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
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
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
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