriend. In the meantime we will take our girls to cat shows and work within Norsk Skogkatt United. Jean-Paul is finally fertile and will meet a handful ladies and thereafter he will most likely be neutered during spring. He has developed just great during late 2007 and is finally turning more and more into a strong-built male instead of a slender teenage.
In the end, plans are just plans and who knows what 2008 will give...
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