27th February: Had the camera out today and managed to grab one poor picture of the new litter. I've also added pictures of Felony and one of Cally. Here is Ruebli - now at home with Christina Walker of Sungold Bengals:

26th February: Pru's kittens arrived between nine and ten last night. Mum and babies are doing well. Pru's given us another wonderful chocolate box selection of kittens, with a snow spotted boy, a brown marbled boy and a brown spotted girl! I'm not sure what is happening with Flower. It's looking more and more like a phantom pregnancy, so I've removed her from the kittens page. Will just have to wait and see what happens!

Myfanwy is due on Monday and she is looking absolutely huge - the biggest I've seen a cat so far. Whether this means she's full of water or not we will have to wait and see. No doubt we are going to have fun and games with Myfanwy, because she's so shy. I have no idea how I am going to get her upstairs into our bedroom because she takes cover every time she sees me and my other half is away in the US at the moment until her due date.

Don't forget to vote in our poll if you haven't already done so.
Thanks for the votes so far - clearly swinging towards the positive.

25th February: No kittens this weekend, and I'm still camped out with Pru.

23rd February: Will be spending much of the day 'camped out' with Prudence waiting for her litter to be born.

22nd February: Dollycats Ruebli went home with her new owners, Sungold Bengals based in Street, Somerset. Ruebli will bring exciting lines to Sungold's little Bengal family. Her Daddy is of course our boy Glitterglam Thriller - with Grand Champions and Supreme Grand Champions from Akerrs and Noah on his dad's side and Gogees on his mum's side. Rueblie's mum is Ripley. Our queen Ripley is a beautiful Tarantela cat out of lines featuring International Winner Supreme Grand Champion Bridlewood A License to Thrill, International Winner Supreme Grand Champion Katznjamr's Inkosi of Kosikatz and Regional Winner Quadruple Grand Champion Dicaprio of Starbengal. Other names you may recognise are Millwood (of course!), Gogees, Jumanji and Silvergene.

Christina and her family (Sungold) are very excited to be involved with the Bengal breed and we wish them all luck and support with their new feline family.

Whilst waiting for the litters to arrive we have been pondering our site and the removal of our 'Hall of Shame' and the more personal remarks about the breeding world. We felt this was the right thing to do at the time as someone pointed out this was damaging to the breed. However my experience has been that since removing the 'Hall of Shame' and my personal ramblings things have become SO much bitchier.

We are now considering our options and will perhaps add a poll later on to ask opinions.

Later: See poll underneath.

21st February: Exciting times ahead! Any day now we will hear the pitter patter of tiny paws as Python's half brothers and sisters grace us with their presence, and Rapunzel's half brother or sister makes an appearance. I'm talking in the singular for Rapunzel for her mum always looks so small. But saying that she did have a good litter last time!

We've been tweaking pages here and there. We've been working hard on other projects while our Bengal babies are growing in-utero but we're now back to focusing our attention on the Bengals. We have litters due from Prudence, Flower, Myfanwy, Cally, Joy, Bianca, Cherry and possibly Greta now. Busy times ahead!

Our friend Lauren should be around to help us over the coming months.

Our stud Monty is growing in confidence by the day and has become a completely soppy boy. His tryst with Bronwyn seems to have reached its natural conclusion and in a couple of weeks time he will officially be a Dollycats stud and will be rewarded with his own heated batchelor pad where he can entertain ladies.

Speaking of which - we are still settling into the household and cat housing is all over the place. We need to put more cat houses on order and get larger facilities for our early generation Savannahs

Our site is looking cleaner and more slimlined despite the fact that we have added a games and 'site stats' section.

We hope our followers will keep 'tuned in' for more information. It's lovely to get emails from you all! If you keep it up we may have to run competitions in the future!!!!!

Speak soon!

13th February: Just two weeks to go and Prudence's babies will arrive, swiftly followed by all of the others.

Bronwyn and Monty have had a romantic liaison. Unintentionally - so she's now being entered into the breeding plans a little earlier than we expected. No matter!

I've decided I don't like the site design and it will probably be going back to the way it was before!

Later: The site is now back to the way it looked before (more or less). We've been taking photos this afternoon and have updated the Queens page with photos of Greta and Cherry. Monty has had his picture taken now he is a much bigger cat - it's not a great picture but previously we only had a kitten picture for him.

Python is taking fright at all the pregnant ladies and is being intimidated by them. She's been living with them in this section of the house for a couple of months, so the only thing that makes sense is everybody's changing hormone levels. The queens get a lot more aggressive with other cats when they're pregnant, as well as being a lot more needy of the humans.

GRETA - ENJOYING THE WINTER SUN

8th February: Just a quick update for our kitten owners on their own pages, and some pictures of Felony enjoying a patch of sun in our conservatory.

Whilst we're facing the 'calm before the storm' (five Bengal litters due in the next few weeks alone), we have been working on our Savannah venture. We have now set up a worldwide forum for Savannah cat fanciers and here it is - Savannah Cat Forum. Anybody interested in these gorgeous beasts should join!

7th February : Still very quiet here (cat-wise) and we are revelling in it - after all in another few weeks kittens will be arriving and we'll have a very full house! Our new stud boy, Monty, arrived home last night after a long journey from his breeder in Wales. He's still hiding and trying to recover from the drive - it will take him a while to settle in. He's a big boy - rosetted and big boned and we're very happy to have him here with us. We have decided to upload our videos to YouTube rather than try to display them on our own server as it's quicker for YouTube to display them, than us.

Here's one - Pru was chomping away on a cardboard box. Unfortunately when she saw the camera pointing at her she 'changed the subject' and decided not to perform, so the video is a bit lame - our way of testing YouTube.

3rd February : We have some unexpected news - we believe Flower is pregnant again. She's only just started showing signs, and it's possible it's a phantom pregnancy, though we have no real reason to suspect this. Assuming she is pregnant she is due on the last day of this month and the sire is Lothario. Exciting!