We first saw Birmans when we were house hunting in Bristol in 1987 and viewed this house where these beautiful cats were asleep on the bed. They were Birmans…….

I was enchanted; both with the cats and the house!! We were lucky to have our offer accepted on the house and then our search began for a Birman to join us and our two moggies in our new home.

Our first Birman arrived, a blue point female, then a blue point male, shown as a neuter. Gally had a very successful show career;

Two years later our first Norwegian Forest Cat  arrived (Rog was very impressed with the size and temperament of these lovely cats) from the same breeders as our Birmans.

We are the first  breeders of the first  UK Grand titled cat in Great Britain.

As things do, the showing continued and then along came the first Birman female to show and breed from………a lovely seal point named Sula, she has very recently passed away (kidney failure)…………..

And here we are today, still showing and breeding some 18 years later.

Both Rog and I had been brought up with dogs as family pets when we were children, so it seemed natural for us to have one of our own to grow up with our own children. We owned our first Labrador when Paul and Zoe were babies and Suzy was so lovely her breeder suggested we had a few litters from her. Paul was only 6 months old when Suzy came to live with us.

We had four beautiful litters from Suzy and the same stud -  stunning black dog. Suzy sadly was put to sleep at 15 years of age.

Our next lab arrived four years ago; she was born on Roger’s birthday which eased her introduction into our home. Voo is black, from mainly working lines and is a very strong tall legged bitch. She had her first litter in 2004. All nine pups survived and we kept a chocolate bitch named Peppa. We hope to have a couple of litters from Peppa in the future.

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