We currently have 4 Beautiful Balinese Boys looking for new homes in the UK and nearby.

Two of the boys are perfect traditional blue point Balinese, who look and act a lot like Ulla - their mum and Danny - their grandfather. They couldn't be more loving, caring and fun.

As for the other kittens... We have 1 girl who will be staying here and 2 boys; a lilac and a blue...
but before anything I must tell you their story. On 10th of March 2008 Ulla delivered 5 healthy Balinese kittens. Their father is Levi of Baligems ~ Frisby-on-the-Wreake.

Levi is a Classic looking Balinese, with violet eyes and a pedigree that goes back to the beginning of Balinese in the UK. If you read the blog all the way back to June 2006---

Ulla is a prodigy of Island Blues: daughter of Danny and Lili, and so on back to our beginnings.

Ulla and Levi have nothing but champion Balinese bloodlines in their pedigrees. I'm relating all this because something funny happened. The story:

This is Ulla and Levi's only daughter, Punz - short for Rapunzel. Punz, Snowdrop, sometimes Angel ~ until we give her a proper Gaelic name ~ was born, like her brothers on 10 March, with a full coat of fluffy Balinese fur. She cried a lot though and seemed a bit uncomfortable, though eating well and able to keep up with the guys. Well, by 10 days old ...

Punz had lost most of her coat - that's right she was going bald. Frantic, I called the vet, first here in the UK and when they had no idea what it could be we called our Dr Cronin in the US. We tossed ideas around, but Nothing seemed to fit. There was no explanation and no one had had this happen before.

A few days later brother Mokie seemed to be loosing his fur too! And soon after Arthur joined in. So I took all 5 to Castle Douglas and asked the vet to please take skin and coat samples, check for mites or ringworm or anything it might be.

Knowing it wasn't the problem the vet here took the samples and asked if she could contact specialists at the Royal Dick in Edinburgh. Of course I was grateful. Not an hour later the dermatologist specialist from Austria called and was very excited to see this rare phenomena. I agreed to go to Edinburgh with the lot of them, but first I decided to do some homework. I read up on feline alopecia and the only thing that made sense was possibly a gene mutation or a long dormant recessive trait needed to be carried by both parents.

What a fluke. Could these little moggies be going through the same thing the first Sphynx in Canada went through? Or most closely related - the Don Sphynx of Russia? Meanwhile, the kittens were all eating well and even began to regrow a new coat. We have contacted the UC Davis Feline Genome project to see if we can actually determine if there has been a gene mutation.

Today, at 7 weeks, the new coats the kittens have grown are exceedingly soft, like plush silk velvet, suede or chamois. Their coats continue to fill out but they don't have the length or top coat of the Balinese or any traits of the Siamese. We are therefore going ahead - until results are in - and will assume that we have the beginnings of a new breed, for now they will be called the Frisby Balinese, for their father's location.

Today Mokie is petite, but has good size feet. He is the smartest, sweetest, most courageous little fellow. Most likely he will stay close by, if not here.

Arthur never really lost all his fur, before he'd grown a new fine coat of soft velvet.


And as for Punz... well she is a beauty queen and we can't wait till she's old enough to strut her stuff and perhaps one day have her own kittens.