Cameo with White Male
Dam: CH Gildethros Purrecious Mettle, Silver Patched Tabby with White
Sire: GC Gildethros Purrfect Charm, Hearing, Blue-Eyed White
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| Gildethros Turkish Angoras Cameo with White Male |
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| d.o.b. December 5, 2011 Dam: CH Gildethros Purrecious Mettle, Silver Patched Tabby with White Sire: GC Gildethros Purrfect Charm, Hearing, Blue-Eyed White |
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| 1 Kitten born on December 5, 2011 - scroll all the way down for more pictures! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| There were four kittens in this litter. But unfortunately, one was stillborn and the other two died shortly after birth, probably from aspirating tiny amounts of the infected fluid when they were born. I hate to share such graphic details on a highly public page like this. But I think it's important for people to understand that responsible breeders do have many challenges. And one of the most difficult things for us is when we do not want to breed our females because they don't stop coming into heat. And they will cycle with heats every three to four weeks. Birth control does exist for dogs and cats and it's totally legal and routinely used in many countries so the animal's bodies can in fact rest when they are not pregnant or nursing. But here in the United States, so much money has been invested in campaigns to educate pet owners to neuter or spay their pets that the use of birth control is actuallly considered politically incorrect is in fact illegal - ugh! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| With cats in particular, they do not menstruate and have to reabsorb the uterine lining each time they have a heat cycle without being bred. The building up and reabsorption of the uterine lining can and does cause scar tissue. And with each heat cycle that passes without breeding our females, the risk increases for them to develop a uterine infection called pyometra. Few things upset me more than to hear a prospective client tell me that they won't spay or neuter their pet because it's cruel or unnatural to remove their sex organs! To the contrary, you really are putting your pet's health at risk if you do not have them spayed or neutered!! Whole males are in fact more likely to develop urinary tract issues. And whole females are very much at risk of developing pyometra if they aren't allowed to breed with the ever present risk that they will of course sneak out and breed with a male of unknown health thereby putting their own health at risk... Don't get me going! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| As for what happened with Purrecious, I had taken over a year off from breeding as I knew I would be moving and did not want to have any pregnant females or young kittens to get traumatized with the move. And then once settled in our new home, I couldn't allow all of the girls to breed at once. Long and short, Purrecious did in fact develop pyometra. It's likely that the infection started when she came into heat and I did allow her to breed which is why she did get pregnant but didn't have an easy time of it. She honestly looked big enough to be full term when she was only half way through her pregnancy, a point at which most cats are just beginning to show the first signs of being pregnant. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| We are very lucky that Purrecious carried her pregnancy to term and did in fact have live births with the one surviving kitten. Labor is the best way to flush the uterus so an effective treatment for pyometra can then be followed. Open or closed infections without labor are often life threatening and can be very, very difficult to cure short of having the cat spayed. It was of course very, very hard to treat Purrecious for her own infection while all she wanted was to be with her kitten. But she had to be on antibiotics which are contra-indicated for kittens, especially newborns - antibiotics which do pass through the umbilical cord and mother's milk. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The upside of this sad tale is that Nugget was/is more than happy to raise Purrecious' little boy... Problems like this are the main reasons why I do try to plan to have more than one litter born at a time, or at least to have two or more litters born in close proximity to one another. Perhaps it was fate that Nugget only did conceive the one kitten she has. While this could be the result of Nugget having built up a lot of scar tissue in her own uterus, I'm hoping that it's just a fluke that she didn't breed at the more fertile time of her heat cycle. One way or the other, as silly and full of herself as Nugget is, I think she would have gone completely bonkers with only one kitten to take care of! Especially since this is her first litter. So it really is a great thing that Nugget has both kittens to distract herself with and that they of course have one another. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Now back to Purrecious and her kitten whose page this is. What a stunner this little kitten is! This little cameo and white boy is so refined and delicate that he honestly looks like a female. Purrecious always does produce very beautiful kittens and she is the only one of my cats that can produce bi-colored kittens. So this makes this little boy all the more of a treasure. With results like this, I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that Purrecious will be able to go on and have more successful litters in the future. For now, this little boy is a very, very Precious gift... Enjoy his pictures! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| There are so many details about this boy that I just LOVE! His ear size, set and shape are amazing for a five week old baby. And what a beautiful wedge! He is still a bit too young to know what his overall balance will be. But with that refinement, he is surely on his way to become a very, very handsome Turkish Angora. His eyes will not stay blue. But the longer they retain that blue color, the more likely they are | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| to be green in the long run - my favorite especially on cameos and reds! My bedroom is far too small to have enough open floor space to get many decent pictures of the kittens in there. So please forgive the quality of the photo below. I'm including it here just to show what this boy's color pattern and color to white ratio look like. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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