At last, Devon Rex kittens from Sybil (the trollop)

Well my thanks go out to Mo and Jack. Some of you who have followed this blog for a couple of years will know the problems I have had in trying to conceive to a cat with a bit of class, rather than the Jack the Lads she seems to prefer. For some unknown reason she will not conceive in a cattery environment, despite apparently successful matings. In fact, up until now the only pedigree kittens she has produced were fathered by Manuel when he still lived indoors (started spraying last year so he had to move out).

So Mo MacDonnell from Philokalia Devons had a brain wave and suggested she allowed Sybil to run loose in her cat secured garden with her gorgeous boy Jack. It worked!! So far we have three kittens, will update with photos tomorrow. Ok, things didn't go quite as smoothly as I would hope. Sybils 1st kitten came out with no problems and appeared to be a healthy kitten, her 2nd kitten was unfortunately stillborn and despite my best attempts I could not get it breathing. She then had 3 more normal kittens but then for no reason that I could see, the first kitten just seemed to give up. Again, there was nothing I could do to bring him back. I am very pleased to say that the remaining 3 kittens are doing very well and hopefully we won't have any further problems. As always Sybil is being 'supermum'. We have a red boy a cream boy and a chocolate torti girl.

Dillis pups are now starting to take shape. Although their colours aren't quite what I had hoped for, the chosen mating seems to have been a good one, the pups are a lovely shape, short backed with good reach of neck (something Dilli is slightly lacking in) and, unusually for toy poodles, they have got very good low set ears with lovely long ear leathers and the icing on the cake is their tails, lovely and straight and well set. On top of this they have quite feisty personalities which will be super for moulding into confident, trainable pets. I am looking forward to clipping their faces in the next week or two, I have every confidence that they will have beautiful heads. All in all they are really nice pups and the fact that they have a few white points on them only gives them a bit of individuality :-)