I'm the one that posted in the other thread about our British Shorthair queen who lost her first kitten the other night...
Thank you so, so much to everyone who posted. I have never felt so taken care of as such a new poster before. While it didn't bring back the one who died, I definitely think that your advice helped me to save the next three.
I was told to introduce myself, so here goes...
I am 27 (newly turned as of 2 wks ago) and my fiance is 26. We have a Korat neuter who is the love of my life, and 'the British invasion' ;-)
Our Brits are a beautiful blue-and-white male stud (Henle--13 months), and a solid black female queen (Selina--15 months). We also have a black-and-white queen who we bred for the owner (who has health problems) that didn't think she could physically handle a litter right now, but didn't want to lose the ability to have one later (the queen is 2 1/2 and had never been bred before).
I had cats when I was younger, but hadn't had any for probably 15 years--then last Jan. I told my family that I needed a cat again--and, now we have 3 (er..4...er...7--temporarily!)
We show ACFA, though our Korat is also registered in CFA and TICA (his breeder is a big TICA/CFA guy). We'd like to try CFA, but our stud has a lilac mom, and the color is not accepted by CFA yet. We try to go to as many shows as possible in the midwest--I have some pretty significant heart problems, so sometimes we have to slow the schedule down, but, all-in-all, cat shows have been a great hobby for me.
This first litter was heartbreaking/scary at first--and for the next three nights my fiance got up every 2 hours and checked on mom and kits, but seems to be settling down.
Does it always seem like time goes faster than it should? I feel like I have a thousand things to do, and so little time--we want to put up a web site (Brian has taken over 250 pictures in the last 3 days--talk about overkill!), need to take the whole litter in for a 'well-kitten' check, and deal with my Korat, who thinks this whole kitten thing is a mistake!
Sorry for the long post, I wasn't sure what the 'etiquette' for that is here...one last question--how do you put pictures next to your user name? Is there any other place to post pictures?
Thank you again--I feel so lucky to have found this site!
Thank you so, so much to everyone who posted. I have never felt so taken care of as such a new poster before. While it didn't bring back the one who died, I definitely think that your advice helped me to save the next three.
I was told to introduce myself, so here goes...
Our Brits are a beautiful blue-and-white male stud (Henle--13 months), and a solid black female queen (Selina--15 months). We also have a black-and-white queen who we bred for the owner (who has health problems) that didn't think she could physically handle a litter right now, but didn't want to lose the ability to have one later (the queen is 2 1/2 and had never been bred before).
I had cats when I was younger, but hadn't had any for probably 15 years--then last Jan. I told my family that I needed a cat again--and, now we have 3 (er..4...er...7--temporarily!)
We show ACFA, though our Korat is also registered in CFA and TICA (his breeder is a big TICA/CFA guy). We'd like to try CFA, but our stud has a lilac mom, and the color is not accepted by CFA yet. We try to go to as many shows as possible in the midwest--I have some pretty significant heart problems, so sometimes we have to slow the schedule down, but, all-in-all, cat shows have been a great hobby for me.
This first litter was heartbreaking/scary at first--and for the next three nights my fiance got up every 2 hours and checked on mom and kits, but seems to be settling down.
Does it always seem like time goes faster than it should? I feel like I have a thousand things to do, and so little time--we want to put up a web site (Brian has taken over 250 pictures in the last 3 days--talk about overkill!), need to take the whole litter in for a 'well-kitten' check, and deal with my Korat, who thinks this whole kitten thing is a mistake!
Sorry for the long post, I wasn't sure what the 'etiquette' for that is here...one last question--how do you put pictures next to your user name? Is there any other place to post pictures?
Thank you again--I feel so lucky to have found this site!
