Premier Pardalis Genesis, aka Florence, won her well deserved Premier title at the Midland Counties Cat Club show on Sunday. Florence is Lexi’s daughter and has been doing us proud at all the shows she’s be
en to, having been shown from a young kitten. She won three open classes in her first three shows as an adult (from nine months) which wins her the Premier title. Well done Florence!!!
Lexi and Uno have now both achieved 4 merits each to help move the Ocicat Classic breed recognition on 
to the next stage. Uno got the final one needed at the Suffolk and Norfolk Cat Club show yesterday.
A total of six cats have now gained the required number of merits for us to complete the preliminary stage and put in the application for the next and final stage. The next stage will take longer as more Ocicat Classics and breeders will need to be involved, but the commitment is there and hopefully it won’t be too long before this beautiful breed can be shown on equal footing alongside their Ocicat siblings.
I was woken at 1am on Friday morning by a rustle coming from the litter tray. I rolled over thinking ‘hope it’s not a smelly one’. Then I heard a squeek. I jumped out of bed and looked in all the obvious places that I’d prepared to give Fizz a choice of where to give birth. The nice cosy cardboard box by my bed, the Sturdi where the kittens and mum usually spend their first 3 weeks until they get too active and are ready to 
come downstairs, and the kneehole in the dressing table. But no, madam had decided the covered litter tray was the place to be!
I lifted Fizz and a wet kitten out and transferred them both to the cardboard box. The poor little mite had bits of litter all stuck to her! Luckily it was clean litter :-) I brushed off what I could while Fizz had her second kitten in the comfort of the box. A total of 5 were born by 2.30am. All good weights, not much difference between them all.
They’re all putting weight on nicely and finding their lungs! Fizz is a great mum, she’s only left them to stretch her legs a few times and she covers them with the blanket when she’s gone. We’ve got a black silver and a lilac (maybe lilac silver) boys and chocolate, blue and blue silver girls. It’s lovely to have them all different and such a nice variety of colours. Well done Fizz!
Fizz is looking swell! We’re expecting her happy event by the end of the week. Difficult to tell if she’s bigger than last time. I think she is, though that could be down to it being her second pregnancy rather than there 
being more kittens.
It was very warm during this stage of her pregnancy last time and she was sleeping a lot. This time she’s far more fidgety and awake, really quite restless. I think we’ll both be glad when the kittens have arrived and we can all get some sleep 