An Unexpected Phone Call

[lil_shepherd]

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[dickgloucester]

Lovely cats.

[lil_shepherd]

Thank you. It's a breed we love, but it's barely hanging on in the UK, what with the recession and all...

[cmcmck]

Not a breed I'm familiar with, but what pretty kitties! :o)

[lil_shepherd]

You're unlikely to see one nowadays, even in a show, in the UK, though they have full Championship status. We have two, neither of which we bred - the boy in my default icon who we bought as a stud cat and neutered because we were pulling out of breeding and a girl we bought as a breeding queen but who turned out to be infertile. All Singapuras are bred from a litter of kittens found by an American oilman on a ship in Singapore harbour in 1979, and taken home to his wife, who developed the breed.

[muninnhuginn]

Gorgeous pictures.

[lil_shepherd]

Thank you. It was a long time ago, and these were on print film. The processor we were using at the time put all the pictures on disk for a small fee - hence the fairly low quality.

[heleninwales]

They are such pretty cats, though it's a shame that they aren't as long lived as common or garden moggies, or even Siamese. Ours was 17 when she died and sadly missed.

[lil_shepherd]

Siamese are particularly long lived as are Russian Blues - but a surprising number die young.

We lost Kero very young (eight) to bowel cancer and I still cannot think about her without tearing up. Our first Singas (both pet quality) lived to about 12, but both went to serious illness. My lovely Chantinelle had serious problems with her mouth (and the vet broke her jaw trying to fix the problem) and we hung onto her far too long. Quillan also had mouth cancer.

On the other hand, our Oriental queens both went down with mammary cancer, something that is always a big risk for working queens...

[inamac]

It's almost exactly four years since we lost Quillan to cancer. Good to hear that Gem is still OK (I wonder what happened to Trigger?)