BEIGATTI MAINE COONS

I hate it when I go to websites only to find that they have not been updated.  Well...my own site has been woefully neglected lately....it's been two months in fact since my update about Maya's kittens.  We had some rough spots, but the 4 remaining kittens are doing well.  Tasha and Lucy have been bred in the meantime, and I am sharing Lucy's mating experience by letting Sharon Stegall be my "guest blogger" for today.  Please check out Sharon's blog, describing Lucy's ...um... de-flowering.

Yesterday I drove to East Greenwich, RI to have an echocardiogram done on Beigatti Lake Superior Sand, a solid cream boy who will start his career as a stud.  (He is the gorgeous cream boy on my homepage.) This screening was routine, but it does rule out any potential problems early on.   "Muscat,"  as he is called, told the vet what he thought about being held down for the echo - but he passed with flying colors, so his breeding career begins.  His owner, Janet, is excited that he will now be able to charm the ladies.

Breeders tend to take advantage of any travel plans by transporting any cats that need to get from point A to B.  I call this the cat mambo.  Since I was in RI, Sharon Stegall of Dracoonfly Cattery (in CT) drove to meet me so that she could bring me a female kitten and potential new breeding girl, Lucy.  I had seen her picture many times on the web, and we had been talking about this girl for months.  Now she was mine!  We let her out of the carrier, I held her for about 2 minutes - yup - 2 ears, 2 eyes, 4 legs....throw her back in the carrier and lets get lunch.

At lunch, Sharon, Janet and I discussed Muscat's breeding career and Sharon just happened to have another female in the car, Olivia.  Olivia was having hard heats and needed to be bred.  Could we bring her back to NY and put her with Muscat, since he was just found to have a good echo.  So we threw one more cat in the car (in a carrier of course) and headed home.

Once we got home, I took Lucy out of the carrier and put her in the office with my husband.  "Here's the kitten - I'll be back."  Olivia needed to be cleaned up from the car ride (use your imagination).  Janet and I cleaned her up, dried her off and put her in Janet's car.  We moved Muscat from my car into into Janet's car.  I fed my "big cats," and went  to check out Lucy.

OMG!  Here was this little girl, right in the middle of the room like she owned the place.  She was not hiding, she was not shaking, she was saying, "hey!  nice digs!  Let me scope things out!"  Now I got a good look at her.  She is spectacular!  I never noticed the dramatic markings around her face - pictures do not do her justice.  She is big-boned...her legs, in proportion to the rest of her, are huge.  She has a nice scoop to her profile, beautiful eyes and depth of chin.  She has a motor that won't stop!  She settled herself into my husband's lap and dozed.  Sharon did a specular job making this little girl!  Here she is: