Latest Kittens

At the beginning of January 2010 our girl Fudge had a little of 7 beautiful kittens. In this litter, just one male kitten was full expression chocolate (to foreground of picture below).



There was also one chocolate burmese variant male kitten (also in the above picture). The remaining 5 kittens are females, 2 of them are chocolate ticked tabbies carrying the burmese colour restriction gene (below) and the remaining 3 are chocolate burmese variants.



Here are two of the burmese variant girls relaxing under a lamp.



One of the burmese varian girls in particular is very cute. She's also one of the friendliest kittens we've ever had. Here's a picture of her relaxing on the bed after a tiring game of chase with the boys.



Of course the kittens don't like to be excluded from the photography bonanza and they're always up to mischief. One of the variant girls decided to taunt us while we tried to get clear pictures of her sister. Here she is sticking her tongue out!



Fudge is still looking after them and feeding them occasionally, despite their many teeth! She's a proud mum though and is always keeping her eye on them when they're playing hide and seek in the house. Here she is resting with them after they've been tiring themselves out in their evening playtime.



The whole family had their first visit to the Vet on wednesday and have now all had their first vaccinations and worming. It's getting close to that time once again when they'll all be going to their new homes. Two of the kittens are already spoken for but the other 5 are still available to loving homes. We always welcome enquiries from people who are interested in these stunning and friendly cats. Please feel free to send any questions or requests for information to me by email.
Mary

Our most recet litter of just one beautiful male kitten was born almost 2 months ago. We've been calling him Sid and he's a real little character. It's with thanks to Maura Lennihan that we had the opportunity to use her beautiful stud boy Berry with our Coco and the results have been fantastic.



Sid is the first silver kitten we've had and he's absolutely adoreable. His colouring is still developing but we think he's a choc or brown ticked tabby on a silver background.



He'll be visiting the vet next week for the first vaccination and will be ready for rehoming at the end of October.

Cat Show News

Yesterday the 19th Annual GCCFI Supreme Show was held at the Roadstone Group Sports Club in CityWest in Dublin. Eddie qualified for this show after winning his open class and best of breed at the Annual SABCCI Cat show in Knocklyon last October.



The Judge's Report (Judge Shirley Bullock) from the SABCCI show is below:
AOV FOREIGN CHAMPION MALE

Gr Ch., Little’s CH PREFERE SYMPHONY. 72 45b.

A very self-willed young man, full of voice. A very handsome boy. Really solid
strong boy. Hard muscled body with medium length tail. Strong legs and paws.
Very masculine head lines with well set ears, but a little on the small side. Bright
expressive eyes of light amber colour. Good strong jaw angle and muzzle. Full
cheeks. Has nose break. Super fine close lying coat really well ticked, shows
necklaces and paw markings


This year, as last year, the Supreme show turned out to be a very successful day for Eddie. Again he won his class and best of breed and incredibly he also won the best of variety for foreign adult for the second year running (Asian cats come under the foreign variety along with Singapuras, Bengals, Abyssinians, Egyptian Mau and La Perms among others). Sadly he did not go on to win the Supreme Adult, that title went to a lovely tabby exotic. The overal Supreme Cat on the day was a delightful Ragdoll kitten who looked absolutely stunning. However, we are very pleased with how well Eddie has done and whats more, winning his class yesterday gave Eddie his third Grand Challenge certificate, giving him Grand Champion status now.
We also got a very nice report from the Judge (Mrs Leighton).

I'm afraid I don't have any pictures from yesterdays show, but here is a picture of Eddie from last years Supreme Show in the RDS in Dublin.

Kittens, Kittens and more Kittens!!

Fudge gave birth to another beautiful litter of 8 kittens in late January 2009. This litter had 4 chocolate self asian kittens and 3 chocolate ticked tabbies with burmese colour restriction (making them very pale chocolate) and one burmese variant.

The kittens have just had their first vaccinations and will be going to new homes soon. Some of the kittens are already booked so there won't be so many available from this litter.

The 4 chocolate selfs (3 girls and 1 boy)





The little variant male.


The three ticked tabbies (1 girl and 2 boys).





If anyone is interested in these or any kittens they can contact me directly using the contact details on the right side bar.

Christmas Kitty

While trying to sort through Christmas decorations the three little kittens decided they wanted some of the action. They're so cute when they try to get involved in things like that. We couldn't resist taking some pictures of them with a little festive cheer added!

Ben

Below is a picture of Ben, one of Fudges kittens from last year. He's a stunning example of a chocolate ticked tabby carrying the burmese colour restriction gene (bcr) which restricts the expression of the rich warm chocolate and honey tones that can be seen on his dad, Eddie. Instead, Ben is a wonderful warm cream and milk chocolate and is obviously being pampered by his new owner. I was delighted to hear from her a few weeks ago and to recieve this picture showing just how content Ben is and what a handsome cat he has grown into. It's one of the great pleasures of cat breeding to see pictures of kittens that have been rehomed. The asian cats are so friendly and cute that I'd like to keep all the kittens.

Kittens Update

I am happy to report that all of Fudges kittens from earlier in the year have been rehomed with wonderful people. Since then, Coco has produced a litter of three adoreable kittens pictured below.



There are two boys and one little girl. The boys are the full expression chocolate asian (left) and the chocolate burmese variant (centre) both of whom are really friendly. On the right then is the full expression chocolate ticked tabby female. She's the image of her dad and just as mischievous.

They've already started their vaccinations and will be ready for new homes just before christmas.



The chocolate asian boy is really a lovely little kitten, very friendly, always wanting to be in your arms.

The little girl too, is very friendly and follows us everywhere we go, wanting to be lifted up.