News in 2007

February 9th 2007

        

For quite some time not much has happened when it comes to the cats. 
We will not be showing them very much in 2007. Lilit has retired and we will show her at very special occasions only. We should like to show Sarantoya, but though her coat on her stomach and legs is better now it is still not good enough for showing. 

It has been a dark and rainy winter - not good for taking photos. However, a few days ago we had some sunny hours while we were at home, and we managed to take some photos that will soon be in the galleries. 

March 18th 2007

The girls have been to their annual check and inoculations at the vet. Fortunately everything was ok. 

The vet even agreed with Sarantoya that she is not too fat. She said we are too severe when we say so - and Sarantoya is of the same opinion. Anyway we insist that she should loose at least about 200 g, and preferably at the stomach. 

March 28th 2007

Today it is 9 years since Lilit came from Finland to move in with us. It was probably not a day sje enjoyed, but something good happened after all, because she met Djingiz, her great hero, and they became friends at once.

When she arrived she brought a yellow pipecleaner-toy with her like the one on the photo. It had been her favourite toy in Finland. Perhaps it is not the original one at the picture, we have made several new ones for her during the years. Always yellow! And she still plays with them.

Lilit has been extremely playful for some weeks. Maybe it is because of the spring. She also enjoys to sit in the sun and fill up her depot of vitamin D.

She will also enjoy life in a moment, because then she is going to have a little bit of cake whch she loves. It is a (bad) habit she has had all her life. Usually she doesn't get cake, but she sometimes manage to steal some, but today is different! 

April 18th 2007

Since the cats were inoculated late February it has been a struggle to make them eat their usual diet. At first we thought they might be a little affected by the inoculations, but we had also opened a new bag of food at almost the same time, and maybe it had a slightly different taste. Anyhow it did not stop.

Now we have bought a diet from a different brand, and that is yummy! Especially Lilit is absolutely mad about it, and yesterday she ate so quickly that she at once brought all of it up again. We will try to give her small servings.

Lilit has also stopped eating cucumber - but now she drinks water. Perhaps the cucumbers are not so tasty at this season???

May 31st 2007

Once again Lilit was the second best neuter in The Swedish Russian Blue Club - in 2006 that is. We have known for some time, but a few days ago we received her cup. 

By the way she is in excellent condition at the moment and as pretty as ever. Her allergy has declined very much - maybe it has even stopped, but she is still fed the allergy diet. Recently we have got new information that indicates that the allergy is both hereditary as well as caused by a hormone imbalance. Not really a food allergy though feeding the allergy diet has helped.

To the contrary Sarantoya suffers badly from the allergy right now. She has large bald spots on her belly, on the inner side of the legs and a few in other places as well. It is absolutely out of the question to show her for some time. Her allergy might be worse than Lilit's was (or maybe we don't remember how bad it was), But if it follows the same pattern we can start thinking about shows in a year or maybe a little more.

The two cats are really enjoying the company of each other now, and it has been this way for some time. They spend almost every minute together, and we humans are almost superfluous.