Mishablu News - June '07

Welcome to our new website!  It is designed to make it easier for us to add Mishablu news without losing any of our previous content.  If you are new to Mishablu, check out our About Mishablu page to learn about our cattery.  If you would like more information on Russian Blues, go to About Russian Blues.  If you are here to look at photos of our beautiful cats and kittens, go to the Mishablu Cats and Mishablu Kittens pages.

Mishablu Janet has been busy

First Janet became our first home-bred CFA Grand Champion. Then she won 2nd Best of Breed in CFA (Cat Fanciers Association) Region 4. And now she is the proud mother of two gorgeous four week old kittens.

Thanks to Kaybrook Cattery, for letting their beautiful male, GC RW Kaybrook's Prince Charming stay with us and sire Janet's first litter. You can check out Janet on Janet's Page. Photos of her kittens are coming!

Mishablu Mary scores at shows

The daughter of Jake and Paris has been doing very well at her kitten shows, even taking best kitten honors in the ring of a very well respected Russian Blue breeder and judge. It means a lot when someone who has contributed so much to the Russian Blue breed in the U.S. admires your cat. Mary's first show photos have arrived and you can see them on Mary's Page. We will begin showing her as an adult when she turns 8 months on June 13. Let us know if you would like her show schedule as you are very welcome to come and visit us at any of our shows.

And then there is Han Solo

What can we say about Han? He has been a very different kitten from the day he was born. At two weeks old, he decided he did not want to sleep with his mother and sister Greta any longer. Somehow he managed to claw his way up the side of our bed. I woke up the next morning with this tiny little kitten nestled right next to me. This was a little terrifying as he did not even weigh a pound at that time! He has also decided that kitten food is not for him - whether it is dry or canned. This poses a serious problem as he is now two months old and still sneaking "milk snacks" from his mom, Peeker and his Aunt Alice. I have to make him special Han Food that combines dry kitten food with weaning milk mixture. Slowly I hope to get him on to the dry cat food alone.

Elijah goes home - to bathe

Elijah Blue has been living with his new owner in Indiana for only a few weeks, but he is already showing a side of his personality that we had never seen. Elijah likes to splash in the bathtub! This all came about when he first arrived at Marjory's home and jumped into the empty tub to chase his tail. A few hours later, with the tub partially full of water he failed to observe the old saying "look before you leap." Much noise and splashing ensued followed by a cat erupting out of the tub spraying water everywhere. His bath tub entries (ands exits) are much more elegant now but he nonetheless has no issues with jumping in the tub - whether or not it is occupied.

Kaybrook's Prince Charming

As we mentioned in Janet's paragraph, Kaybrook's Prince Charming has been staying with us for the past two months. He is a very sweet and beautiful cat and we are honored that he has taken a fancy to a couple of our "girls." No, all male and female cats do not like each other and a couple of our female cats have refused to mate with certain males. For instance, Grace will have nothing to do with any other males besides Jake!