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    Likely story, E.T.  We know you planned this from the beginning.
    How many is that now, 23?
    

    Sounds like things are progressing pretty much as expected.
    
    Enjoy!
    
    Linda :^)

    Ha, what's that suposed to mean you guys????  
    
    "As Expected" - Linda, shall we discuss it this weekend in Weston
    over din-din and drinks???  
    
    Mardi Gras is starting to talk to them and discipline them a little!
    It's a hoot - they get fisty when she bathes them and if they make
    her mad, she gives them the whatfor !!  Unreal, they are soooo cute!
    They take their little paws and put them over their eyes - then last
    night, two of them started grooming themselves!  I couldn't believe
    that!  I can hardly wait until they start washing their own faces!
    
    I'm gettin' weaker by the day !!
    
    

    The only question, Elaine, is HOW MANY are you going to keep?
    
    If you restrict yourself to 1, then that is a real accomplishment!
    
    	:-)
    
    	Pennie, who added "only" Moxie recently, but of course,
    		I will have to add little Danish Pastry soon...

    And just wait till you get that pit in your stomach the first time you
    send one out the door in a carrier with someone else.
    
    The joys of breeding!
    cin
    

    Keep it up, with the sending them out the door!  I'll probably not
    let these guys go until they are ready for Cat Show College!
    
    How many I'll keep?  Idunno, depends on how nice they are,
    depends on if the owner of the stud decides she wants one,
    depends, depends, depends.  Maybe a boy and a girl - I would
    like to have 3 girls.  That would almost be ok to keep a boy -
    then if Lil has a nice girl, 4 would be even better for one
    boy.  depends depends etc.
    
    They really are sooo cute - they look at me with those big round
    blue eyes!  They purrrr and love to be patted.  They weigh 1/2
    lb each and have such short legs, that they topple over when they
    try and stand up!  Really funny and FUN.

    I would already have been a goner!  
    
    They are so irresistible, especially when they start becoming
    aware.
    
    Hug them all for me!
    
    L-

    Ha, I did this morning, hug them, that is.  Made me 15 minutes later
    than usual - mom had fed them breakfast, and they were awake and
    not screaming - just looking around like baby seals - heads up
    eyes open - lordy, they looked like stuffed baby bears!  Round
    and roly poly!  
    
    Ya know, these babes are wonderful, but what am I gonna do when
    Lily has her babies?  She's ' a piece of work ' - probably the
    cutest shorthaired baby girl in the world (just a mother's opinion
    of course), can you imagine what her babies will look like after
    she is bred to a red persian boy that is VERY VERY sweet and cute!
    
    If I think I'm in trouble now ................. with Lil's litter,
    it will be ALL over !!
    
    To keep things in persepective, I've never seen a litter born, never
    handled kittens this young, never watched them grow.  I always get
    them when they are anywhere from 6 to 8 weeks old.  So, try and bear
    with me and all my firsts!  I'm probably still a whole bunch ga ga
    over this whole thing!  I think that when I stop being ga ga, maybe
    that's when it's time to get out of the business of breeding cats!
    I always said, that when I stop getting a REAL thrill out of seeing
    MY cat on the judging table being judged, or get an unreal thrill out
    of seeing a ribbon hung on MY cat's cage, that, too, is a GOOD reason
    to get out of the 'business.'
    
    Silly this may sound, but I told Cindy at the last show, that I will
    be sad when Lily Grands - she is such a pleasure to show and such
    fun to be with for the weekend, that I will miss taking her out so
    much.  She's such a dream to show!  Both Lil and Katenka have 
    entertained lots of folks.  Sorry to run on....grandmotherhood does
    strange things to us human folks!  Thanks for listening!
    
    E.

    I don't think I'd be much help!!! 5 of my 7 owe their home to Auntie 
    Elaine! ;-)  ;-) ;-) Obviously I have a major weakness in the furry face 
    department too.....:-) ;-) :-)
    
    Mary-Michael (I need a bigger Inn, I need a bigger Inn...)

    HMM.. Have I met this "redheaded" boy that is Lil's intended, 
    should I have HRH  working the "wedding " particulars, shower,
    toys, money.. tee-hee..when is the "wedding"  goiong to take place....
    .. I can just see these little  "sweet furries" now..
    I have a feeling E.T.. that  INN IS NOT TOOOOO FULLLL..
    Tee-hee..Kate

    
    Mary, me responsible for your Inn being full?  na, not I said the
    rabbit !!!  I can't help it if you are adicted to silver and black
    cats with stripes, with green eyes!
    
    Yes, Kate, you have!  From what I head this redheaded boy will
    be around The Inn for a while - in fact, he will probably help
    Lily take care of 'their children' !!  He is Lil's first love!
    Or Lil is his first love!  I can hardly wait to see what happens
    when they meet again.  Ha, as if I dun't know - silly me !

    RE: -1 
    
    Nah, I'm the one who keeps saying yes, you're just the
    "cat"alyst!!  ;-) 
    
    It's those green eyes and that sweet little "yib,yib" meow.
    
    When they all climb on me to take a nap, I feel like I've
    been marbelized!  ;-)
    
    But don't tell the Siamese.......  ;-)
    
    Mary-Michael, 4 tabbies and 3 siamese

    E.T., that is wonderful.. ah yes True Love,  I will inform HRH
    to start "consulting" on this event.. Tee-hee
    Kate

    Well, the little red boy climbed out the box last night, and I didn't
    help him at all.  He's a piece of work!  I was sitting on the floor
    with my knee up against the box, he put his front paws up, made it
    up to the rim of the jumbo litter box, pulled his fat body up, reached
    over with one paw to see what was there, and just pulled himself out
    on to my knee.  He then decided to walk about on the floor and see
    what there was to see while his mother was having a hissy fit in
    the box, counting heads.  I put him back, and his mom really gave
    him the whatfor!  Not bad for a 15 day old baby boy!  His body
    is so short that he is as fat as he is long!  He is up on his legs
    already - guess I"d better bring home a bigger and deeper box tonight!
    
    E.

    e.t.
    
    They sound wonderful.  Isn't breeding fun???  Can't wait until I can
    start my cattery.  Keep on com'n with the stories.  It will help let me
    know what I'm in for.
    
    Sandi and the Storm Troopers.
    
    

    Mary, have I got a story for you!  These five little flatfaces are
    something else.  They move faster than lightening, and I can't even
    catch them any more.
    
    I still don't believe this one, myself.  I got up one morning about
    2 days ago, went out to the kitchen, and on my way down a very short
    hallway, met up with a little cream girl, by the name of Hello Dolly.
    (Yeah, I named one, ya so !! - one one) - anyway, I was a little taken
    aback a bit, but reacted, scooped her up, and put her back in the 
    bedroom (they have now graduated from the master bathroom to both
    the master bathroom and my bedroom) - didn't think too much of this
    until a short while later I found the wicker basket on the floor by
    the door to my bedroom.  I wondered how it came of the wall up by
    the ceiling where it was hung.  I couldn't believe what I was thinking
    but knew it was true - that little cream monkey climbed up the entire
    screen door, went up and over the top, knocked the basket down that
    was hung over the middle of the door frame, and then climbed down the
    other side and escaped out to the great room.  unreal .  I had let
    Mardi Gras spend the night out of the room (she's weaning them and
    is nursing them much less often) - guess she must have found the
    baby and kept an eye on her for the night until I found her in the
    morning.  I had to nail linolium squares on the door about a foot
    from the bottom so they now can't climb up the hardware cloth.
    I really thought I was careless when I found her on the other side
    of the wall - but I count heads each time I go in or out of the room.
    These babes are really something else!  I still can't believe she did
    it!  And the little red boy was next in line right behind her until I
    blocked their escape route!
    
    E.T.

    
    
    Sigh.
    
    Well, last weekend, the first two of my chicks left the nest
    for their new homes.  sigh
    
    You all told me, but I said no not me!  sigh
    
    sigh
    
    Well, I still have 3 running around - so that helps.  sigh
    
    I guess being a breeder is sorta like being a foster parent.
    
    E.T._sigh_sigh

    It is exactly like being a foster parent.  One of my little ones
    licked and nibbled on my fingers the other day, and as I told Linda,
    I have fallen completely head over heels for her!  Just hope she
    is good enough to keep.  At least I got the sex right this time
    (female).
    
    After several years of doing this, I still cry when they go. :^(
    
    Jo

    Ah, I didn't cry, I didn't cry, I didn't cry !!!!  I swore I wouldn't
    do that!  When the little red monkey was on the way out the door,
    sitting in a huge crate, right in the middle of it, looking up
    with these HUGE eyes, I almost lost it, but didn't !!  I guess it's
    nice to make other people very happy, and know that the babies are
    going to GREAT homes.  That helps a lot!
    
    

    I hope you foster moms get pix sent to you occasionally by the new
    parents....
    

    Gee, you guys!!!!!!!  I'm sitting here crying about the thought of Biff
    going to a new home!!!  I didn't cry when Meg's kittens went to new
    homes (did I, Gary and Jeanne?????), but I came close!  This is a tough
    one, especially since I felt like I have rescued him twice already.
    
    But, I'll tell ya, it's GREAT having a little one in the house!!!!
    
    Mary
    

Hi this is Diane, Michael, Teddy, Kai and our new fuzzy critter "Presley's
Rising Sun", nickname "Sunny".
He is a red mackle short-hair exotic. We got him from E.T. (EmacX Cattery)
1 week ago on Sunday.
 
Let us tell you a couple of funny stories since we received our beautiful
new baby.  When "Sunny" first arrived home, Teddy and Kai were very upset,
they did not like the idea of someone else coming in on there territory.
But Sunny ignored all the boo's, hisses and dirty looks that he received
from these guys and made himself right at home.
   
It took more then a few day for Teddy to except the little munchkin but
it only took my precious Kai one day and he and Sunny were good friends.
But now that a whole week has gone by all three of our babies are good
buddies.  Although I have to say that Kai and Sunny play alot more then
Teddy and Sunny they all get along just fine.
 
Sunny is eating and sleeping just fine.  We kept him in our room the first
few nights but then he wanted to be roaming around the house with his big
brothers.
 
In our cat playroom we have this 3 1/2 foot scratch post.  While Michael
and I were sitting watching t.v., the 5th day that we had Sunny he climbed
up to the top of the scratch post.  Well, Michael and I just sat their in
total disbelief because the other two did not climb this post for at least
3 weeks after we got them.  Michael got nervous when Sunny started meowing
to get down, so he took him down.  The next night Sunny climbed up again,
this time Michael did not take him down.  Sunny to our surprise did not
jump but climbed down the same way he climbed up.  Now remember Sunny is
only 11 weeks old and can fit in the palm of your hand.  He just loves to
play with all the toys we have for our babies.
 
So now Michael and I have three beautiful short-hair exotic persians, a 
Chocolate Brown, a White and a Red Tabby.
 
We are very, very happy with all of them.  I have taken quite alot of
pictures of them all.  Cindy and Elaine, I will be sending you both some
very soon when we get them back.
 
All of us will keep in touch, keep puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuring.
 
Diane, Michael, Teddy, Kai and Sunny