Dellavale Scottish Cats

09/10/2024

This week I rehomed three of my breeding cats. I had the most beautiful litters from all three of them. Two went to retire at local pet homes (a close friend and a former client home) and one went to a fellow breeder I now consider a dear friend.
The thing I didn’t realise about breeding before I started is that I’d end up with cats I really loved that I wouldn’t have the capacity to keep forever.

I knew I would need to rehome them eventually, I just didn’t expect to find three absolutely perfect homes at the exact same time (the black harlequin for example, I have been trying to find the right home for several months now). I don’t really know what the purpose of this post is other than to vent some emotions I guess. It really takes me back to Cat Breeding for Beginners philosophy that breeding cats are not pet cats. We can love on them like pet cats all we want, but the sad reality is, they aren’t. One reason being is that we can’t keep all of them all their lives, as we would our pet cats.

19/09/2024

Hello everybody, 🐾💗

I just wanted to let you know that for personal reasons, I’ve discontinued breeding for the foreseeable future. I think my line was extremely unique to Australia and I loved my program very much. We had five litters over three years and I’m extremely proud of the 21 kittens and cats we were able to produce for loving families. Plus the three kittens that grew their wings early from Daphne’s cesarean litter. I’m going to be mostly quiet on this account from now on but for clients who have purchased kittens from me please know you have my support for life. The best place to contact me is via my personal page Hayley Mascali (you’re welcome to send me a friend request) or my phone number 0421 547 550 (text or whatsapp is preferred).

For anyone looking for quality folds, we have some great breeders right here in Queensland:
- Emma Leahy at Emzdollz Ragdolls and Scottish folds
- The Glabonski’s at Birchfield British Shorthairs
- Nicky Furguson at Rubenesque. Nicky is a new breeder but very passionate to get it right. She has her first fully chocolate & lilac litter due very soon.
- Also can’t forget Debbie Rowsell at Bluebella Scottish Fold Kittens (although she’s in NSW but breeds very beautiful folds)

24/07/2024

😻 Pamela is such a ball of fun and positive energy and it was so great to meet her finally

Part of the fun of having something as amazing as my New Cat Breeders Club is meeting some of members. This is Hayley. She was at the Cat Gala Show in Tasmania.
She is making amazing progress with her breeding and has also been a member of the month. So proud of her.
Want non-judgmental help with your breeding hobby? I have members from around the world, all different breeds, all at different stages in their breeding hobby.
Let me help you too. Link in the comments ⤵️

23/07/2024

Dellavale Clara Bow aka Lola was such a good girl this weekend at the International Cat Gala Show in Hobart.

On day one she was judged by celebrity judge Steven Meserve. Steven judges each cat by breed and then chooses his top 10 favourite cats for a beauty pageant at the end of the day. Lola made it to the pageant and was awarded 6th best in show (out of 90 - 100 exhibits) 🥰. Pamela Lanegan (who has provided me so much support and mentorship over the past two years) got first place with her British Shorthair Herbert (check out his winning moment on the Cuddleton British Shorthairs page, he’s such an incredible cat 🥰).

Day two of the Gala was a more traditional format whereby the cats are judged by class in rings (kittens, entires, desexed and domestics). Lola was judged in the kitten class and received reserve (second place) by judges Erin Brown (QLD) and Vickie shields (USA). To my absolute surprise, at the very end of the event, Lola was called back up on stage where Vickie Shields awarded Lola as her overall third best in show 😭.

19/07/2024

Loly bol and I have arrived safely and soundly to our adorable little cottage in Hobart 🏡😻. Follow our stories mostly on my cat page as we document all the fun (and mishaps😅) from the International Cat Gala show over the weekend.

18/07/2024

Tomorrow my kitten & I travel from Brisbane to Hobart to attend our first big international show. It’s taken alot of stressful preparation to pull this off. In saying that, I wanted to share this cute little passage from an autobiographical book I’ve been reading called “Let sleeping vets lie” by Dr. James Harriott. In one chapter he talks about his experience as a show judge; and a particular story, to the dismay of every other exhibitor, where he awards the first prize to a little boy and his goldfish, based on the boys impressive knowledge about the goldfish and the tanks presentation. I think it’s a wholesome little story and a good reminder when attending these shows to not take the results too personally, especially if it’s far from what you were hoping for. I’m not hoping to win anything, but learn something new and having fun 🧡

12/07/2024

Captain Patches is going for a trial at a new home this evening. I’m actually feeling really sad about it now 😪. Patches is my most affectionate cat. He’s been glued to my lap all day, almost like he knows. If I wasn’t breeding and I could only keep 1-2 cats as pets, he would be one of them. Rehoming retirees is by far the sh*ttiest thing about this hobby.

I know I’ve said this before - but I promised myself before I started, as part of my breeding ethos, that I would not find myself in a situation where i’m hoarding cats. The cats deserve so much better than that.

Positively, his new mum Lynette seems absolutely beautiful and so devoted to him already. I’m really thankful to have found her and I really hope that it goes well. 🩵

Pictures: patches at four weeks verse 15 months.

12/07/2024

Cookie is my beautiful (only) stud at the moment. He’s a pedigree British Shorthair - chocolate bicolour carrying cinnamon. I was really lucky to have another breeder entrust me with him last year 🥺. For those that don’t know - breeding male cats are very prone to Urinary spraying (and the smell is very powerful) and are housed appropriately in areas we call stud quarters.

Cookie lives in a little A-frame house which attaches to his own balcony and then an outdoor catio. Having single walls his house didn’t have any proper insulation. We put an “Eglu Cube” by .au in his there so he can stay cosy and warm as it’s been getting down to almost 0 at night in Jimboomba. We got the middle sized cube which has two rooms and we put woollen blankets in the smaller room. The eglu is expensive but it’s fully insulated for both winter and summer (in summer you can add frozen bedding) and the best part is it’s plastic and has a removable sliding drawer bottom, so super easy to hose and clean out. This is in no way a sponsored post, but just a product I really recommend for stud owners as it took me a really long time to find the most practical way to house my stud comfortably all year round.

09/07/2024

Less than two weeks until my kitten & I head to Hobart to see & attend the National Gala show. Being our very first show, the lovely Cosette from the Tasmanian Feline Association, made me some beautiful velvet curtains in baby pink, with a minky cuddle soft donut (as it’s going to be cold) with a diamanté to finish it off 🥺. We’ve had the best experience with TFA so far, and are so excited to be going to meet them. Oh and we get to meet Pamela from too (who has helped me out tremendously with mentorship over the last two years) ✈️ 💗🐱

07/07/2024

My darling Captain Fitzpatrick aka “Patches” is a still looking for his forever home. I had kept him back for my breeding program but decided he deserves to live a life as a spoilt pet. He is the most affectionate cat you will ever meet: loves to be cradled like a baby, will follow you everywhere, will sleep on your lap, smooch your face (to the point it’s borderline annoying 😹). He’s gentle and never hisses at cats unknown to him. He would be a joy to leash train as his father and siblings have been. He would be fantastic with kids (the more attention the better). My veterinarian refers to him as a friendly little puppy dog. He has an anatomically small left tearduct which is common in his breed. It doesn’t cause him any pain it just means his eye needs wiping with a damp cloth daily. He is a 16-month-old Pedigree Scottish Longhair (non-fold gene carrier). His mother Ivy was imported from Russia and his father Indigo was imported from Belarus. I would ideally like to find him a home in Brisbane or surrounds but open to travel if it’s the right family. He is extremely dear to me but deserves more one-on-one attention than I can give 🥺.

He comes:
- with a pedigree certificate.
- desexing certificate.
- recent flea & worming.
- up to date vaccination certificate.
- microchipped.
- with two easy to use grooming tools.
- recently professionally groomed.

*I’ll add some videos to the comments as they can’t be added to a photo post.

03/07/2024

We had the sweetest delivery today. Home made ceramic Scottish fold dishes made by the lovely Nicky from Rubenesque Scottish folds. Nicky is also new to the cat fancy, passionate about Scottish cats and has some brilliant starter cats ready for her first season later this year 🥰. She will have some beautiful chocolate Scottish and British longhair litters coming up. I am so excited for her program. Make sure you give her Rubenesque page a follow. Thankyou so much Nicky 🤎🤎🤎

03/07/2024

Loly boly had her first bath today - thanks again Julie at 💗

30/06/2024

“Dellavale Butterscotch” aka Toffee.
A follower recommended Butterscotch as his pedigree name and I thought it was a cute play on words as he’s a Scottish Shorthair.
Longhair carrier.
Colour: Lilac mackerel tabby. Very high chance he’s a cinnamon carrier due to his warm fawn appearance (his father carries cinnamon).
I think he would be beautiful for someone’s breeding program or to a show home.
Perfect bicolour marking on face and four white socks.
Sweetest expression, small ears, large breadth of chest, floppy personality.
Still finding it really hard to desex him as he’s officially Ivy’s last child (precious Kindlycat line). 🥺 he’s got her baby-face too.
If I had his pedigree back in time he would have been coming with Lola and I to Tasmania as well 🥺🥰.

27/06/2024

We are so excited 🐾🩵

12/06/2024

The Pedigree Certificate’s arrived today for:
- Maple
- Meeka
- Basil
- Argenti
- Maisey
I will laminate them and post them to you all on Monday. I’m excited for you to see their family tree’s 🌳 😊

11/06/2024

My darling gentle boy Captain Fitzpatrick aka Patches had his first professional groom today by Julie at You Had Me At Meow- Bald Hills in Brisbane (highly recommend). He’s soft as a bunny and smells like a dream 🥹💗. I’ve been told he was a very good boy for his first time.