My way of thinking around my breeding:
When I select a cat for my breeding program it is important to me that the cat appeals to me, it need to have something extra that attracts me.
It can be the pedigree or the cat itself in some way, it does not have to be a showstopper. But I prefer to breed to topshowquality cats.
I breed only to healthy catswith excellent temperament.
My cats are tested against FIV/FELV on a regular basis, and all are up to date on all there vaccinations. I participate in studys regarding cathealth/diseases when I get the chance.
I don't cage my cats, they have free run of my place. Newborns and unvaccinated kittens are kept separete until they are vaccinated.
My cats are only kept as indoor cats however I have a balkony that is kittyprooved.

My goal with my breeding:
To breed healthy, pleasant and beautiful cats, and as I said I strive for the CFA type.
When I almost exclusively have imports I of course have breedingrestrictions on the breedingcats that comes from my breeding.
I prefer to sell them as lovely pets and also as showcats if the cat suitable for that.
The few cats I sell for breeding goes to serious breedingprograms and to breeders that I really trust.
I think that only a few cats in a litters should go on in breeding, and I prefer if it is the best once.
I don't want to be a big breeder, because I prefer quality before quantity, but sometimes more of fewer litters comes along than was planned originally, since it is animals we have to do with they desides something that is not always what I had in mind ;)

The decision to neuter my kittens that are not ment for breeding have been on my thoughts for a long time, ever since SVERAK took away the possibility to put kittens with breeding restrictions.
But a incident with person who bought a kitten from one of my males is what really made the decision a lot easier.

If you are interested about early neutering here are some links:
http://www.cfainc.org/articles/spay-neuter.html
http://www.catvet.homestead.com/EarlyAlter.html
http://www.winnfelinehealth.org/reports/early-neuter.html
http://www.netcat.org/symposium/early-neuter-spay.html
http://www.devonrex.com/kittens/earlyalter.htm
http://www.cvm.uiuc.edu/ope/ivb/spay-neu.htm
http://www.messybeast.com/earlyneuter.htm

When I started reading all there is about Cornish Rex I found the "type" that really attracted right away was the CFA type.
And really it is not much that is diffrent to the FIFe type we have here in Europe. A comparison between FIFe and CFA Standard.
So I chose to focus on importing my cats from America and the CFA and then from wellknown breeders that have distinct type in there breeding.

Cats that ment a lot for my breeding:
I was in contact with Alfons breeders Jokikatin regularly since November 2001 about getting a really good looking show cat and at the end of April 2002 I went to Åbo and got Pamina, a black-smoke female that was cat of the year 3-6 and 6-10 months in Finland 2001. She is really a "cool" cat. Also Pamina is fully owned by me now after her first litter.

Goofy was the first cat who came to me from Ridgways in California, and he has really proven himself as well on the shows but also as a fantastic breeding male for my own breeding as well as for other breeders who used him.
Several of his offsprings have won many Best In Shows and also one have also achieved a World Winner and a Scandinavian Winner title. Goofy himself have the most titles you can ask in a male, the Distinguished Merit title that proves what a great studmale he have been and Distinguished Show Merit that also proves that he has all the qualitys that a great showcat needs. Goofy is nowdays neutered.

After that Finnigan came from Kokopellirex in Canada and he is bought together with Piupaws in Finland. He is a male that is not breed for his type and is mostly bought for his colour and his pedigree. He have a very strange profile that you can't really say what it is, it is not a CFA profile anyway ;) and he have to much coat for my taste and the body is bit to long but he have some advantages such as his earsize and placment and his eyeshape and colour and of course his fantastically long legs.
His offsprings have been a lot of mixed results as far as the type. Finnigan is nowdays neutered.

I contacted Cheryl McGee and Heatwave in Tennesee because I was interested in a showquality female and I ended up with a male too.
Tootsie is for me the Absolut perfect Cornish, she has Everything!! And I hope that she will give me beautiful kittens in the future.
When it comes to Joey I am a bit more uncertain when he has a weak chin and not so much coat, but I have seen some of his offsprings in the US and it seems at it is not a problem, they all have good chins and super coat and last but not least the extreme type I like.
So now it is just wait and se what the kittens will look like, and I have high expectations!!
I was worried for nothing about his coat and chin, his offsprings have great coats and chins, everything you can ask for. Joey is nowdays neutered.

Sandy is the first red-white stud to enter my breeding. And what a great cat!! Intense outgoing happy male that sounds like a peacock when he speaks to me and his girls. He has a awesome muscular body and a great warm red color and a supercoat, but the most captivating about him is his Look!! Finally I get something other that black-whites in my litters :)
Sandy will be neutered in the near future.

That is how everything started with my cattey and the way it looks now. Who knows what will happen in the future...............................

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