SHOU PERSIANS
SPECIALISING IN THE CHOCOLATE SERIES,TABBIES, BI & TRI COLOURS AND COLOUR POINTS
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HOW IT ALL STARTED
MY "SHOU" PREFIX WAS GRANTED BY GCCF IN 1965, AT A COST OF THREE POUNDS AND 10 SHILLINGS! "SHOU" WAS THE NAME MY SON CALLED MY DAUGHTER SUZANNE, AND I DECIDED IT WOULD BE A GOOD NAME FOR A PREFIX.
MY FIRST BREEDING QUEEN WAS A BLUE SELF CARRYING COLOUR POINT. I MATED HER WITH A SEAL POINT, AND THE RESULTS HAD ME HOOKED! I THEN BOUGHT IN A SEAL POINT MALE, CALLED NEOPARDY DANDYLION, AND TWO FRALLON QUEENS. DANDYLION WAS QUITE SUCCESSFUL ON THE SHOW BENCH, AND AT THAT TIME SEAL AND BLUE POINTS WERE SHOWN TOGETHER.
LATER ON, I BOUGHT IN A SEAL TABBY POINT MALE, FRALLON KAWASAKI TIGER (carrying Chocolate and Lilac). HE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TABBY POINTS TO BE MADE UP TO CHAMPION.I THEN STARTED BREEDING WHITE PERSIANS. MY SUPERB WHITE BOY GRAND CHAMPION LAFREBELLA TRISTAN, RETIRED WITH 14 CC'S, SEVERAL GRAND CHAMPION CERTIFICATES AND BEST OF BREEDS, AND WAS NAMED "BEST IN SHOW" THREE TIMES. I ALSO HAD CH JUELLA BANDIT BOY WITH HIS FABULOUS BLUE EYES. THESE TWO BOYS WERE MATED TO MORE QUEENS I HAD BOUGHT IN FROM FORTINA,ALEMUND,DOLLEYGATE, LAFREBELLA AND MANY MORE FAMOUS PEDIGREES. THIS GAVE ME SOME EXCELLENT LINES, WITH WHICH I WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL.
IN 1989, JUDIAN JIVEMAN CAME ALONG. THIS WONDERFUL LILAC BOY WAS MADE UP TO CHAMPION IN THREE STRAIGHT SHOWS. SADLY, HE DIED IN 2001.
IN 1995, TOGETHER WITH ALL MY CATS, I MOVED FROM PLYMOUTH TO CORNWALL.MY CATTERY IS BUILT OVERLOOKING LOVELY QUIET COUNTRYSIDE, THREE MILES FROM CALLINGTON - THE ONLY TRAFFIC AN OCCASIONAL TRACTOR, COWS AND SHEEP!
I WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THOSE BREEDERS WHO HELPED ME GET STARTED, AND MORE RECENTLY, JANNINE AND ANNE (PAWPURRFECT), CHRIS BRADLEY FOR ELDARBY AMERICAN GOTHIC, AND TRACY MAYO (TRACYLOOE) FOR ENTRUSTING ME WITH THEIR CATS.