Happy Birthday bengal babies :-)

Babies are two weeks old and doing really well, the girls are with Lily and Titanium the little boy is with Ariel and Angelica, he has finished his course of antibiotics and his head is healing well. Babies eyes are now open and ears have popped up, its so cute as they can now hear me when I enter the room, its so nice to see a brown and silver kitten cuddle together to see the contrast between the two. Lily is being a good mummy to her her girls after a rocky start.

cant believe Im writing this blog

After a few good days the worst happens yet again, checked on all babies, cleaned room, litter trays, sat down for an hour to rest, (with baby monitor) all babies sleeping, then checked on babies again, OMG Ariels heavy back leg was resting over babies chest and neck restricting babies airways, I picked baby up, baby was floopy but just just breathing, I started CPR while Andy phoned Emergency vets OMG we made a mad dash for the vets me in my pjs doing CPR all the way, baby had a faint heart beat when we arrived but sadly the vet could not bring baby back, OMG not again, there are no words to describe my pain, we have never suffered so much in all the years we have been breeding, we know breeders who have suffered like this and worst but not us. My heart is broken beyond repair right now.

Please forgive me if Im quiet for the next few days :-(

Play safe little snow baby with your brothers and sisters love me your breeder Julie xxx

Boys are a week old both doing well and are double their birth weight, its been exciting watching their colour develope the last few days looks like one solid like mum and one just like dad. Angelica is a fantastic mum to hers and Ariels babies :-)

All babies and mummies are doing really well :-) all putting on weight and holding their own :-) still attaching to nipples every two hours but a little more relaxed now, just in time to have a sleep before Dream has her bengal babies next week.

Thank you everyone for your kind thoughts and well wishes has meant so much to me Love Julie xxx

Just a little update for those who follow my blog :-)

Well as you know, im feeding and attaching babies to nipples every two hours so very happy to announce all babies are now holding their own and have put on lots of weight :-) so happy when I weighed them all this morning I sat there and cried, feel so emotional right now, not much sleep but lots of fat tummies :-)

Ariel and Angelica are doing a wonderfull job together

Lily and her two girls are doing really well too :-)

Love Me Julie :-) xx

Sadly this evening I have recieved a very upsetting email regarding our lost babies,

We have just had three litters of kittens from Lily, Ariel and Angelica,

Its normal, normal to lose one kitten every litter this sadly is normal, very sadly we have lost five kittens, two had cleft palate, we have chatted with our vet and other breeders about this and as its not something we normally produce we are lead to believe it from too much Vitamin A in our mums diets we have a year ago changed the raw food we feed it has been bought to our attention that this raw food has added Vitamin A we will not be feeding this to our mums again for this reason. One of our babies was still born, sadly, another one at birth mum, Angelica bit the cord way too low and blood spurted every where I took baby and stopped the bleeding, baby died in my hands but I managed to bring baby back only for her to fade away 24 hours later, she was very small :-( the last little baby we lost was tiny too but we think baby may have been laid on. Angelica is a new mum this is her first litter all of her kittens were very small, although she is being a fantastic mum, with all mums you have to keep a close eye on them as bengal mums do lay on their babies, when Im not in the kittening room I have a baby monitor and can hear babies 24/7 and be in the room with in a minute should an emergency accur. Please Please if anyone else is concerned about the kittens we have lost or our lines just give me a ring. Its very upsetting after loss of  five babies to get an email saying we have health issues in our lines.

At Summerspride Bengals we pride ourselves in breeding from healthy lines, we have been breeding for almost 9 years and not had any health issues to date.

Nature can be cruel at times.

Feel upset to have had to write this blog but would rather write it than have people thinking  unpleasant things about our cats/kittens.

For the record other breeders do not let you know how many kittens they lose or keep you updated on your little ones from birth to the moment they are collected by new mummies and daddies we pride ourselves in this, we are honest caring dedicated breeders always.