Posts Tagged British Shorthair
3 Weeks old, new video!
Posted by Jacq in Kitten News on September 2, 2010
They’re really moving around now, and doing a bit of adorable kitten wrestling.
Also, white kitten is perfecting his moonwalk.
2 weeks old
Posted by Jacq in Kitten News on August 26, 2010
Two weeks old now… eyes and ears are open and soon they’ll start moving around an awful lot more.
The two boys have surpassed the girls in size now, but all of them look very good.
Kitten pics! 8 days old
Posted by Jacq in Kitten News on August 20, 2010
Em took some photos on her phone this morning. Nothing cuter than a kitten pile!
The two faces you can see are of the biggest two… the white boy is the largest of the lot, followed closely by the blue girl.
36 hours old… time for another video
Posted by Jacq in Kitten News on August 14, 2010
Why not? They’re adorable.
They’ve really settled in now, far less whinging than before. Happy little kittens. 3 blue, 1 white.
I had a look today, I think the white one is a boy and two of the blues may be female. It’s so hard to tell!
Kittens! And sleep deprivation…
Posted by Jacq in Kitten News on August 13, 2010
We have kittens!
We haven’t determined sex yet… we’ll leave that until they’re a bit older. But we have 1 white kitten (we suspect he’s a boy because he’s the largest of the lot) and 3 blue kittens. There was another white kitten, but it was stillborn as it had become detached from its placenta.
All the kittens were born between 20:55 and 23:21 last night. Even though it was all done at a rather reasonable hour, it was 2 am before we were done settling Snowball and heading to bed ourselves. I won’t say we slept much. Every little sound from a kitten jolts me out of whatever rest I was having and makes my heart stop. Is she sitting on them? Are they not feeding? What’s wrong? I suppose it’s not dissimilar to the first few nights of parenthood.
You’ll see on the video, the blue kittens have tags on their wee legs. We use that to tell them apart. While that may seem silly, it’s really important to monitor weight gain (and loss) at least through to successful weaning. So keeping track of them is important.
We also DNA test when the kittens are old enough to go an hour without suckling (suckling will confuse the DNA sample) so we obviously want to get the right results for the right kittens. The tests will tell us that they are free from common diseases (we know this already because both parents are), what sex they are (with certainty), what blood type they are (important if they’re to be bred or if they ever need a blood transfusion) and what colours they carry if they are bred. We’ll also know if we have any longhair carriers, which I think is always exciting. British Longhairs are adorable and still very uncommon.
I hope some of that made sense. Super sleepy, I am!
Labrys Cats at the Pet Expo in Dublin on Sunday
Em is bringing our Maine Coon, Fred and our British Shorthair, Xena to the Pet Expo in Dublin this coming Sunday.
Fred in his natural environment
Xena by Jennifer Willis
The Pet Expo is held at the RDS in Ballsbridge and there is a specific area dedicated to cats. It starts at 10am and they will be there until the afternoon.
Both Fred and Xena are happy to meet the public so do drop by to say hello!
Midlands Cat Show — Best in Show!
Today at the Midlands Cat Club show in Limerick, our Labrys Warrior Princess (Xena) took Best In Show overall! There was some amazing competition so we were not only thrilled but very surprised.
And we didn’t have our camera. We only have phone pictures, so we’re hoping some other people took pics!
UPDATED! Here’s her critique by judge John Hansson
Orange Eyed White British Adult, Female;
1st CC & BOB. CALLAN & RUSSELL’S LABRYS WARRIOR PRINCESS.
18-02-09. Quite simply gorgeous, might still have a bit of growth & development to achieve but exactly where one would expect & hope she would be given her very young age. Beautiful head, rounded open expression, well filled & rounded on the cheeks, broad muzzle, brow rounds to short nose, very good chin & bite. Ears are small & well placed, creating a neat tidy appearance which fitted beautifully into the head shape. Eyes large well open round shape, bright vivid orange colour, gorgeous expression. Body still acquire the development that full maturity will no doubt bring, but is compact & cobby & so beautifully proportioned, excellent legs & paws, tail well balanced moderately heavy & very good medium length. Wonderful coat, short & dense with a superb degree of crispness which you just wanted to scrunch beneath your fingers. Her coat was clean sparkling beautifully prepared without the merest hint of any yellowing or staining, quite splendid. Her condition was quite superb & her temperament wonderfully confident yet incredibly gentle, a real quality find, later Best British to be followed by Best Overall in spite of very tough competition.
Ulster Cat Club Show
Xena once again took Best British Shorthair kitten at the Ulster Cat Club show.
Cork Cat Club
Xena won Best British Kitten at the Cork Cat Club show! Her father, Ronnie Brooks’ Cassiobury Indiana Jones, took best British overall.
Erin Cat Club
Today at the Erin Cat Club show in Lisburn, our Labrys Warrior Princess (Xena) took Best British Shorthair at 6 months old. We are so happy with how this little one has come on, and look forward to seeing how she does in the next few shows!
Here’s a pic of her taken at the show:
