girls for adoption

A1 Savannahs Asia, our brown spotted savannah queen was neutered yesterday.  she is eating and drinking well and is running around as normal.  We would like to find Asia a forever home and feel she would be ready to go in aprox 2 weeks time.
Gayzette Doughnut we call Bicky, and she was also neutered yesterday.  Bicky is sulking and not feeling too happy about it all today so we're giving her lots of cuddles and we've given her a heat pad as well as a heated bedroom.  Bicky is eating and drinking well so we're not worried about her, but we feel she will probably take a little longer to recover so we'll judge nearer the time how long she will stay with us before going to her forever home.  But if you feel you can offer either of these gorgeous girls a forever home please contact Tim on 01400 281586 for more details.
jacky
www.pureblissbengals.co.uk
www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk

flea control

Its that time again - we use a flea control that also includes an ear mite and round worm control.  we thought we'd start with some kittens today so that they are done ready for when they go from us.  Sandy's kittens, Flaunt-its kittens were all done with a control.  The other kittens are too young.
Next is the youngsters we are running on, and our maiden queens and Obsession.
I don't think i will have time to do the studs and queens today - they will have to wait until later in the week.
jacky
www.pureblissbengals.co.uk
www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk

visiting girls

Tranquility's nips are pinking up nicely so she can go home.

Wanda's nips are pinking up nicely so she can go home.

we gave Tick Tock a thorough check up and she is looking really well and her pregnancy is progressing nicely. We also gave Millie a thorough going over and she is looking really well and her pregnancy to Bertie is going along nicely.  Iiusion is looking fit, she always carries her babies high so don't show off much of a belly but her nips are up and she is very happy when she is pregnant.  Trinity is doing well also and she looks the picture of health, and her pregnancy is progressing well.

Jacky

www.pureblissbengals.co.uk

www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk

bengal kitten is "no-name"

No-name is a gorgeous snow spotted male kitten- hand reared from birth.  Katey has done an amazing job in keeping him alive and kicking.  His mums got herself all worked up and found she couldn't cope too well with all her kittens - she was a new mum you see, and didn't really know what she was doing.  His mum bit the top of his head and injured him badly at birth.  By the time he was 24 hours old his head was turning black, so as well as giving him just one tiny drop of antibiotic on his tongue, he also had a drop rubbed into his wound on his head every day.  Gradually his colour came back to normal on his head and it started to heal.  Katey hand fed him every 2 hours to start with until he was a few days old then she extended the night feed, and fed him every 3 hours at night until he could manage to go to every 4 hours at night, and from then on he was doing well enough to gradually give katey a full 6 hours sleep at night.  He has come to me at 4 weeks old to wean along with Peggy's kittens.  Peggy's kittens took to him straight away, and they all snuggle up together.  Its his third day with us now and he is eating along side of Peggy's kittens.  He loves his sloppy cooked chicken and his poo is starting to be a little more solid now.  He doesn't know when to stop eating yet and his belly is still a little bloated but I'm sure that will sort itself out over the next few days.  He's fast asleep as i type this - they are all curled up together with full belly's.  What a lovely site it is to see a kitten that struggled to hang onto life is doing so well, and is obviously so contented with his new friends.
jacky
www.pureblissbengals.co.uk
www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk

Why do we all care so much about cats and kittens?  Why do we automatically believe that our new owners care about their cats and kittens?  Why would an owner who had lost such a wonderful part of their lives believe that they can make money out of the death of their kitten/cat?  Why would he believe that he can claim on his pet insurance for a replacement kitten and all the vet costs, and claim a free replacement kitten from a breeder, and also claim financial compensation from that breeder?  When the breeder is shocked and says no to compensation, he then threatens if the breeder doesn't do as he asks then he has contacts in the BBC and will do all he can to take that breeders name through the gutter.  Why would he be surprised that the breeder doesn't want anything to do with him after she was threatened by him?
This owner says he doesn't have the time to devote to a poorly cat but still wants two cats, and feels he will have to have the cat PTS and his vet feels its the right thing to do????  Why would a vet operate, and take and send away a biopsy if he thought the cat should be PTS.  That vet is doing his/her best to save this cats life and give this cat the best chance of a happy life - unfortunately he can't change the way people are.

All through the requests and threats he claims that its not about the money - i ask you what else is he interested in apart from his selfishness and money, as he shows little consideration for anything else.

It still shocks me when people show themselves to be only interested in the money, and gives such small consideration to the life they are destroying.  Why are these cats so easy for these people to replace - would you want this person to have another of your kittens?
Jacky
www.pureblissbengals.co.uk
www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk

10th May 2012 - Waves has 3 gorgeous brown marbled savannah MALES, 2 gorgeous savannah FEMALES, and 1 stunning snow spotted savannah MALE.  All feeding well and nice plump kittens.
jacky
www.pureblissbengals.co.uk
www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk

Tuesday 8th - Waves is having minor contractions again, although this time she has lost her plug so we are anticipating her presenting us with her gorgeous Savannah kittens soon.  She keeps pulling me down to rub her belly, and then she lays flat on her back with all 4 legs in the air for me to rub her belly all over.  Then she curls her head around to my arm and snuggles into me.  She is such a sweetheart - the bond we make with these girls when they are having their babies is amazing.  I can't imagine not being there for them when they have their babies.
Jacky
Holiday Home For Cats
www.pureblissbengals.co.uk
www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk

Monday 7 May 2012 -
Waves is still keeping us waiting - on two separate occasions she has started minor contractions, and we are putting the last lot down to the 5 day warning that we get from some queens, so she shouldn't be long now.
All kittens are doing well without any major incidents.
Flaunt-its kittens are half way through their Panacur worming and hating me everyday i go anywhere near them if i have anything in my hands.  The panacur has given the two smaller girls the trots and I hate having to put them through this but its a necessary precaution, ready for when they will be going to their new homes.
We are considering neutering Peggy Sue without having another litter from her despite her producing these gorgeous kittens to Frankie.  We are keeping our numbers of our own cats down to 10 Bengals and 10 savannahs. This is not including the ones we are pet passporting for people abroad, although i consider this is part of the boarding cattery.
How strange that we have less of our own cats than many so called hobby breeders, and yet we are condemned due to having a lot of cats because we help with rescue work and I also earn my living with a boarding cattery.  Its a strange world we live in sometimes.

Suzie's kittens

We were keeping an eye on Suzie throughout the day but we have had several visitors today looking at cats and kittens.  What a lovely surprise when i knelt down this afternoon and looked in her birthing box to find a gorgeous mink kitten all cleaned up and she was already pushing out her second - another wonderfully rosetted mink spotted male bengal kitten.  Once i'd seen that she has cleaned him up well, i rushed off to get her a dish of well earned food.  Within another hour she had given us her third snow - a gorgeous rosetted snow spotted girl.  She loves her kittens, and we've left her in her warm birthing box with her bengal babies.  Suzie is so contented and loves her babies.  We've checked that she has plenty of milk, and her babies are already plumping up nicely. 
suzie's pedigree is Eriador Sewe, and her bengal babies are sired by our boy Frankie (RW SGC Purebliss Pleasuredome).  Our thanks go to Carol and Andrew Hebden of Eriador Bengals for this gorgeous girl Suzie who has taken this birth in her stride.

Bengal Babies Born

It was an all nighter between Tim and I - Letti wasn't let us anywhere near her, but we stayed with her to make sure everything went OK.  She did a wonderful job and by the early hours of this morning Letti had 3 gorgeous, highly rosetted bengal babies.
jacky
Holiday Home for Cats
http://www.pureblissbengals.co.uk/
http://www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk/

Half Pint

Fluke/Half Pint is half the size of his brother and sisters, but after a struggling start he was doing really well and running around with lots of muscle building up. What a wonderful boy - mischievous - enthusiastic - very, very loving!
2 days ago he started to loose energy - After an inspection he seemed to be OK with everything other than a little less energetic than normal. All you cat lovers out there know what i mean when i say that you know your cats and we all can sometimes tell when they aren't quite right. Was I being paranoid? - i didn't think so as he wasn't eating as enthusiastically either. we kept him quiet during the night but still let him spend time with his litter mates during the day. Yesterday he took a turn for the worse - He was loosing heat at an alarming rate, very lethargic, not eating normally, although he would take some pureed chicken by licking it from the end of a syringe. He must have felt comfort taking it this way as we had hand reared him from a syringe. He was hydrated, and was eating a little watery pureed chicken. He went to the loo and his stools were a perfect colour, smell, and consistency. we kept him in his favourite floppy igloo on a heat pad, and kept giving him cuddles whenever he called us.
This morning / Thursday Half Pint was giving up the fight! He was just laid in our hands or tucked up our jumpers in his pouch most of the morning - we just couldn't leave him to die on his own without fighting for his little precious life. This lunchtime Half Pint decided to leave us behind and move on to wherever these gorgeous creature go when they leave this life.
some will say that i shouldn't try to save these tiny kittens that sometimes aren't quite right, but my reply to that is take a look at Just Jack. Austin was another small boy who wasn't put together quite right, and he had about 7 good quality, very happy months of life with us - he spent most of his life running around with Jack. its heartbreaking, but when the next one comes along that may or may not make it i guess i will keep trying to pull them through.
Jacky
Holiday Home For Cats
www.pureblissbengals.co.uk
www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk

Saturday 25 March

Katey joined us at purebliss early morning, and we set off with Oki for the Brigg TICA show. A foggy morning so we took our time, but with no hold ups we arrived on time. With Oki in his sturdy pen we had time to say hello to some of our friends that we only get chance to see at shows. I enjoyed helping Katey show her boy Oki, and also enjoyed catching up on all the gossip.
A phone call home lets us know that Tim has his hands full not only looking after the cattery, cats, and kittens, but Bicky has not only gone into labour but produced 3 wonderful Bengal babies.
we didn't waste much time setting off home as Katey wasn't feeling too good, and when we arrived home i went straight in to see how Bicky was doing with her then 3 kittens which were now 4 gorgeous rosetted brown spotted Bengal babies.
Jacky
Holiday Home For Cats
www.pureblissbengals.co.uk
www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk

what a day!

Hollywood went into labour last night - we knew she wasn't due until next week at the earliest! What a night! Holly kept crying, and was in her purring pain control. we stayed with her all night - she had a tough time poor luv! 1 premature baby born before midnight, another born early this morning, but as soon as they took a breath they died. This morning she had a very small hairless premature baby born dead, and then later in the day a larger baby died. They were all hairless and probably around the 7 week stage.
Hollywood is so relieved to be through this and cuddled up with us tonight - it was her first pregnancy, although its taken a while to get to this stage. Poor sweetheart, she's not to blame, she just needs a little more luv now.
its heartbreaking to see these kittens born too soon, and poor Holly was obviously upset by it all.
A sad day is ending but tomorrow is another day.
Jacky
http://www.pureblissbengals.co.uk/
http://www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk/

12 march pm

We still had to be up and out for 8am - feeding and cleaning, and generally looking after cats, and kittens in the boarding cattery, as well as our own cats, and kittens. Flaunt-it has buried one of her lynx babies under her bedding - he is cold and flat but still breathing although he is gasping somewhat.
I spent the morning rubbing and drizzling Cimicat milk into his mouth. First he just laid there and didn't care what i did to him. then he started to push me away as i was trying to get watery milk into him. then he started to lay on his tummy on the heated bed instead of just laying on his side when i put him down. Then he started to suck on his milk - i was thrilled.

we decided that although kitty's kittens weren't completely weaned they were close enough for me to finish off weaning her kittens for her, and present her with this kitten. So i took away her kittens, all they wanted to do was give me a cuddle so they didn't mind too much, although kitty wasn't too keen. I then went and found the fattest of Flaunt-it's girls and took her to kitty. i put Kitty's kittens scent onto Flaunt-it's girl and gave it to Kitty. She was confused but liked the smell of her new kitten. Tim changed all the bedding, litter trays, and water, and food dishes to minimise the smell of her own kittens. In no time at all she was cleaning and tucking up around her new kitten, so we did the same with the struggling kitten from Flaunt-it. Kitty now has 2 new snow kittens to look after and she seems to be doing a fine job of it - time will tell. I will continue to top these two kittens up for a couple of days if necessary.
Jacky
holiday home for cats.
http://www.pureblissbengals.co.uk/
http://www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk/

snow bengal babies born

we thought she wasn't going to be long as she had some early/minor contractions last Thursday and Friday.
Flaunt-it hates coming inside to give birth, she always prefers to be quiet and in the dark, so Tim set her up in a heated cabin in the kitten corner next to the Alcom and Alca's run. Alca seemed very restless at about 9.30pm which made us check even closer on the cats nearby, and its such a good job we did. Coffee and bics in the cabin for Tim and I and lots of cuddles with Flaunt-it, and some extra cuddles for Hollywood who is keeping Flaunt-it company. All over by around 6am (not sure exactly the time as we were just too tired) so we left her to her babies and went to bed ourselves. Flaunt-it had 7 gorgeous snow babies - a mink girl, and the rest look like lynx.
Jacky
holiday home for cats
http://www.pureblissbengals.co.uk/
http://www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk/

Asia's kittens

Monday 30 January 2012
The last kitten of Asia's litter has gone to his new home today - i hope he and his litter have wonderful long and happy lives. He was so full of himself - we may have called him "rat-bag" a few times but it was meant with a loving heart - we are missing him running around after us and are looking forward to the next litter of mischief makers ruling our lives. Trinity's Savannah kittens will be the next to run around in our kitchen. well - we say our kitchen, but who knows where they will end up. If we don't have visitors we will let them have the run of the place all day, if visitors turn up we lock them up to keep them safe. Trinity's boys have already found if they wait behind the door they can sneak through when we open it - such fun!
Jacky
Holiday Home For Cats
www.pureblissbengals.co.uk
www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk

Twiggy update

Twiggy is doing well - ear mites cleaned out, and no fleas - worms seem to have now gone but we'll check that when we have her stools tested for parasites and bacteria. nose swabbed - bacteria found. Twiggy had nose drops and ronaxon tablets for the bacteria in her nose and will stay on ronaxon for a few weeks to clear out the bacteria.
her coat is looking so much better and she is putting on weight. She hates the rain, and hides inside next to her heater when it rains outside. Even when her food comes she won't come out if its raining. however, the minute we take her food into her bedroom she targets it immediately.

We hear Esmerelda is loved in her new home and is doing well - we've sent photos of her whilst she was with us at purebliss.

Stitch - our F1 girl that struggled with Clostridium after having her panacur is running around with Karma and doing well.

Dotty is doing well with her kittens and we can't make up our minds if to keep her brown boy or brown girl at purebliss.

Kitty loves her 2 Bengal babies and mum and babies are doing well, although her baby daughter is still small.

Trinity's Savannah babies are coming along great - they are a stunning litter of savannahs! they are due to go into the kitchen tomorrow to run round and start to meet people.

Tranquility's and Ku's Savannah babies are coming along great - mums and their kittens are doing well.
Jacky
Holiday Home for Cats
www.pureblissbengals.co.uk
www.pureblisssavannahs.co.uk

Twiggy update

we decided to call our little skinny "rescue" cat that Sheryl brought home for us Twiggy - she is very skinny with big eyes, and just adorable.
so far Twiggy has had a Drontal for her worms, Frontline for her fleas, ear mite control in her ears, and also some antibiotics for her crusty nose. she is going to the vet next week as we think she may be pregnant and she is far too thin and out of condition to have kittens.
Twiggy loves her wet food, and eats every little bit that she is given, although she doesn't seem too keen on her dry food.

Ku has had a wonderful litter of brown spotted Savannah kittens - 8 were born but one was dead - 7 still living although one of those is very small but we are topping her up to see if we can save her.

Kitty has had 2 stunning rosetted brown spotted kittens - one boy who is twice the size of the very beautiful girl.

Tranquility is fattening her babies up nicely, as is Dotty.

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