Mittenstar Ragdolls of Michigan

09/09/2024

I am sitting here with my Ragdolls tonight, sitting at my feet, in my lap, next to me - feeling very grateful. Thank you to everyone who reached out to me this weekend after the things that I shared. It was really difficult to be the one to break the silence on this issue, I was a nervous wreck at points. And the messages I received in support really meant a lot to me.

I refuse to live in fear. I will stand by what I've said and done. I try to live with integrity and honesty - I am not perfect and life doesn't always go to plan lol!! But I really do a lot to be fair to myself and those around me, and I place a lot of value in people who do the same.

To my breeder friends - you know who you are, and I appreciate you so much. 🙂

To all my Mittenstar Families - thank you so much for trusting me as your breeder. I love the stories I get back of our kittens, even the kittens who have now grown into gorgeous adults... they'll always be my kittens and it makes me so happy to know that each of our babies is in their forever home.

To all of our friends, followers, and my family who is on this page - thank you for your support!! I wake up feeling pretty darn blessed every day for being able to be a kitten wrangling, litter scooping, Ragdoll loving momma to all these cats - and the support of the people around me, whether it's just a like on a post, a kind comment, or talking to me excitedly about our cats in person - it means the world to me.

There is only one person here at Mittenstar running things behind the scenes lol!! My success and my failures are all my own. If my failures are failing to keep my mouth shut in the face of abuse and slander, especially involving really good friends of mine, then I think I can live with that. 🙂

I'm excited to go back to posting as normal, I already feel like a weight has been lifted off my chest!!

Everyone here is doing really well, and with fall coming on our house has been a great temperature, the kittens are thriving, and I'm doing some new techniques with them this season to try to encourage their personalities to be extra courageous!
Lots of kitten pics and stories to come ~

Loraine

(This pic is of baby Erie!! She looks more like a dainty porcelain doll than a Ragdoll to me! 😂🩷)

09/06/2024

𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐈 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲. 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐚𝐠𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐳𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚 (𝐋𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭).

In my opinion, this individual is dangerous. She hides behind anonymity—using fake names, profiles, and multiple online accounts—making it difficult for those she’s attacked to pursue legal action or defend themselves properly. No one knows her real name, real face, or real motives.

Grizzilla is not her real name. She is not a breeder, has never shown cats, nor has she participated in the cat fancy - yet she has created a platform and gossiped to so many breeders that she now has a network of blackmail with which she spreads lies, slander, and defamation against real, ethical breeders within our community.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 - 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. In my opinion, she is mentally unwell, abusive, and enjoys the drama she creates within our community.

I’ve seen the damage firsthand, and at first, I defended her - not realizing the extent to which she was harassing others or the depth of her lies until more recently, at which point *I left* the group. I was not banned, I voluntarily walked away.

Since leaving the group, my friends and I have been targeted by this person. She has sent me hateful, harassing emails, and it has gotten to the point where I’ve been afraid to share anything on my own platforms. Even though nothing I post has had anything to do with her, I fear it will trigger more harassment. What began as social media bickering over posts has spiraled into something far more toxic and damaging than I could have ever imagined.

Despite my attempts to take the high road and keep things private, the situation has only escalated. I’ve blocked over 20 different fake profiles, and many of my friends have experienced similar harassment. This isn’t an isolated incident - 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬. Unfortunately, platforms like Facebook have made it difficult to take similar action.

This has created a culture of fear in our community. Some breeders are afraid to speak out, fearing they will become the next target. Others, I believe, see this as an opportunity to tear down their competition and have happily joined in the blackmail and lies to ‘take down’ breeders who have been at the top. This culture of silence has allowed the abuse to thrive, and it’s something I can no longer ignore.

For anyone wondering why I left Ragdoll Connection, I want to be clear: I do not support the group or the toxic behavior of its admin. I have proof of everything I’ve shared, and I welcome anyone to reach out to me directly if you’d like to discuss this further. I stand by my friends - upstanding breeders who have always operated with transparency and fairness.

I feel like I have been drowning in fear, lies, and slander, and I can’t take it anymore. This post today wasn’t just because of my own experience, it comes as breeders I respect and look up to have been targeted, slandered, and blatantly lied about.

Again - these are just my own opinions, but I welcome people to message me for an honest discussion if you are so inclined. I’d encourage breeders within the community to stop and think critically before believing everything you hear - especially things that are completely one-sided, with cherry-picked ‘evidence’ that doesn’t tell the full story.

The images on this post are just a sampling of the harassment that has been ongoing. These are emails that she has sent from bizarrely named accounts. As you can see, I have even had to attach cease and desist letters in response to her escalating behavior. This is only a small portion of what I and others have been subjected to over the past several months, and it has been deeply disturbing to experience this level of harassment.

09/03/2024

I had a tech fail this weekend!! I uploaded all the Cocoa kittens, arranged their pictures, saved and backed up my web data… and apparently forgot to actually publish the website update!! 😅😅😅

Sorry to everyone who I was sending over to our website for updates, I just had a human moment lol! The Cocoa babies are all posted now (for real for real lol!!) as well as the Aurora babies having some candid photos of their own!! 😊 My projects this week are going to be getting ready for the adoption applications to open up for Aurora’s babies, and then getting the ‘official’ photos for Cocoa’s kittens as they turn six weeks this weekend ~

If you want to get in touch with me, please just send me an email! Feel free to reach out and introduce yourself, I’ve had a few people reach out to me wondering if it’s okay to do, and I love getting to know seriously interested people even before adoption applications go live. 😉💕 I am just so sorry that right now my response times to messages are a little more delayed, I have to prioritize spending time with babies, getting updates ready, and preparing for go-home week first! But I’m always happy to talk, just please be understanding that it might take me a bit to have the time to sit down and reply back. I want to give my emails and connections my full attention when I can!

Thanks everyone ~ 💕

08/31/2024

Introducing…

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐬!
(ᴍɪᴛᴛᴇɴsᴛᴀʀs ᴄᴏᴄᴏᴀ ᴄʜᴀɴᴇʟ x ᴄᴏᴛᴛᴏɴʙʟᴜᴇs ᴘɪᴄᴛᴜʀᴇᴘᴜʀʀғᴇᴄᴛ ɴɪᴋᴏɴ)

We have the girls:
- Party 🥳 Blue Bicolor
- Magic 🪄Seal Mitted

And the boys!
- Skittles 🍬 Blue Mitted w/blaze
- Candy Corn 💛 Blue Bicolor
- Gummi Worm 🍭 Blue Mitted w/blaze

They are 5 weeks old today, I thought it would be fun to get pics of them while they were playing, so these are a little more candid and colorful which I thought ‘fit’ them really well. Since these babies will be going home in October, I thought a Trick or Treat theme would be really cute for their baby names!! 🎃🧡⭐️

These kittens are so special to me - they are the very first Mittenstar Kittens from a Mittenstar girl! Their mother, Cocoa Chanel is one of our home bred girls! She has been an excellent first time mom, and I see so much of her in her babies! They all have the cutest expressions, Cocoa is a very charismatic cat, and I feel like all of her kittens have her bright eyed sweetness and curiosity. 🥰 They’ve been a wonderful litter to raise, they’re very tidy and neat, and they’re really outgoing and loving. Their grandmother is our foundation queen Willow, and I feel like her children (and now grandchildren!) just have wonderful personalities, they’re really silly and playful and outgoing. ❤️

Each kitten will be listed on our website tonight! 😊❤️

08/29/2024

Cocoa’s kittens are 4 weeks old and just starting to really enjoy eating kitten food! Of course there is always one kitten who would rather play than sit down for lunch 😉🩷🤣

I put a lot of work into our website last night - (the link is in our page bio!) our adult girls like Cocoa & Glimmer have their pictures updated - the kittens for Aurora’s pictures now have tidbits about each of their personalities, and today and tomorrow I will be working on getting baby pictures of the Cocoa kittens, and getting those water marked / uploaded / posted!! 😊⭐️ The names for the Cocoa Kittens and their litter theme has been posted to our website as well…. I’ll be announcing them by the weekend on social media too!!

I also have a super exciting announcement that I’ll be sharing next week……. I have something I’ve been working on and I can’t wait to show you guys 😉💕

08/28/2024

Oh - my heart!! 🩷

This little seal mitted girl is from Cocoa’s litter - and she looks so much like her Aunty Pink back when Pink was a baby!! 🩷 (Pink and Cocoa are both daughters of our foundation queen, Willow!)

If I keep her, it would mean I would need to retire Cocoa sooner than later… how’s a girl to decide?! I wish I could keep everyone but I also have to be realistic about my time and resources too 🥹

08/27/2024

It’s 11:11 pm as I’m writing this ~ the kittens say ‘make a wish!’ ⭐️

Seriously though haha, I would wish for more hours in a day if I could! I’m just sitting down for the night to cuddle kittens and try to work on finishing their personality sections on the website. Tomorrow - I’ll be responding to emails and messages!! Thank you everyone who has reached out and been patiently waiting, I’ll be getting back to you soon!

(Reminder that a lot of our FAQs, adoption process, sample contract, and what guarantees we offer are all outlined on our website! If you have questions please check our website too 😊 I love when people email me to introduce themselves, and I especially love when they mention that they already checked out a lot of the info on our website first! 😉❤️)

MittenstarRagdolls.com

08/25/2024

This was quite a week - our first boy, Spirit, was neutered about 2 months ago, as we planned for his retirement from breeding, and transition back into pet life.

Spirit is such an amazingly sweet and outgoing Ragdoll, he really has a total ‘vecro’ personality, he would follow me from room to room, and loved to sit together and make ‘happy biscuits’.

It was so important to me that he would go to a home that would cherish and love him, and I connected with Michele earlier this year. She has just been the best to work with, and it was like every time we talked, I felt more and more like it was just meant to be that we connected when we did. She was so patient while Spirit recovered from being neutered, and while we waited for his hormones to calm down.

The reality of this hobby is that there is no way for me to maintain a strong genetic variety while keeping *all* our cats. I must eventually retire and then rehome our breeding adults, and Spirit is our first retiree!

Now of course - life loves throwing surprises at us lol!! The very first day Spirit went home, he came down with a huge, swollen area on his shoulder. It happened very quickly between my house and hers - and as best we can figure, he must have been stung or bitten by a bee or insect that got into his carrier.

It was totally gone in the morning, and he just has a small, healing scab there now…

But I was like - what the heck is UP with things this summer?? 😂 I feel like random things have just been happening everywhere, that we couldn’t really plan or account for.

Otherwise though, Spirit has settled in so well! He has been surprisingly confident, relaxed, and happy with the transition. He’s been running up to greet everyone, making ‘happy biscuits’ with his paws, and sitting on laps for snuggle time. 🥹💕

His name now is Beaumont - or Beau for short - and Michele has been so awesome about sending pics and videos as he has settled in!! It has meant so much to me, it was very hard for my fiancé and I to say goodbye to this special boy - but seeing how very happy he is, and how much he is loved, I am so grateful and excited for him, and I wish him many many many happy years to come with his new family!!! 😊💕

Here are some of the update pics from his meowmy!! (Thank you again Michele for everything - you’re the best! 💕)

08/24/2024

I am so happy to officially introduce ~

𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝔾𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥 𝕃𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕤 𝕃𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣

ᴄʜ. ᴀᴜʀᴏʀᴀ ᴏғ ᴍɪᴛᴛᴇɴsᴛᴀʀs x ᴄᴏᴛᴛᴏɴʙʟᴜᴇs ᴘɪᴄᴛᴜʀᴇᴘᴜʀʀғᴇᴄᴛ ɴɪᴋᴏɴ

This is such a special litter to me, I was very excited to see the kittens Aurora and Nikon would have together, as I really felt like their personalities and strengths would complement each other! 💙

I knew this entire litter would be blue pointed and bicolor because both parents are, and when we realized we had five blue kittens on our hands…
We had to name them after the five Great Lakes that surround our home state! 😉💙🌊

The kittens each have two pics posted here and they should each be labeled with their names!!

Introducing:
Baby Huron (boy)
Baby Ontario (boy)
Baby Superior (boy)
Baby Erie (girl)
Baby Michigan (girl)

Our website has also been updated with their pictures and information!! 💙

MittenstarRagdolls.com

08/23/2024

Sneak peek!! 👀💙

(Aurora and Nikon’s kittens will be put on our website tonight, and announced on social media tomorrow! This is one of their blue bicolor boys, we’ve been calling him ‘Ontario’… anyone able to guess what their litter theme will be?? 😉)

08/23/2024

These were our first two boys to go home from our summertime litter with Katarina x Nikon - and these are pics from their families as they settled in at home!!

On the left is Ciabatta - and they actually kept his bakery name! 🥐❤️
(His meowmy has sent me a ton of cute pics of Ciabatta since he went home, I’ll have to make another post with all of them, he is sooo cute!!!)

And on the right is Rye - who now is named Charlie (from the aeronautical alphabet, their other cats are Echo and Zulu, I think it’s so cute lol!) ❤️✈️

Thank you Sarah & Trisha for the updates on the boys! 😊❤️❤️❤️

08/20/2024

Oh my gosh - I forgot to post the photoshoots for the Katarina and Elsie kittens!!

Out of 11 kittens, I only did final photoshoots for 9 of them - Rye (now named Charlie!) and Ciabatta were by far the biggest kittens and were fixed first and went home first - and it wasn’t until they left that I realized I hadn’t done a final photoshoot! I was sending out candids to all our adopting families leading up to go-home - but I just forgot to set them up for a formal photoshoot. 😅📸

So I immediately took pics of everyone else!

It’s been a lot this summer, I’ve been dealing with more scammers than every trying to steal our photos, so I am making a more aggressive effort to watermark all pictures before posting - but even being fairly tech savvy, it takes more time than you’d expect to go through, watermark and then save each one before posting it, so it was something I kept thinking about, but didn’t set aside the time to do until last night.

This was a very busy and challenging summer, but I really had such a good time with these kittens. I miss them so much already, seeing their personalities shining through is why I love taking pics right before they go home - it’s nice for me to have a little snapshot of them too! 🥹🩷

Here we have Shortcake (now Josie Kate!), Madeleine (now Daisy!), Marmalade (now Amos!), Eclair (now Claire!), Pita (now Ladrian!), Biscotti (now Kedzie!), Orange Juice (now Ryu!), Brioche (now Sophia!), and Clementine… who I still call Clementine lol!!

I’ll share update pictures of Ciabatta and Rye tomorrow! 😊🩷

08/19/2024

The hardest thing about breeding… that not enough of us talk about… is how hard it is to leave bed on Monday morning 😫😉❤️

I wake up a little early now so I can snuggle with the dolls before getting up! 🤭💕

This is Clementine, my blue point bicolor keeper kitten from Elsie and Nikon’s litter this summer ~

08/18/2024

here with our very special announcement!! 🩷🎉
After 496 days of FIP treatment, two relapses, and 12 weeks of being off all medications during ‘observation’ - our baby Pink Drink is CURED!!
🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

As many of you know, Pink is from our very first Mittenstar litter, and after a bad vaccine reaction, came down with a rare mutated illness called Feline Infectious Peritonitis when she was only 16 weeks old - and was a rare case where her immune system had a resistance to the standard medication used for this illness.

Thankfully here in 2024 we were able to trial a new anti-viral for her, which she responded to amazingly! 🩷

I can hardly believe after all this time that we are finally able to celebrate her full recovery and remission. She has fought through so much to make it to this day - just a couple of weeks before her 2nd birthday! The harrowing things we have been through in this journey are too much for me to think about right now - I just want to celebrate how far she has come and how beautiful and healthy she is today! 🍓🩷✨

Thank you to everyone who has sent her prayers, well wishes, and love!! There were so many difficult nights when we were on the brink of losing her, and I don’t know how to put into words how much I appreciate the breeders who reached out to me with information, help, and encouragement- how much I appreciate the friendships I’ve made through social media who have followed and supported our journey this whole time, I know many of you are here now from our FIP support groups as well!! Thank you thank you thank you ~

I kept saying that 2024 would be PINK’S YEAR - and here we are!!!
🩷🎉✨🩷🎉✨🩷🎉✨

Pink is CURED and we are never, ever looking back!!! 😊🩷

(- Please know that FIP is *not* contagious, Pink is the best ‘big sister’ to all our mittenstar kittens and is perfectly safe to be around them.
Pink has been spayed and will remain our treasured pet for her whole life! We have a featured post on our Facebook detailing Pink’s journey, along with sources and educational info about FIP if you’re looking to learn more - there would be too much for me to fit here if I were to lay out all the details lol! Please know there IS hope possible for this rare illness, even in the most complex of cases!! 🩷 If you need help, please reach out!)

08/17/2024

Happy Caturday!! 🐾🩷
I have a super-exciting announcement that I’ll be sharing tomorrow - stay tuned!! 😉💕✨

I know I haven’t been as active the last week on social media or our website, sometimes it’s a lot to sit down, water mark pictures, and creatively write out posts or create videos! My creative side was a little burnt out - and both of my younger siblings have birthdays here in August, so they stayed with me over the last week and we had so much fun with all the cats and kittens, they were great helpers lol!! But my mind wasn’t as focused on creating posts and pictures for the ‘gram 🫣😂

Our fall kittens are doing well and everyone has their eyes open now ~ I’ll be working on getting baby pictures ready!!

For now, this is one of Cocoa’s mitted boys - I think he will be a Blue Pointed Mitted with an adorable blaze that goes up his face! 😳💕 The Cocoa babies are juuuust becoming aware of the world around them, and are getting used to me lifting them up and holding them for kisses ~ we’ve also picked out names for everyone… but I’ll save those for when I have everyone’s baby pictures ready!! 😉

So!! Lots of updates to come ~ we have some very cute lil mittenstars here and I’m very excited to share them with you all!

08/07/2024

TICA Champion, 2024 GL Region Best Seal Point Ragdoll of the Year, and now ‘Grammie’
Willowisp of Mittenstars 🥹🩷

She loves her grandkittens so much, I swear this is the happiest I have ever seen her! 😂💕

08/06/2024

Look at this tiny face! 😂🥹❤️

This is Aurora and Nikon’s red collar boy, he was being so cute while my fiancé held him. Baby boy relaxed so much that he was falling asleep being held, and was resting his little kitten chin on his hand lol ~

08/04/2024

The cream brothers Marmalade and Orange Juice are actually going home together, so I tried to take pictures of them as a pair for their family… and it was a bit of a disaster LOL!!!!

They were SO excited by the photoshoot props and their ribbons I couldn’t get them to focus or stay in frame together 🤣🧡

But looking back these wound up being some of my favorite pictures, you can see how much fun they’re having! Sometimes the candid pictures and the motion blur is where the real memories are ~ 🧡🍊🥂

08/01/2024

Supurr-meowdle Biscotti was being sooo sweet this afternoon, I was sitting with the kittens doing some paperwork and had this blanket in my lap, she crawled right up for a snuggle and looked so cute with those big blue eyes 🥹💙

I knew Nikon and Katarina would have really classically beautiful babies together, but my goodness I have just loved this first litter of theirs ~ their babies are so outgoing and bright and adorable!!

08/01/2024

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WARNING!!!! A fellow breeder has posted a warning on this product!! Her 5 month old kitten was tragically killed in one of these litter boxes. The kitten had only been in its new home 5 days, the owner left the kitten alone for two hours and returned to find the kitten trapped under the scoop. The poor baby suffocated in the litter. Plus in the reviews, a 2 year old cat was also killed in this litter box.
DO NOT USE THIS PRODUCT!!

07/28/2024

Beautiful baby Eclair ~ 🥹❤️
Did you know that technically these kinds of unique markings are called ‘mismarks’ in the cat hobby? I kind of dislike the term since all it means is that the color pattern filled in uniquely!

As a breeder we have a ‘standard’ we strive for, but sometimes Mother Nature has her own artistic vision for each kitten ~ 😉🎨🖌️

Mismarks are always some of my favorites, and I think Eclair’s dark little coffee colored nose stands out so cutely among all her pink nosed siblings! They’re all purrfect, I just love when we get an interesting splash of color on one of the kittens ~ 🌈

07/27/2024

Enjoyed a beautiful summer evening with my baby Pink! 🩷
(Pink is my keeper kitten from our very first Mittenstar litter ~ )

At a 1.5 years old and 12 lbs (5.4 kg) she is a bit harder to hold with just one arm for selfies, but she knows to hold onto me and balance so we still manage 😂🩷

07/24/2024

So… I’ve been keeping a little secret... or rather, a few little secrets. 👀😅❤️

I didn’t announce the birth of these little ones right away because I wanted to… needed to have this newborn stage all to myself. 🥹

The last couple of kitten seasons it has felt like as soon as I announce them to the world, it begins this ‘rush’ of excitement and messages and people demanding to see more of them, and it adds a lot of pressure as I am trying to respond to everyone and take pictures and send out updates. Which I totally understand hahaha, it is an exciting time and newborn babies are adorable, but this time I just really wanted to slow down and be able to enjoy this really precious time before telling the world all about them. ❤️

The past two weeks have been wonderful, filled with newborn cuddles and watching these little ones grow. My soul feels very renewed after all the time I’ve been able to spend just cuddled up and watching them, kissing their little faces and paws, and loving them to bits!!

They’ve just started to crawl, recognize my voice, and love tummy tickles.

These kittens are Aurora and Nikon’s, we have two sweet girls and three chubby boys!! 😉❤️ They’re perfect as can be, but they’re still very small, so I’ll have more kitten updates to come ~

07/24/2024

Baby Marmalade! 🧡🍊🍰

It’s hard to see from the front, but his peachy- cream colored points are coming in on the backs of his ears and his tail. 🥹🧡

He has such a sweet little ‘elf’ face, he’s like a little pixie. His eye is pretty much all better, and he was being so sweet and sassy tonight lol! I loved this look he gave me as I was getting pictures for his meowmy 😂🧡

07/21/2024

Our boy Nikon spent the night sleeping in our room and snuggling with his kiddos 🥹❤️ I try and rotate which adults get to sleep with us and the kittens (and Pink, because she always sleeps with me!), and Nikon was soooo sweet last night! He spent a lot of time grooming his children and then snuggled up with them. Late at night he moved up onto my fiancés pillow and slept curled up there too ❤️

This pic is Nikon with his son baby Rye!!

07/20/2024

𝔾𝕚𝕧𝕖 ‘𝕖𝕞 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕠𝕝𝕕 𝕣𝕒𝕫𝕫𝕝𝕖-𝕕𝕒𝕫𝕫𝕝𝕖
🎵🤗❤️

I had to share this shot of baby Pita, he was sitting like this for a good minute just posing for me! I was laughing so hard when he stuck his little foot out and looked at me, it was so sassy! 😂

07/19/2024

Here are (most of!) the kittens, I was taking pics for our kitten families and wanted to share some of my favorite shots of each baby ~ 🩷

The only one I didn’t think to get a picture of… is Clementine!! Because she’s staying with me, I just was so focused on getting pics of everyone to send to their families, I didn’t think about the girl I am keeping myself 😅 She was in the mix in the background with a couple of pictures, but I’ll have to set aside some time to snap some of her this weekend so I have my own kitten pics too 😂📸🩷

I also wanted to share baby Marmalade, his eye is mostly healed, just a little irritation left. Even with fast healing kittens, these things can take time to fully heal. We actually had one other kitten take a while to heal from something similar back with our Queen Aurora last year in her first litter, baby Bunny! She wound up just fine as well, and again I was very open about it with everyone and the home she went to.

I think the hallmark of breeding isn’t that things *never* happen- because this just isn’t realistic. It’s how we respond to it, and I always try to be honest with our kitten families, rather than hiding something away until it’s better. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I had a bit of flack (as always!) from some other breeders for sharing my ‘sick’ kitten haha - and that’s alright. Marmalade isn’t sick, and neither are his bright eyed, bushy tailed siblings. I’ll address it here and move on. ☺️ I can sleep well at night knowing my kittens are loved, real, and the homes they’re going trust me, which is enough for me!

07/14/2024

I try not to be in any way religious or political on my cattery page, and just keep things focused on the cats and kittens. However, this Sunday I do feel like I really need to give credit where credit is due.

As many of you know, our kitten from our very first Mittenstar litter, Pink, has battled an aggressive immune disease, FIP, virtually her entire life. She came down with a very aggressive form of neurological FIP that became resistant to treatment. After multiple antiviral medicines, multiple relapses into illness, and 496 days of treatment - she has been off of her medication for 50 days as of today, and in just another 30 days of ‘observation’ with no relapses, we can officially call her cured!!

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve prayed for her, however, the first night I realized what was wrong with her, the day before we got connected and started her on medication, I was terrified. My fiancé and I were beside ourselves, crying and holding her. We hadn’t yet talked with any FIP specialists, and thought that our only option was to put her down. I whispered that I thought we should pray for her, together, so we bent our heads and I asked for the wisdom to know what to do, and that if there was any way of saving her, to please be shown what to do. She was so weak but she snuggled between us and purred, and purred, and purred, and we cried seeing her strength and love through all the pain she was in.

Within 24 hours it turned out a co-workers sister in our area had vials of the experimental medication needed, and could help us start her right away. Pink was so young, small, and weak, that time was of the essence, and we picked up her medication at nearly midnight as soon as we made that connection. In many ways, the timing and what has unfolded since have felt like small miracle after small miracle. Everything I have is thanks to God responding to a prayer of mine in some way, and I wouldn’t be the person I am today without the difficulties I prayed to understand and survive at points. Pink and I would not have the incredible relationship we do now had she not gone through what she has.

I don’t have all the answers to life, I think there are plans beyond our human understanding unfolding to bring awareness and peace to the world, but there have been so many cycles of war and strife and conflict, that we must rise above.

I have begun to pray every day for peace and healing, not just for myself, or for Pink, but for our whole world.

This Sunday, no matter what you believe, I hope you can hold a place in your heart for peace.

Heavenly Father, thank you for what you’ve blessed us with. Thank you for my cats, for Pink and her amazing health, and for guiding our steps in her path to healing. Please be with all of us, your children around the world, that we might learn to be kind to one another and to our Earth.

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I hope all of our family, friends and followers have a safe, beautiful, and restful Sunday.