Happy New Year Everyone!

It has been sometime since we updated our news page and much has happened!

We have now PK deficiency tested ALL of our bengals and are in the process of screening our breeding bengals for HCM. Our HCM Screening has taken place on a priority basis to date but we plan to screen as many as possible throughout 2012 and in future. So far several of our cats tested have screened normal which is just great. We will in future be publishing our results on the FAB list and a link will be provided. To find out more about PK Deficiency and HCM please click here:

http://www.fabcats.org/owners/pk_deficiency/info.html

http://www.fabcats.org/hcm/

Due to all our testing 2011 was a quieter breeding year for us but we have hit 2012 with a bang! We have a couple of litters of beautiful kittens on the ground from our wonderful import boy Apache (please see our kittens page). If you are interested in owning one of our fabulous marbled bengal kittens please do contact us where we will be happy to discuss your options.

We retired a few of our wonderful bengals at the end of 2011. Supernova Firework, one of our homegrown kittens went off to a lovely new home with her sister at the end of 2011. Forestgems Kir Royale and Belladonnakatz Amazing Grace are being neutered in January 2012. Both girls have given us some super kittens and we look forward to seeing them settled in wonderful forever homes.

We look forward to providing you with more news on our breeding programme throughout 2012. In the meantime we thought we would share some fabulous photos of our 'flying bengal kittens' having fun with a feather stick over the festive period :o).

 

We have had a few litters of kittens born here at Supernova over the last few months and all have found lovely homes with great mums and dads :o). We have additionally retired a few of our adult cats including Macchiato Chasing Rainbows, Macchiato Roxanne, Macchiato Toftmia and Macchiato Fatboy Slim. It is always sad to say goodbye to our wonderful adult cats after a number of years but great to seem them settle into the loving pet homes they so deserve.

Summer period tends to be a bit slower with requests for bengal kittens so we always plan our programme around this as much as we can. We have now however started mating some of our lovely bengals again and look forward to having some fantastic kittens soon.

The biggest surprise we have had over the last few months has been the arrival of some unexpected but nonetheless beautiful cashmare bengal babies. We have updated our information page with photos. Click here to be taken to this update. Two of these gorgeous kittens will be off to Germany in September to join Renate Mock of Ingale bengals to help progress her cashmere bengal breeding programme.

Our wonderful bengals continue to enjoy the warmer weather we have had over the last few weeks and we wanted to show you what our stud boys get up to when they are not hard at work :o). Photos are of Frombengalhouse Apache of Supernova enjoying a walk in the park with Ruby our King Charles Spaniel (Cavalier) and Kevin. Enjoy :o)

We will be back with our usual kitten news next month (all fingers are crossed).

 

It has been a busy month here at Supernova and we are absolutely thrilled to announce the arrival of our first import stud - From Bengal House Apache of Supernova! Apache arrived here early April from our good friends Cindy and Bart in Belgium and we are absolutely thrilled with our gorgeous boy. Not only is he a fantastic example of a brown tri marbled bengal but he has the sweetest personality ever! Apache carries lines such as Roman, Zendada, Chloes and we cannot wait to introduce him into our marbled breeding programme this year.

We have also had 2 new litters of kittens arrive since we last updated you. Late March we had 4 beautiful little snow babies arrive from Gaylee Ice and Supernova Velvet Phoenix. These kittens have shown a lot of potential from such an early age and are doing wonderfully well. Ice has proven herself to be a fantastic first time mummy.

We were suprised as I suspect the rest of the UK were to find some long awaited sunshine arrive in April. We wasted no time in making sure the bengals could enjoy the weather to the maximum and supplied them with their very own paddling pool. Eros our pet F2 boy was first in the water fully emerged but the others did enjoy lots of toe dipping and some enjoyed the pleasure of a very large drinking bowl :o).

Finally we would like to take the opportunity to wish all our Supernova friends and furry family a very Happy Easter!

What a quick year it has been already! Seems like we were only updating you at the end of the year 5 minutes ago :o)

We have had 2 beautiful litters of kittens arrive since the end of last year. First of all we had our 'early' first footers arrive during the day on hogmany - a gorgeous litter of 4 marbled babies from Macchiato Roxanne and Supernova Velvet Phoenix. As I write this the babies are now 9 weeks old, thriving and all have super homes lined up including our keeper baby from Roxy, Supernova Firework. Watch this space to see more of our lovely girl.

Our second arrivals of the year were from our stunning Highgrade F2 Ree. We had mated Ree to Supernova Velvet Phoenix in the hope that she might carry snow and boy were we surprised to find 2 little mink males! Ree has been the most amazing mum and this has been such a special experience for us to watch her care for her kittens. We wanted to share a little of these moments with you and have attached some photos for you to see!

 

We also have a few girls who will be retiring from our breeding programme over the next few weeks. If you are interested in homing an older bengal then why don't you check out our Adults Available page by clicking here.

We look forward to sharing some really exciting news with you over the forthcoming months including some superb matings and the arrival of our very first import bengal stud. Please keep checking back for details!

 

We have been guilty of not updating this page over the last couple of months and I am keen to share all our news with you :o)

October was a particularly exciting month for us with the arrival of 2 new litters of kittens. First our beautiful trimarble babies from Silk and Rainbow followed by our first ever all snow litter from our first time mum Gracie and homebred stud Phoenix. Photos of the babies are now on our kittens page and both litters are available for viewing.

We have also recently received a beautiful set of photos of Supernova Flash of Ifness Cattery. Flash has well and truly made herself at home now and is giving Ilona much pleasure and of course naughtiness. I wanted to share these photos here with you as we are very proud of Flash and wish Ilona the best of luck for her future babies.

 

Talking about Supernova Flash, we are pleased to announce our lovely lady was selected from many entrants to feature on the BCCGB 2011 Calendar. She is May :o). You can view and order you calendars direct from the BCCGB website. This is the link. http://www.bengalcat-interactive.org.uk/2011-completed-calendar.asp

November was also a busy month for us that saw many of our older kittens leave to go to their new homes. We wish them all well and hope they will bring their new owners as much joy as they brought us.

We have no more litters due this year as we head towards the christmas period. But please do take a look at our kittens page as we have some lovely babies who are still looking for homes.

We look forward to providing you with lots more news in 2011 and would like to take this opportunity to wish all our customers (past and present) a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!