about The Cattery
the staff
The staff is actually just me. Of course, I have some help from friends that watch the kitties while I'm gone on a cat show or give me a hand with preparing them and also help me with the last preparation at the shows.
It might sound strange to some, but men can also run a cattery.
I am a proud member of Kaze-Club Lëtzebuerg asbl and of Felis Belgica which is affiliated to FIFé, a world federation of feline breeders.
the history
The cattery started in 2012 with Cookie, a male that got stolen after I had him for exactly 1 year. I then got Qiara back in December 2013. In April 2014 I got Maty. The perfect couple.
Coco, an abandonned neutered female joined us in March 2015. It turned out that it was Cookie's sister. She was an outside cat and couldn't be kept inside. After a few month she chose another house as her home and lives at one of my neighbours since. Being dominant, she couldn't stand Maty who as a male was dominant too.
In July 2015 I had my first litter. Back then, probably like every breeder that starts, my cats were chosen based on their colour and not based on the colour their kitten could have.
A beautiful boy was part of the first litter. I called him Deo (short for Sir Amadeo). He was a strong cream boy. Unfortunately in July 2018, he ate a poisonous flower and died at a too young age. He only had two litters. It still puts tears in my eyes when I think about him. He was the perfect son.
Since I didn't get Qiara straight from her breeder and that she wasn't young anymore being born in 2008, I had to think about getting another female in July 2016. I found Nita and Ibi. As I couldn't decide which one I liked better I took both of them.
By pure chance, I found Gloria in 2017, a cream tabby girl that was looking for a home. She didn't need a lot of time and effort to convince me that she'd be living with me very soon. She moved in in Octber 2017.
In November 2018 I exchanged one of my baby girls against a baby girl from another breeder. In came Nelly.
The first show I went to was in Soleuvre, Luxembourg in mai 2019. That's when this very nice and important part of breeding started for me.
In January 2020 Mogwai was born here and she was too beautiful to let go. I kept her in the cattery.
Maty's succesor Callisto moved in in October 2020 as a youngster.
Sky was born in December 2020 and she stayed with the group. She is from the last litter of Maty being the father.
As planned and because by then several of his daughters stayed in the cattery, Maty retired in January 2021 and went to a very nice family that took care of him until he passed away in July 2021 from a stroke.
Mogwai got her litter in December 2021. A great litter. All of them were
very beautiful. Unfortunately shortly after giving birth, Mogwai started having a mastitis and in the end she had to get nearly all her milk glands removed. She got sterilised during the operation. The litter
survived because I could put them with another litter that was only 2 weeks older.
In March 2022 Gloria had a litter with Callisto being the father. An all red litter. Yasimina stayed and is a great addition to the girls group.
2 boys and 1 girl from the litters of November 2022 were selected to stay here. It's Abacus Ray, Baba Cool and Astana Magic.
In March 2023, Daisy, a daughter of Deo and Ibi had to come back to the cattery because the son of the family started an allergy on cat hair. I was so happy to have her back home since she was a daughter of Amadeo that died so tragically.
So far, I've probably had 38 litters and around 130 kittens that were born here. I've started my litters with A and I'm at my second turn of the alphabeth now. For those that counted now and see that according to that count we're not yet at 38, I've also made some litters for friends. Those don't count for my cattery.
Happiness and hardship are part of breeding. It's not always nice and sometimes literally tragic, but I wouldn't want to miss having my furballs around me and being a daddy for the ones that I live with and a new daddy for the ones that are born here.