ByMySide British Shorthairs

20/11/2017

Look who is in the latest Kmart catalogue, modelling a Santa's elf costume... it's our very own, homebred, Dusk-kitten!!

(*The Greatest Christmas on Earth* catalogue, page 31, for all those playing at home.

20/11/2017

One of Barney's grandkids is available!!

If interested, please contact Kylie at Blueprints British Shorthair in Bundaberg. Flights can be arranged.

02/11/2017

OK, I think everyone has a home now, with a local family coming to meet Fred early next week, and pending an issue with Scouts new home.

If anything changes, I will let you all know here first. :)

Thank you everyone who had expressed interest in my cats an kittens. I actually ended up with over 100 enquiries to sift through, and am sad many amazing homes missed out at this time. :(

31/10/2017

Just an update: All 4 of the female kittens are reserved. Both boys - Kit (black boy), and Fred (red boy) are still currently available.

I will be going through the people who have expressed interest in the adults today, to decide which homes would be most suitable for each one.

30/10/2017

Adults for rehome

29/10/2017

For those interested in photos of the adults, I will take pics of them, and post tomorrow. :)

29/10/2017

Cookie x Jasper litter.

29/10/2017

Hi guys,

Unfortunately my life has changed dramatically of late, with my husband and I separating a few months back.

Because of this, I am required to drastically reduce numbers here, and am looking for homes for many of my adults.

Our adult BSH are free to the very best of homes, and will be desexed by us before leaving.

We also have a few kittens in our Cookie X Jasper litter still looking for their forever homes ($1500 each desexed), ready in 2 weeks time (currently 10 weeks old).

Please do inbox us, or email [email protected] for more information.

22/08/2017

Look at these wee beauties Cookie and Jasper welcomed over the weekend.

2 boys (red, black), and 4 girls.

12/08/2017

Just 1 more week Cookie. So over this pregnancy business, she is. :)

01/08/2017

For those who have been asking, our next litter is due around 3 weeks time - mid to late August - from Cookie.

This is mother Cookies first litter, as is also from our young blue stud, Jasper.

Possible colours of babies: Red, cream, black, blue, chocolate, lilac, black tortie, blue tortie, chocolate tortie, and lilac tortie.

Kittens will be announced here on the page, once they have safely arrived.

28/06/2017

Baby "Dusk" aka BYMYSIDE SUNSET ON SUMMER* is now 16 weeks old. She's had a busy afternoon playing by herself with her mouse toy.

Dusk is a Barney x Ottilie baby.

14/06/2017

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06/05/2017

Little one thinks she is "helping" my daughter Lara play Pet Rescue, when she reaches out her paw to touch the screen on the tablet. 😻

09/04/2017

Baby tri-colour girl, now 5 weeks old.

23/03/2017

We've been hiding a cute little secret from you all. This little cutie of Ottilie's was born on March 1st.

At this stage we are watching her to see how she grows, and hope she will stay. We are retiring her Dad Barney, and if she does not stay, we will no longer have any bi-colour Brits!

This little one is a blue-tortie bi-colour, aka tri-colour, a colour/pattern we have never bred before, so she is pretty special to us.

16/12/2016

Pretty Tiptoe the blue-tortie, and her sisters Sachi & Daisy, as well as their brother, Scout, our handsome stud, celebrated their 2nd b'day last week.

They are Tabitha x James babies. :)

🎉🎉 Happy 2nd Birthday 🎉🎉
Daisy, Sachiko and Scout from your sister, Tiptoe (aka bricktoe 😉)

10/11/2016

Hi all!

I'm doing a HUGE e-mail reply today. This time of year I am CRAZY-busy with stuff for my kids, and don't get as much spare time to actually reply to people.

I just wanted to remind people that we will not be expecting anymore kitten until Jan-Feb at the earliest. The weather has been a tad cool here of late, and no calling girls!

Anyway, just wanted to say sorry to all those I'm e-mailing - we get around 30-40 e-mail/Facebook enquiries a week, more around Christmas!

No we do not allow people who make enquiries to come visit our home to meet the cats - that would be over 100 people visiting each month. That has the potential to bring in so much disease, something we do not want in our home - remember our cats & kittens live in our home with us. Not to mention that we simply don't have the time.

We do allow people who are lucky enough to adopt a kitten from us to visit, once the kittens have had their first vaccination at 8 weeks of age though, should they choose to make the trek out to lil ol' Hamilton.

Also, we do not keep a waiting list for a few reasons:

1. When we did, some people who we thought were loyal, ended up deciding to buy elsewhere, and not let us know. In the mean time, we turned away many very suitable potential homes.
2. We might never breed the desired colour/sex kitten you want, and I would personally feel HORRIBLE! I don't enjoy letting people down.
3. We breed many different colours & sexes of kittens. If you are looking for a blue, we don't often breed many. There are breeders who breed nothing but blue, and you will likely have far less of a wait for a kitten from them.
4. We don't actually breed that many kittens. In 2015, we bred a total of 4 kittens, over 2 litters. In 2016, we will have bred 0 kittens. We hope to have more litters in 2017, but we are basically waiting until the Daniel Andrews government decides to do after their enquiry into the puppy-farm bill, with findings due to be released next month.
5. We don't want to force people to put down a deposit to join a waiting list. We only require non-refundable deposits on actual kittens who have been born, and not until they are 6-8 weeks of age, once we have decided who we wish to keep.

I hope this helps answer questions we are most often asked, in more detail.