Bliss Too (whom we call Bliss and it
confuses everybody!) finished her Championship in TICA with a best cat. During
this time, she found her own spot in the world, and became a little bit more
like her dad (silly boy) PJ.
In 2002, we finally got the blue mitted girl I’d
wanted since day one BellaPalazzo Devyn of Cathedral. She has a face like an
angel and I fell in love with her immediately. Thank you Mindy for this
beautiful girl. Devyn was shown just once as a kitten and once as an adult,
yet garnered the Best Blue mitted in CFF for the 2002-2003 show year. She’s
Championed in TICA, where I only showed her once. With great anticipation, I
waited for her kittens with PJ. I kept a boy, "Wilder", though I
have to admit it was a difficult decision between the two boys. The girls were
beautiful too, and I almost kept the last girl to go as she became more and
more stunning.
We have Freya, a PJ/QP girl who is also Championed.
She is so much like her dad and keeps us giggling. She has such a sweet face
which goes charmingly with her adorable personality.
We have her mother, QP, who sadly came to us after
Solveig Foley died. Solveig became a friend after meeting each other at a show
and thrilled that we lived in the same town. She was enamored with PJ. She
bought QP for PJ, but never was able to show her. After the family gave QP to
me, I took her out in honor of Solveig, and she has Championed. QP is a love
and I’m sure it is because Solveig adored this girl so much. She has the
most beautiful deep blue eyes, and the sweetest expression, which she has
passed onto her children. I hope, up above, that Solveig is looking down and
knows this kitty is special to us, too.
China is one of my favorites. Out of a litter of 3
lynx boys and just the one seal point girl, China was the one I wanted to
keep. At a week old, she developed a horrible case of watery diarrhea and I
called the local vet to see what I could do. He wanted a stool sample, but she
was so tiny it was almost impossible. I brought him just a very tiny bit , but
it was not enough to test. It was winter, but I dragged this little kitten out
in the freezing weather a day or two later; he shrugged and told me I had a
fading kitten. He couldn’t do any better than I had at getting a sample.
None of the other kittens all boys were sick.
I called my "real" vet ¾ of an hour away,
totally distraught. She said "put her on Pedialite and give her a couple
drops at a time of Kaopectate." The fluids when in one end and out the
other. Two weeks later, she hadn’t gained a single ounce, but was fighting
for her life. My vet called and I told her "this kitten is so hungry she’s
pouncing to get her fluids". My vet said if she’s lapping, give her
baby meat. Practically the minute I fed her baby food, the diarrhea stopped.
She started to thrive. One of my friends stopped by about a week later. I had
some people here to see another kitten in that litter. The boys were huge.
China was half their size, and my friend kidded me about having an apple head
Siamese. The couple strongly objected to that. My little China Doll was
protected from this accusation. It’s been a joke since then…
My little China Doll has grown to be one of my larger
cats. She has striking color and although the points don’t do well in shows,
she finished her Championship, and I was absolutely thrilled. China stills
thinks I’m her mommy, and although I’ve been waiting for her to have
kittens, she just looks at me (instead of PJ) and seems to say "What are
you doing?!" She not only "follows you around", but is the
sweetest loving lap cat we have. She is so very special, and the effort was so
worth it to see her endearing, sweet face. I will be thrilled if she considers
PJ worthy of her attention.
Wilder and Derby are our upcoming kittens. I hope
they will do well they have a great background. PJ has some beautiful girls
that I have kept and we needed another male (or two??).
We have been fortunate to have placed almost all of
our kittens in exceptional homes. The last kitten/cat I want to mention is Ch.
Cathedral Bethany Blue of Lottarags. Although I’ve been showing and breeding
Ragdolls about 4 ½ years, all but one of our kittens are early spay/neutered.
Bethany is special. She is a full sister to our Freya, but even nicer. We
couldn’t keep another female, but people were calling me for PJ kittens. I
don’t sell breeders. But this girl was very special. There were several
people who wanted her, but I just kept saying no. Long story short, Denise and
Lenny met me at a show with PJ and Freya. They fell in love with them. They
had bought a pet Ragdoll, and showed him at that show in HHP. He didn’t go
home with anything. They had bought two breeders from a long-time cattery.
They got sick animals.
Denise and I talked a lot. She came to visit Bethany
with her husband Lenny and her son Michael. I take selling a breeder cat very
seriously because of my rescue background. Will they do the right thing?
Backyard breeding is absolutely against all I believe in. Will they love the
cat? Will it end up in a shelter.
Bethany has the most wonderful home I could have
hoped for. Lenny, Denise and Michael dote on her. Instead of the "try to
Champion her in at least one organization", they have been totally
thrilled with how well she’s done in the ring, and become serious show
enthusiasts. It has given me so much pleasure that Bethany has done well. But
most of all, they have become very good friends. They love their girl, and are
so appreciate and loving both of their cats and also of me. It’s been the
most rewarding of all of my experience with Ragdolls. They are very special
people, and I would like to give them a big "Congratulations!" for
all that they have done for Bethany.
TICA http://www.tica.org
CFA http://www.cfainc.org
CFF http://www.cffinc.org
RFW http://rfwclub.org
RFCI http://www.rfci.org
RI http://www.ragdollinternational.org
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