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.

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