December 1st, 2013

Guinness gave birth to the four babies sired by Brownie, between 2h50 and 6h54:
first two males, then two females.

Before

After

All the details of the kitten's birth and their first month are here.

When the kittens were 16 days old, Edelweiss felt a sudden urge to care for the babies alongside Guinness:

Here are the portraits of the babies for their first month (January 1st, 2014) :

Males	I have a dream	Itsyldor
Females	Imagine	Irish Coffee

5.5 weeks - they now explore every reachable corner and are able to reach higher places,
as long as there is material to hang on to climb. Here are new portraits taken January 8th, 2014:

I have a dream, aka "Aveu"	Irish Coffee, aka "Coffee"
Itsyldor, aka "Itsy" (left) and Imagine, aka "Magie" (right)

January 17th, 2014 : new individual portraits

I have a dream (Aveu)	Itsyldor (Itsy)
Imagine (Magie)	Irish Coffee (Coffee)

February 1st, 2014 : the kittens are two months old. Mom Guinness is on heat again,
but is still very attentive to her kittens.

Guinness closely checks the "making of" of the pictures

The two females :

Magie (in the Ikea mesh basket)

Coffee

February 7th, 2014. Itsy (left on the pictures) and Coffee wake up from a nap:

Magie

Coffee (ready to pounce)

Aveu

But... what are mom and dad looking at ???

(the answer is: a blue tit)

February 13th, 2014

Itsy	Aveu et Itsy
Magie	Coffee

A few pictures of the growing kittens approching 3 months :

Itsy

Magie, ready for a snooze

Coffee, very sleepy too!

I have a dream stayed home a bit longer with mom and dad,
and, thanks to an early spring weather, took the opportunity of discovering grass in the protected aviary:

Now, all 4 kitties have gone to their new homes.

• Magie went to Christiane Lawson (Buffavand cattery), where she befriended Sunny, a chocolate somali
• Itsy and Coffee still run, play and sleep together in their new home
• Aveu keeps company to a norwegian forest cat nicknamed "Chipette", who just celebrated her 11th birthday

Sunny and Magie (© C. Lawson)

Itsy et Coffee (© C.Gimenez)

I have a dream (© J. Gonord)

December 2014: their first birthday !

Magie (© C. Lawson)

Itsyldor (aka Ioda) et Coffee (© C.Gimenez)

I have a dream, aka Illis (© J. Gonord)