Here are pictures of the reserved kittens. Everyone is up and running and playing. We're working on getting them to drink KRM and then dry food. It's getting hard for us to leave the couch when we get bombarded by cute snuggling kittens.

Here are pictures of Stachy's kittens. We are watching the silver straight for now while we wait for her dna test to come back to see if she has the traits we're looking for in our breeding program. If she is missing some of the genes we look for like long hair and A blood type we may release her. She has an amazing huge head with cute tiny muzzle and ears.

The fold is probably the most pet quality fold we have ever had and it doesn't help they his sister is spectacular and usually right next to him. His face is long and pointy and his eyes are small. We usually start blue tabby folds at $2200 for pet quality. He will start at $1900 due to his multiple face faults. He is a very social boy and follows us around right at our heels.

We have no fold litters due so this will be the only fold we have for at least 3 months. Our next litter is a british shorthair only and we may be expecting an all silver to chinchilla straight ear litter after that.

All of Nina's kittens have been reserved. Let us know if you'd like to get notices about the younger litter of 2 or the Brits in January.

I have sent out the application, visit, and reservation e-mails to people who have e-mailed me. If I missed you, let me know and I'll send it out. I'll be working on getting pics up on the mane website in the next day or two. The fold and kitten #3 have been reserved and we have a visit scheduled so kittens are moving fast.

Here's some pics of the kittens, they are just starting to walk around on their own and potty training has begun.

Here's a tentative description of the kittens which can change as their traits and changes continue to develop.

Kitten #1: Silver tabby fold longhair
Kitten #2: Blue tabby straight longhair
Kitten #3: Blue tabby straight shorthair
Kitten #4: White straight longhair no spots
Kitten #5: White straight longhair with spots

I literally have almost a dozen people e-mailing several times a week for updates on kittens. I no longer have time to answer them. The timelines were disclosed in the birth announcement. Please reread the e-mail if you want to know when kitten visits start and the visit, reservation, and deposit process. I will no longer be answering e-mails past the birth announcements until reservation e-mails go out. I have over 30 people waiting for kittens and I cannot be sending out repeated duplicate e-mails for people who do not feel the desire to read the first one in it's entirety. Kittens will not be ready by Christmas.

Please, by all means, if you haven't e-mailed me at all contact me to be put on the notification list. This is not an official wait list, I don't have one with all the variables between hair length, ears, sex, and color it can take years to get the combination you want. We give people who have e-mailed us about 24-48 hours notice before we post kittens on our website to try and schedule visits.

Kitten visits will start in 1-2 weeks. No, I cannot give an exact date. Visits start when kittens are interacting with humans and personality is starting to show. There is no point visiting before that since personality is the biggest factor in most people choosing a kitten. Kittens just started walking out of the bed yesterday, as you can image, if you can't walk up or on to a human, socialization has not started, there is not playing, and there is no snuggling.

Sex will not be for sure until 8 weeks old. If sex is a deal breaker for you, you must wait till the 8 week vet visit. There will most likely be no kittens left by then or perhaps just a shy kitten.

There is only 1 fold among the older kittens and it is the longhair silver, our most popular color. So if a fold is what you desire it's best to be ready to visit quickly. We often have repeat adopters send a paypal reservation within 15 minutes of reservation e-mails going out and literally 2 more paypal deposit offers on the same kitten within 1 hour. We have had entire litters reserved within 12 hours. Once the e-mail goes out it is a free for all with who ever can get their deposit in first. We cannot hold any kitten without a deposit and the deposit must go to a specific kitten. Reservations will require at 50% deposit that can be cash, check, or credit (with a 5% fee).

Here's how the kittens are looking preliminary, ears can change from straight to fold any day as they are just 3 weeks old. All kitten except 1 blue tabby look to be longhair. Only the silver longhair looks to be folded.

The premie kittens almost look like newborn kittens now. Their eyes are still not open so they are very far behind developmentally but are gaining weight slowly with fat little bellies. They are past their premie phase and are making their own body heat now with necks strong enough to nurse on their own. The premie kittens may not be ready for visits until January as they don't follow the regular timeline of visits and reservations. The premie kittens will not be available to observe during the older kitten visit. Their immune system is basically that of a newborn right now.

If you want to meet up with us to chat and see some of our show cats, we will be at the Chehalis cat show Dec 8-10.

https://www.commencementcatclub.com/

Here's pics of Nina kittens. They are just starting to toddle out of the bed. In a few more days they should start crawling on us and starting to interact with humans. These two white babies look like trouble makers to me. They repeatedly make this cute shape which I'm sure they'll use to their advantage when they get older.

Here's the dark silver kitten. I looks like it might be folding.

And here's one of the blue kittens.

Here's the other blue kitten with the 2 preemie kittens.

Here's some pictures of Nina's kittens. The 5 large ones are hers, then there are 2 small ones that are the preemie kittens. We were able to save 2 that are now nursing on their own and gaining weight.

We split the two litter more evenly among the 2 queens. Her are 2 of Nina's kittens with 2 of the preemie kittens. They are only 5 days apart but there is a huge difference in size. The silver kitten was 2.0 ounces and is the smallest kitten we've been able to save. It still doesn't have fur on it's legs or belly yet. It's very hard to save those kittens since they then use energy to grow hair on top of gaining weight.

Here's a video of the classic tabby female.

We are releasing a kitten we had been watching from Harmony and Jammy's 7/12 litter. She is a classic tabby (bulls eye and sunk stripes) and we were hoping she would have green eyes but they are turning gold (it takes 4 months for eyes to change color from the grey they are born with). Show cats are suppose to have green eyes if they are silver. She is SUPER playful. We have brought her to a show where she played in front of crowds. She has very big eyes, but her face is pointier than we like for breeding. She is available at $1300 and is the only kitten we will have ready before January. She is old enough to go home now.

Here's a pic of the kittens. I've sent out birth announcement e-mails. If I didn't get to you, let me know. I restart my e-mail list by hand each litter so I only contact people who reaffirm they want notices each time so I don't spam people who have moved on and adopted a kitten elsewhere. Timing is the most important factor in adopting kittens as adopters only have room if they have a cat vacancy which usually gets filled within a year. And this time we had a wrench with no folds since Feb so we had 4 litters with no folds.

Nina had her kittens on 11/9/17. There are 2 white, 2 blue tabbies, and 1 silver tabby.

We are opening up a kitten from Jammy and Pink's litter and making it available for adoption for $1400. It is the only kitten we will have before January ready to go and the only from the litter we are not keeping. He's a Straight ear, shorthair, mackerel silver tabby and white, male. Very playful, check out his videos. He may be available to show as an alter and may be available to show and breed to an established breeder with QGC and SGC cats.

ExcatiburFolds Batman has made Supreme Grand Champion, the highest title a cat can get and he got his #1 all breed at the Ferndale Show. He made it in 4 adult shows, one of which was the annual (the largest show of the year with cats from around the world) and by the age of 10 months old (cats start competing with adults at 8 month old but it is hard for cats under a year old to compete with the older cats because they are still growing). And it's always hard to show straights who are often viewed as second class cats.

http://www.ticamembers.org/estimated_standings/2018/CAT/excatiburfoldsbatman.htm

Here's our winter show schedule. Stop by and see us and some of our show cats!

Sept 30-Oct 1 Edmonton, AB
http://heartland.wildpine.net/spectator.aspx

Oct 15-16 Ferndale, WA
http://www.evergreencatfanciers.org/tecf/catshow/

Nov 11-12 Portland, OR
https://www.internationalcatshowportland.com/

Dec 8-10 Chehalis, WA
https://www.commencementcatclub.com/

Dec 29-30 Olympia, WA
http://www.maineevent.org/

We have bought our fur babies a 2800 sq ft home in a good school district (hey, we got to think of the humans too sometimes). Things will be crazy here while we unpack, paint, redo floors and other cosmetic upgrades to our home. We have two fold litter due in November, but no kittens currently so we don't have to worry about not spending enough time socializing them. Our cats do think it's cruel and unusual to only get 2 or 3 raw food feedings a day instead of 5 and to be locked out of a room with paint everywhere. However, they do love being able to run, stop and catch their breath, then keep running. And some of our queens do chirp at us if they are upstairs or downstairs and we are not to try and convince us to come to them instead of going up or down the stairs.

Nina and Jammy are on honeymoon. Kittens will be due mid November.

Here's a pic of the reserved shaded tabby.

All of our older kittens have been reserved. Here's Harmony's kittens that should be ready for visits and reservations in a week or two. They have just started walking out of the bed and interacting with us. They are both straight ear and short hair, and look to be girls at this point but this is up in the air until the 8 week vet visit. We are watching the classic tabby for ourselves if the head stays nice and round.