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Locality: Mundaring, Western Australia, Australia

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20.01.2022 KITTEN COLOURS. As you have gathered, kittens/cats can come in a variety of patterns with which many people are not familiar, or at least familiar with the labels. For example a few people have asked what "black smoke" and "blue silver" look like. Basically each hair is white from the skin out, with the specific colour on the tip. If that coloured tip is about 1/3 inch or so deep this is called "smoke" pattern, and if the coloured tip is shorter say up to 1/8-1/4 inch it is ...called "silver" pattern. Where the hair is shorter such as on the face and legs the white behind can be seen more clearly than over the rest of the body, but when the cat moves and turns you can see oval flashes of white shining through the fur ... lovely! With the "silver" the white becomes more apparent beneath the tipping on the ends of each hair, also the overall effect of the cat can be much paler. "Colourpoint" is another pattern unfamiliar to some. The "points" are the sticking-out bits i.e. the face, ears, legs, feet and tail, and these would be coloured e.g. lilac, chocolate, blue or even e.g. chocolate or blue tabby points. These coloured areas then gently merge into the soft white of the body. As the cat becomes fully mature, a dusting of the colour usually appears on the cat's rump. One reason the colour is on just those "points" is that the colour gene is temperature-controlled, these areas have thinner/shorter fur and less blood circulation so are cooler, and the coolness is where the colour comes. If I shaved a patch off the cat's side it would regrow that same colour because for that time the cat's skin would not be protected and kept warmer by the longer hair, but when the cat next moulted the colour would disappear and the fur grow back white again, as the skin there was warmed again by the regrown hair. Clever! "Bicolour" is another pattern, where the majority of the cat is a single main colour, with the addition of white making a triangle down its face from the point at the eyebrows and then widening, white tummy and chest, white socks or longer stockings, and sometimes a white necklace. The join from colour to white is abrupt so the pattern is very clear. "Tortie"is when a red or cream male has been mated to a different coloured mother, and the daughters have red/cream dappled through their Mum's-colour fur and perhaps a couplemof red/cream toes of half-face. Torties are almost never male, and if so they are almost always infertle. The males from such a mating will be the colour ofone or other of the 2 parents. Those are just the main patterns within the variety.

20.01.2022 HAD A SHORT BREAK ..... or sort of.... AND MORE KITTENS ARE BEING BORN SOON This season I have not bred consistently throughout, but had an unexpectedly more numerous bunch of litters early in the season (look at all the people who got their kittens around Christmas!) and am now leading into a second bunch of births which will be smaller in number and less close together. So I had a couple of weeks I thought would be somewhat easier ... but of course that's when my freeze...r broke down when full of Christmas goodies, retic doesn't work, pool is cantankerous, a couple of trees were blown down, lost my handyman, power failed, several lights died and needed replacing, and now the road in front of my place is closed for a week to be re-surfaced with yucky black tar! Aargh!!! But excitement is coming again now! One tiny Scottish litter of 2 blue babies who have not long opened their eyes is here, and may include unusual longhair kittens for a change. Any day now 2 exciting litters are due to be born, including cream and perhaps chocolate which may be solid, bicolour and/or silver patterns! Mid next month there should be blue babies, also blue and/or black smoke and silver tabbies. Then there will be a few other litters in March and possibly April, a variety including chocolate, lilac ,blue and cream, in solid and colourpoint and bicolours. These are my new 2 little blue babies Their first-time Mum is my sweet little blue tortie Scottish Fold Longhair, rather aptly named Fuzzball I still have firm reservations in advance for several kittens, and those people's babies will be amongst these coming ones. A reminder ... as my kittens are in high demand I offer a kitten in date order of people's payments of deposits in line with their stated preferences in breed, sex, colour and pattern as far as possible, as this seems the fairest way. So expect a wait for any kitten, it is extremely rare for me to have a kitten available for you on short notice.

18.01.2022 Some updates on Oskar he has fit in very well he still loves to lay on his back when he sleeps and is the most placid cat/kitten i could have hoped for he loves our kids and he loves our other fur baby Jerry thanks Maureen for our cheeky ball of fluff!

18.01.2022 Mr Greyson busy working from home

16.01.2022 Our beautiful Furreleda - Scottish Fold & British Shorthair Breeder in Perth boy enjoying his first photo shoot with his sister! Love seeing these two become besties

16.01.2022 Another Happy New Owner! Marlee does not have acess to Facebook but wanted to share some photos of her new kitten Ollie with you. Her Mum Kerry has already sent some too .... I think this kitten is going to be really doted on Marlee says : "He's settled in perfectly and loves to sleep on my chest. He's perfect :) ".... It's strange how different a kitten can look depending on camera, angle, lighting, colours around them etc. Ollie is a BLUE smoke tabby Scottish Shorthair boy, but look at these photos! Probably photos #2 and #5 are the closest to true colour.

15.01.2022 UNEXPECTED AND INEXPLICABLE THINGS THINGS CAN HAPPEN TOO. I had a really weird thing happen early this season that I have never seen or heard of before and which really freaked me out There was a lovely litter of 3 kittens born, all perfect when checked over etc immediately after birth and after. Then 3 days later there was a strange narrow and neat scab line around the middle of the tail of kitten #1, and 1/2 a day later half his tail just fell off! Next morning when ...I went to say hello to my babies, there was the full tail of kitten #2 lying on the bed beside him! No blood, no other signs, just simply detached! Well, how startled can one be! The kittens themselves were fine and acted as if nothing had happened, and the same since. There is only one possible cause I knew of, which is mismatched blood groups between Mum and Dad (i.e. a B group mother mated to an A group father which leads to a condition called neonatal isoerythrolisis which is actually usually deadly), however this was impossible as all my cats' blood groups had been tested and I have no B group females specifically to prevent this. So, an intense hunt for the reason resulted, as you can imagine. I have access to good vet key sites on-line also several excellent vets including specialists even overseas, plus the laboratories which have done my relevant testing through Murdoch Uni also Animal Genetics Lab in Melbourne. I had my Mum cat's blood group tested again, in case there may have been an error initially, however she was confirmed as A group thus not a problem. Both cats had had several litters before including jointly, with no such weird anomalies or anything but normal, and similarly their own siblings, parents and even grandparents. We also wondered whether there could have been a tailless Manx cat gene in the background somewhere, however for several reasons including skeletal this did not fit. None of us could come up with any answer, then or since, so the cause remains an inexplicable mystery! The babies themselves were temporarly christened No Tail, Half Tail and Full Tail. They continued to grow well and healthily and with no problems at all perceptible from their funny-looking tails, cleared through several vet checks with a few vets including a specialist. And the reason for their unusual but cute difference remains unknown, and they are thriving with their now-owners.

14.01.2022 KITTEN PHOTOS. I am intending ASAP to add photos of samples of many of the kittens I have here now, for us to enjoy. But please be patient with me, I have been SO busy with all these kittens and Mums and Dads and then with contacting new owners and seeing people meeting and enjoying their new kittens. Also I am hoping I have worked out how to put on a stack of photos clear enough for you to be able to see and enjoy them.

13.01.2022 UNEXPECTED AND WEIRD BUT FUNNY THINGS CAN HAPPEN. Nature can sometimes play some really weird tricks on us! Sometimes weird and inexplicable, sometimes funny, sometimes deeply sad. One litter this season was really funny. As we know cats are very clean creatures and Mums lick their babies to keep them clean. In this way they act as toilet paper, keep fur clean, get muck out from around toenails, and generally groom them. But one Mum this season got really carried away and "...over-groomed" to blazes! There were 2 chocolate babies (one a Fold, one a normal-eared Shorthair) and a chocolate point Shorthair. Mum did such a good job of cleaning them especially around their ears and tops of their heads that they lost stacks of hair, and 2 ended up with "Mohawk" hairdos and one completely bald! With the hair gone from there, their ears looked immense, the Fold especially looked really freaky! When the hair started to grow back, just when they were due to go to their new homes, the totally bald one had tiny little chocolate spots on his head which looked like freckles ... and by coincidence the family had already decided to call their kitten Freckle! Below are photos of little chocolate Scottish Fold "Mohawk" and chocolate Shorthair bald boy "Freckles" just before they went to their new homes. Their hair will have grown back fine by now. You can see a photo of "Baldy" in the comments below.

13.01.2022 REAL FOOD! These little ones are the second litter born and the first litter to discover REAL FOOD ... and look at them go! Hard to see in the dimness also black on black, but this is Islay's litter of 6. I'll try to get a video next time, and in daytime. A couple of days ago they started lapping at the water, then yesterday some started to sniff Mum's wet food, then tonight most of them were diving in very enthusiastically. Look at the blue tortie bicolour girl really hoggin...g it, standing right in the food! They are 4 weeks old now, and all but one have folded ears! 5 out of 6 is an unusually high number. The only one which is a normal-eared Scottish Shorthair is the blue bicolour boy. The 2 little black cicolours are Folds, and they are the most active of all and discovered the wet food first too. 5 of the 6 run straight to me the minute they see me nearby, the other one is a quiet little boy, he takes his time and then saunters forth. After they finished feeding then suckling from Mum they had a big play in a run on the floor. Then poor old Mum copped it again before they went to sleep again in their "nest". See more

10.01.2022 Our beautiful baby girl we got from Maureen. Her name is Indy. She has so much personality and we couldn’t love her more if we tried. thank you Maureen

09.01.2022 CHOICES, CHOICES!!. A few people have started coming and confirming their kittens, and it is so much pleasure watching them enthuse over their lovely new babies, mainly babies about 5 weeks old at the moment, others progressively. Or sometimes I see them change their mind once actually seeing them and then seeing something else they had not even contemplated before. Often this is not possible because that 2nd kitten may already be intended for someone else, however sometime...s it works. One couple had ordered a standard solid blue Shorthair boy and ended up really flipping over a playful black bicolour Scottish Fold little boy! Well, that was so lucky for me as darned Nature lined up the genes badly and instead of hoped-for black silver tabbies (only one!) I ended up with FIVE black or black smoke bicolour Scottish Fold boys! And not a single order for even one! If this may interest anyone, whether paid a deposit or not, please contact me. I will progressively be contacting more people who have reserved a kitten over the coming couple of weeks as kittens are old enough and as I am able. What a jigsaw puzzle! And of course it takes several hours a day just looking after and cleaning up after them, especially now they eating more varied foods and are becoming so active.

08.01.2022 This is our stunning boy we’re getting from Maureen!!!!! could not be happier ! I fell in love the second I laid my eyes on him and we’ve decided to name him Theo . Theo is coming home sometime this December Feel like the weeks are literally dragging

08.01.2022 SORTING OUT OLDEST KITTENS FOR SOME LUCKY PEOPLE. Now that the first Scottish litters have decided which ones are going to have folded ears and these oldest litters have done some growing up, I am currently trying to match up kittens to people according to their date order of deposits and in line with their various statements of preferences in breed, sex, colours and patterns. Oh my goodness, what a multipart jigsaw puzzle this is As mentioned before, I may set the scene g...enetically to suit each person's dreams, but Nature can sure muck that up through her ploys and vagaries! Over the next few days I hope to take updated photos and to contact the first people about a kitten available which best fits their criteria, and then you will each be very welcome to come and see and play with that kitten and see what alternative there may perhaps be if needed. But if I can't now offer you your first choice please understand, and remember that it is the relationship which you form with your kitten which is far more important and will be remembered more by you than its colour etc, as your life together goes ahead. Also remember that everyone can't be first, there are other litters here now growing up, a couple more due soon, then from January a further smaller bundle of litters will be born. I have never done things quite this way before but because my kittens are so popular I had to find a new way to manage things, and this is being quite an adventure I am looking forward to seeing many of you again soon, as you come to see my kittens and yours. They are so very beautiful at this gorgeous stage, the oldest are just under 5 weeks old and are roly-poly furry balls of beauty and cuteness and just starting to play. See more

04.01.2022 UNPREDICTABLE AND VERY SAD THINGS CAN HAPPEN TOO. When kittens or other mammals are developing in utero some errors in development can occasionally occur which are unavoidable, unknowable and nobody's fault but can be catastrophic. These are known as congenital conditions (as compared to genetic conditions). One such congenital condition can occur when the little tubes inside a kitten which are supposed to develop into the separate rectum, vagina and urethra lengthen and s...eparate and then culminate in their respective outlets. The 'outlet' of the rectum is of course the anus, and if the rectum does not lengthen and culminate correctly the condition is known as atresia ani. Sometimes too the respective tubes do not correctly separate internally and may be joined, and this is called a fistula. Such a join/split between the rectum and the vagina is called a recto-vaginal fistula, which leads to problems with defaecating, diarrhoea, faeces in and through the vagina, continual leakage of faeces, multiple infections etc. This usually becomes evident from only a coupleof weeks old. One of my lovely perfect babies, my sole black silver tabby kitten so far this season, went to a good friend in Sydney 5 weeks ago, who were utterly rapt with her especially after having waited over a year for her. Some time later this beautiful girl at about 3 months old showed a seemingly-minor problem re faeces, and they did the right thing and took her to a vet and then a specialist. Very sadly she was diagnosed as having atresia ani with a recto-vaginal fistula .... a join/split between rectum and vagina .... the appearance of which was very unusually substantially delayed. Last week I got her home from Sydney, and she was again examined by a feline specialist then gastro and surgery specialist at Murdoch Uni. Just in the last couple of days her condition became rapidly more complex, her short- and long-term prognosis and wellbeing were very poor, and very sadly she was euthanased last Friday. Our lovely little girl. This is a very rare condition, previously I had read about it but never seen or encountered it in 21 years of breeding kittens, and in fact neither had several of the vets who saw her here or in Sydney. It is a circumstance which is totally unforseeable and unpreventable where nobody is to blame, there is sadness for all, and of course there is also considerable financial loss involved. My friend in Sydney was really wonderful, so understanding, and we cooperated extremely well on her care right from twhen the problem became apparaent. I refunded him for the kitten but he graciously also shared the other costs involved. So you can see, with these last 3 posts, that breeding kittens is not always predictable, trouble-free and fun!

04.01.2022 BUSHFIRE!! ******** SEE UPDATES BELOW ******** We are NOT IN THE MAIN DANGER AREA, but are on alert for changes of wind direction. I am about 9-10 km from the southern border of the currently-affected area, though we are fully aware that with the wrong winds fire could rapidly eat up this distance. But so far we are safe, and the firies are as usual working incredibly hard and doing a darned good job and at tremendous risk to themselves. I have my trailer hooked on to my car,...Continue reading

03.01.2022 SHOULD I GET PET INSURANCE FOR MY KITTEN/CAT/OTHER PET? This is a question which quite often arises when someone adopts a new family pet .... more often by people who have had pets before so are more aware that vet work can be unexpectedly expensive sometimes and that accident or illness can arise out of the blue and may be very uncomfortable financially. So here are a few thoughts from me on this topic. Emergency vet costs can be a really unpleasant surprise. Some of the ...Continue reading

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