Posted on February 5 2012 Read more...

Our boys today

Yesterday somebody asked me to show our boys – how large they are. So doing all my due diligence, I went and took pictures, weighted in the boys, and here they are…

CH Hugaragdoll Sky Rocket, 1.5 year old, weights in 16 pounds, his coat is a bit rough now as he is breeding, and his priorities are really straight on what is coming first, and it is a court the ladies :) – who cares for the coat, LOL. I look at the picture and wonder whose head is larger – mine or Sky’s?

And this is profile of my favourite man in the house

 

Now, this is Lance, he is like 2 month younger, and is about 15 pounds in weight now – look at the eye color

Posted on January 30 2012 Read more...

TNCC show in Portland – winners winners!

Every year for the last 6 years we go to Portland show – not sure why, maybe because my first ever champion cat got her title there? Yes, this show holds sentimental value for me, but we also go there to see amazing quality of cats comping from all over the world, to see the skills TNCC club members display to make this show a success and to see how smoothly this huge show runs!

This year we took with us SGC Regencyrags Dolley Madison, our 1.6 year old female, and two kittens – Hugaragdoll Princess Purrcilla – 6 month old blue bi-color female, and Ziadolls Roswell of Hugaragdoll – 5 month old blue bi-color male kitten. And of course, as we always travel with Cristina and her blue bi-color lynx alter, Milo – we had them with us this time too!

We are happy to say – even with huge competition, our cats did just awesomely!

Dolley got 7th best cat with Donna Madison and 5th best cat with Linda Jean Grillo against about 65 other cats – not bad for young mother which just was ready to say good bye to her babies!

Purrcilla got 6th best all breed kitten with Monika Dany, 4th best all breed kitten with Alice Rhea and 8th best all breed kitten with Lynn Sherer and this was over 70 other kittens.

Milo was a sweetie pie as usual and got 8th best all breed and 8th best specialty with Aline Noel.

The ribbons TNCC club gives are the keeper – they are pretty, simply gorgeous hand made rosettes, and for Junior Exhibitors they even add danglies to them so they look totally gorgeous on our ribbon wall.

Here is Dasha saying thanks to judge Linda Jean Grillo for Dolley’s 5th best cat in this spectacular show.

Posted on December 15 2011 Read more...

House is empty – kittens are gone

I usually do not like to brag, but this year I had a unique experience of raising 20 kittens at the same time in my home. We usually space kittens so that there is at least 3 weeks time frame between litters, and we do it for a reason – because we want to have space, care, time for our kittens. However is mother cat is not sure about having babies for the first time, we do breed experienced female along with first time mom, just in case we need to have one experienced mom to care for both litters.

This time around we had the situation of first time mom, experienced queen, and one queen we were not sure about her ability to breed  – but of course, because we had doubts, it happened, and we got 3 litters in one week – litter of 6, 7 and 7!

Now, that they are all gone, we can pat ourselves on the shoulder and read all the emails we got from the kitten owners.

“Everything is going great. Bella is a sweetheart.  She lets me trim her nails, brush her fur, she sleeps all night, uses her litter box like a pro and eats well.  She is purrrfect :) ” – Monika, Coquitlam.

“I am very happy with my kitten he is very nice and he is doing really well. ” Nelly, Vancouver

Kitty (who’s name is still up for debate) is doing so incredibly well.  The boys are gentle with her and she is so social with them.  My husband is even impressed with little kitty.  Her personality is so sweet and she loves to cuddle.  She is a poster kitten for the ragdoll breed!  Thanks for giving her such a great start.” Kristine

Miette is doing very well.  She was a perfect little kitty the first night and slept with us on the bed and didn’t make a peep.  The first day she didn’t eat a great deal, a few bites and a fair bit of water.  Since then she has definately found her voice and a huge appetite.
Though she has a few toys, her favourite seems to be a paper bag which she loves diving head first into, or brown paper crumpled up into a ball, which she races around the living room chasing it on the timber floors, slip sliding everywhere like a skating maniac!
We love her to pieces and leaving for work has now become even harder.  Though I must admit I have raced home on my lunch break most days to pay her a little visit!” Bronwen and Patrice, North Vancouver
The kitten travelled very well only meowed for a very short time and since coming home has attached itself to my wife purring and playing like crazy.Obviously she is very well socialized and I’m not sure yet whether the attachment to my wife is a benefit or a detriment. She is a sweetheart and I can tell already we will enjoy her very much and the way she has responed she will adjust quickly. My wife has decided she better sleep in the room with the kitten tonight so she does’nt get lonely and thats a good things as our existing cat won’t sleep anywhere but with me, so life seems to be unfolding as it should,” Darryl, Pentincton
Posted on December 11 2011 Read more...

Introducing – Ragbigboy Apple and Cinnamon

So our new addition from Los Angeles finally arrived – introducing Apple and Cinnamon, our new female – seal bi-color torbie. We were expecting a tortie, but when we looked closely at her, she has stripes which makes her lynx, which has a separate name as “tortie” which basically means tortoishell cat with stripes.

Apple has the most flashy tail I’ve ever seen in torbies! It is just hard to get a picture of it because she moves faster than I can adjust my camera!

And now face shot

Posted on December 8 2011 Read more...

Pictures with Santa…

You know how when your kids were little you had to stay in line waiting for the turn for pictures with Santa and by the time you finally made it the kids are so tired you get a picture of a guy with white beard holding the screaming kid…
Well, my kids are past the Pictures with Santa so here we go – I took some of my cats and dogs to take pictures with Santa this time – the proceedings were going to the Network4Animals so the good cause it was.
Here is our Peaches and Cream – not very happy

Here is a nice picture of Tyra Banks (Seal bi-color female kitten) and two mitted boys (Smudge and Bailey)

And those are our dogs – at least some of the animals were happy :)

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