31st December: Wow! It's the last day of the year and Dollycats finds itself in the embarassing position of having no Dollycats available! Ruebli - the last remaining silver spotted girl - has been rehomed as a breeding queen with a lovely couple from Somerset who sadly lost their last breeding girl at a very young age. Despite their bad experience this couple have pressed on and bought two other cats from different breeders to restart their breeding programme. We wish them good luck and lots of support for 2008!

We do still have Ripley available for a new non-breeding indoor home, however if she doesn't sell soon we will probably change our mind and keep her on!

Our friend Barbara still has some adorable brown Bengal babies available. Please call us and we'll put you in touch.

For the New Year: We have girls in with the boys at the moment. We are anticipating that Pru and Myfanwy are now pregnant, though their pregnancies will need confirming towards the end of January. We can expect brown spotties and possibly marbles. Prudence is Miss Python's mother - Python is our award winning home-bred and is very popular with visitors. Pru is currently 'sun bathing' on top of our fridge - Python has stopped opening our cupboard doors and is now jumping into plastic bags. Beware! This is the sort of purrrrsonality you can expect from Pru's babies!

Flower and Cally have both been in with Lothario, but he's still very young and doesn't seem to be interested in 'the job' at the moment. They will be going in with Thriller in the next few weeks.

Our first home-bred, Miss Python, wil be ready for breeding in January, or February. We are hoping for some gorgeous marbles from her union with our Glitterglam stud, Thriller. If you would like to reserve a marbled kitten from our naughty Python, please let us know!

We are excited to be bringing Savannahs to the south of the UK with deposits now being taken! We're very sorry, but we can no longer accept waiting list enquiries without deposits - it will be a matter of watching our Savannah site to see what is available for people that do not want to place deposits. We do, however, expect our kittens to be sold before they are very many weeks old. We already have deposits prior to our cats even arriving in the country. Our Savannah site is here - Teardrops Savannahs

30th December: All change here. Just brought Prudence back inside after her visit with Thriller. We witnessed one mating on Christmas Eve - hopefully Pru is now carrying Thriller's babies.

Flower is still in with Lothario. Although she is obviously in season Lothario looks more puzzled than anything else! So she'll stay in with him for another day or two and then come back inside. If she is not pregnant we will place her with Thriller.

Myfanwy has come out of her shell since our housemove. She lives in our conservatory which is our main living area and shares her territory with our Russian Blue kitten, Miss Python and now, Prudence. Myfanwy is calling again, and attempting to copulate with Prudence every chance she gets so the chances are she is not pregnant with Thriller's babies and will go out with him in a week or twos time.

We will be getting a new BLUE queen from Norfolk in a few weeks time - great!

29th December: We hope you all had a very nice christmas. Here at Dollycats we are just starting our breeding plans for 08. Prudence (who sadly lost her kittens a while ago) is now happily in with our boy Thriller. Flower is out visiting with Lothario - but he's still just a learner, so we're not expecting anything just yet.

Ruebli's pictures need updating. We've just moved house, and we can't find the USB lead, so the pics will have to wait. Saying that Ruebli is waiting for visitors. She is available to both breeding and pet homes.

Our friend Barbara (also based in Dorset) has three brown spotties ready now. Please note that as with almost all breeders I know, Barbara requires indoor homes ONLY for her babies.

23rd December: Great news for silver Bengal lovers! We have decided to rehome Dollycats Ruebli from the Swiss Miss litter, as a pet. She will be ready to go on 24th February 2008!

This will probably be the last update before Christmas, so Merry Christmas to all of our visitors. Don't drink too much and take care over the busy festive season!

21st December: We currently have one silver female kitten available for breeding (see breeding quality bengal kittens page for more details) and one adult silver girl who needs to be an 'only child' and will be spayed before rehoming.

16th December: Erbsli has been reserved and will be going off to live in Portugal in March - bless her. Her sister Ruebli is still available for breeding enquiries. To see Ruebli you need to be on this page. All very quiet this weekend - all but ten cats have been moved out of Dollycats in readiness for their new home - which we will be taking them to on Monday. Yes! We are moving! May be offline for a while, so enjoy our pictures and videos whilst we're away!

Later: We have decided to retire Ripley now that she has had her first litter - you can see her on the 'Adult Cats for Sale' page. She will be ready to join her new owner in a safe indoor home in February 2008.

14th December: Spent last night sprucing up the Breeding Plans page so that there are now pictures of the parents to be!

13th December: More photographs and a video! Lucky you! Picture of Ripley on the gallery page.

12th December: No news.

10th December: Just reshuffled the pages to create an Adult Cats page.

9th December: No news. All is well!

7th December: Another update to our Testimonials page, but nothing else - it's so quiet! People are thinking about Christmas and Christmas shopping and not kittens.

Still looking for homes - a selection of 13 week old boy kittens - show quality, but this doesn't mean you have to show them! All ready and looking for indoor homes.

We have adult cats looking for homes - ex-queens and an older kitten (eight months - still counts as a kitten!) and for the breeding professional we also have available a gorgeous show stud.

These are bred from the best UK and US lines - contact us and we'll put you in touch with the breeder.

Thought you might like this. Wait a few seconds and Thriller winks!

5th December: Added a picture to our gallery page and a few to our Queens' page, but apart from that the only updates are to new owners' private pages.

4th December: I've changed the status of Erbsli and Ruebsli to 'on hold'. The kittens are silver and showing some brown tarnish, but I'm confident the tarnish will go. Until it has, and their faces and body types have developed we are thinking of keeping them here so at this time they are only available to other people as breeders.

If you would like a kitten ready to go in a few weeks, then please contact us. I have a friend who has some show quality male kittens that are available to indoor homes only. See below.

3rd December: Sadly Prudence has lost two kittens at a very early stage - there may still be one remaining, but its future doesn't look great, so I will be taking Pru's pregnancy announcement off all pages. We won't know whether she has managed to keep hold of the kitten until nearly term - January.

Later: Just taken the first pictures of Ripley's babies. We think they're silver spotted, but could also be cool brown - it will be a few weeks before we can tell for sure.

2nd December: Another satisfied Dollycats owner and another update to the Testimonials page!

1st December: The first of December and the count down to Christmas and the New Year. We've had a move around with the cats today. Myfanwy has been in the house for some weeks and, as hoped, she started calling again last night. So we took her outside to Thriller today. When I say we 'took her outside', that makes it sound a lot easier than it actually was. Myfanwy is the only cat of ours who cannot be approached by us. No idea why - she came here at the same time as her half sister Bronwyn, who gets along with us perfectly well. We spent around ten minutes wearing Myfanwy out as she hid behind the television, the sofa, up the stairs - then behind the television, sofa and up the stairs - and so on and so forth until she became sufficiently slow for us to capture. She didn't much like her twenty yard ride in her carry case to see Thriller in his pen, but she looked quite pleased once she was put down in his pen. Not so much pleased as.. what's the word I want? Oh yes. Smug.