Finally our new homepage is finished! We love the layout on the site, and we are very happy that we found Caroline who has made the layout. We have both a Norwegian and an English version, to make it possible for most people to read about us and our cats.

The last weeks or in fact the last month has been filled with sadness and hard work. In the beginning of February our beautiful Wen got her first litter. There were 3 kittens, two girls and a boy. They did not gain any weight and we started to feed them with formula. When they were 4 days old, one of the girls suddenly became very ill. She was cold and was not able to swallow the formula. Her four legs were like lifeless and she did not struggle when we tried to give her the formula. Nothing of what we tried to do helped her, and she died early in the morning. Both the boy and the second girl seemed to be ok but we took them to the veterinarian for a check-up. The veterinarian said they were two healthy kittens, and we went home trusting the vet. 6 hours later the boy also became ill. We called the vet but he said that there was nothing to do with such a small kitten. One hour later the second girl also started on the way down. Their struggle ended late in the evening. I guess you understand our grief and tears for those small kittens and their mom Wen. She searched the whole house over and over and over again, but was not able to find her little ones.

We sent the kittens to a laboratorium and asked for an autopsy, and told the vet that we wanted them to check for G-strep and E-coli. The vet did, and our fear was right, they died due to Streptococcus Canis and E-coli. Our search for a treatment and a veterinarian who was willing to help us, started. For weeks we have called round to find this vet, and we have e-mailed and tried to talk a vet into giving our cat the necessary treatment. And finally we found one, and now we have started to treat all our cats with Antirobe.

Next weekend we are going to a cat-show in Trondheim, and we have five of our cats with us. We hope for our grown ups to get their certificates, Joker needs three CAGCIBS, and hopefully he will get two of them in Trondheim. Spitfire needs two CACIB to earn the title IC. Mischa is in class 9 for the first time, and hopefully she will get her certificates without any doubt. Læstefar is in class 10 and Muffin is in class 12. We are really looking forward to the start of the show-season 2010!

  The work with our web site goes on and soon the site is finished! We are looking forward to present the English version of the site   

We have a very harmonic group of cats now, they play, eat, sleep and runs together. They are just happy and cuddly, and we do hope this will continue. But we know from experience that this can suddenly change when to fertile males live in the same group. Mufasa and Joker are so close now and after Læstefar came home again the three boys fooles around just like teen-aged boys do. Our plan is to show the boys on several catshows this spring and summer, and two of the girls too. It is very easy to attend on shows when the cats get along nicely, but if Mufasa and Joker suddenly looks on eachother as rivals, we know that it can be impossible to drive around in the north of Norway and Sweden and sleep over in small cabins or hotelrooms. But for now everything is harmonic, and we pray for it to continue!