I did have intentions of taking photos today, however, the Water Babies have been moved into the 2nd kitten room, along with Lucy, the Nuts and the Detectives, and this means that I am up at every single sound, just waiting for a war to break out. So I am getting nothing done at all today as I've not been able to spend more than 10 minutes on any one thing as I am up and down constantly.

Our sudden loss of Frost still has not sunk in. When you are fighting for a baby over a period of days or weeks, and if that baby starts to fade, whilst the heartbreak is the same, in a way, you aren't surprised but in the situation with Frost, it has been totally different. We have bred approximately 100 kittens and not ever experienced something like this before. As per usual, Jo, from Brook Veterinary Surgery has been absolutely marvellous. I phoned the vets yesterday morning and left a message for Jo. When Jo got in, she phoned and I explained the situation and she agreed to take a look at Frost for me. I drove him there just after lunch yesterday and around 6pm last night, Jo phoned me with the results of the post mortem. There was no obstruction in the throat, mouth, all the organs were perfectly normal, there was nothing untoward at all. Basically, the cause of death is unknown. We had a chat and, God forbid, should we lose another baby, then another post mortem will be done only this time, at the labs in Glasgow where a very thorough examination can be carried out, although we do know from having had previous pm's done, that even then, results can be inconclusive. I think one of my biggest fears was finding out that perhaps Frosts' organs had not developed properly, or something similar to that because as you know, the mating between Lucy and Ashanti is inbreeding, done solely to improve the tabby pattern, not the type because Ashanti has outstanding type, but as we know, if there is just one bad gene there, it will be doubled up on with inbreeding and will come out in the kittens. (The Nuts are a product of line breeding.) So it is a relief on one hand to know that from the looks of it, this death has not occurred as a result of the inbreeding because if it had, that would be very difficult to come to terms with. All we can do now is wait and see and pray. In a way, it is similar to cot death with babies', however, I do not believe that a kitten just drops dead for no reason at all, despite what the pm showed. Onto our Detectives themselves though, first I want to talk about Sherlock..................................neither Graham or myself thought that Sherlock would still be here considering the fact that he was so far gone when we went into the kitten room and found him and Frost. Yet he has rallied around, and by late yesterday afternoon, he was eating from the little plate that the babies are fed from. I couldn't quite believe it. I do not know how he can go from near death, to being "normal" again in such a short space of time. Miss Marple had a bit of a mishap last night which was my fault entirely, well mine and Cashew's! I had Morse in my hands and had wrapped him in a towel to feed him, I reached over for the cup of mixture and the syringe, as I did so, Cashew dropped off my trouser pants, rolling onto my foot, and landing right where I was about to step, so in an attempt to avoid standing on him, I moved too quickly, knocked the milk mixture off the shelf, all over poor Miss Marple who was right below, having a meal from the plate. She most certainly did not appreciate having her meal ruined and being bathed in milk mixture. I then had to put Morse back down (he was screaming at me by this stage as he was hungry) and clean up Miss Marple. Throughout all of this, Cashew went merrily on his way, totally oblivious to the trouble he had caused. All of our Detectives are showing much more of an interest in eating from the little plate now which I am really pleased about. They are 23 days of age today and while I wouldn't normally be pushing them to wean so quickly, I think it has got to be done to take some of the pressure of Tia Lusso although I have to say she is coping extremely well looking after 8 babies although she does often get this "resigned" look in her eyes as she watches them tearing around the room and climbing on the little shelves.