Our Parent Cats
This page is being updated for additions to our breeding family of a gorgeous lilac-lynx point male, Fox, and two of Inspiration's daughters to carry on the BEW genes, Fancy and Lilly. We will get and add pictures of the new breeders shortly.
This multi-level cat structure is filled with cats from top to bottom and to the side on the floor! Proud Dad, Inspiration, a Blue-Eyed white (BEW) from his white Persian Mom and his Chocolate Point Dad, has inherited his Dad's beautiful blue eyes with the all white Persian white color with "covered up points" and a Color Point Carrier (CPC), who produces blue, blue-cream, lilac, lilac-cream, cream points, as well as the all white- blue-eyed (BEW) kittens that take after him and are so difficult to find since white Persians have copper eyes and not the blue eyes of his offspring, which you can the bottoms and tails of while feeding with their mom, Silky, a proud blue-cream Himalayan female to be seen at the bottom right nursing her kittens on the floor next to this "kitty condo". One of their blue point kittens is on the middle part of the condo taking a nap under the protection of Dad, Inspiration, who is sitting on the top of the kitty play-house.
Our Dad cat, Inspiration, a Blue-Eyed White (BEW), is towards the bottom of the page.
A magnificent Blue-Cream Point and dedicated mommy.
Notice the exotic beauty of our female "Silky" (upper shelf) in the following picture -
Compare Silky's colorations to her rapidly growing Blue-Cream Point daughter, "Squeaky", whom we had affectionately called her from her high, squeaky sounding voice as a kitten. Squeaky is on the lower shelf of the book case below Silky on top. We had kept the daughter until she was over a year old, hoping to breed her. She decided later to go to a new home with one of Silky's other kittens since her mom felt that she was too much competition and used to start "cat fights" with her. Our Silky is a wonderful and loving mom, so it surprised us greatly when she felt threatened by her own daughter after her daughter was of breeding age. Silky is definitely an alpha female, who has to be in charge and prefers to be the dominant cat in the family. We wonder how Silky will do when we retire her from breeding soon. Having kittens is her dedicated job in life and she takes it very seriously and does a great job with her kittens and those of the other mothers if they have them at the same time.
Thank goodness that she gets along just great with our second mom cat, Etta, whom you will see on this page, too. Etta is a mellow, easy-going female and mom, who allows Silky to be the dominant female in the family. It has been our experience from this "alpha female" behavior, that a female in a multi-cat household will be the dominant or "boss" cat in the cat family. Etta and Silky "share" kittens and merge the litters together into one big litter. They have been having their litters within a couple weeks of each other now for a few years, but Etta has taken a time-out from having a litter with Silky a few times now. This time last year, she also took a time-out from having a litter. Silky has had time-outs, too, which is good for them so that they have a break from motherhood. Etta is hopefully going to have a litter in mid-December 2005 for a Christmas-time litter, and the waiting list is now started with two names waiting for the first and second picks of the litter and females. Out of seven kittens between the two litters, there is only ONE female! This turned out to be a difficulty since people were waiting for females. It is really tough to know what you will get for kittens since it's all up to nature and a roll of the dice!
If this is an old date when you see this, please just call for current availability for the quickest response and reservation for a kitten. Most of our kittens are reserved before birth, so it is best to get your name on the waiting list in order to get first or second pick of the next litter that is due.
Born Sept. 10, 2005
Layla - a gorgeous and rare Lilac-Cream point cat - above with her current litter of five kittens born September 10, 2005 when the kittens were just a week old. She is a beautiful lilac-cream point from our own "hand-raised" kittens - who is now breeding for our second generation of kittens and carrying on the great genes of her parents. These kittens are now about five weeks old and beautiful. We will add some pictures of the rolly-polly little fluffy ones soon.
Etta is our beautiful second mom who joined us in 2001 pregnant with her third litter at two years old & has added many beautiful babies and a lot of happiness to our lives. Etta is a blue point Himalayan. As you can see, she does not have the cream in her face, although her paws are not a solid blue point, they do not have the characteristic cream/coral point coloring.
Etta - a Blue Point Female Breeder = Above
Silky, our first mom, who joined us as a kitten in 1996 and started producing litters of beautiful, cuddly kittens in 1997. As described above, she is a blue-cream point, which is very obvious with the cream color prominent on her nose.
Silky with kittens at about a week old with eyes not opened yet. She is a wonderful and attentive mom.
Silky above- After one more litter, she will retire in 2006. Her kittens with Inspiration are beautiful and cuddly, with the best of her genes merged with the best of her father's genes, from Inspiration, below.
Inspiration-Below - Our BEW
Stud Male
This is a good picture of Dad, Inspiration, that shows his beautiful white fur and blue eyes.
Our male stud, Inspiration, who joined us after leasing him at the end of 2001. When we added Etta to our cat family already pregnant with kittens, we could not still use the same male from breeder friends in Denver, CO where we started breeding in the mountain house that we had at 8800 feet elevation. Since the blue point male that we had been leasing for Silky, previously, was Etta's father, it was not a good idea to have her father in close proximity. Inspiration came to us in Colorado on a lease from a breeder in Nebraska and won us over with his beautiful blue-eyes and very white fur, chocolate/lilac point carrying genes, and lovable, good nature. He is now ours and we love him dearly.
Notice that he does have an "extreme" nose that is shorter than our "doll-face" cats and kittens that we have mostly and raise intentionally. His mom was a white Persian who was bred with a chocolate point dad, so he is half Persian with more Persian from that half of his Himalayan father's genetics. His Persian mom gave him stronger Persian genes which show in the solid white coloring without points and the "extreme" nose type. If you would like to see the difference between the extreme nose type versus the doll-face type that we are raising, just ask and I can show you plenty of pictures that demonstrate how the eyes of the extreme type cats and kittens overflow onto their face because the shorter their nose, the smaller the tear ducts, and the tears do not drain internally the way "normal" kittens and cats do. His face is very difficult to keep clean and when we want to catch a great photo spontaneously we have found that it is difficult when we have the extreme, so-called show-quality cats, which always need to be cleaned and it has ruined many spontaneous camera shots. This is the primary reason that we love the doll-face type that has a little more nose, and the tears drain properly without staining their face. Unfortunately, it is very tough to keep his fur clean beneath his eyes that are always draining and staining under his eyes. I cleaned him up for this picture. but have deleted others that were just too much discoloration on his face from the tears running out of his tear ducts constantly which then pick up dust from the air, giving him a dark mess below his eyes that needs to be cleaned off constantly. Our females with their "doll-faces" do balance out the genetics from his Persian side with the "extreme" nose, giving their kittens the more "doll-face" nose. With both Etta and Silky and now our new mom, Layla (lilac-cream point), we do get variations in the nose lengths, which has given us our first real "Show-Quality" kitten per the CFA, that went to a Persian breeder in NH. That was the "show-quality" extreme nosed Lilac-Cream Point female on the first page of our Lilac-Cream Point section. We get just the right length of nose without the smaller tear ducts that overflow the tears onto their faces most of the time, just not all exactly alike, but they are mostly "doll=face" and not the "extreme" type or as short as Inspiration's nose, which is even a little bit longer than the "extreme" type that the CFA calls the show-quality. Most of our kittens have the healthier "doll-face" type nose so the kittens do not have the excessive staining unless there is an occasional extreme type nose.
Lorna grooms him but he is difficult to groom due to the cottony type fur and his hatred for grooming. We were not able to get him into the habit of regular baths, brushing and grooming when he was a kitten since we bought him at four years old in the end of 2001 to early 2002. His fur is cottony and tangles easily, but most of our kittens have a courser fur which is not as prone to tangles and matts, fortunately. Both Silky and Layla have the course strands of fur that do not tangle as easily and fortunately do pass that on to their kittens. You can see very clearly when you visit us, the difference between the "show-quality" "extreme" or short type nose and the longer "doll-face" noses. It is a fact that the shorter the nose, the more tears spill out to stain their faces and have a sniffling nose a large percentage of the time. Inspiration was full of mattes which left his tail and body a bit sparse of fur from the knot removals all over his body and tail. He has been shaved recently to just clean him up fast and to allow the fur to grow in with us brushing him regularly to keep from getting matted again. We will add more recent pictures in another area of the website that I will dedicate to him when his fur fills in again. The staining under his eyes is very difficult to control and a constant job to keep up on it so candid spontaneous pictures are difficult to get without having to clean up under-eye stains first, which then ruins the spontaneity.
Inspiration is our only breeding male right now, but we can lease one from a couple different breeders until we get another male. There are three moms right now, but it will be two moms again, when our blue-cream point female, Silky, retires after one more litter in 2006. Etta, a blue point mom, and Layla, the lilac-cream point mom that was one of our own kittens that we kept and who will carry on the breeding when Silky retires. We will be looking for a third female and another male for our second generation breeding this next year. If you are also a breeder of traditional Himalayans and would be interested, we are looking for a good traditional Himalayan breeder to trade kittens with to expand our respective bloodlines.
The lilac point kittens that we have had since he joined us are due to the fact that the lilac points are the dilute of the chocolate points. Both parents need to carry the chocolate/lilac point genes in order to produce the lilac point offspring. Silky was registered by the CFA as a Lilac-Cream Point based on a picture that I sent them of her as a kitten, when I did not know the color point types yet.
Silky is our first pedigreed Himalayan (we did have two non-pedigreed kittens that were a pair of brothers from the same litter, so had fallen in love with them and their wonderful cuddly and lovable but also highly intelligent personalities. One of the two brothers is still with us, Spunky, who may be seen on our Pet Cat pages. A house keeper in CO unintentionally let the pair of brothers outside in the mountains southwest of Denver where there are many predators to worry about. (Spunky's twin brother, Smokey, never came back to us that time that they got out due to an open sliding door on the back porch.)
We discovered after purchasing Silky, that she was a blue-cream point and not a lilac-cream point. After adding Silky to our family, we then studied the Himalayan breed and the hobby of breeding was started in 1997 after Lorna went out of work on disability post seven spinal fusion surgeries, plus other surgeries in addition to those difficult and long time to heal fusion surgeries. The CFA had made the mistake due to her light coloring that looked very close to the lilac coloring with the cream mixed in with two colors in her points, called "tortie points" and described in the Blue-Cream and Lilac-Cream Point Sections of this website. Also, Silky carries the chocolate/lilac genes strongly, therefore the CFA had registered her based upon her genetics and very light coloring in the kitten picture that I sent to them for them to tell me what color point that she was, and they had registered her as a Lilac-Cream Point. She has produced most of the Lilac and/or Lilac-Cream Points that we have had so far (just three of each sex/coloring). Etta also carries the genes for lilac points, so has also had a lilac point kitten. Silky and Inspiration are the parents of Layla, above, who just had a litter on September 10, 2005 when she had five beautiful and healthy kittens. Silky only had two kittens, both male, and of course people were waiting for a female since Layla had one female in the litter of five kittens. Etta took a time out on having a litter close to Silky the way they usually have their litters within a couple weeks apart and help each other when they merge their kittens into a super-litter and take turns with them.
We do not have more than four litters per year, which will be a little more with Silky and Layla over-lapping each other's breeding years like they are right now. Silky needs to give us and a couple of other people a female kitten to carry on her bloodlines like Layla is. We will possibly add a third female and another male full-time for Layla to breed. Her second generation kittens, meaning that she is one of our own kittens that we kept so she is passing on the wonderful genes to another generation from her Mom, Silky, which has provided kittens that are truly adorable.
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