Esmerelda - 08 march '11

Another night with little sleep but all work it.
After Esmeralda's first litter we debated if we should let her have another litter but we are so pleased we did.

With her first litter she suffered bruising to her nerves which caused her to be unable to urinate without us expressing her bladder. we had to carry her about and look after her and help her look after her kittens. This time she had a slow birth, she took her time and we helped her all we could with massage, and reassuring her continuously.

Esmeralda has 4 wonderful, healthy snow Bengal babies - 3 mink and 1 lynx - last one born 7 March. She kept me up all last night helping her take care of her babies - she kept coming to me to take me to her kittens when they became restless.
Esmeralda has no problems this time.

Sorry to those of you who follow my blog but the nursing and loss of our wonderful Naughty left us somewhat numb, and unable to talk about him whilst he was deteriorating. Everytime i came to write my blog i could only think of Naughty although i didn't wish to share my grief. Its been several weeks since he died and he is buried under our front lawn so we speak to him often as we pass him. He will always be with us and was and is a massive part of our lives at Purebliss.
Jacky
www.pureblissbengals.co.uk