trinity and tranquility

Yesterday one of the brown spotted kittens from tranquility kept sneaking out of the birthing box, and then he would go straight back in.
Today he is out with his mum as we approach the kitten room. Tim puts breakfast down for the girls and he stays by his mothers side - his little body trembling in anticipation of ? - is it excitement - or just a wobbly body? who knows but i suspect there will be no stopping him now. He doesn't leave his mothers side even when we go in with them - he sticks by her side. we look at the birthing box and there are 5 other faces looking out - I wonder who will be next out! the others are curled up asleep at the back.
Jacky
http://www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk/

sunday 30 May '10

Sunday 8am - After yesterday's success we went to feed the snow boy thats with Luvalot with hopes that he wouldn't need any milk from us - he was already content and his tummy appeared full, although he took a few little sips of milk. Well done Luvalot - its taken a long time for her to develop enough milk for an extra kitten but it looks like she's finally done it.
Luvalot loves him like her own.
I'll check on him again lunchtime, and this evening to make sure he's getting enough. This boy is staying with Purebliss for us to run him on. He is such a treasure!
Jacky
www.pureblissbengals.co.uk

tube feeding

finally tried tube feeding for the first time on my own - what a success! I've always been so frightened incase I damaged the kitten with tube feeding, or put it into the lungs instead of the stomach. I measured the length of the tube against the kitten and then down it went into their stomachs. Down the tube the milk went into the stomach without any problems and the kitten was immediately content with a full tummy of milk.
Then back to Luvalot for her to clean toilet them, and look after them until next feed.
Luvalot is doing a great job of looking after sugars kittens between feeds, she then takes them through the night to give us a good night's sleep.
we are hoping that Luvalot will get enough milk in so that we don't have to feed them, but we'll give her all the help she needs.
Jacky
http://www.pureblissbengals.co.uk/
http://www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk/

sugar rush

Awake all night with Sugar Rush.
It must have been midnight when we had a wonderful, if not rather large, snow boy born. No idea what his markings were when he was still wet from his birth, but once he was dry and in the half light of the night light, you could see his rosettes already.
By the morning light we had a wonderful female born, although very small.

Sugar's milk came in and she kept looking after them but wasn't settled. On examination she still had a kitten in her, but these things sometimes take a little longer than we would like and she wasn't in distress, so we decided to wait a little.

At 8.30am we rang our vet - could he have a look at her - no movement from the kitten - mother making no effort to push the last kitten out - our thoughts were that the kitten might be dead, but we needed a scan to tell if there was a heartbeat or not.

Its an hour drive to our vet in Boston, so we set off straight away. On arrival we met another breeder waiting to see Alistair, so we accompanied them.
After Alistair had examined Correna's gorgeous snow girl i brought in Sugar from the car. Alistair allows us to keep our cats away from the other animals and bring them in by a side door. its much less stressful for them, and there is less chance of them catching something. Lets face it - animals that go to a vet are often ill.

The dead kitten was removed from Sugar and after a discussion with our vet it was decided that the best thing would be to neuter her. We are so disappointed that we have had to take Sugar out of our breeding programme after only one litter, but Purebliss always take the advise of our vet in matters of health.

Sugar will stay with Purebliss until her kittens are 4 months old, and then we will find her a pet home where she can receive lots of love and playtimes.
Jacky
www.pureblissbengals.co.uk
www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk

BQ weekend

Had a wonderful family weekend - BBQ to celebrate Vicky's 32nd birthday - we all have a great time!
Jack is our brain damaged cat that runs around one of our play area's where we have our BBQ - he loved it - he kept stealing bits and pieces, thinking we didn't notice - he may have his problems, but he is such a lovely boy with a heart of gold.

sometimes things go wrong as breeding isn't an exact science, but even when things aren't quite 100% with a kitten like Jack he makes a wonderful pet, and we love him dearly.
Jacky
www.pureblissbengals.co.uk

breeders lunch

collected Maggie TeamoBlossom Bengals - i was fashionably late - sorry Maggie!
Had a great lunch at the Ship pub and then continued on to visit with Carol and Andrew.
i don't think we stopped talking about cats all the time we were together - although maybe a few words about pregnant daughters and babies along the way :-)
Had a thoroughly enjoyable time at Eriador Bengals - cat cuddling - kitten cuddling and lots of talk about cats and kittens.
Didn't get back until 5pm - Tim had done everything as usual apart from the last feed - what a gem!

The icing on the cake was Penelope's kittens - how gorgeous are they! Whilst we were out Tim delivered 5 wonderful Savannah outcross babies - SNOW CARRIERS! One of these beauties will definitely be staying with Purebliss!
Jacky

tuesday/wednesday 18/19th

Tuesday - a great day out - met up with Vicky (our daughter) in Nottingham to find her birthday present. we had a lovely lunch/day out but no birthday present was found. Not to worry, there is always another day to find her present.

Wednesday - morning paperwork, and emails.
Trevor of Teamo Blossom Bengals came over for coffee and microchipping kittens.
Katey called in with Joseph (my grandson), and we all had a sandwich and coffee. Then we went to buy Vicky's birthday present - we found some lovely sandals for her - must find a scarf that compliments them and her new dress.
Bought an apple tree to be planted for Joseph's christening.
Jacky