Cattery

All 10 Norleon kittens

My cattery is located in Mäntsälä, which is about 50 kilometres from Helsinki. It maybe takes about 40 minutes to drive to Helsinki-Vantaa airport from here. Other cities such as Lahti, Porvoo and Hyvinkää are also within a half an hour drive.

I bought my first norwegian forestcat, EP FIN*Lioneye's Bobo, in 2003 just for a pet. The breeder hoped that I could bring little-Bobo to a few shows and I agreed. I wasn't suppose to get hooked on catshows, but it happened, anyway. As I was hooked on shows, I decided to get another show cat, and so Roope's half (well, actually 3/4) sister Saga moved in in the beginning of 2005. She came to me as a hostcat and she is the mother of Abeona's India litter.

I currently have two breeding cats, GIC FIN*Abeona's Saga and FIN*Norleon Liberty. IC N*Lindbrekkas Shamicka is now sterilized after two litters. Saga is the mother of my first litter: Norse Mythology. Shamicka is a mother of Nordic names with letter E which was born in the summer 2008 and Stratovarius litter which was born in 2009. My breeding will hopefully be continued with Liberty in 2010.

All my cats have been negative for FeLV and FIV and breeding cats will be HCM-tested regularly. I'm also going to test my cats for GSD IV. I don't have any big plans for the future, but my goal is to breed healthy, good-tempered and beautiful norwegian forestcats.

Besides this show-hobby and small-scale breeding, I was our Norwegian Forestcat club Smerry's secretary 2006-2007 and in 2010 I'm back in the board again, now as a PR-person and helping out with the club's magazine called Mettis.