30th November: We have available two silver spotty Bengal girls from Ripley. They are still a little young for photographs and visitors but pictures will be posted as soon as they're ready.

Do contact us soon to let us know if you are interested in these babies as we only have two at the moment. We do however have a pregnancy announcement. Please scroll to the bottom of the page for more details!

Later: Just updated the Testimonials page with another satisfied customer.

21st November: Still no sign of kittens from Ripley. Our British Fighter Squadron are going hom this weekend so I've taken their 'going home' pictures, which you can see at the bottom of this page.

To check the availability of kittens you will need to call us on 01202 880093 over the next week as this site will not be updated during that time.

19th November: No kittens from Ripley yet. The Savannah cat site is still under construction but once it has been finished we will of course publish the link here. Speaking of Savannahs, one of us will be flying out to the USA to meet with the breeder of our Savannah queens and studs some time over the next ten days, so if the site goes quiet for a while that will be why. The site has been updated with new pictures - so check Python's page , Ripley has some new pictures to replace the year old picture on the Queen's page. The other updates are for people that have already reserved their kittens so are on private pages. ;-)

Later: Hot Toddy has now been reserved by a nice couple from Guernsey and will be going to live on the island in the New Year. Just one kitten left ready to start your New Year off in the purrfect way - Tipsy Laird.

18th November: Still no news from Ripley - she's due between tomorrow and Wednesday. Hurricane has been reserved by a nice couple from up near Birmingham. Still working on the pictures from yesterday's show, so I will be updating this page again soon.

17th November: EXCELLENT day at the Supreme Cat Show today - but more about that tomorrow when we have the photographs uploaded.

We have created a 'Hall of Shame' feature for the website. Thankfully it's small for the Bengals, with only one email worthy of a mention.

We are in the middle of building our new Savannah site - the 'Hall of Shame' promises to be a lot bigger over there!

16th November: Busy, busy, busy! Cats, moving house, cat shows, kids.

But today I've taken time out to update our website - no pictures unfortunately, but so far I've updated our Savannahs kittens page, and I'm going to create an 'about us' page if I can make it interesting enough to be worthwhile.

We are no longer taking waiting list reservations for our Savannahs without an accompanying deposit as we need to sort the wheat from the chaff (so to speak).

Our Savannahs are provided and backed by Martin and Kathrin Stucki of A1 Savannahs. We rely on his expertise and hand holding and we are proud to backed by the best and have put our trust utterly in the hands of our suppliers.

Later: Uploaded more photos.

13th November: More pictures - this time of Hurricane. I've added some photographs of Miss Python on the Queen's page too.

12th November: Thumper has now been reserved. She'll be going off to live in the New Forest with a bunch of other cats, dogs, chickens and goats!

We have no more girls here at Dollycats, though I can still take enquiries for pet girls - a friend of mine has one available. And of course you can be placed on a waiting list for a Dollycat - our next litter is due in just nine days time!

Later: New pictures of Tipsy added.

11th November: Just updated the testimonials page again. Not much cat news to report. Phone and email have gone mad for Hurricane, but no takers yet.

10th November: Just taken some photographs of the Scottish Food boys. This time not posed, but watching television with us in the living room. The Scottish Foods litter are now out of their pens and having a fine old time of it in our living room, running on their recently acquired running legs. We still have two boys for pet and one girl for breeding available from this litter

9th November: Almost going home time for another one of our litters. So as I can catch them and pose them, so I'll be adding them to the 'Going Home' section on this page.

Later: Whim Wham has now been reserved and will be going to live in Devon in January.

8th November: I've been experiementing with video and I've added a couple of videos of Miss Python to our Bengal videos page. The object is to replace the youtube videos with our own. The ones I took are a little dull, and just an excuse for me to try out embedding video.

Viewing of the three boys from the January litter is being held off until Saturday afternoon as we have two couples coming to see them over the weekend, which is nice. Hurricane is still available, but getting some interest. Once seen in the flesh I have no doubt that he will steal someone's heart.

We are now taking advanced booking for Ripley's kittens. She is a big cat and six weeks pregnant. Not showing much at all. I don't know whether this means she could have just as many kittens as the others but is big enough to carry them more discretely, or whether she just isn't having many. Assuming all goes well, her kittens will be ready to go home at the end of February. There's a possibility that we may have much coveted silvers, so email us if you are interested.

7th November: Firelfy has been reserved by a nice couple from Wales so we only have boys available as pets now. If you're looking for a breeding girl then Rumbledethumps is still available at the moment.

5th November: Testimonials page has been updated with a new email from a pleased owner.

Fireworks night tonight - though you wouldn't know it by the number of fireworks people have been letting off near our house over the last week or two! Don't forget to keep your pets indoors tonight. We've moved most of our cats inside and check our outside residents regularly. They don't appear to be that worried about it. In fact Cally rushes outside her house when one of those spitting fireworks goes up. Presumably to ward off the 'cat' that has suddenly appeared in the sky.

4th November: New pictures! And I've added a 'gallery' page for photos that don't seem to go anywhere else. Bless his little cotton socks, Hurricane was half asleep when I picked him up for his photos, so I did manage to get some nice ones of him. Some visitors who came to see their reserved cat commented on Hurricane's great temperament and instant purr, so someone is going to get a really nice little boy with him. He's probably the chunkiest kitten out of Joy's litter, so perhaps 'little' is the wrong way to describe him.

Do make sure you go and see him on the gallery page. He has won November 2007's title of 'Silliest Cat'. If you look at his photo you will see why.

3rd November: We've booked the Fighter Planes in for their final injection - that's happening on Tuesday. They've now moved out of their kittening pen and into the middle room with my older daughter. This allows them to spend more time socialising with strangers (my daughter often has people in the house), and other cats. The middle room is where we keep our feline 'teenagers' as well as our human one. Currently inhabiting the 'teenagers' room (shortly to become 'the commune' but more about that later) are; Flower, Joy, Python, Nell, Rapunzel and Esme with Valentina (our Russian Blue) spending her time between the middle room and our long room (where her kittens are). So, with the five kittens that makes 12 cats. They also have access to the upstairs - Python has learnt how to open the door to my daughter's large bedroom, so they can get in there too.

I didn't get round to photographing the cats yesterday - my apologies. I will attempt to get it done this weekend.

2nd November: So much for Pru and Thriller having a platonic relationship. They were caught 'at it' yesterday - so perhaps some New Year babies?!

If I get time I will be taking more photographs of the available babies today. I have also got a site more or less up and running for our Selkirk Rex and British Shorthair breeding programme but it's not quite there, so no link yet.

Search engine traffic has gone berserk for Savannah cats and that's where we're getting our hits at the moment. Such a shame we don't have any cats inhouse to offer our visitors - however a friend of mine in London is taking delivery of her cats starting from February 2008 which means that she may have kittens available to go home around July/August 2008, and ready for booking in April/May.

So if you want Savannah cats from London, ready to book in April, contact me and I'll put you on a waiting list for my friend. (If by some miracle my cats turn up earlier then I will be able to help you direct).

THE SCOURGE OF THE BABY CAT BISCUITS

It all started on October 27th 2007. As I was sitting at the bar in the Bracknell Leisure Centre waiting for show results (drinks were for medicinal purposes you understand), my husband noticed a tiny lump under my t-shirt - on my back. On examination he found a Royal Canin Baby Cat biscuit - flattened and a bit worse for wear.

Then yesterday morning, November 1st 2007, as we were chatting before the day began we found ... in the middle of the bed .... another baby cat biscuit.

Both times it was a single, solitary baby cat biscuit. No sign of its friends.. Spooky..

What's going on????

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ps. I must add that showers were taken before the biscuits were spotted both times. And NO it was not the same biscuit!

Later: A while back my husband mentioned that he thought my news box was getting a bit big, so I have started a new site for my breeding ramblings - where I will talk about our day to day running of a catty household and bitch about the price of beef, what the weather is like etc. The name? Well of course it's Belle de Chat...

Later still: Whilst vacuuming our bedroom I found lots of Baby Cat biscuits. But in a rather sinister twist, I found a lone Baby Cat biscuit by the bookshelf next to my side of the bed...