S*Ma'ha
Gita is a small cattery situated in the middle of Sweden, about 200 kilometres
north-west of Stockholm. We live in a small town named Borlänge in
a house of our own with our 12 cats. One Norwegian Forest cat and eleven
Birmans. We have two children but they have left "the nest" and
built their own lifes.
Why did we chose the name Ma'ha Gita? We simply just find it beautiful and
it's also a historical name from the geographical area where the Birmans
is said to come from. Ma'ha Gita is the title of a ancient history book
from Siam.
The family
consists of me, Lisa, and my husband Ulf. I am a teacher in Math and Science
and English (believe it or not!) and I have only adult students. Ulf
works as a headmaster in our community, Borlänge.
The cats live with us in the house and they have access to a large out
door run connected to the house. Our goal is to breed big, wellboned
cats with heartshaped head, deep-blue eyes and a very good temper. Hopefully
we will come a little bit towards our goals.
To the left you'll see me,
Lisa, and to the right you find Ulf.
The
first cat came into our house back in 199,
and it was a Norwegian Forest Cat named Bisse. We realised that living
with cats were enriching and one cat was really too few...
Our daughter had seen a lovely blue-eyed cat with dark face and we started
looking around for breeders. We found out that this blue-eyed cat was
a sacred Birman and realised it was OUR cat.
Our first Birman arrived, S*Grazette's Jumping Jack. He was/is
a chocolate pointed male and we thought he looked quite nice. He is retired
today after a long and sucsessful career as show cat and also as a stud.
He ended up as European Premier and European Champion and lives happily
today with his granddaughter, IC Skogshöjdens Umber Pearl, in our
daughter's home. So, indeed, he was "quite nice"!
The number of cats has grown since those days and we have today 10 cats,
one Norwegian and nine Birmans. Our old Bisse is still living and consider
himself to be the King of the house though there are some Birman females
with a lot of self confidence around him.
We had our first litter in 1995, S*Grazette's SOS delivered six kittens
and was a superb mother. Two of the kittens, lilac Alyzza and Aristocat
moved to Norway and have done very well there. The next litter was also
six!! and Dam was S*Grazette's UFO and we kept a chocolate pointed girl.
She had too much white but was adorable in type and temper.
We have so far had 25 litters with mostly lovely pets and some which had
been seen on the show benches.
We have tried
to find new lines of Birmans for our breeding, in hope to have interesting
and good pedigrees for the future. In our aim to acchive this, we were
1996 lucky to buy a Birman female from Smokeyhill Cattery in England and
a second one from S*Summerdays Cattery in the south of Sweden. Two lovely
females with a totally different pedigree compared with the rest of our
cats. They provided us, together with our bluetabby male, with some lovely
kittens during some years but now is next, and next-next, generation is
stepping in.
Lucille is retired
and Kapri might have her last litter during 2005. We have a new boy in
our cattery, (N) Almighty Scotch Corner, a seal pointed beautiful boy
from Norway. We have also kept two seal girls (Piece of Cake and Unique),
granddaughters to Kapri but not similar pedigrees anyway and bought a
lilac tabby girl from our daughter's cattery, Umber Pearls. We have also,
during 2004, kept two small girls from our own breeding, sealpointed Yo-san
and bluepointed Zugarbabe. So we are, with hope, going towards new exciting,
breeding years.
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