May '06

What a great month we have had.  Our three litters have all arrived safely and are growing fast.

Cloudmaker Tabatha Twitchet made her show debut on May 20th at Suffolk & Norfolk.  She had a Red Card Day, taking first in her Open, Best of Breed, and three firsts in her side classes.  Not bad for her first time out!

We don't have anymore litters due now, we are enjoying the kitten here now and look forward to showing those that are staying towards the end of the summer.  Update pictures will be added soon.

April 2006

We are delighted to announce that 'Pancake' delivered her litter with no problems on the 6th.  We now have four girls and two boys gracing our nursery.  We will be updating our 'Kittens' page with their pictures and details in due course.

February 2006

We have a couple of litter dues early April.  These will be sired by our Gr.Ch. import boy, Bing.  Please contact us if you would like to be informed when these kittens arrive and what may be available. 

Bing has made several appearances on television this week in the trailers for the 'Inside Out' programme to be aired on BCC 1, Monday 27th.  We will be watching to see if he as a staring role on the programme. 

We are very proud to announce that 'Bing' gained his Grand Champion title on February 11th.  We had a great day at the Derby Show.

Our lovely kittens are getting ready to go to their new homes this week, we will miss them charging around the house, however fingers crossed we should have some lovely blue and silver kittens due soon from our new imported boy 'Bing'.  Updated news will either appear here or on our kittens page.  

January 2006

The first meeting of the newly formed Selkirk Rex Cat Club took place earlier this month.  If you would like to join or would like more information please either contact myself, Secretary or Emma Baker   ,Membership Secretary.  You can also visit the website, the link can be found on my links page. (Website still under construction but should be up and running soon)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

We are very much looking forward to 2006.  We have some exciting show and breeding plans for both our Selkirk boys.  Our next litters will be due hopefully in April, these will be sired by our new import boy 'Bing'. 

We will be showing the kittens from our recent litter with both GCCF and TICA this year, we will update this page with their news.

We are looking forward to getting our new British Shorthair programme off the ground too with some new long awaited additions joining us early this year. 

 

December

We have 5 beautiful kittens in our nursery.  Four of these kitten are curly pictures can be seen on the kittens page.

We are very pleased to announce that Bing has arrived safely and is settling in well.  We are so grateful to Mary for allowing us to have this wonderful boy.  More news to follow soon.

November

We had a great day at the Supreme Cat Show held at the NEC on the 19th.  Homer gained his 7th merit, he also had lots of attention from passers by which he lapped up.  We are expecting kittens any day now and are also eagerly awaiting the arrival of Bing who will be flying here on the 28th.  We will update the site with pictures of both kittens and Bing very soon.

Homer had an excellent Red Card Day and gained his 6th merit at the Rex Cat Club Championship Show 5.11.05.  It was an good day for the Selkirk's with some lovely kittens attending and all gaining their merits.  I had a great time catching up with everyone despite getting lost and nearly missing the vetting in.  We hope to have some photos and news soon of our new import stud boy Ch. Nitewind Badabing! who joins us later this month.

October

We have had some lovely photos sent to us of Tubby who was from Kiara's first litter.  Please visit our gallery page to see him and some of our cats and kittens..

We are very pleased to announce that CFA Ch. Nitewind Badabing!  is now also a  TICA Champion.  He received some excellent comments from his judges, we are very much looking forward to showing him here in the UK.

We are expecting kittens in November, I will update the kittens page once they have arrived. 

September

Bo and Rissi are now getting ready to go to their new homes.  It will seem very quiet without kittens running around the house.  We have lots of shows planned through October and November so that will keep us busy until the next litter arrive.  We are also very excited as  Bing will be joining us in November.  We collected Jasmine last weekend, she is so sweet, loving and extremely playful she has already won us all over except perhaps Kiara who has yet to give her approval.  We hope to be adding some more pages to the website this month so keep checking back, their will be lots more photos too.

August

Nala's kittens are now growing and causing havoc, they will be going to their news home in September were I know they will continue to be spoilt rotten.  We are hoping to repeat the mating between Kiara and Homer later this year in a bid to get a blue spotty curly girl or boy, so keep watch for kitten news.  This month will see the arrival of a new girl at Jopalma, we were looking for an addition to our breed programme and found her at the Trueblu cattery, we will add details once she has arrived.

July

We have now added details of our new USA import stud boy that will be joining us in November CH. Nite Wind Badabing!.  We are very grateful to Mary for entrusting us with such a super boy.  Bing has already embarked on a successful show career and will continue to be shown until he joins us here in the UK.  There is a link to Mary's web site on the links page where you can see her beautiful cats.  More pictures of him can be found in the gallery.

We are extremely proud to announce that Homer gained his Grand Champion title on 16.7.05 at the Ponteland TICA show.  This is the first time we have attended a TICA show we had a fantastic day, Homer gained two 2nds and a 6th in the finals against many super cats of different breeds.  Our thanks go to Dee Marsland-Round for allowing us to have our lovely boy.

Nala successfully gave birth to her kittens on Saturday 25th June.  We now have a beautiful curly girl and boy.  Pictures of these two super kittens are now on the kittens page.      

June

We are expecting Nala's litter on 22nd June hopefully we will have some nice curly kittens.  I will update the kittens page as soon as they are born.  If you would like to be added to our waiting list please contact us. 

Pudding, Pickles and Pancake are wonderful bundles of fun and mischief, they will soon be leaving to go to their new home and we will miss them terribly.

May

 

Nala has now been mated to Homer, we will update the kittens page with details as soon as they arrive.  There may be a potential for longhaired kittens in this litter. 

 

We are also very excited about a new addition joining us here at Jopalma from the USA.  Watch this space for details! 

 

Suffolk & Norfolk  -  21.05.05

 

Homer gained his 2nd adult merit making him the 4th Selkirk Rex in the UK to qualify at a tender age of 10mths!.  He now holds 5 merits from 5 shows.  He again placed well in his side classes with a 2nd, 3rd, and a 4th.