Templebar Burmese

01/01/2025

31/12/2024

While Templebar Burmese breeds to the TICA standard that includes more colours than CFA, this is a very desirable type and temperament

22/12/2024

Godiva moved to her new home yesterday, so today, the sable side of the family are gathering around Guinness to make him feel their love ❤️

18/12/2024

Two beautiful brothers representing the family at shows on different continents ❤️

Templebar Feisty Farinelli (sable) and Templebar Falco Blues (blue)

01/12/2024

Shhhhhhh - please don't tell Jools she's right next to Candy, who's super dangerous! 🤣🤣

01/12/2024

Even though Grandma's not happy to let her go, Godiva's still looking for a 10 ✨️✨️ pet home in about a month 🥰

28/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving to Templebar Burmese's American friends

27/11/2024

I have now added digital Burmese and Bombay placemats to my Etsy shop. They can be used for both humans and pets and downloaded in seconds.

The file can then be uploaded to your local printshop that offers placemats, making the whole process much cheaper

21/11/2024

Who says girls play fair? 🤣🤣 Mother and daughter battling for the win

20/11/2024

The sweetest Candy that even your dentist would allow you to enjoy 🥰🥰

20/11/2024

New photos of Godiva, who's still looking for that 10 star pet home 🥰

17/11/2024

I have now added Christmas cards featuring sable, chocolate, lilac and blue Burmese to my Etsy shop and there is also one for those who love Bombays

13/11/2024

Everybody, please meet Godiva ❤️

I had planned to keep her in the cattery, but she has some cosmetic faults that make her unsuitable for show and breeding.

She is therefore looking for a home that befits the granddaughter of a princess ✨️🐈‍⬛🥰

10/11/2024

Grandma's finally surrendered to the kittens' charms, so they now have two mothers, a favourite babysitter and a playmate 🥰🥰

What more can a 9 week old kitten want? 🥰

06/11/2024

When mum's been dumped in favour of the babysitter 🥰🥰

30/10/2024

While I do consider myself quite privileged with regard to the level of contact I have with kittens and their owners after they leave my house, this message still rings very true:

💕Your Responsibility to your Breeder💕
We talk a lot about what a good breeder is expected to do for you. We require them to health test their breeding cats, guarantee the health and temperament of each kitten, be there for you 24/7 for up to 18 years — longer than most other relationships you are likely to have in your life.
We haven’t really talked about your responsibilities to your breeder.
I have done a lot of thinking. Breeders tend to be very private people. They don’t tell you about the three weeks they spend getting almost no sleep except for quick naps next to the kitten pen because Mother Cat needs some help. Maybe her milk hasn’t come in. Maybe her mothering instincts are a little slow to arrive. Maybe she wants you to show her how to be a mum. Maybe she died. Regardless, those first three weeks with kittens are often more intense than the first three weeks with a human infant.
Feeding six or eight kittens every two hours is exhausting. We haven’t got our mother-in-laws, husbands or best friends here to help us. Struggling kittens count on us to be their ICU nurse. It is no surprise that our maternal (or paternal) instincts go full bore on us, and we bond to these guys for life.
Not everything goes well with every kitten in every litter. Losing a kitten is deeply traumatic. We fight so hard to save them and often can’t. Death is not pretty. Death is graphic. It is not peaceful. It leaves a scar on our soul.
After we get through the first three weeks, we spend nearly every waking moment watching, thinking, analyzing, cuddling, loving and, inevitably, bonding. Could you hold a baby in your lap and not feel anything? Neither can we. By the time your kitten leaves our house, that kitten is as much a part of our heart as it is yours.
Things go wrong. We get that. Best intentions fade through no fault of our own. Maybe a job was lost. Maybe the terms of your rental agreement changed. Maybe someone in our family became sick and needs all our attention. Maybe one of a million things.
Breeders get that. We are people, too. We have lived as much life as you have. We know the world is not a perfect place. We also know that sometimes, despite our best intentions, we mismatched your kitten to you.
Whatever the reason, we know that not every kitten is going to live its full life with the people we placed it with. Divorce, death, gosh, anything can happen.
But we love our babies (and we love you), and we want to be here to help. If you can no longer keep your cat, please be open and communicative. If your cat has a close relationship with someone else, let us know. That contract you signed with us? The one that guarantees health and our lifetime assistance? That applies to the kitten, no matter who owns him/her.
But more importantly, please be kind to our hearts. If you lost a grandchild — say your son and his wife were divorced and the wife cuts off all communication with you — that would hurt. You would feel sad, lost, a little panicky.
That’s how we feel when we lose track of a kitten.
So, please. Stay in contact with your breeder. Let him or her share in your cat’s joys and frustrations. Let them be a shoulder for you. Let them provide a listening ear and support. And please, please, please let them know where your cat is, and if you can’t keep it, please let them be involved in any placements that may need to occur.
(Copied from another post)

28/10/2024

Came home last night after a brief trip to the Europe North Regional to find two fearless, dangerous kittens had moved in 🤣🤣