General Information
My name is Pamela and I breed British Shorthair cats from my home in Perth, Western Australia. I fell in love with the British Shorthair a long time ago and I knew I would eventually own my very own British Blue. I had no idea I would join the cat fancy and start showing and breeding though. I can't tell you how much joy it brings me and the wonderful people we have met.
The Beginning
It all began after I lost my dear friend Pookie, a grey and white companion cat, to FIV. It is a terrible disease in cats and the equivalent to Aids in people. It was a very traumatic time and something I wish no cat owner had to go through.
We still had our big domestic girl Minky who was tested and thankfully negative for the disease. She was showing signs of missing having a furry companion so I decided the time was right to bring a new kitty into our family.
Unfortunately for me British are seasonal cats breeding only in the warmer months and I was trying to find a kitten in July!
I searched high and low until I found our precious Poppy who was all the way down south in Albany, Western
Australia. We waited for her to grow up and be old enough to come
live with us. She flew up to meet us and we fell in love at first
sight.
Well that was it, I was hooked. We started to show Poppy and then arranged with her breeder to use her as our foundation breeding queen.
Poppy lived inside the house with us and her best friend Minky, our Calico (Tortie & White) longhair companion cat. Minky is a show girl too in the Companion class which is open to any cat that has not been shown in pedigree classes.
In 2005 Poppy had her first litter. She was a very good mummy and all of the babies were plump little puddings.
The daddy was a blue boy. Poppy had flown back to Albany to meet him then flown home to have her babies.
From this litter we kept the very lovely Cuddleton Miss Susannah (Suzy). Suzy is a gorgeous cuddly girl who has a nice plush face and squeaky little purr. Her sister Penelope went to live with my sister in law and her brother Bono with a lovely couple who spoil him rotten. So Suzy was our first home grown Cuddleton to be shown and bred. Already she has made it to Diamond Grand Champion at the age of two. Not bad for a competitive colour class!
More Kitty Cats
Suzy has since been joined by our stunning bicolour stud boy Cyclard Jack Flash (Jackie). They grew up together. Jackie is doing exceptionally well at show and we are so proud of him. He has already taken a supreme as a five month old kitten and was second best group three adult in his first grown up show. He has been interstate to three Nationals taking some amazing placings and has been Supreme three times in three years at local shows. He isn't even fully grown!
Esden Rosie our lilac girl joined us mated from Qld and gave us two beautiful kittens, Cuddleton Lady Katherine and Cuddleton Lord Richard. They are blues carrying chocolate so they have stayed with us and both made it to Champion before their first birthday.
Baleaburra Chintz Twinkle Toes was next to arrive. She is a beautiful blue tortoiseshell and was bred by Betty Munro. At 81 Betty had decided to retire from breeding but kept Twinkie entire in the hope that we would keep on breeding the creams. We jumped at the chance! She is from Baleaburra McKenna arguably the best cat Betty ever bred and Baleaburra Chintz Sabrina. They were eight and ten years old respectively so Twinkie has cats in her first and second generation that other cats have in their tenth!
In 2007 our exciting imported cats arrived into Australia from the UK. Catbalu Cuddleton and Catbalu Cinnamon Cinders are the first cinnamon based British Shorthairs in the country. Henry is a Fawn and white and Cindy a black carrying cinnamon. Very exciting times ahead.
Our Affiliations
Cuddleton is my breeding prefix and I am registered with the Cat Owners Association of Western Australia, better known as COAWA.
COAWA is a wonderful club and I enjoy taking my cats to COAWA shows. If you are interested in showing or just visiting shows why not have a look at the the COAWA website.
You can contact me by email by clicking here
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