These are the moments to remember...

Cheya's kittens are such a joy to have around. They are already purring away as soon as you start to pet them! And some even start to purr as soon as they see me. They are growing so fast - and we are starting to see their personalities. To see what they look like, check out their individual pictures on our kitten page.

The joys of spring

A few days back we turned on our ceiling fans for the first time this year. It was an amazing amount of fun for the kittens to try to catch the blades! My eyes are constantly opened to how entertaining normal things can be to the young :-).

Exciting News

We finally have all our breeders DNA tests in hand - and everyone was negative for HCM. It is so exciting for us! We also found out that Dakota is not a cream - but a red, which we highly suspected when he and Nala had 4 seal kittens...which is impossible for a cream and a blue. And two of our breeders (Emma and Dakota) are chocolate carriers! So, it's possible that we might have some chocolates in the future. We are having fun thinking about all the kitten possiblities. Anyway, this confirms what we had expected - since all our breeders have come from lines that are consistantly HCM free, but its still nice to know :-).

Fun days

It's always fun to do things with 8 kittens around. Yesterday I was doing some sit-ups...and pretty soon I had 8 kittens surrounding me. One playing with each foot. Two playing with my hair. Others playing with my arms - and still others watching me with their head tilted to the side. Do you know how hard it is to do sit-ups while laughing ;-). Anyway, this is the constant state of things here at Little Apple, whether I'm cooking or cleaning...or working on the computer or reading...everything I do involves 8 little kittens. I'm going to be really sad when they are all gone - but so happy for the people that will get to enjoy them.

The start of April at Little Apple

Cheya's kittens are growing so fast. They are just over a week old - and their eyes are starting to open. Cheya is doing a great job with them - and all of them are gaining weight in leaps and bounds. Some of them have little fat rolls :-). It's fun to see them all chubby, especially when there are six for mom to take care of! And in the rest of the house we are enjoying all the older kittens while we still have them. Several of them will be gone at the beginning of next week. It's weird to think about how quiet our house will be pretty soon! The kittens are always making us laugh. One day they were playing with a stick toy and when the toy was put away they all kept looking up in the air for it...it's funny to see 8 kittens looking up in the air, trying to find the little feather that was flying around just a minute before! As always, they really love human attention - and will even come up in the night for me to pet them. They are all little purr boxes, and I love to fall asleep with a soft, cuddly, purring kitten next to me. Anyway, April at Little Apple is starting off very well...