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We started our married life, over thirty five years ago with a middle aged Siamese neuter, called Albert, a wonderful gift from my childhood, I could not bear to leave at home. We at this time had no plans for any other cats however making our own family took precedence and it was a few years later when Albert died of old age that we started to become involved in something that would later become a major part of our lives.
We actually started showing one Siamese kitten as a hobby in 1983, enjoying a good level of show success, seeing many lovely cats, meeting other cat fanatics and making several very good friends. Over the years as our interest and knowledge grew it was inevitable that eventually we would want to breed our own pedigree kittens for the show bench and thereby also have some really beautiful quality kittens for pet homes. Oh! How a lovely little hobby can grow..... into pedigrees, bloodlines, genetics, many sleepless nights, huge bills for food and supplies, seriously hard work at times and as John says sometimes it really does feel like the National Debt but also with the disappointments there is so much pleasure.
Our lives now happily revolve around our hobby of our beautiful cats, cat shows, time spent on cat club committee's,
regular telephone calls with long distance cat friends, lovely visits
at home from cat friends and folk we meet as slight acquaintances who
as we get to them become real good friends.
We have only two breeding cats and therefore we are very small time cat breeders, we feel that this is far more important than having lots of kittens. We pride ourselves that our Siamese kittens are carefully and lovingly home reared pedigree kittens who will mature in to much loved and adored adults. It is the exhibiting side of the cat fancy that is more our interest, the thrill of the competition and the pleasure of catching up with long distance friends, it is great to have a good get together at a cat show, sharing our combined interest, having a good laugh and genuinely delighting in each others achievements throughout the very long show day.
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copyright of John and Christine Duffy DI Hom, Simplisiam Siamese 1983 - 2008 Our website is a labour of love, designed by Christine
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