We live in rural Norfolk in a small village just outside of Fakenham, we have three children, Jamie, Ben and Becky, and a family of cats, and three dogs, Maya and Buddy who are Leonbergers and Meea who is a Westie.    We recently lost Megan who was also a Leo, she was just under five years old and sadly died of stomach cancer.  More details can be found out about our dogs and Megan on this website. 

Our first pedigree cat was called Tabbitha, she was a lovely silver tipped, her markings were not quite right for the show bench, she was more tabby than tipped, but she was beautiful and we all adored her, when Tabbitha was neutered at 6 months, she sadly died as she did not come round from the operation.  After speaking to her breeder, we decided to have another kitten to hopefully show and have the odd litter from.  This is when Fenella arrived.

We breed exotics for only a few years as I found lack of time with young children.  In 1999, we decided the time was right and we started to look at different breeds, I had always loved the Bengal cat and this is  where it really all started - 2000 we had our first Bengal litter.

2005 we had our first litter of British Shorthairs and in 2006 the Selkirks arrived, our first litter was born in 2006, this was the litter SarikakingsTiggly Wiggly was born in and our second was the litter Sarikakings Nextgeneration aka Henry was born in.  Both kittens did amazingly well at their kittens shows, Tiggly gained Best of the Best Kitten at Gateshead and Henry gained Best of the Best Kitten at two shows, Wolverhampton and Lutterwork. 2007 was our first year breeding  Selkirks and we have done exceptionally well with the TICA. 

We only really show with TICA as we prefer the open format of the show and think our cats do also, they always seem very relaxed and enjoy all the attention they get.   Tiggly gained her title of Triple Grand Champion at the age of 9 months and Henry is hopefully Best International Selkirk Kitten 07-08, we are waiting for this to be confirmed, and will now shortly. 

We owe a big thanks to Heike and Monika of Insider Cattery for entrusting us with their wonderful boy , Insider Alwin of Sarikakings, without him, we would not be where we are in our programme and also to Zoe of Amazolou Cattery, who first introduced us to Alwin and Heike and helped us bring Alwin into the Uk. 

We would also like to thank Pamela Anderson of Curlu, Pam was one of the first breeders who helped me to start out with this wonderful breed, without Pam's help, I would certainly not know what I know now and also Lisa

Peterson of Trueblu (Lisa now resides in Australia)  who has been a great help and support, Lisa was one of the first breeders to bring the Selkirks into the UK.

You can find lots of info about the  Selkirks on the Selkirk Rex Cat Club

Since breeding the Selkirks I have had the pleasure of meeting both Jan Fagg of Amilynd and Liz Blagdon of Cleyview, both Jan and Liz and have become really good friends, and have offered lots of support when need.  

We adore breeding, having kittens around is great fun.  It is hard work, but well worth it !