I have dreamed about a OLH girl for several years, and I prefer a blue or lilac without pattern. And this summer a discovered that a swedish breeder got two litters of OLH-kittens. In the first litter there were 3 lilac girls    Summer went on and I followed the breeders HP closely and waited for new pictures of the girls. I thought one of the girls looked very interesting, and I was eager to see how she developed. Finally, when the litter was 10 weeks, the breeder updated her HP and I was able to see how "my" girl had developed. And she was stunning! After some mails we made an agreement and little S*Peptalk´s Lucuma was going to move to our home! Last Sunday we went to Sweden to pick up Lucuma - or Puma as we had named her.We did not know Lucumas´s breeder Annika and hergirlfriend Linnea, but they were so nice both of them and easy to talk with and we had some nice hours with them. Puma was exactly as beautiful as we hoped, and we felt very lucky to have this lovely girl with us home to Norway. Puma was behaving excellent on the trip, no crying at all! She met some of the cats on Sunday, and she´s a tough little girl! Already after two days Puma and Vasco was pretty close and played together. Now it´s like Puma has been here all her life, and she is a funny and mentally strong girl - I would not be surprised if she´s the next leader of the pack after Faffa.

Isn´t she beautiful?

Some weeks ago Faffa and Muffin mated, and of course we hoped for kittens! But we were a bit sceptic since Faffa had a false pregnancy this summer and her hormones has gone a bit crazy after this. Faffa had big lumps on her belly and when we discovered them we thougth about cancer at once. Our veterinarian told us that this condition was harmless and that the lumps would go away after some time. and we were so happy when we found out that Faffa now is pregnant! We are really looking forward to our very first balinese-litter, almost 3 years since we started our breeding. In this 3 years we have had one shorthair-litter and 5 litters with both siamese variants and balinese. Of course we were very happy for those litters as well, but there is something extra with a balinese litter. Faffa´s day 63 is on Sunday 2010.11.07, but she might go a bit longer before the delivery starts. Her mother Jeanne D´Arc got her kittens at her day 63, and if Faffa is like her mother, Finn-Ove is able to be Faffa´s midwife! He has helped all our girls during their delivery, I have just been sitting by, taking notes, taking photos and helped him if necessary. Wen´s day 63 is on 2010.10.14 This is a Thursday and Finn-Ove is working. Hopefully Wen waits till Saturdag or Sunday to deliver her kittens, because then Finn-Ove can be her midwife as well. It feels more safe to have him with me, I prefer not to have the responsability alone   

Last Thursday the G3 course on internett started, and I have finished my assigments yesterday. I thougth I had to wait a few days before the teacher has the time to look at them, but she has done it yesterday evening! And I´m so happy that she gave me her thumb up, I have passed on both of the assigments! Now the first weeks is completed, only 11 to go....   

Finn-Ove, my husband, took a photo of little Vasco laying on Joker´s stomach yesterday. Isn´t he sweet?

There´s no doubt that grown up boys are important to the kittenboys!

We are not in doubt that Wen is pregnant, she´s eating all day long and when she´s not eating she sleeps. Her belly has grown the last few days and we are so happy that we soon will have kittens in the house again - that is if everything goes well. And we hope it will!

Muffin is struggling with his hormones, they are taking over his body and mind almost totally. Poor boy! But even he is hunting girls and shouting (and a little bit spraying) he finds time to lay down in our laps to cuddle. He also takes good care of Vasco, and several times a day Muffin washes the little boy. Muffin never misses a meal, if it´s raw meat. The rest, dry food, canned food and chicken he think it´s poison and walks big rounds to avoid it. Such a strange, sweet, loving & fun boy!

Mischa are in heat but we will not let Muffin mate her because we can´t have 3 litters at the same time. But we still do not know if Faffa is pregnant, and if she´s not we will mate Mischa and Muffin on Mischas next heat. When Mischa started on her heat tis time, she suddenly wanted to be Vasco´s mam. Vasco do not appreciate to be liftet by Mischa and he has grown a bit since he came home to us so it´s hard for Mischa to lift him and take him to a private place for the two of them. It´s especially hard when Vasco regrets to be carried and he uses his paws like a hammer on Mischa´s body og head. They are so cute together!

The matings done earlier this summer ended in false pregnancies, both for Faffa and Mischa. We think that Muffin was not fertile enough, and the same with Joker. Hopefully Joker will regain his fertility during this autumn, and then we hope for kittens between him and Dr. Meow.

Wen and Muffin mated about three weeks ago, and the last couple of days her stomach has grown larger. We hope for kittens in the middle of October, and healthy ones too    We do not want to have a copy of her first litter, where the kittens all died before they were 6 days old.

Yesterday we discovered that Faffa was in heat, because Muffin mated her. She has not given us any signs before the mating, so this was a big surprise! We thought that we might have to wait for some time until Faffa got in heat, because she was false pregnant and she had hormone disorders that made large lumps on  her belly. When we discovered her lumps, we thougth about cancer right away and rushed to the veterinary. He examined her thoroughly, and could reassure us that the lumps were harmless and would disappear in time.  Muffin and Faffa has mated several times yesterday and today and we cross our fingers for our first balinese-litter!

Today it is only 2 weeks until we are going to Sweden to pick up our OLH-girl   

Last Thursday I started on Pawpeds G3 internet-course. I think it will be rather nice to learn more about cats and breeding of cats, and I am looking forward to this. When I finished Pawpeds G1, I was the second categori IV-breeder in Norway and the first breeder of all breeds in northern Norway to finish this course.

After finishing a complete course, we are allowed to use the ribbons belowe

and hopefully some time before the end of 2010 I have achieved the 3rd ribbon.