relaxed tuesday

Tuesday was a much more relaxed day. Vicky (daughter) and Oliver (grandson) came to visit and Vicky lent a hand with the cats and kittens in the house. And of course we had to have lots of cuddles with Charlie Serval.

also managed to swab another 4 cats (savannahs and Bengals) and send off to Langford for PK(def) test. Also sent for more swabs from Langford to carry out further tests in September.

Jacky
www.pureblissbengals.co.uk
www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk

BBQ weekend

Had a lovely BBQ Saturday with Gill (mike was missed ;-)), Chris, Wendy and their girls, Katey and Joseph (Joseph is now looking forward to seeing Abby again). I have to be honest in that Tim and I were showing Charlie Serval off - he was enjoying running around our enclosure with the F1 Bengal kittens - Just Jack kept his eye on them as he is very protective of his F1 girls.

Sunday was hectic as usual with the usual feeding, watering, and cleaning of cats and kittens.

Monday was a full day of visitors - whilst i was entertaining everyone all day Tim kept busy doing the cleaning and feeding, and watering of cats and kittens.
Finally managed to do some hand feeding with F1 kittens late afternoon once everyone had left - we had to take Esmeralda's kittens away from her as she killed another kitten on Sunday - Dreadful!

Jacky
Holiday Home For Cats
http://www.pureblissbengals.co.uk/
http://www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk/

Regional Awards

Katey and I had a great day at show on Saturday 23rd August at the TICA regional show - Katey finalled her brown marbled kitten at only 4 months old on the day. I finalled Jack in several rings, and we met up with lots of friends and made new friends.

we had a great evening at the awards dinner held at the Hilton Hotel. What a splendid job was done to make the room look welcoming and special. The awards winners had made up fabulous favours and we each had a bag full so that the fun could be continued after the evening.
I was honoured to receive Just Jack's award for his EW regional win as 8th Best Household Pet, and have my photo taken with his plaque and wonderful rosette which was kindly sponsored by Katey and Malcolm.
Then up again to accept Frankie's award for his EW regional win as 18th Best All Breed Kitten of the year, and have my photo taken with his plaque and gorgeous rosette again generously sponsored by Katey and Malcolm.
Then i was called up again to accept Frankie's award for his EW regional win as 7th Best Short Hair Cat, and also as 15th Best All Breed Cat, and have my photograph taken by Robert Fox with plaque and gorgeous rosette very generously sponsored by Delsa.
Robert Fox was kept busy all night taking photos of the owners of the cats/kittens receiving awards - he did an excellent job, and was as patient as always.

Katey and I had a fabulous night with great company.

Sunday it was showtime again, and Katey had a great day with several finals as did our very own wonderful Jack. Jack enjoyed his weekend at show with all the attention received but is more wobbly than normal so i think he may not go to show for a while. so maybe we will think about showing a little marbled girl next show - a sweet little savannah cross.
we were also able to collect Frankie's certificate for Best Mink Spotted Bengal of our region for the year, and also his certificate for 3rd Best Bengal Cat for our region of the year.

We can't put into words how proud and honoured we feel to have Frankie and Jack as part of our family.
Jacky
Holiday Home For Cats
http://www.pureblissbengals.co.uk/
http://www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk/

19 August 2011

decided to put both kelpie and kitty in with Ryme N Reason - then changed it again - just couldn't make our mind up until the very last minute.
Kelpie went to Ryme N Reason - he was very pleased to see her!
Kitty went to Ronnie - he was a little less pleased to see her as the first thing she did was stand there and tell him off well and truly.

vet results on Danny's kidney - kidney failure - no hidden agenda here. vet says that if only he had 2 kidneys he would have been OK. His one kidney was very large but was definitely only one and not two together. so no real answer but at least we know that there wasn't an hereditary factor.

sent our first 4 swabs off to Langford testing for PK (def) - will send 4 at a time.

packing everything up ready to set off for show.

checked ruby and found she has pinked up so she is about 2 weeks pregnant to Bertie ALC - she must have caught on as soon as she went in. will leave her in to cuddle up with him as they love each other.

Jacky
Holiday Home For Cats
http://www.pureblissbengals.co.uk/
http://www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk/

Silver girl arrived safely in Norway yesterday - I'm always on edge until i get confirmation that any kitten flying abroad has arrived safely.

Lil'un is doing well with no sign of her prolapse coming back - i can't tell you have relived we are. She is running around our dinning room with the draining board kittens having lots of fun. The draining board kittens are 2 savannahs kittens that we hand fed from birth.

katey poo sampled kelpie and kitty ready to go to stud - kitty is going with Ronnie, and Kelpie is going with Ryme N Reason.

Pedigrees made up, and emailed to buyers along with the pet passports for Bengals and Savannahs going abroad next month.

Collecting Danny's results from vets tomorrow so finally we hope to have an answer to his kidney failure.

Looking forward to the show at the weekend - taking jack and tick tock, and Katey is taking her brown boy.
Jacky
Holiday Home for Cats
http://www.pureblissbengals.co.uk/
http://www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk/

Had a lovely weekend at show - great to see old friends again. Tick Tock finalled twice - once as 3rd Best All Breed Kitten, and once as 5th All Breed Kitten, but even better than that was that she turned from an opinionated hooligan to a sweet little lady - what a transformation! Maybe we should think about changing her pet name from "Gobby" to something more ladylike.

A tragic weekend for some exhibitors at show when their cat collapsed after arrival and later their loss of their cat - my heart goes out to them - Its heartbreaking when these losses occur and we need to support each other during these difficult times.

Glads is still recovering well, as is our lil'un with the prolapse.

Esmeralda still loves the 3 F1 kittens she has left, although i would prefer her to spend a little more time with them than she does.

Ruby and Tia's F1 babies are so beautiful, loving and playful that we are seriously thinking of putting Ruby and Tia back with Bertie. Even though we said they would only go to him Ruby and Tia looked after them so well we think we may let them have another litter of F1 Bengal kittens to Bertie. We'll put some more thought to this whilst they have their rest time.

Made the decision to reduce the silver lines in our savannahs, so will neuter Metallica in next couple of weeks.
Also made the decision that we need to neuter Monkey to allow room for another Savannah stud to be kept - will keep Monkey to run around the garden - maybe take him to show later this year.

Jacky
Holiday Home For Cats
www.pureblissbengals.co.uk
www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk