catasorusrex’s Neighborhood

Well Gina made it back to Homer yesterday from all of her travels. She called right away to have her handsome man join her at home. So Aidan and I biked into town with Cheetah in the cat carrier and took him to the plane. Off he went to his new family. I have to say that Cheetah, like his mother, to me exemplifies all that is devon: totally addicted to people; demanding; a trouble-maker; completely unconcerned about things that matter to his people, like staying off the tables, super loving; an absolute pain in the butt; and a dog lover. It has been very hard on Mark to lose Cheetah because they were so bonded. Cheetah helped and prevented Mark from working for months on end. I will never again keep a kitten this long (she says for the 2nd time in her breeding life) b/c I get too attached to them. It's too too hard to give them up after they are part of the family. I missed sleeping with Cheetah last night. He usually fell asleep on the couch downstairs and then came up overjoyed to see us at 2 am. He would sit on my face and purr away. He also like to try to sleep on my neck, which cut off my blood supply to my brain. Here's a picture of of little man with Chloe. XXXXXX Cheetah!!!

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Here is Blue Velvet aka Beave at 7 weeks pregnant. She is due on the 29th of May with babies by my husband Lang. She is looking kind of bored, kind of cool here, almost like she's having her children listen to some soothing disco.

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This is Claire as a naked baby.  Since this time, she has taken on, as usual, many different names.  Right now we call her "Umpsee".  Gosh. I know.  That isn't even a real word.  She has turned into such a superb mother.  She has had two litters.  All Blue of course.  While she takes care of her own very well, she definately knows the difference.  This morning, poor little Hawk Eye wonder over and got to close to her dinners.  Umpsee had to bop him on the head.  She looked so offended that another baby would dare try to steal food from her babies (who are now 14 weeks old mind).  Poor Hawk.  He just looked at her like, it was worth a try, and wonder off.  Hawk never gets offended.  He just finds something else to do with himself.  Umpsee is the neurotic one of the bunch and we love her for it.

but husband man has the camera out in King Cove. That's where he was last night at least. He called to regale me with stories about trying to catch a ride on a hovercraft. I don't even know what those are. At any rate, he seems to be having a good time. And he's got the camera so I can't post baby pictures.

I wanted to surprise our neighbors Andy and Damara with one of our babies that we named Annyong, which means "hi" in Korean. We got it from the short lived series "Arrested Development" (which you should rent right away if you haven't seen it; I bought it. Another reason we're in debt. But I digress). Anyway as you'll see below, Annyong was my favorite kitten. But he died. He nursed and did so vigorously but he didn't gain even a fraction of an ounce. All the other kittens were like 5 ounces and he was holding at 2.5. I hand fed him goats milk, but he didn't like it and he wanted to nurse. So I let him. He had no cleft palate so really I don't know what was up with him. Our house was nice and toasty too. It was very sad.

The other 4 babies are thriving though. And hilarious, especially the only boy here Zang. He is fat fat the water rat and makes all kinds of crazy poses for us. We have 2 torties that have the most bizarre markings on them. One is named Wing after a South Park character (which in turn was named after a real woman--look it up!!) who is Chinese and sings songs like ABBA's "Dancing Queen." So now that kitten is singing for us all of the time.

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This is a picture from what I was doing last year at this time: dying as I crossed the finish line of a mini-triathalon. I have the best friends anyone could ask for.

XXXXX to you all.

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My son took this picture of his little doggy.  She has so many names I couldn't even begin to tell you who she is.  Currently, I am calling her Sis Wong.  Tim said she looks like she is in heaven in this picture.  I agree. 

Speaking of Heaven I am reminded of dreams for some reason.  Perhaps it is because it is a far off dreamy place.

As we all journey down our own Devon road, I would encourage everyone to honor each other enough to allow them to have their own individual dreams and hopes for this breed.  We all have our own perfect vision of what we want our Devons to look like.  My vision may not be yours and you do not have to agree with mine.  But please, at least, have enough respect to allow me my dreams.  I take good care of my cats and love them to pieces.  All of them.  I know my other breeder friends who I hold dear do as well.  I think we can all go a lot farther as friends if we just show a little more kindness and understanding for each of our own personal visions, hopes and pursuits.  And most important, we are all following our dreams.  Frankly, the only perfect Devon to me is the one who is full of health, vigor and happiness. So people, please try to be nice to each other and get along.  It is much more fun when everyone is happy.  Don't you think.

Jordan & Nikki to Capital's Prom 2008

Yes I know. These two hardly look like a Devon Rex.  But aren't they so cute?  This is my son Joe who lives with his dad in Idaho and his girlfriend Nikki.  It would appear they are going to her prom.  I am wonder if they would get two thumbs up on the red carpet or not.  They both look fabulous to this mom.