DEVON REX AND SPHYNX



NOBILERO DEVON REX AND SPHYNX CATS AND KITTENS

Grace, Lizzie and Ruby with Debbie, Ruth and Johnathan

Well, what a difference a day makes! Azula (Ruby) is now coming out of her shell, even with guests and has been cuddly and loving with complete strangers within minutes of them being here. Charis (Grace) is a beautiful and graceful lady who loves cuddles immediately after eating, or at any other time. Lizzie is a gorgeous minx who likes to wake you up way too early by biting a toe or a finger playfully. They have now explored the hall and the upstairs bedroom and spent this morning tearing round the house at amazing speeds. They love catnip mice and their scratching post. Everyone who has met them have fallen head over heals in love with them and they are LOVING ll the attention!!!
Thank you so much for letting these beautiful girls be a part of our home, they are a delight and loved so much by all of us.

 

DORCA

 

 

Lovely Dorca, living with John and Lorraine in Scotland.

DAPHNE UPDATE

 I thought you might like to see how daphne has grown up. 

 

She's still talkative - but interestingly so - and still naughty - but she is a delight.  Colour is dapple grey with peachy bits - some tortie bits on her ears and silky paws.

Beibhinn and Blanche - now living with Susan and family in Edinburgh

The kids arrived home on Sunday evening and the first thing they said when the came through the door was where are the babies? Not quite sure which one is besotted the most, if I have heard the girls once I have heard them a hundred times saying "oh mum they are so gorgeous, I can't believe they are ours to keep".

 
Beibhinn is Max's new friend as they spend every spare moment playing with balls, mice and new toys that we went and bought at pets at home. She is just fab and full of personality as you know.
little Taisie is eating well now but is painfully shy. She seems a funny little mixture as she is desperate to be cuddled and is more than happy to lie as close as possible to anyone that is warm and cosy in and out of bed, she still finds it very difficult to allow you to approach her so we are just allowing her to find us when she feels the need.
 
She has a new friend in Fabian who is very attentive and cleans her and cuddles her most of the day while her sister is out and about exploring places with Lottie that she hasn't seen yet.
  
I would just like to thank you Ann for allowing us to have Beags girls, they are absolutely adorable in their own special ways and I promise they will have the best of everything just like the other 2.
 

Archie - now living with Abi

Just to let you know that Archie has made himself completely at home. He is friends with pretty much everyone – in fact he’s curled up asleep with Bill at the moment. He’s eating well and zooming around the place like a complete loon. He’s been spending the nights with me and has now found a new way to wake me up in the morning – biting my nose! He is now almost totally in charge of the house – he certainly hasn’t been at all fazed at finding himself in a houseful of Devons.

Ailish - Now living with Mo

Now called Buffy.  She is doing extremely well on the show bench, getting 1st and Best of Breed in the three shows she has been at. 

This is her critique from a recent show:- SPHYNX KITTEN: 1 &  BOB MACDONNELL’S NOBILERO AILISH MOGA (84 20) female. A composed lass who poses extremely well and shows herself off. Gentle rounding to skull between large ears which are wide at base, showing slight tufts, of good shape and set. Wrinkles to brow. High cheek bones with large lemon shaped eyes of good set having good width between. Gentle rounding to muzzle, showing slight amount of coat, a slight break to profile and level chin. Good size to body of good weight and feel, being firm and muscular, long slim legs with long toes and neat oval paws. Long tail of good shape. An absolute sweetie, with wonderful temperament – a gentle girl who handles well
 

Daphne, bringing joy to an older Devon boy


Dear Ann
Just to let you know that everything is going swimmingly now - Daphne is at the heart of the family; Berli has his sparkle back and everything is good.  They play together all the time - chasing one another around the house and pouncing etc.  They have a very good time. 
Just wanted to let you know.  I will try and get a decent picture of them together to show you - more difficult than you would think!
Hope all is well with you.
Love, Jane


Hi Ann
Daphne is such a joy - loves her cuddles - she and Berli have met face to face  now, but only just, and they played around together last night - Berli is still being a bit of a wimp and is slightly scared of her when she runs after him.  But I think we are on our way .... I left for work this morning  with Berli asking to be let in to the room she is bounding around in.  Charles and Tom are in during the day to keep her company - they're both doing mostly night work at the moment

Draco and George

The boys are doing really well. Completely nutty of course, but very very sweet. They're just wolfing down a bit of mince now, and then I suspect they'll be off for their currently favourite game of chasing each other up and down (& up and down...) the stairs!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi Ann,

 
Yes, I can imagine why your house seems a lot quieter now! I now finally understand the descriptions of Devon Rexes that we had read about, because previously we had only seen them in their fairly quiet mode. I don't think we could ever get bored watching these two; they're always doing something crazy! It's a lovely mixture though, that they'll be boucing off the walls (almost literally), but then rush over for a hug and a cuddle. We've noticed also that while Draco likes to be independent while chasing the bit of string that you're flicking about for him, George likes to sit on us and play from there. They must have worn themselves out in the day though, because about 8:30 or 9 they just passed out on our laps. We got the webcam working so we could show my brother and my Mum, and both Draco and George were curled up on my lap at the computer, but they could barely lift their heads enough to look at it!
 
I can understand you blubbing into the keyboard; I was almost crying when I wrote the last email at the thought of you having to give up your cats!

 

 

Cluas and Fergus

Cluas and Fergus, now living the good life with Jackie and Simon - these lucky boys have a canine companion, Oscar, plus a rat to while away the day!!!

 

Cluas - now called Rafferty, looking pensive. 

 

 

              Fergus preparing to pounce - hopefully not on the rat.

Harriet - now living with Agnieszka, her husband and Konstanty her son

Here is our beautiful Harriet in her new home in Warsaw, Poland.  Her new owner, Agnieszka collected her from Birmingham Airport on 17th July 2008.  Here are her comments:-

Today she was sleeping half night with me and I am very happy of that. Now she sleep with Emir Elf on her pillow from Your home. She likes this pillw and I happy that she has something from familly home.

Do You remember I was afraid of her interactions with Adina. But she is more brave than her! really. Adina must pass and give in:)

She has melt with all familly very well. It is very important to me. And I am so happy!  She obviously came from a very good home to be so confident and happy.

 From Mary Weston who snatched Becci and Daithi!!

How wonderful it is to have Devon Rex in the house once more.  Daithi and Becci are two of the cutest little bundles of fun I could have wished for, thanks to Ann and the charming Eoghan.  After watching the kittens interacting with their two Wolfies I realized that Kofi, our German Shepherd, would be a walk over for them both.  Becci surprised me by leaping onto Medhbh’s back, but Ann explained she often cadges a lift that way.  It was a real joy to watch two big Wolfies being so gentle and caring of cats and kittens.

Back home in Sheffield they became Jasmine and Bertie, and I am pleased to say made the transition from one home to another with the greatest of ease.  I am sure it helped having each other for company. 

One week on and they are so completely relaxed with Kofi that the three of them were lying together in the sun this morning.   Lilee, our fourteen year old British Blue, took a little longer to relax and avoided them until she realized that meal times come around much faster for two little kittens.

I am so grateful to Ann for agreeing to let me have Jasmine for breeding.  I also appreciated her honest assessment of the kittens and it was very clear that though she loves her animals to bits, she is able to take off her rose colour spectacles when she is assessing her cats show qualities.  I wanted a male as a neutered companion for the female and wasn’t planning to show him, but then I didn’t expect such a handsome little fellow as Bertie.  I am planning to give them there first outing in October.  I felt so much at ease with Ann and Eoghan that I invited them to stay with us for the weekend of the show, but later Ann realized it clashed with a TICA show she wants to attend in Weston, so that pleasure will wait for now.

 

Aine - Stolen by Helen, Martin and Molly

Thankyou so much for allowing Aine to move to Cumbria and live with us.
 She is so gentle but lots of fun and cuddly all in one bundle of love. She is much better behaved than Boris was, we have had no breakages yet, but I would not like to speak too soon.
Molly loves having a kitten but prefers her not to try to play with her tiny mice, unfortunately lots of mice bought for Pinky Porridge have now being adopted into the tiny mice family so it is rather confusing for a kitten! Pinky pretends she is a penguin or a mouse and blends in with the background at times, as you can see from the photos. Pinky Porridge has even made a guest appearance on the school white board.
The others have being rather jealous and have hissed more than we can remember but Pinky has stood up to them and given as good as she has got then she stalks off and waits to ambush them round the next corner.
This week we have had our first rex pile, so things are getting back to normal.

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