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On this page you will find news and facts. The date is dd/mm/yyyy
22-02-2021 After our young cats had been in heat, yesterday "finally" Blue was in heat too. Today Faran picked up at Suzanne (he lives there almost the whole year togheter with other males). After recovering from the trip, he thought it was time for company. He didn't waste any time and the first mating was a fact. They stay together for a while until Blue isn't in heat anymore. In about 4 weeks we will know if the date has led to a pregnancy :-)
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26-12-2020 On Boxing Day, Selima moved to her new home. We wish Astrid lots of fun, love and happiness with lovely sweet Selima.
19-12-2020 Today Natalka, our new addition from Poland, arrived. She will have to get used to her new environment and the cats and dogs here.
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25-09-2015We have updated the English section of our website, we have not translated the news items in this time section as it is "old news". If you want to see what happened, you can view the Dutch part of our website with a translation machine.
25-09-2015 Nemesis gave birth to 4 lovely kittens, one was born death, the other three are doing very well.
18-09-2015 Shifra gave birth to 4 lovely kittens.
08-2015 Yes, we are sure, Shifra and Nemesis are pregnant :-)
27-07-2015 The cat association Saint Pro Cat, where we are member of from the start of our cattery, is unfortunately bankrupt. So we had to look for a new cat association. Having compared all, we chose the NLKV.
26-07-2015 Today we picked up Nemesis at Suzannen. Nemesis and Pahtrussko were also close friends. After some busy days, they lay cozy together as a couple in love. Now waiting for the first signs of pregnancy :-)
19-07-2015 With the help of Jacky Schrijn (who always takes care of everything, when we go on holiday) and Suzanne Versluis (of Cattery Off Kymaya's place, who owns the two males we were allowed to use this time) we were able to execute the swap trick .
Ofcourse Nemesis decided to become back in heat precisely during our holiday , hi hi. So today Suzanne brought Shifra to our house and took Nemesis back home for her date with Pahtrussko. Jacky welcomed Shifra with open arms and had taken care of Nemesis, so she was ready for her journey with Suzanne.
Hereby I want to thank you both again so much for the extra effort :-)12-07-2015 During the first time Shifra and Dimitrov were together, there have been no successful matings. Shifra saw Dimitrov and immediately she took Dimitrov under her paw as a mom who protects her kitten. Well then you are immediately not so in heat anymore.
Just in time before our holiday Shifra was in heat and we brought her back to her boyfriend Dimitrov. Suzanne (owner of Dimitrove) placed them in another surrounding to get rid of the "mother feelings" ;-)) and yes, party! They practiced a lot, Shifra screamed and rolled. In good spirits, we are now waiting for the first signs of pregnancy.
16-06-2015 There are often contrasts in life, also in our cattery. After the loss of a life, new life comes back in sight.
Shifra is in heat, so today we brought to her date. Shifra and Dimitrov could immediately find well together, though both found it very exciting.
Although Shifra is an experienced mother cat, this is her first mating not at home. So all very exciting.Dimitrov is still a young guy, and has never seen a lady from outside his cattery, only his trusted women he grew up with. So for him a whole new experience. The more it was an endearing sight, that she immediately found support from each other :-) Now we will have to have patience and wait.
10-06-2015 A very sad day for us. Today we said goodbye to our dear Ice. We are devastated. The days until this day have been exhausting, you know you have to do it, there is no way out :-(
Now we can take the time, to try giving it a place in your mind en heart and dwell on the good memories, so that the warmly place in our hearts will stay filled with beautiful and sweet memories of Ice.05-06-2015 The new plans for the upcoming litters are "final". Everything is tested and pedigrees unraveled. You see that despite all the careful preparations, you have to be flexible, nothing is final until it has been done.
28-05-2015 Today we went to the Wagenrenk for the HCM and PKD tests , with Lord Ice Siburcat, Berka's Lemon, Berka's Nemesis vom Kirnbach and Berka's Mr. O'Malley.
All HCM and PKD results were good.
Only with our Ice something was terribly wrong :-(
To our great sorrow and dismay, Ice got during the PKD research the diagnosis CIN and lymphoma cancer. Found during the ultrasound and confirmed by a biopsy. And all that on his first birthday.23-05-2015 Today we brought Berka's Quintana (Quintie) at the family Bultman in Nunspeet. There she's going to live with Berka's Pepper and Berka's Mister B. (Banjer). We hope she endures the move and the settling down well, and that she is nice stable with her autoimmune disease and has a long and happy life.
07-04-2015 An unknown phone call, a woman asks gently "may it be that you have bred a cat named Mr. O'Malley?"
And so began a new chapter in the life of our O'Malley. Of rescue, quarantine, semi quarantine, further recovery, medication, surgery, testing and research. More information is available on its own page (which is now in the making)02-02-2015 With deep sadness we have had to decide to euthanize our Erik.
Under the heading In Memory you can read what was going on.20-01-2015 Quintana has been sterilized. It was a bit scary due to her auto immune illness, but she is doing fine, and everything went as planned.
09-10-2014 Shifra was pregnant of our Erik. Sadley she gave birth two weeks early. Unfortunately, the kittens are not developed enough to be viable, although they still did a brave, hopeless :-( attempt. With the same care as usual, but with much sadness instead of joy, I have coached the birth. There were no abnormalities, so we suspect that the escape of Shifra (a few days before) is the cause. A few hours later Shifra was "back to normal".
Something I needed more time for.29-08-2014 "We are in the paper" with an article of our cattery.
Two pages big, I am so proud :-)If you click on the picture you get a larger format.
27-08-2014 Today we went to pick up our future tomcat in Poland :-) We are so excited. His name is Lord of the Ice Siburcat.
19-07-2014 All kittens of Nemesis (except Lemon, she stays with us) are moved out to their new owners.
28-06-2014 Berka's Kenzie's Blue Moon has moved to her new home with Rob and Rowan in Utrecht.
21-04-2014 The kittens of Nemesis are born. 5 sweet little kittens she put on the world.
20-02-2014 Hopsa.
3 weeks after "getting herself pregnant", Hopsa was behaving weird. We went to the vet for an Ultrasound, and found a uterus infection. Luckily we were so quick, that she could be sterilized without any complications. Thankful she is still with us!27-08-2014 Today we went to pick up our future tomcat in Poland :-) We are so excited. His name is Lord of the Ice Siburcat.
19-07-2014 All kittens of Nemesis (except Lemon, she stays with us) are moved out to their new owners.
28-06-2014 Berka's Kenzie's Blue Moon has moved to her new home with Rob and Rowan in Utrecht.
21-04-2014 The kittens of Nemesis are born. 5 sweet little kittens she put on the world.
20-02-2014 Hopsa.
3 weeks after "getting herself pregnant", Hopsa was behaving weird. We went to the vet for an Ultrasound, and found a uterus infection. Luckily we were so quick, that she could be sterilized without any complications. Thankful she is still with us!15-07-2013 The vet has confirmed what we already thought, Shifra is pregnant from Erik, the kittens are expected August 21, 2013.
10-07-2013 Hopsa gave birht to 4 beautiful kittens. Well done girl!
27-06-2013 Oh it is so lovely again, to feel the kittens move in Hopsa's belly :-) . In about two weeks we will see what Hopsa and Erik "made".
11-05-2013 There she is, Berka's Nemesis vom Kirnbach. Just observe everything, and especially getting used to the crazy big cas that do not meow ;-) (our German Shepherd)
10-03-2013 A new queen is comming :-) . Today it is officially, Berka's Nemesis vom Kirnbach will come and live with us on May 11th 2013. We are so happy. Thank you Sandra and Roland. Nemesis is a beautiful black and white cow :-) and is the daughter of Berka's Mirko (son of Hopsa and Erik) and Andra vom Kirnbach.
22-11-2012 Erik, Hopsa and Shifra went to Wageningen for their HCM test. Everything healthy :-)
28-08-2012 We have done some tests on Erik, Hopsa en Shifra. They have been tested for FeLV, FIV (again) and we send their blood for doing a DNA color package. For Erik we tested his blood group to. He has blood group A.
We have to wait a bit little longer for the results of the DNA color packages , so that will follow.
10-12-2011 26-11-2011 21-11-2011 15-11-2011 31-10-2011 15-09-2011 13-09-2011 29-08-2011 28-08-2011 Shifra gave birth to 4 beautiful Siberian kittens today. Erik is the proud father. You can find all the information on the page: kittens/current litter(s). Tomorrow morning we'll see if it stayed 4 or that Shifra has one more surprise in store (like the last time).
21-08-2011 It has taken some time to find the right "format" for our In Memoriam page. A place for the Siberian cats from our cattery who are no longer among us. Who died young or old. An additional place where we, the owners and also the people who have never met these lovely Siberians will be reminded to them.
23-07-2011 Shifra is pregnant, she got nice pink nippels and sleeps a lot. We expect the kittens around the end of August.
27-03-2011 Today, Jacky went to the show with Berka's Bo-J (kitten 1ste litter of Shifra and Erik) they gained their 3th CAP point so now he is Premior!! So proud of you both!
07-10-2010 Shifra is tested again for HCM and she had a perfect result on her test! All well!
26-09-2010 Berka's Mirko went to his second cat show in Germany and has been again nominated for Best in Show. Great!!
Berka's Bo-Jangles went to the cat show in Nijmegen, he earned his second CACP. We proudly congratulate Jackie Schrijn and J-Bo with the results!
11-09-2010 09-09-2010 04-09-2010 01-09-2010 27-07-2010 08-07-2010 05-07-2010 kittens are dewormed for the third time today.
22-06-2010 Kittens are dewormed for the second time today.
07-06-2010 Kittens are dewormed for the first time today.
01-06-2010 The kitten have been checked by the vet for their gender. I thought at first that there were 3 male kittens. But later on, they changed more and more. The swelling was gone and there were two girls more. So the vet confirmed my suspicions.
Now I know for sure that the litter consists out of 5 females and 1 male.30-05-2010 The kitten are trying to take the stap into the "new section" of the kitten cage. They are starting to play around with each other. And if you tickle on their tummy, they play with us to, ha ha.
Fortunately Jo-Jo is already getting better. She had a very hard time the first day and a half. But now it seems to go well.
25-05-2010 Jo-Jo had surgery again, unfortunately. The sterilization (castration actually) was not quite gone well the first time. There was a tiny piece of ovarian tissue left behind and that has become active again. So we had a cat in heat, and Erik was enjoying it of cause.
She is now recovering from major surgery. They had to look through her whole belly for a piece of tissue. The uterus has been taken away to, so there will be no problems in the future. We hope that she recovers again soon!
22-05-2010 All the eyes of the kittens are open. Photo's from the third week have been added.
16-05-2010 10-05-2010 09-05-2010 08-05-2010 07-05-2010 30-03-2010 Hopsa is checked for pregnancy. And yes, a belly full of lively kitttens of about 4 weeks!
The kittens are expected around the thirth of May 2010.Naughty Erik is not to stop when he knows that there is a cat into heat. He pushed garbage cans on the side, and locked cat shutters are pushed open with force, just to be with his girl!
30-03-2010 28-03-2010 Shifra has gained her second CACIB point at the show in Apeldoorn.
I showed for my friend her Berka's Bo-Jangles and he gained his first CAP point.07-03-2010 Shifra and Erik both have a CACIB point gained at the show in Aalsmeer. Shifra has won the BIV for the Siberian silvers. And they are both nominated for BIS. A successful day for us.
02-02-2010 Several pages have been updated, also the pages with photos.
02-02-2010 The new layout of the website is now into use. With this layout, I hope that it is even easier to find the pages you are looking for. The background is now in a solid color so that the readability is easier. The menu has undergone the most changes.
27-01-2010 week 1 and 2
of 2010Erik and Hopsa have spent two weeks long?! to make new beautiful kittens. We hope that everything went successful and eagerly we await the coming weeks whether Hopsa is pregnant.
25-10-2009 Shifra is Champion! Today Shifra achieved her third CAC! We are proud to mention that Shifra is our third cat who bears the title of Champion!
18-10-2009 Today I went to the Felinotechnisch Symposium 2009 in Eindhoven. A big journey given the road closures, but very rewarding!
My knowledge has increased about the topics:
- Liability,
- the fertility of the cat,
- the difference between spraying and uncleanliness in cats,
- control of Filin infextieuze peritonitis (FIP) in a cattery,
- treatment options for skin fungal infections in cats.
All explained by nice expert speakers.
Am very curious what subjects they have next year .04-10-2009 Erik is also Champion! Today, Erik has achieved his third CAC! We are proud to mention that Erik as from now bears the title of Champion!
27-09-2009 We are proud to mention that Hopsa as from today may bear the title of Champion!
27-09-2009 Also very proud, I congratulate Jacky Schrijn and Berka's Bo-Jangels on passing their first U1, BIV and BIS nomination!
