Shira is home — and happy to be there. I’d thought about posting an update this morning, but decided to wait until I got her home. So I went over on my lunch break and picked up my beautiful Ra-Ra (one of Shira’s nicknames). She was quiet, but happy to see me. I put my fingers through the door to her carrier and she rubbed against them and purred. Once home she proceeded to roam the house greeting everyone by giving them head butts and nose rubs. After finishing her greetings, she used the litter box and had a quick bite to eat. When I left she was lying on the floor of the living room purring.
Other news… first of all, Cyra went to her first show this past weekend and was BOB (Best of Breed) in three of the 12 rings. Her competition was a beautiful seven month old girl, so I think it’s wonderful she impressed three judges enough to place ahead of her. She also received one final — a 9th best AB kitten. Way to go, Fish! She did live up to her nickname by playing in the bath tub Sunday morning so her mom and dad had to dry her before taking her to the show. LOL!
The three Snow Babies are doing well. Deb said she’d be updating the website this week, so check there for pictures. I do have one of the three together that I’ll post here.
Rangashrii commented a few days ago about all the torbies (patch tabby) girls I have — she pointed out that the next generation of LostWoods girls are all torbies. I hadn’t really thought about that much… I’ve always like multi-colored cats, but started out wanting a blue tabby wegie because that was Cloud’s color. I got Shira because she was very cute and I wasn’t being picky about color, but I was thrilled when I got the chance to get Talia because she was pretty AND blue. I was intentionally searching for a patch tabby or calico when I got Bria. Then in her first litter she had the very strikingly colored Alliandre. I begged her to make me another silver patch tabby and white like Ali and she obliged by having Kefira. There’s just something about silver patch tabbies that really calls to me. Anyway… somehow I’ve ended up with four girls who can give me almost any color in the Wegie cat rainbow. There’s even a slight chance that Fin and Talia may give me a solid or bi-color kitten. I know that Talia is carrying solid and Fin might because Shira does. So we’ll see. I’d kind of like to have a black and white one of these days. And I’d love to have a true calico someday.
I can hear the question now… What are calicos, torbies, and torties? Maybe I already explained that, but I can’t remember writing about it here, so here we go… Torbies (TICA) and patch tabbies (CFA) are the same thing — a cat with tabby markings (any pattern) in their patches of brown/red, silver/red-silver, blue/cream, or blue-silver/red-silver. A patch tabby may or may not have white as well. Torties (TICA) and tortoiseshell cats (CFA) are names for the same colors, also. Torties have patches of solid black, blue (or the smoke versions) with red or cream mixed in, giving a brindled or tortoiseshell look to the fur. Again, they may or may not have white. Calicos are defined as a white cat with unbrindled patches of solid black and red. That is, the spots of color will be distinct, not mixed black and red together. The cat should at least have white feet, legs, undersides, chest, and muzzle. Calicos can also be blue & cream or the smoke colors.
Somewhere out there someone is getting ready to email me about smokes and silvers. 
Hate to disappoint, but I’m the sole skeleton in the mid-tier skeleton crew today, so I have a ton of things to do at work. Silver and smoke will have to wait for another day.