It's been a while

 I've just realised that I haven't updated on here for months! To be fair not a lot has been happening, unfortunately Florin was not pregnant which is a huge disappointment and may well signal the end of my silver line for now :( 

But Florin not being pregnant doesn't mean no puppies here this year, as for the first time in nearly a decade I have a bought in puppy joining us in a few weeks, so watch this space to see who is joining us :) 

Everybody here is fit and well and enjoying life, Miss Gatsby has just celebrated her 15th birthday. A few months ago she needed some teeth extracted and we took the opportunity to run some blood tests at the same time, the blood results were all within normal ranges, which is pretty good for an older girl. She is the only cat that all the dogs tolerate, a situation she takes full advantage of. 

The dogs have had some lovely walks this summer, visiting a variety of places, but I tend to only take photos at the beach as that lends itself to the action shots that I like taking, so here are a few from last weeks walk at bigbury, including a couple of silly selfies. 

Fingers crossed for puppies

 Florin has been mated this week. As you are likely aware she has not been the most productive girl (missed mating and 2 puppies) so we have done everything we can this time to optimise her chances. I chose a different boy for this mating, a youngster whose semen count was excellent with all swimmers strong and healthy with their sat nav in full working order and Florin was progesterone tested daily to establish the absolute best time to mate her. Now I sit and stare at her tummy for the next few weeks and constantly look for any hints of whether or not it has worked until she gets to about 30 days when I can get her scanned.

Voodoo now has all her health testing in place and hopefully she will be mated sometime in 2024.

Time has flown with the kittens, they are now 8 weeks old so only another 4 weeks before they leave for their new homes. They have been an absolute delight so far, all so confident and friendly, their new owners will be thrilled with them I'm sure. 

Kenji has kittens

 Kenji's kittens have arrived after an easy labour and fairly quick delivery on Sunday morning (17.04.2023). She has 4 beautiful babies, 1st born was a tabby girl followed by a cream/colourpoint boy, then two blue torti girls. The tabby girl gave me slight cause for concern as after an initial good start with latching on she then slipped backwards a bit (with newborns this sort of slip can very quickly become life threatening) so later that evening I gave her a bottle feed which she was very keen for. I offered her feeds every couple of hours for the next 12 hours but by the following morning she had regained her vigour and was feeding well from her mum and was far less willing to take a supplementary feed so I stopped them. She made a good weight gain in that period going from 67gms to 74gms so I am happy that she is now thriving. There is some availability for these babies so please email or phone me directly rather than using the kitten application forms if you are interested in them.  Just a few quick phone pics of the kittens, I will take some better pictures in a few days. There will be lots of quick updates on facebook if you would like to follow their progress more closely. 

Communication problems, Crufts and kittens.

 I'm currently having problems with my email account (hopefully will be sorted shortly) but it transpires that not only am I not getting notifications to tell me that someone has completed a puppy/kitten application form, I am now unable to send or receive any emails. This is obviously very frustrating for me, but even more for anyone that thinks I am ignoring them. Please accept my apologies and if you have tried to contact me over the past couple of months, please try emailing me next week, contact my by pm on facebook or give me a ring :)

Last week was Crufts, those that know me know that showing is not my thing, but my dogs were represented by others with their offspring, both that I bred (or were sired by Cash) and the next generation down. The direct descendants achieved a 4th out of 10 dogs, a 5th out of 21 dogs and Florins older sister Margo came 4th in veteran and got her picture in the paper, again! Last time it was the Guardian, this time the Daily Mail.

In other news, Kenji is confirmed pregnant and should have her kittens in about 4 weeks time. There is likely to be some availability on this, the final Itzapromise litter of kittens for the foreseeable future, so give me a shout (tech problems allowing) if you would like to register interest.