Our dear Freja was diagnosed with a uterus infection a couple a weeks ago. We choosed to take a test of the pus, and started treatment with Synolux and Alizin. She was better, but she got in heat after a week on medicine. We discussed with more experienced breeders what to do, and they adviced us to let her mate since we wanted to have her as a breeding female. She mated Lion-O on the 9th of April, and we have hoped for her to be pregnant. Today the vet called us, the result of Freja`s test were ready. She has E-Coli and it is resistant to most of the medicine there is, ecxept Tetracyclines. And this type of medicine can not be used during pregnancies. There are sadly only a small chance that she will be able to fullfill the pregnancy, it is more likely that she will have an abortion. If the kittens are born, they might be having severe defects, and the E-Coli infection will probably kill them if they survive the pregnancy and delivery. But we can`t do anuthing about this situation, we just have to wait and to monitor Freja as much as possible. Her uterus infection is very likely to develop since she has not had a proper treatment. We do not know how to find strenght to cope with what`s ahead of us, we just hope that Freja will be ok in the end.

We have started the treatment against Tritrichomonas round 2, and all the cats are isolated besides Bart & Honeybump that are placed in the small catroom at the first floor. Freja is placed in the large catroom downstairs, but we will not treat her with Ronidazole because she migth be pregnant. We will treat her with Ronidazole later on, when everything has settled down a bit for her. In the meantime she will not be able to close physical contact with other cats, but that is the way it have to be now.

Freja today in her new enclosure

My son Ole Martin and a friend of my daughter Marie - Lars - has built enclosures in the largest catroom downstairs. The room is devided in 6 parts, and we have used mesh as walls. This way the cats are able to see eachother and to hear sounds from eachother, but there will be no opportunity to close contact and therefor it`s not likely that they could reinfect eachother. They will be isolated untill we got negative results of the tests for TF. This will be looooong weeks....

Our carpenters - Lars & Ole Martin

Thank you so much! This would not be possible without your help!

Ole Martin completed the enclosures last weekend, thank you again, Ole Martin!

The start of the building process

They used scruws to fasten the wood in the ceiling. On the floor and the walls they used double-sided tape since we did not want to make holes in the wooden floor and the brick walls.

And then the mesh.....

The cats moved in yesterday. They do not have as large enclosure as we want them to have, but they must cope for a while, this is the best we can do for now.

Lion-O

Prille is just hiding  

Puma, Lina & Freja

Puma

This time we got the Ronidazole as a powder, and we had to put this in capsules ourselves. Luckily this was very easy since Finn-Ove took a peek on Ebay, there are a lot of things and some of them quite useful! He bought a small scale, a capsule machin and capsules and suddenly my carpenter-son has changed profession - now to a pharmacist!

This way we saved thousands of Norwegian kroner!

The capsules are quite big, but Finn-Ove is VERY clever when it comes to give the cats their medicine. And now we hope for none sideeffects and a successfull treatment!