Kindra

Well Kindra has bounced back in Kindra style, she had her stitches out on Friday and has a rather neat battle scar, the only reminder of her ordeal. She has settled back into life with the other girls. I still wish that she could have continued the Elmarlay lines but I have my beautiful girl and she is fit and healthy.

Her babies are starting to catch up with the other kittens, her little girl is a Tortie like mom but where Kindra is a Lilac Tortie, little bit looks to be either Blue or Chocolate. Her brothers colours are seal and red, they are looking to be both nice examples, with dads build starting to come in. Zahara & Phoenix are doing a great job in raising not only their kittens but Kindra's as well.

Kindra will be looking for a new home in a few months as I have decided that it is unfair on her to share her me time with all the other cats when she would be much happier as a lap warmer, and as she is only two she has a lot of love to give someone for many years ahead.

Cat breeding at its worst!!!

The weekend should have been a happy event for Elmarlay but it has been the most distressing and upsetting few days possible. Kindra my wonderful home bred girl was expecting her 1st litter and I was so looking forward to the mating as it intertwined both Brodie and Lexx's pedigrees with my own foundation lines the resulting kittens were to be my 4th generation. Disaster struck on Tuesday when Kindra went down hill rapidly and she was rushed to the vets where it was discovered that a small piece of placenta had broken away during delivery and caused a Pyometra infection she was close to deaths door and it was touch and go whether I would have my beautiful girl at the end of it, thankfully she has bounced back well but is unable to rear her kittens, so these kittens are being fostered by my other girls, but I am not hopeful that they will make it, so eight years of breeding cruelly cut short.

Zahara and Phoenix decided that they would deliver their kittens on Sunday and produced five each, Sadly one of Zahara's didn't make it but the others are doing well, Phoenix has also given us five as well three red boys and two seal tortie girls, these little ones came a few days early but are doing really well with good birth weights. They are also fostering Kindra's three surviving kittens and they are fighting a brave battle, only time will tell what the future holds.

I am so upset by the turn of events and considering what the future holds for Elmarlay, as it stands these are the final litters for us for the forcible future and could well be the final ones to be born here.

Sad times.