Liridon's Ice Iz Primorskij * DE
Liridon
father: mother: GIC Czarina Iz Primorskij*D "CzaCza" He is Black silver blotched (SIB ns 22), click here for his pedigree.
Born on March 17, 2016 in Germany, † June 10, 2015 Zeewoldegen.code: A- BB CC D- I- ss tbtb oY ll
He has been tested on: HCM, PKD and CIN by ultrasound PKDef died before we took the test FeLV, FIV SNAP test and checked for patella luxation by our vet Both parents and many grandparents, great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents are tested on : HCM, PKD, FeLV, FIV
based on phenotype and parentage Blood group A Dilution D/? Burmese (cb) N/N Siamese (cs) N/N Agouti A/? Chocolade N/N Cinnamon N/N Liridon's Ice lives with us since July 16 2016 until de day he died.
When we picked up Uki in Poland, we noticed an abnormality in his tail. The breeder indicated that it was an injury and not a congenital kinked tail. Because we did not want to focus all our future plans on one tomcat with a possible heritable problem, we went looking for a second tomcat.
We saw a picture of a very small Liridon :-) and I fell in love for a second.
Checked his pedigree and compared it with the pedigrees of our girls and contacted his breeder, Heike Thiele from Cattery Iz Primorskij.
What a nice contact. Having become wise through "harm and shame", we agreed that we would first visit and then decide whether to buy Liridon. Now Hessen in Germany is not next door, so it would be 1 visit before he would move. It was great that Heike agreed to a visit around the age of 9 weeks.
We saw a healthy kitten with a healthy sister and brother, no kinks in tails :-) and a clean spacious living environment. And Mommy took good care of her offspring.
The reservation was made. Then we had to wait a long time, always good to notice how our kitten buyers always feel :-)July 16, 2016 was the day, Heike brought Liridon to us. She also liked to know where Liridon would end up.
He didn't really have to get used to his new environment, he immediately walked around quietly, meeting the other cats and of course those weird animals that have 4 legs and are hairy, but were really not cats (Liridon didn't know dogs yet) . In no time he was completely home. Together with Uki, his peer and playing buddy, there was a lot of racing and playing.The friendship with Uki started to struggle for a while when the hormones started to rise. Uki's was earlier and had a lot of hormons rushing trough his body, Liridon started later and his hormone level rose more slowly. Then there was sometimes a discussion between the gentlemen. Until the moment that the ladies had kittens and it was time to separate the males and females. Of course we do not want the cats to be mated again immediately, besides the fact that the gentlemen (or at least one of them) had invented that you could also spray. Our female cats are given contraception while the males are still living in the house. As soon as they are allowed to be mated, the female and male are kept together, separate from the group. It's not like males can mate without planning and supervision.)
In mid-March 2017 they moved together to the fenced garden with the heated outdoor enclosure . There they found some peace again without all those cats in heat around them :-)
They are of course not totaly separated from the rest. Hopsa and Jo-Jo (both neutered) were allowed to stay with the males in the garden during the day, and after the kittens moved to there new owners also Lemon and Nemesis (when they got their contraception again). After Sky was also on the cat pill(contraception), she was also allowed to the garden during the day.
On May 2, 2017, we went with Liridon to the Wagenrenk for his first HCM and PKD, CIN check. Passed it with flying colors, it looked great!
(He had already had his first Snap test for FeLV and FIV on 7/11/2016).Liridon developed into a nice big solid male and very very sweet boy, we were very curious what his children would look like.
However, he had to wait a while because Uki was already tested and allowed to mate and the other female was planned voor an outside mating.However, we'll never know what his kids would look like :-(
Very unexpectedly we had to say goodbye to our much too young sweet male Liridon on July 5, 2017.What started in the afternoon of June 26, 2017 with an eye that was a bit dirty, such as with an inflammation (which you sometimes have with cats, especially if they have a scratch or something), ended in a true drama yesterday, July 5, 2017. .
A rollercoaster of emotions and decisions in less than 1.5 weeks ended in having to put our big guy to sleep. What exactly happened is still a mystery.
From a dirty eye, to an eye that looked like it had collapsed, to a process with a delayed eye operation, to an attack that looks like a cerebral infarction with another simular attac three kwart day later, in which he was paralyzed first on the left and then on both sides, is not a logical process.
We will have to wait until the entire autopsy has been completed, because there, too, no peculiarities were found with the naked eye at the initial findings. (All the results are now in and no explanation has been found. Unfortunately, we will have to agree to the conclusion that it must have been a combination of circumstances and we will never know exactly what caused it).
We are actually still confused about everything that has happened. And so sad about the injustice of what happened to him and the impotence that we could do nothing more. Having to let go and say goodbye, I was and am devastated.
Dear tough big man, you are terribly missed by humans and animals. I hope you can forgive us for not being able to do anything else for you and that you are now in a nice place.
You too will be in our hearts forever.
Update,
we learned later that our neighbours had use snail poison. We think the combination of the medication he had for prepairing his eye for the operation combined with the snail poision has caused the attacks. Both can have inpact on the brain.For more pictures of Liridon's Ice Click here.
