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When our daughter was about four years old, she wanted to have a cat. I also love cats, and my parents and I had housecats, which lived in the house and outside for a long time. We lived near a motorway and our new cat shouldn’t go outside. So we looked for purebred cats as they are more affectionate to their family and can live inside the house.
We went to a cat-show and met some breeders of Abyssiniancats. Some days later we visited a cattery and fell in love with a little sorrel male, which was without a new home. After our holidays our first Abyssinian “Cyprien von Delensdorp”, bred by Heike and Rolf Gerken’s daughter, came to our house. We lived more than 12 years with him and when he passed away we were very very sad. First we did not want to have a new cat, but our house was so quiet and we were “infected with the Aby and Somali-virus”. So we started looking for a Somali.
We wanted to see Somalis and how they live and so we visited an Somali breeder in Hamburg. There we saw sweet and lovely cats and one of them stayed with us all the time. It was “Marica’s Soft Cinnamon Xabasho”, a stud in sorrel. He “adopted” us and has been living in our house since autumn 1999. He missed feline friends and so “Marica’s Danica Dukkebarn”, also sorrel, came to us.
At the FIFé-World-Show in Germany in 2001, I saw a black-silver Somali and at that moment it was my wish to have such a cat. I started looking for a silver-female and some time later I contacted some breeders in Denmark. At the cattery Dushara I found my first sorrel-silver and “Dushara Rosy Morning Freeze” - we called her Snowy - came into our house. She is beautiful, has a very good type, her silver is clear and her coat is very soft and silky. When she was 9 months old, she had an uterine infection and was very ill. With the help from our veterinary we need not neuter her, but she had a lot of problems to become pregnant. At that time we bought “Dushara Abina”, our first black-silver female.
From Snowy´s litter we keep the kitten “Alano”. He is sorrel-silver and the father from our “Ciruja” and he is neutered since summer 2005.
From Abina´s first litter “Bayanga”, a black-silver female, stays in our home. Abina lives as a pet near to us since christmas 2005. From her second litter her daughter “Ciruja”, a black-silver female too, lives with us as a pet.
“Nakinyo” a black-silver Somali-male, cames from switzerland to us in autumn 2005. He is the father from our D-Litter and E-Litter and from our new queen “Summa Summarum Silver-Shadow”. “Nakinyo” is neutered since November 2007. His daughter “Darana” is neutered too. “Nakinyo” and “Darana” lives as a pet since summer 2008 in new homes.
From “Shadow’s” first litter “Fayola” a sorrel-silver female will be our new queen. As our second future-queen we bought “Jumanah’s Ameerah Annakinya” a black-silver female from Netherlands.
Since March 2009 we have a new stud. S*Holmgård Hugin Hadiyo”, a little black-silver male, lives with us.
Our Somalis are really members of our family and our kittens are from birth a part of the family too. They play with great pleasure in our beds, in all our rooms and when we are outside on the table too.
We want to breed beautiful and healty cats with a lot of temper. Our breeding-cats are tested for blood-group, PRA (Gen-test), Patella-Luxation and PK-Deficiency.
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