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Kiwi Kittens - More Photos

nobody@vox.com(HeatherWynd Russian Blues) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:59:46 -0700

Here a few more cute photos of the two kittens going to Noel & her son this week

Click on the photo for a closer view!

Here are the four little girls at one day old. The above photos - 1, 2, 3 are the same little girl - can you guess which one she is in this litter? Me either! (smiles)

Mom cat MS Kiwi and her last litter of four very precious little girls. All have new homes except the one we are keeping. They are so very precious, soft and cuddly.

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National Geographic's Explorer - "The Science of Cats"

nobody@vox.com(HeatherWynd Russian Blues) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:47:08 -0700

We just received the following email from the Genetics Lab Director at UC Davis where we had the fun of participating in the filming of the following program. We are not sure if they used our cats - but if you see Russian Blues in the film they will be ours. A previous email stated that 43 breeds participated but only 37 breeds were used in the actual program. We can hardly wait to see if our babies made the show!

Nevertheless it is all about the world of cats and should be awesome. We hope everyone watches it.

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Dear friends, family, colleagues, and cat lovers:

Please share the news!

We hope you enjoy watching National Geographic’s Explorer - “The Science of Cats” – Tuesday, June 10 at 7:00 & 10:00 PM on the National Geographic Channel! Please check your local listings.

This episode features the domestic cat research of the Lyons’ feline genetics laboratory at UC Davis, with contributions of collaborators from Portugal, Italy, Egypt and all over the world, and also starring the beautiful cat breeds of the world. The story highlights the cat domestication and breed diversity research of genetics students Monika Lipinski and Jennifer Kurushima.

The featured research has been supported in part by donations and grants provided by the NIH-NCRR RR016094, The UC Davis Center for Companion Animal Health, the National Geographic Society, the Winn Feline Foundation, Illumina, Inc., and Qiagen.

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GC HeatherWynd Gweneveire

nobody@vox.com(HeatherWynd Russian Blues) — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:01:42 -0700

Well, our precious Gweneveire is at Tsar Blu being breed to the CFA GC, National Winner (6th best cat over all breeds) for 2000-2001. We are excited since this is the first time we have ever taken one our precious baby girls out to a new husband for breeding. She has been there since Tuesday and we cannot wait for her to come home. But, staying with Donna Fuller she will probably be so spoiled she won't want to come home! <sigh>

Donna takes great care of her kitties and she has so many National winners too. We feel so fortuneate to have the opportunity to live close enough to be able to breed our pretty girl to such a handsome boy!

GCH HeatherWynd's Gwyneviere

We will keep you posted on the out come. This litter will be show kitties only and we are hoping for at least one new male for our other ladies! We are sooo excited!!

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Neighborhood message on our posting problems

nobody@vox.com(HeatherWynd Russian Blues) — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:18:23 -0700

Hi Everyone,

Just a quickie to let you all know that I have been adding comments to all of the neighborhood BLOGs but none were posting from HeatherWynd Russian Blues or Gentry Devons. I just tried again and for the first time in some time it posted. I did not have to sign in twice when I was already signed in either - YEAH!!!

I am sorry about this and I really am not ignoring anyone - quite the opposite since there have been so many wonderful posts & photos to comment on. Thanks to all of you. Anna

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Christacat's Baby Girl 5-7-2008

nobody@vox.com(HeatherWynd Russian Blues) — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:06:39 -0700

Christacat's Baby Girl

This precious girl will soon be going to live in British Columbia Canada at Christacat's Russian Blues.

She is a lovely little silvery blue girl with nicely developing green eyes. He mom cat is CH MS Kiwi of HeatherWynd and dad cat is GCH, RW Platina Luna Starbuck of HeatherWynd.

She will have a wonderful loving home with Christine and her family. She will soon start her show career and make a wonderful addition to the Christacat's cattery.

Click on the photo for a much larger view.

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HeatherWynd Tristin

nobody@vox.com(HeatherWynd Russian Blues) — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:36:21 -0700

Tristin

This is one of our favorite kittens. His mom is our Lovely intense emerald eyed Grand Champion - GC Ron-Del Natahsha of HeatherWynd - Daddy is CH Velva's Doernovakof of HeatherWynd - AKA Dory!

HeatherWynd Tristin lives with his mom in San Jose CA and is a really beautiful boy with huge stellar eyes! He would have made an outstanding show and breeding prospect too, but being sensible hobby breeders - we know we cannot keep them all, and with each generation the kittens get better and better. This makes it difficult to know who to keep and who to allow to have pet homes.

But, then it is also equally important to breed kittens that are all ultimately show quality, or we are not doing our job well in the continuous process of bettering the breed the best we can!

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Today's Russian Blue Photos

nobody@vox.com(HeatherWynd Russian Blues) — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:14:47 -0700

Today I had a few minutes to take a couple of photos of some of the new kittens and our beautiful CH MS Kiwi of HeatherWynd. She is one of our great mom cats

Click on the photos for larger views and for information for each.

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News Flash - A New HeatherWynd Grand Champion

nobody@vox.com(HeatherWynd Russian Blues) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:58:09 -0700

GCH HeatherWynd's Gwyneviere

Click on this photos thumb nail at the right for the story.

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HeatherWynd Ludmilla Irnova

nobody@vox.com(HeatherWynd Russian Blues) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:53:17 -0700

This is HeatherWynd Ludmilla Innova - 2 and 1/2 weeks old
CH Katzenburg Ludmilla Irnova of HeatherWynd x CH Velva's Doernovakof of HeatherWynd.

She is named for her mom cat and her grand mom cat. She has an awesome purrsonality and we adore this little silly girl! We will add more about her later - enjoy her photo!

Little Lulu at 2 & 1-2 Weeks

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Welcome to HeatherWynd Russian Blues' Blog

nobody@vox.com(HeatherWynd Russian Blues) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:14:51 -0800

This is our first blog! YEAH! We are enjoying it. We are hobby breeders of the Russian Blues and Devon Rex cat breeds. From time to time we will all be adding info and photos so we do hope you enjoy them and will become a neighbor too. Please visit Stacy & Anna's Devon Rex Blog too. Lela & Amber will be creating a blog page for Fyre-Fly Devon Rex soon and we will post it.

http://gentrydevonrex.vox.com

The photo we placed here so far is one of our CFA Grand Champion Ron-Del Natahsha of HeatherWynd. Tasha as we call her is also a Quadruple Grand Champion in TICA & twice a TICA Regional Winner. And, one year she was the 3rd Best International Russian Blue. We are so proud of her! She is also Lela's love cat!

In this photo Tasha looks like she is a very concerned mom cat - and she is - but too bad this is not her baby! She tried to steal it from one of the other girls - too cute! But, we really loved the photo and decided to use it for our profile until we get one of us humans. Plus, she is way cuter than us anyways! >^oo^<

Thanks for visiting

Lela Bond & Daughter Amber Bond
Anna Krause & Daughter Stacy Johnson
HeatherWynd Russian Blues

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