Today 4 kittens of Pippa and Monty are born. This morning 7.15 AM Pippa  came to me and decided to lay down close to me under my sheets. The first kitten is born 9.35 AM, a male with a short tail and he is polydactile (6-6-5-5). The second kitten is  also a male with a long tail  is a female with and also polydactile (6-6-5-5). The third kitten is a female and has a tail just passed the hock and she is polydactile (6-6-5-5). The fourth kitten is a male with a perfect bobcat tail and straight feet.

Big news!! Finally my new male Seattle is here! This morning he arrived at Schiphol Airport. He’s such a beauty and a sweety! I love him very much! He’s going to be a great addition to my program. He came from Cattery Forest Hunter in America. Thank you Konnie for this wonderful boy!!

The last months I was very busy, I had a holiday, so finally an update of my cattery. Thank you all for your patience!

Neo and Charlie are doing great! Emmy is going to be a big girl, she is very sweet and she loves to cuddle. Pippa is going to be a first time mom in about a week from our male Monty. The kittens will be born around August 10th. Pippa is all over the place looking for a place to give birth except the box I gave her to deliver in. Finally all will be fine.

Ronja has been in heat for a couple of times and I decided to bring her to Monty too. I’ll keep you posted about her developments.

Kittens 11 weeks old! The two kittens of Ronja, Mila and Emmy, are growing very fast. They are big girls. They were under evaluation, because I want to keep one of them for my breedingprogram. I decided to let Mila go, that’s why she is available for a forever loving home (not as a breeder) at May 15th. If you are interested in this beautiful girl, just contact me. She has long hair, straight feet and a bob tail. She already has been chipped, had her vaccinations and has showquality. She is very sweet and not afraid of anything.

I have received some great pictures of meneer Janssen and Floortje. Brother and sister from the first litter of Juno are to beautiful grown up cats and are great models. And they aren’t even fully grown up yet! Ineke and Arie thank you for these professional pictures. It’s good to know that these two beauties found a forever home with you both.

From today Ronja and her kittens can be followed via livecam! If you want to enjoy Ronja and her kittens, you can watch them via livecam. You can klick the button KITTEN TV in the rightcorner of the page. The kittens are growing like weeds.  You can find the weight list and growth grafics on the page Kittens/Ronja litter 1.

Yesterday february 8th Ronja gave birth to two beautiful kittens. Sadly it was not a normal delivery, but mother and kittens are doing well. They are two females, kitten 1 has a medium coat, a threequarter/long tail and straight feet en was born 7.15 AM. Kitten 2 has a medium coat, a short tail with a kink at the base and straight and was born 10.58 PM. At the beginning the delivery was easy and after a couple of contractions kitten 1 was born (tail and hindlegs first, this was a breech birth). For Ronja no problem to deliver.

Then the waiting began. My vet thought that Ronja had 3-4 kittens with her, so there had to be born some more. But I was waiting until the afternoon and nothing was born. There was a lot of movement inside Ronja’s belly, but there weren’t any contractions. At 3.30 PM my vet came and after inspecting and manupilating Ronja, she told me there were more kittens, but they were vey high in the womb. To be sure she left a couple of oxytocine-shots (to stimulate contractions) behind. At 7.00 PM I talked with my vet on the phone and we decided I would gave Ronja the firts shot. I did not work at all. We decided to wait and see what will happen.

At 9.00PM I was phoned by my vet and she told me she talked to a professor at the University of Utrecht and she adviced to give another shot. When this shot didn’t work Ronja would have to deliver by C-section before midnight. At 10.30 PM I went with my husband, Ronja and kitten 1 to the vet’s clinic for the C-section.

After making a X-ray, we discovered that there was one kittenleft in the belly of Ronja. We were very surprised, because we expected more than one kitten. At 10.58 PM Ronja gave birth to kitten 2. Luckily this was just on time, the kitten had been defecated in the womb. I liked it very much that my husband and I could witness the C-section, so I could take over the last kitten and take care of it. Thanks to my vet Renee Burger (and assistant) for the great help, guidance and right procedure! Ronja was doing great and she is a fantastic mom. She protects her kittens with her life, but I can be close with her and the kittens, that’s so special. She is such a sweetheart!

Today I went to the vet with Ronja. She confirmed the pregnancy of Ronja. She has to be very careful with the palpation, because mother and kittens could be damaged if not. The exact number of kittens is to hard to be determined at this time, but she thinks there at least 4 kittens. The kittens could be born from February 5th.

Ronja from Sweden! December 12th 2009 I did fly to Sweden to pick up my new breeder female Ronja. She is from Cattery Nordic Pixiebobs from Mari Ylitalo in Enköping. I hope she will have kittens early in February. Before she came to me, she has been bred to the beautiful male Baron from Mari. It looks like she is pregnant from Baron, her nipples are more big and pink now. Tomorrow I will go to the vet with her to get the confirmation of her pregnancy by my vet. So hopefully tomorrow I can tell you the good news. Ronja is a very sweet and relaxed female. During the flighttrip with her in the cabin she was very quiet and relaxed.

Together with Hermelinda from Cattery Catsheavens in Belgium I bought a breeder male with Cattery Wild Look Pixie. He was born August 1th 2009 and we called him Monty. He is the son of Springcreek Dutchess and Alsoome Light of the Mountain (Chops). He is a beautiful, big and very sweet male and since October 2009 he lives with Hermelinda. We both are going to use him in our breederprogram.