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** 6/17/09**
Today was a sad day as I lost my first kitten
to a "neonatal" death. A large percentage of kittens die
for various reasons during the first 2 weeks of life, so I've
actually been very lucky in this respect. They often call
this the "Fading Kitten Syndrome." There are many theories
and it could be almost anything from a virus to a bacterial
infection to a congenital condition, and is probably nature's
way of culling the weaker, less likely to thrive babies in the
world. But still sad. So, we now have 3 kittens who
so far seem quite well. Two goldens: Flash and Fire and
one Silver: Falcon. Feather was our little lost one, but
never forgotten. For those interested in reading further: http://www.sniksnak.com/cathealth/fks.html |
Links of interest:
My Cattery Webpage
Cat and Kitten
Videos
Cat and
Kitten Photo Gallery
THE
NAME GAME
Some people have requested to see baby pictures of the
kitties pictured below:
www.mythicbells.com/babypictures.htm
This room is the heart of the house. I breed pedigree Persians on
small/hobby scale and have just a few litters a year.
When we have kittens: you will see newborn babies as they progress
through kitty boot camp (litter box training, learning to eat, etc) until they
graduate to special, loving homes. Birth to about 3 - 4 weeks, they are in
their 'nest.' Later, they have a corral, then at about 5 weeks, they have
free run of the house.
Good watching times might be:
The kittens get weighed and inspected every morning about 8 - 11 am Pacific Time
... and of course loved and played with at all other times. They
start eating at 4 - 5 weeks and are fed several times a day. They get very
playful when they are bigger and their favorite romping time is about 10 - 11
pm.
When there are kittens in-house: I will continue to leave the camera on
much of the time, if the camera is off line (i.e. you just get a black screen), just check back. Either there
are too many people trying to watch, or I am using the camera for something else
and sometimes Camstreams has technical problems, sometime I have technical
problems -- bookmark
http://mythicbells.camstreams.com in case I'm not listed on the live cam
page, you can find me at that link. You can also watch the stream without
chat from the "Available" page of my website:
www.mythicbells.com. If you just see a static
picture of cute kittens, then that means I've put the shades down on the camera
so that I don't feel like I'm in a fish bowl and there's nothing much to watch
in any case.
Adult cats you might see wandering around:
Tiny Bear - Shaded Silver female Chinchilla Persian.
Born 9/04.
Simba Kahn - Shaded Golden male Persian, born 3/06.
Gypsy Rose - Female Tabby Persian. She's the fluffiest one. BIG HAIR!! She is Tiny Bear's daughter
from the very first Mythicbells litter. Born 10/05. She is also "Super Nanny" and can often
be seen in the nest with the kittens.
Nugget - Shaded Golden female Persian, my pirate kitty. She has one eye as she
lost the other to a bad infection. She's a spayed lady of leisure. Born 8/04.
Josephine - Himalayan - is my elderly matriarch, born 7/1992
Sahara - Chinchilla Golden female Persian - Pictured here at
about 5 months of age, born 9/07.
Sirocco - Shaded Golden female Persian - Pictured
here at 8 weeks, born 9/08.
