Are you living in ? You can also visitNext Monthly Board Meeting –  Wednesday, September 14th Click Here For More InformationBirman cat breeders in Canada Birman cat breeders in Canada So, you are looking for Birman in Canada?If you are not familiar with Birman characteristics, read our Birman description. Remember, that the best place to get Birman in Canada is via a responsible Birman breeder. Please see our selection of Birman responsible breeders inGood luck with your Birman search! Top Search Results for Birman cat breeders in Canada We hope Pickapaw helps you locate responsible breeders near you. However, while we try to check breeders' quality and credentials, we cannot visit every individual breeder's kennel/cattery and guarantee accuracy of the information provided. Make sure you do your own due diligence and ensure that you are buying responsibly. Please see our Buyer Guidelines for more information. Check Out Pickapaw Discussion Board for the Latest Newsfeed.

Ask Breeders a Question! Breeder of over 25 years National Secretary of Canadian Yorkshire Terrier Association - over 50 Canadian Champions - Over 20 American Champions - 3x Winner of Canadian National Specialty - 1x Winner of American National Specialty... Siberian Cattery Mystic Melody, home of International and Regional Award Winning Siberian cats and kittens since 2006. Mystic Melody Siberians are known for their exceptional temperament, outstanding good health and natural beauty. We are a state licensed hobby breeder in Atlanta GA, with a small, home based cattery... Kybra Kennels started in the fall of 2002 with three Siberian Huskies, and has been growing steadily ever since. We have enjoyed learning the personalities of each dog as they have grown and become part of the Kybra Kennels family. As Canadian Kennel Club ...Click here to view all of our adoptable cats! Our adoption fee is $175. Each cat has a two week assessment period in their foster home before being available for adoption. 

This ensures that the cats that come into our care receive the medical attention they need and we learn about their personalities, likes & dislikes. All senior cats (8 years or older) have an adoption fee of the adopters choice, vs. our standard adoption fee of $175. Our adoption fee for a bonded pair is $100 per cat, vs. $175 per cat. is a medium cat based on the Siamese of Victorian, 1890 times. It is a well-balanced cat overall, firm and muscular with the appearance of great power and agility, yet having the look of a runner not a weight lifter. In color it is basically a pointed cat overlaid with a very precise white spotting pattern featuring four even white boots and a white "inverted V" shaped nose marking. This white pattern symmetrically marked against the darker blue or seal of the points and brilliant blue eyes make this cat quite striking. active, intelligent, affectionate cats although sometimes While the Snowshoe is a relatively new breed, there is evidence

of its existence both in an old Victorian photograph of a purebred litter of Siamese in which the front kitten has four white feet and in an old Japanese silk-screen showing one peering around a corner at a spider. It undoubtedly shares an ancestry with both the Siamese and the Birman but now is unlikeHomes For Sale Sabal Springs Dorothy and her Kensing Cattery continued to work with the breed a fewDelta Touch Kitchen Faucet Canada more years then faded out like those before her however, before leavingCockapoo Puppies For Sale In South Florida the fancy, she enlisted the aid of Vikki Olander, Furr-Lo Cattery inIt would be through Vikki that the struggling breed would become recognized for registration as Experimental in CFF and ACA.

also produced the first polished standard. That was the good news. bad news was that by 1977 only four Snowshoes had been registered and another fade-out looked eminent. Just when things looked dark for the breed, Jim Hoffman (Sujym Cattery) of Defiance, OH and Georgia Kuhnell of Cincinnati independently contacted CFF for information on the Snowshoe breed. They put them in touch with Vikki, by then the only breeder left and a tiny SnowshoeStandards were updated and registration rulesMore breeders were recruited. As a result, CFF was approached to upgrade the breed from Experimental to Provisional. 1982 the breed was officially recognized for Championship status in CFF. Shortly after this both CATS and CAT FANCY ran articles on the new breed and listed them for the first time in their Breed Directories. introduced more breeders and in 1982 both TICA and ACFA were petitioned for recognition as Experimental. In the ensuing years more breeders were

enlisted and the standard was honed and perfected into the one we haveBy 1989 with the newly revised standard in hand, ACFA was approached to advance the Snowshoe to Championship status. application was approved and in May of 1990, Snowshoes were first shownThe first Snowshoe grand champion was titled in the fall of 1990 in Kansas. Grand Champion Birmack Lowansa Of Nishna owned by Maia Sornson was almost immediately followed by Grand Champion Snowdancer's Naughty Nikita Dancer owned by Betty Littrell of Moraga, CA. would later become ACFA's first InterAmerican Best Snowshoe. White markings on the chin, throat and stomach are allowable but because of the difficulty in seeing them in kittens, immature adults and bluepoints, are neither to be penalized or rewarded. paw pads may be pink , point colored or both with no penalty unless it goes into the hair. Point color (spotting) in the white pattern areas or white streaks (runners) from the white pattern into the point color are

The amount of penalty is determined by the amount ofIf the spot or runner is tiny only a tiny amount should beIf it is large enough to obscure the pattern it is grounds toA large spot or runner would be a large penalty. The show Snowshoe is an extremely hard cat to breed. is recessive and several gene factors are involved to produce theMost crosses now are Snowshoe to Snowshoe but outcrossing to Siamese and Oriental Shorthairs is still allowable. Standard also allows outcrossing to American Shorthairs but this was rarely done in the past and is generally never done now. problems result in this outcross. Most Siamese that are used to outcross are the old, heavy type rather than today's svelte show Siamese. vast majority of Snowshoe lines developed from crossing old type Siamese with domestic shorthairs of the proper markings or from Snowshoe marked cats of unknown backgrounds. Some of this is still going on today and experimentation is still being done to see how to encourage the good