Our March, 2020, Litter

We have just one "kitten" still here at our cattery. She was looking for a new home but is now part of our breeding program. She is long hair and carries one of the special Tennessee Rex genes and  when the time comes be our second queen.  She is expecting about te first week in March, 2021.

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Our kittens are given litter names for our reference. Each litter has kittens all with the same first letter followed by a vowel in ascending order. This litter is our "S" litter, our previous litter was our "R" litter and so on. It will be fun picking names when we get to "X."

Names are selected with help from a web site called "Behind the Name," checking where the the name originated as well as current use. That web site is very helpful in making these selections. I try to stay away from typical names and occasionally use a name that is significant to the cat fancy. In this litter we named one kitten Solveig, Dr. Pflueger's first name. She passed away before we had advanced to Preliminary New Breed. Dr. Pflueger was the head of the TICA Genetics committee. She was the one that really got this breed established and where the cats I resumed to work with came from in 2011.

The kittens were born between 0844 and 1430 EST in Athens, Vermont. We have video recorded the first three and the last births.

Pictures of the kittens were  taken on 24 March 2020 and on 25 April 2020. The third set was taken on 7 June

Savney is  our male tennessee Rex carrier kitten. He is nearly solid cream color long hair but as a carrier does not have the curls or satin.

07 June

Selwyn has gone to Tennessee Rex breeder .

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Sigrid  is our curly hair Tennessee Rex male with the satin fur. He is the heaviest in the litter

Sigrid has moved to a TR breeder in West Virginia, a stop on the way to  a regular cat show at the end of August. He will then move to another TR breeder as a resident sire.
Sigrid was the best TR kitten in the show

Solveig is a Tennessee Rex carrier female. She is named after Dr. Solveig Pflueger, the now diseased director of the TICA Genetics Board. Solveig was largely responsible for restarting the development of this special breed.

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Here is Sukie a curly hair Tennessee Rex female with the satin fur. She is the kitten I usually found curled up next to me when I woke up in the morning

Sukie
has moved to a TR breeder in West Virginia, a stop on the way to a regular cat show at the end of August. She will then
move to another TR breeder as a resident Queen.

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Selwyn and Sukie at play