Our Cattery & Breeding Aim
Our
main aim is to breed healthy, outgoing, people focused cats. We have worked
closely with a very good friend, outcrossing our proven cats to mainly
domestic cats in order to increase the gene poole of Devon Rex cats. My
Hall of Fame page tracks some of our work thus far. We are very committed
to the breed, and totally ethical in all of our dealings with people and
of course our cats and other much loved creatures. My love of cats goes
back for as long as I can remember and I still treasure cat books I was
given as a child. I grew up with Siamese cats as well as many rescued cats
my parents always kindly welcomed into our home, nursed back to health
and adopted into our already diverse family. Another of my great passions
is studying genetics,as a young girl at school I was enthralled by Mendel's
theories of inheritance. The combination of these two factors has resulted
in my becoming involved in breeding cats that are not only overflowing
in character but who also provide the challenge of being a relatively new
breed.
We have
now been breeding Devon Rex cats for close to ten years. We are situated
just south of Tauranga on a two and a half acre property.
Only
our stud cats live in the cattery above. Their homes are all fully insulated,
with vinyl floors and soft bedding. Even with this comfort we found it
necessary to provide our beautiful boys with an out door area. To this
end we have cat fenced our property, and our boys take turns being
out in the garden, doing the things cats love to do, but first things first,
they have to do their scent marking trail, reclaiming what the last boy
just claimed, great occupational therapy!