I think going to the show is fun, but my husband still can not see why? If you ask him whether he wants to go with us, he would simply ask back – and why would I do that? Anyways, in our family, show goers are Dasha and I and of course cats. We love it, the trip, the excitement, the hotel, the special time with your show cats, setting up, stress at the show hall, and finally, finally the excitement when your cat wins and the disappointment when it does not. Are you still with me?

This trip was even more fun. First of all, Christina and Milo joined us and we needed to rent a car as we would not fit into mine otherwise. So we go to pick up the rental small SUV and end up with Chevy Suburban (which in my humble opinion of the driver of small two door car is simply a bus!) Christina says she suggests I drive it as she wants us to be alive after the return. So off we go in the big Suburban!

We made it safely past all the police scattered along I5 all the way to Portland and of course went shopping. Than we shipped Jasper the kitty to Boston overnight, as Jasper joined Ragangels cattery in Maine as a future breeder/show cat. Than the show began. And what a show – 201 cats in competition all together. Cake parades! Many judges we rarely see here! I was clerking – and there were 19 British Shorthair championship cats, and almost all blue! WOW!

We had a great show. Both Purrminator and Fruitcake championed in the show competing with other 8 ragdolls and 58 cats all together! Peaches got 5 finals which is a huge success for the show of 48 kittens in competition coming in as 14th best kitten of the whole show – and think that she is a tortie! Milo got 2 best of breed competing with best and second best ragdoll alters in the world! WOW!

On the way back our car got a flat tire. Computer nicely informed that our car is not safe to drive. AAA nicely informed that while we do have a spare, the mounting equipment was not in the car. And so Hertz sent a tow truck from SeaTac airport with the new car for us to continue driving. So all of us spent the whole night in Mt Vernon/ Shell gas station (where air is $1.50 but gas station owner was nice enough to give us some for free). So instead of coming back at 11PM on Sunday, we showed up at 5am on Monday and I really planned to go and work, but woke up at 2pm to realize I am still in bed!

O, well, can’t wait till next show in Albany! This time Christina’s husband goes with us and we will take Suburban again! My hubby still does not get why we do shows? Do you?

Well, I finally have time to tell about that last kitten in the litter left unsold…

Years ago I talked to fellow breeder of dogs, and she told me “Never to tell that this is last kitten in the litter left unsold” and I wondered WHY? Well, now I know.

Somehow people are often under impression that the kitten left unsold, this is the last remaining kitten in the litter, has something wrong with it. After all, there IS a reason to be unsold, right?

I tell you otherwise, that often people try to “book” in advance, based on their beliefs, sex decisions, pattern and color, and not personality, when they did not even SEE the kitten yet. Some want personality, but some want boy or girl or particular pattern. Add to that that we often want to keep a kitty for the cattery and hence we need time to decide which one is better, and so we do not even put them on the web site for adoption.

More often than not, the last remaining kitten is actually the best quality, which we kept for us, however for one reason or another decided to let it go, especially when we keep one or two for observation.

For instance, the kitten I have remaining now was probably the best in the whole litter. We kept HER as breeder, but on vet check up we found out that SHE is actually a HE. As at the moment we have 4 breeding males – WOW, we can not possibly keep another male, plus he is lynx, meaning half of his offpsring will be lynx, plus we already have Chaos as the male with the same pattern and color. So little boy is for sale!

Hope that helps…

I am often asked if we welcome idea of people adopting multiple kittens. I always wonder why would people think it is NOT a good idea? Personally I never had just ONE cat. Once, when one of our cats died, the second one was so sad, I almost cried. It was so lonely we really worried about him!

Some owners prefer to get just one at a time and wait until there is a good time to get another one. Many people also like to try and see what Ragdolls are, and than later they know exactly what they want! Even more often we hear stories like – o, my husband does not want to have 2 cats! just to see the family in half a year lead by a husband to purchase another one.

Often we hear that two males is not a good idea… Well I tell you, all 3 of my males, and we are talking whole tom cats, are living together, and your kittens are their direct descendants!

We have many owners which come back and many which prefer to purchase two siblings. Often we are asked if two kittens of the same sex is a good idea or it is better to have two opposite sexes. We had families which purchased two identical pattern/color kittens – actually we had multiple of those – we have Desmond and Molly, both blue bi-colors, living together, as well as blue mitteds Duke and Daisy living together.

We also adopted multiple retired breeders to homes with resident cats with no problems! It all depends on personality and the introductions – mainly how slow you introduce them.  Below are some pictures of our kitties which live together.

how can we call it – a kiss? This is Missing Lynx about 2 days after moving in with resident cat…

This is Molly and Desmond

I guess this is called love, but what do we know??? Theo and Jake.