Well, they are a mother and her kittens (aged about 12 weeks) so they are bound to be sociable. As adults they are reasonably social cats in the way most pedigree cats are - our group are all unrelated (or as unrelated as a breed stemming from five cats, four of whom were in the same litter can be) and they get on well enough with each other. The Orientals, who are closely related, get on better - of the two groups, only the boys really mix.
I may have mentioned this before... if I were ever to try being a breeder (not bloody likely!), I don't think I'd be able to resist calling my business Ennien Cattery, just so that my kittens would have names of the form "So-and-so of Ennien". (It's a reference to Uhura's Song by Janet Kagan.)
Choosing the "official" names is one of the fun things about breeding and showing pedigree cats. (There are a lot of unfun things too, which is why we are now out of the game.)
We really wanted "Netsuke" (as we intended to breed these tiny ivory-coloured cats") but someone else had already claimed it. "Inazuma" which means "lightning" in Japanese and is a term used by swordsmiths for one form of patterning in the steel of a katana was our second choice. There are a lot of Tolkienian and Trekian prefixes in the UK. "Galadriel" for Norwegian Forest Cats for example, and "Palantir" was an important prefix in Orientals, though its owner - a big name in the cat world - died this year. I'd have to look it up, but I think there was a cat called Kobayashi Maru in Pyanfar's pedigree.
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I may have mentioned this before... if I were ever to try being a breeder (not bloody likely!), I don't think I'd be able to resist calling my business Ennien Cattery, just so that my kittens would have names of the form "So-and-so of Ennien". (It's a reference to Uhura's Song by Janet Kagan.)
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We really wanted "Netsuke" (as we intended to breed these tiny ivory-coloured cats") but someone else had already claimed it. "Inazuma" which means "lightning" in Japanese and is a term used by swordsmiths for one form of patterning in the steel of a katana was our second choice. There are a lot of Tolkienian and Trekian prefixes in the UK. "Galadriel" for Norwegian Forest Cats for example, and "Palantir" was an important prefix in Orientals, though its owner - a big name in the cat world - died this year. I'd have to look it up, but I think there was a cat called Kobayashi Maru in Pyanfar's pedigree.
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