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Our
Story
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Our cattery is based out of San Diego.
We breed and show Cornish Rex & Turkish Angora. Here
is how I got
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into the cat world.
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My love of Cornish Rex started back
in 1999. I had moved to San Diego and had unwittingly
moved into a
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building that was owned by a CFA Judge by the
name of Wayne Park. When I first laid eyes on a Cornish
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Rex it was all over! They had such a unique
look to them; much different than the “normal” cats I had known |
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over the years.
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When Wayne realized I was so into the
cats, he took me to my first show. I was introduced to Bill and
Nancy
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Gott. Nancy let me put a cat
into the show ring. I couldn’t believe this lady was
letting a complete stranger
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touch her cherished show cat!!!!! Well
that was all it took.
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I shortly went over to Bill and Nancy’s
house to look at the kitten they thought was going to be good
for me. |
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She took me into where the kittens
were and I met the cat who changed my life, really. Sloan
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said that if I were to have a child her name would
be Sloan). So, I named her Rex-O-Rama Sloan Ranger. I
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didn’t know how lucky I was or what I was even looking
at. All I knew was that I loved that little kitty more |
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than anything. It turns out that Bill and Nancy were
working on improving the type and look of the pointed
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(Siamese colors) Cornish Rex and Sloan just happened to be a
Calico. Yeah for me!
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Well, she went on to be my first Grand
Champion and achieve the honor of being a Distinguished Merit
cat. |
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Not only did she become a D.M., but
she is the Mother of the cat GC Cozmecats Starship Trooper
who is
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the number one producing male D.M. Cornish
Rex who has over 30 Grands to his name.
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I have achieved a lot of success with
the cats since then. More Grand Champion, Regional Winners
than I
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can count. This is because I
stayed true to myself and what I like in a Cornish Rex.
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Turkish Angora cats came into my life
in 2004. My friend in Germany, Gudrun Roscher had gotten
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Cornish Rex from me. One day we were talking
and I said that in the future I might be interested in showing
a
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Turkish Angora. She said, "Phillip, I have the
most beautiful cat I have ever bred!". I said, "Okay,
bring her to
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the International." Well, I fell in love immediately with GC, RW, BW Dschadi‘s
Yildiz and at that show, she
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was the highest Scoring T.A. kitten. WOW, what a start!
She went on to be my first Turkish
Angora Grand
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and she was also the Breed Winner for that season. It was
also the First Grand Champion for Gudrun; as
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it is very difficult to Grand a minority Breed in Europe. Yildiz was
bred to a Male from my friend, Kathryn
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Amman. His name was Katsnjazz
Wishuponastar.
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From my original cat I have kept the
bloodline of Yildiz and always will. I will always be
eternally grateful to
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Gudrun for introducing me to the Turkish Angora.
The Turks are special to me in a different way than the
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Cornish. The Turkish Angora have their own energy
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I had much success in my life with
the cats, but not my personal life.
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Along came Ken and the first thing I
said to him was “I hope you like cats?” Well he does. Otherwise,
it
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would never have worked. He helps
me with whatever I need and loves the kittens and Sloan. Sloan
loves
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him also. That was the Acid
test for me. To see how the cats reacted to Ken. He passed
the test. Sloan is
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spoiled, but she shares.
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We raise our kittens with us. They
are born most times on our bed in a birthing box, and that’s
how we like
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it. They are raised with us with
love and affection as if they are all show cats.
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~Phillip Pearson
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