The Lupin and Typeface Litters, plus their relations, take to the bed

[lil_shepherd]

People tend to boggle when we tell them we have eight cats. There was a short period when we had ten adult cats - and then there was the period when we had four Singapuras, plus four Orientals, plus nine oriental kittens. The result was

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[_inbetween_]

Eeeeeeh!

What did the hoarde do when you had the audacity to sleep in bed at night?

[lil_shepherd]

Sleep on top - what else!?

[carl_allery]

Beautiful photos, beautiful cats. And great names. :)

[lil_shepherd]

The typeface litter provoked a game (notably among a group of Archers fans to which Ina belonged and with whom we once spent a wonderful weekend in Regensberg) whereby stories were written in which the characters had typeface names. We all thought that Tahoma Sans must be a grand lady in the American Deep South and so on...

[reggietate]

They're gorgeous - and I love the idea of Typeface names :-)

[lil_shepherd]

Naming kittens is one of the fun things about breeding cats.

[philmophlegm]

I'll see your eight cats and raise you six cats and two large dogs (and not that long ago we had four rabbits too).

Mind you, we'd never get all six of ours onto the same bed. Oh no...

[lil_shepherd]

And you and bunn also foster, I know.

We also have one small dog, but he's more trouble than the cats have ever been!

[lil_shepherd]

Incidentally, two friends of mine who had, at that time, a wonderful set-up with three active toms, who bred Singapuras and Egyptian Maus once ended up with 19 kittens (all Maus) in the house at the same time. (And their cats were all brought up underfoot, as they ought to be.) Mind you, it was her own fault. As each of four queens came on call she shoved them in with the toms, on the basis that, "She won't take, but we might as well try," and "She never has more than two."

[annafdd]

NINETEEN MAUS! That must have been interesting...

[annafdd]

OMG, they are so lovely, all of them. And cat moms with kittens are one of the wonders of the universe.

[lil_shepherd]

I love having kittens around the house, but it is also a relief not to have to go through all the hassles of finding a tom, getting the queen pregnant (and it's amazing the way they can come off call on a short car journey), watching her like a hawk from day 60 to day 69, and yelling for the V-E-T if problems occur (both of the above litters were Caesars), making sure the kittens latch on and that they have no congenital problems, sexing them, finding bloody kittens when the queen moves them (amid yells of "Pyanfar, put it back!"), weaning them and making sure they know how to use the litter tray, selling them - and vetting the prospective buyers,

I still miss having kittens around though.

[helflaed]

This is exactly why I will never, ever, ever breed cats. Ever.

[lil_shepherd]

I've missed out the really heartbreaking stuff.