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 Kaetzchen
Owned and Operated since l994 by Cynthia Barnes and Daughter Anna
View pictures by clicking on “Cute Photos” or, as you read this “History”, gold highlights are picture subjects in “Photo Album”. Click on thumbnail photos to enlarge.
In November l994, Anna and I went to a cat show and found our seal-point girl, Belle d’Jour Ptah’s Descentans, a four-month-old kitten at the show. The cat show was in Brueckobel, Germany; we lived in Germany for five years; and Belle’s breeder is Barbara Presley, who has raised Siamese and Oriental Shorthairs for 45 years and whose parents raised Siamese before her. Barbara herself did some of the early crosses with the Abyssinians to achieve the cinnamon-colored Oriental Shorthair.
By the end of l996, Belle had had two litters of seal-point kittens in Germany. We were hoping for a solid chestnut or an ebony, but now we were coming back to America, so Barbara traded us one of our seal-point kittens for her ebony Ptah’s Descentans Illusion.
The last thing before we left Barbara’s house on our way to the Frankfurt Airport with Belle and Illusion, Barbara ran back into the house, got a fuzzy green cage cover and wrapped it around Belle’s and Illusion’s cage against Germany’s December cold, and we all began the journey back to the United States.
We like to remember that our German kitty-girls packed up their bags one day, the two of them together, left the Old Country, and got on the jet plane for the New World.
Belle’s sire is Champion Nobility’s Little Joe, and Belle’s dam, Champion Shadow Ptah’s Descentans. See Belle’s Pedigree.
Belle’s first Cat Fanciers’ Association daughter Grand Champion El Morya’s Annika, featured in the flip-flop photos on our Home page Sire: CH Mystic Quest Look for the Silver Dam: Belle d’Jour Ptah’s Descentans
Belle’s first American-born son CH El Morya’s Aristotle, featured on our Home page Sire: CH Mystic Quest Look for the Silver Dam: Belle d’Jour Ptah’s Descentans
Belle’s other breeding son CH El Morya Guenther, also featured on our Home page Sire: CH Freelee Little Ngeru Dam: Belle d’Jour Ptah’s Descentans
Belle’s blue-eyed white El Morya Kinga and her tortie-point sister El Morya Katja, who was cross-registered with CFA into the colorpoint class Sire: CH Freelee Little Ngeru Dam: Belle d’Jour Ptah’s Descentans
Belle’s last litter before being spayed was with our Champion Normerae Mata Kahurangi in early 2002 and produced her beautiful blue-eyed white daughter Champion El Morya Ode to Joy, featured in our “Cat Videos” on our Home page. Belle has enjoyed being a grandmother to her daughter Grand Champion Annika’s kittens, and will hopefully be a doting grandmother to many more.
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Soon came CFA Champion Ptah’s Descentans Illusion’s first litter with Champion Summermorn’s Arctic Sunsation including El Morya’s An-Hai and Blue Boy Sire: CH Summermorn’s Arctic Sunsation Dam: CH Ptah’s Descentans Illusion
Then came Illusion’s subsequent litter with Summermorn’s Arctic Sunsation including El Morya Deirdre Sire: CH Summermorn’s Arctic Sunsation Dam: CH Ptah’s Descentans Illusion
Next came the opportunity to unite Belle’s and Illusion’s German lines to produce CH El Morya’s Brigitta Sire: CH El Morya’s Aristotle (son of Belle d’Jour Ptah’s Descentans) Dam: CH Ptah’s Descentans Illusion
Illusion’s next litter was with Champion Normerae Mata Kahurangi from New Zealand.
Mata’s and Illusion’s litter included blue-eyed white Eroica Symphony, and
Three ebonies
With Champion Freelee Little Ngeru, Illusion produced El Morya Jaipur, and
El Morya Jacaranda of Summermorn
Blue-eyed white El Morya Jaipur, now sitting in the background, tortie-point sister Josephine and ebony brother Jophiel up front Sire: CH Freelee Little Ngeru Dam: CH Ptah’s Descentans Illusion
With Grand Champion, Regional Winner Sum Thai’s Gabriel of Pattam, our Illusion produced the handsome, dashing El Morya Menelaus. Menelaus’s father “Gabe” was Second Best of Color (Lilac Point) nationally in l998 and the Tenth Best Siamese nationally in ’98.
With our Champion Normerae Mata Kahurangi, Illusion produced the headliner of our renamed cattery, Kaetzchen, which is German for “kitten”. Our new showgirl is blue-eyed white Kaetzchen Patrizia, who will make her debut in the show ring early this winter 2002. To see Patrizia playing with her blue-point sister Penelope, click on “Outcome of a Play Fight” under “Cute Photos” on our Home page.
Champion Ptah’s Descentans Illusion’s father is Champion International Aga-Khan v. Avathar, and Illusion’s mother is Champion International Eshental’s Corinna. See Illusion’s Pedigree.
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Belle’s daughter Grand Champion El Morya’s Annika produced with Grand Champion/Regional Winner Shera Len’s Excitation
CH El Morya’s Copernicus, and
Ch El Morya’s Cyrus Sire: GC/RW Shera Len’s Excitation Dam: GC El Morya’s Annika
Grand Champion El Morya’s Annika produced with Champion Free Little Ngeru Blue-Eyed white Champion El Morya Fuer Elise and El Morya Felicitas Sire: CH Freelee Little Ngeru Dam: GC El Morya’s Annika
With our Champion Normerae Mata Kahurangi, Annika produced blue-eyed white Norman and his solid blue sister Nadia * * * Illusion’s daughter Deirdre and our Champion Freelee Little Ngeru produced blue-eyed white Champion El Morya Isolde. Here’s Isolde with Belle and Isolde’s tortie-point sister, Inge.
Isolde, ready to dance
Isolde, a beautiful queen Sire: CH Freelee Little Ngeru Dam: El Morya Deirdre
Isolde has a mighty handsome brother, Tristan, featured under “Cute Photos” on our Home page in “Cat Family Life”.
We are currently working with blue-eyed white studs Champion Freelee Little Ngeru and Champion Normerae Mata Kahurangi featured in the flip-flop photos on our Home page.
Born December l, 2002, Jacaranda presently has four kittens fathered by Mata Kahurangi
Born December 7, 2002, Illusion has two kittens fathered by Talysin’s Sirius of Nytwing, who swiped the 2000-2001 Cat Show Season as:
15th Best Kitten l7th Best Cat Best Oriental and Best Solid Oriental in the Southern Region, and 2nd Best of Breed Nationally
Be certain to click on our “Cat Videos” on our Home page including the series “Bird in a Cat Tree” and “Green Eyes, Blue Eyes, Wild Eyes”.
Call and ask us about our current kittens, of which we might not yet have photos posted. Evenings and most weekends, we are at: 270 763-9333
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