Just a few days to go now and lying down normally is out of the question. Lexi’s got a few choices
of birthing boxes dotted around and she’s busy inspecting them all and trying them out for size. Fizz is getting lots of lilcks from her, she can’t walk by without getting a wash 
I think Lexi is using her for practice!
Lexi’s getting bigger every day, I weighed her again today and she’s put on nearly 1.5 kg in total. Fizz has put on 0.5kg herself just by eating the Royal Canin queen food as well! That won’t do her any harm as we hope to put her with a suitable stud on her next call.
It’s been a pleasure to see Lexi and Fizz out in the specially built enclosure enjoying the recent warm weather, chasing flies and watching the birds. Graham made it as a lean-to on our shed using mostly old pieces of wood we 
already had and wire meshing. It’s in a nice shady part of the garden though it gets a little sun in the odd corner so they can choose to the sit in the sun or the shade. We’ve put walkways round 2 sides and a nice sturdy tree branch leading up to it for scratching on or climbing and part of a wooden bench we no longer wanted in the garden offers more sitting and watching or hide and seek places. At least when we’re in the garden enjoying the weather, they can be near us and see what we’re doing. It’s not as good as allowing them the freedom of an enclosed garden but our garden would be very difficult to make totally enclosed without chopping down a lot of mature shrubs, so it’s the next best thing. As it’s down the far end of the garden we pop the cats into a carrier to take them down there. Though now they know what’s coming I only have to fetch the carrier and open the lid and they jump straight in! Once we’ve sorted out the shed and made it safe we’ll put a cat flap on so they can explore that too.
We went off on holiday not sure if she had ‘taken’ but on our return she’d ‘pinked up’ and not called and now has the first hint of a bump. All being well we’ll have some little furry bundles around 3rd June. Lexi is blooming and eating us out of house and home! She’s still bouncing around and the only noticeable change is she’s less willing to wrestle with Fizz and just clumps her around the head when she gets too boisterous! We hope there’ll be some Classic patterned kittens amongst this, her first, litter. Lexi is only the 2nd Classic patterned Ocicat to be registered with the GCCF for breeding so this litter will be very special to us.