Watchmen 3 weeks

The four boys in our Watchmen litter turned three weeks of age and start to explore the world outside the safe kitten cage. Unfortunately Älva have too little milk to feed her four babies and the occasional older Firefly kitten full-time, so we have to support both her with extra food and now also three of her babies. Älva is in good shape but obviously it is tough for her to produce so much more milk. Since we do not believe in isolating the youngest kittens from the older, we will introduce solid food earlier and hope they will catch up weight-wise soon. Yesterday they tasted minced beef and loved it.

Älva turns seven years of age in April next year and will retire during 2010, meaning this will be her last litter. We are quite pleased with all her offspring with high-quality type and kind temperaments, although quite sad that there will not be more. We hope her good traits will live on in her children and grand-children. In out cattery, Tristan will hopefully contribute genetically as soon as he realises what a male cat is supposed to do...