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August is the other “hot” season for cats on our latitudes. Because of the ratio of the light and dark, many queens come in heat in August-September and springtime in March-April. Also entire adult males may have hormonal surges, leading to spraying (marking territory), yodeling for females and oily tail/coat […]

Kittens in October

 tagged Helmi / Hiski / kittens / plans / pregnant / Ulpu
According to the instructions from the human friend of Paavo, Juno and Ulpu, we have crafted some very easy entertainment boxes for our cats. To give your cat something interesting to work on, just take a rinsed milk or juice carton (in the pics I have used a cream carton) […]

DIY activating box for cats

 tagged activation
The boys are 6 weeks old today! This is a very lovely age, for the little kittens are learning all kinds of stuff: hunting and killing of toys, attacking your brother with a gigantic Tiger Leap, playing with mom’s tail or your own tail… And suddenly the play is ceased […]

Boys of the Fire Litter

 tagged Fire Litter / kittens / Lily / plans
We visited Lily’s foster home yesterday. The foster family, as well us the breeders, think that Lily indeed has “something” in her sides. 🙂 This something is not moving at the same rate as Lily’s breathing. So we are hoping to receive around 27th June 2014 Lily and Gubbe’s kittens. Lily […]

Expecting Lily’s kittens

 tagged kittens / Lily / pregnant / queen
Welcome in Finland, Nono! Marjo Vormisto (FI*Guttatus) and I (FI*Northalla) had the great pleasure of bringing Nono (Blackwater Owi No Limit) in Finland to live. Nono is a very handsome and sweet-tempered lavender spotted Ocicat stud. Both our catteries are hoping to have offspring from Nono in the future. Our big thanks to […]

Welcome in Finland, Nono!

 tagged import / stud
Finnish ocicat club Ocicat ry is gathering information about ocicats’ age and life span, in order to gather information about the life span of the ocicats. There is no existing statistics about average life span of ocicats — at least we’re not aware of such. According to breeders, ocicats tend to […]
 tagged ocicat / ocicat age / ocicat life span | Open »
Outdoors season for Nasu has started. Nasu loves to go outside with a harness and a leash, but certainly not in the wintertime or if it’s raining. Nasu’s son Leo however needs his promenade outside every day, even though in the wintertime it could be only 30 seconds before his […]

Dirty paws

 tagged harness / Leo / Nasu / outdoors