and new plans are in the making. 2012 will be a exciting year with some secrets that will bring our breeding a step forward. I have started to plan the cat-shows we will attend to, and as usual there are more shows we want to attend to than we will have possibility to do. And it would be great to go to a show in the south of Norway and Sweden to meet some of our breeder-friends. Time will show how this will end.

Lion-O, Prille and Muffin is placed downstairs in the large catroom, and they are having a lot of fun together. They are climbing, jumping and running and using the new cat-furnitures we have down there. On Sunday 1. of January the rest of the cats will join them because on Monday the work in our kitchen will start. We think it will be the best both for the cats, us and the workers if all the cats are secured in a room and can not disturbe the work - or run out because somebody forgets to close the door properly. I am not looking forward to this because I will miss our fourlegged friends, I am used to have them around me. Luckily this is only a short period and they will soon run around me again.

Yesterday we removed the most of the kitchen cabinets and the room is dark and naked. Tomorrow all the cabinets will be picked up by someone who wants to use them. They will have the dishwasher as well, so the water will be turned off in the kitchen.

We have bought new cat-furnitures and the ones from Katzen-Deko is really nice! And the cats love them   

No wonder that they do.... All textiles a washable and that is one of the reasons thet we chose this products.

In the livingroom downstars or the large cat-room as we call it has regular Trixie-furniture. Not so practical but they will do for å while. We have had furnitures from Trixie that has lasted several years and we guess these ones also will.

Bart & Honeybump grows and are not babies anymore. They are soo sweet! It has been some time since we had a photosession and that is something that is on our to-do-list. I have tried to take some photos of Bart, but black cats are not easy to take nice pics of.

The cats loves the beds on these furnitures and often the only thing we can see are their ears   

I will take up my bloging again. We have had some hard months regarding our cats, but we hope that we soon will be back on track again   

Since last time we have cured the Giardia    on all cats, that periode was a really hard one since the cats did not like the medicine. In addition to that we have cleaned our house uncountable times,have tossed our furnitures (among our furnitures we did also get rid of 15 large and small cat trees) we have painted both outdoors and indoors. Now the new stuff has started to come and we walks steadily towards a completely new interior style. And that is quite fun! The cats are more happy after they got som new cat trees, and more is on it`s way. Next week maybe we will have some fun stuff for the cats  

Well, the Giardia left us and the Tritrichomonas Fuetus payed us a visit. We were not exactly happy when we got the result of some tests for TF. THe cats that we tested was positive. We have not started the treatment yet (Ronidazole) because Puma`s kittens are too young to be treated with Ronidazole. They have to be at least 12 weeks old.

Puma`s litter was a nightmare. She was very stressed and the first kitten was stuck. After 2 hours I took her to the Vet`s to get some help for her. When we opened the cage Puma has managed to give birth to the kitten in our car. Since we was at the Vet`s I decided that Puma and I should stay until the delivery was finished. Finn-Ove was at work and for the first time I was alone with a delivery. Puma got 5 kittens (1 choc male, 1 choc female, 2 lavender females, and a black boy) the last one was a little girl and she was born with her intestines outside. The vet came and put the intestines inside her again and said that this was a longshot, but since we were at the office he wanted to try. Sadly this little girl died after 24 hours.

The rest of the kittens looked strong and healthy and they gained weight the first 24 hours.

But after a few days the little chocboy did not gain any more weight, no he lost weight. To make a long story short - we lost him 2011.10.03 The authopsy showed that he died of blood poisoning, and the reason for that was that he had G-Strep. Just as I thought.....

Well, now they were 3 kittens and none of them was healthy, strong kittens anymore. They was treated with Dalacin but they did not get well as they should if the reason for their problems were G-Strep. The other choc kitten, wich both the vet and we thougth was a boy, was really a little girl. She got weaker and weaker, and I took her to the vet`s every day in her last week. Our vet`s did not manage to put in a probe to feed her by and on Friday 2011.10.14 we went to Bodø and got help there. The little girl was very sick, and no one thought that it would be possible to cure her. She got the probe, was feeded by it and she got saltwater with sugar directly in a vein on her neck in addition to medicine the same way. They managed to stabilize her, and one of the assistants took her home with her to treat her and hopefully she would be better during the weekend. At first she was better, but on Sunday morning she lost the fight.

Now they were 2, and both of them was quite week. After a few days I gave up on them, and stopped to give them the antibiotics. But none of they died, they both surrender! And now we have a beautiful black boy and a lavender girl!

We will of course not let any of the cats mate before we have finished the treatment against TF. But when (if?) we have completed the treatment and tested the cats, we will make some new plans.

Now we have 3 males, Muffin, Prille and Lion-O. Muffin and Prille has got a Suprelorinchip and they are like neutered cats. Lion-O are trying to mate everybody of the cats, but none of them are happy about his "flirting". Lion-O has started to spray, but as long as we did not have almost any furniture, this was not a problem. We did not think that Prille and Muffin also sprays, but we were of course wrong. Prille sprayed on one of our new Christmas curtains, right in front of me so it was impossible not to see what was happening. And with new sofas, tables, chairs +++ we did not want the boys to spray on the new stuff. Prille and Lion-O are placed in the bathroom downstairs and when they are allowed to be with the other cats they wear dipers. So now we are there.....

Tigergutt, our 4th male, did not develop the way we hoped for and he moved to another family to be the king in their castle. So now the Ramithiline is closed in our cattery. Spitfire was the only girl from this line and she is neutered. Her kittens are pets and they are neutered. But Randi continues breeding so maybe we will have Ramithilines later on.

We have 2 carpenters that is building a new cat-room, it is placed in connection with the utilityroom. We are really looking forward to finish this room!