Vision of
Safkan Kedi's
Background
The start
of my cattery
| ☺ | We work to
improve the knowledge of the Turkish van cat. |
| ☺ | We wish to keep the
Turkish van cat as pure breed and without interference from other
breeds, but at the same time prevent inbreeding and diseases.
Therefore we use only breeding material of high quality and without
any known diseases in the pedigrees. |
| ☺ | We give high priority
to our cats and spend a lot of time with them. We do not allow
mating of our cats untill they are ready for it, which means that we
produce kittens with excellent health and a great temper. |
| ☺ | All our cats live as
part of our family, which means that our kittens are happy and well
socialized. |
| ☺ | We prioritize quality
before quantity, therefore we have only a limited number of cats in
our home and only have kittens occasionally. |
| ☺ | We give lifelong
support for our kittens, and are always happy to show our cats to
anyone who is interested. |
Background:
My interest for cats started when I was a little girl, but back then pure
breed cats was not so common, especially not when your parents was from the
country. Therefore I did not get any real knowledge about pure breed cats
untill I started my job as a volunteer in a Cat shelter in 1993. It was just
the most common pure breed cats that we saw in the shelter, but my interest
for pure breed cats became bigger every day, and I knew that I would start
breeding cats one day. In 1993 I started reading a lot of books about pure
breed cats, but at that time I thought that I was to young to start my own
breeding program. Therefore I only had interest in pure breed cats in
general without any preferred breed.
The start of my cattery:
In 2002 my old cat was very old, and he needed some company from a younger
cat. Therefore I started reading about the different breeds and their temper.
It was important to us that I got exactly the breed that would fit best into
our family.
At first it was hard to decide untill the day I saw a picture of a Turkish
Van cat in "Politikkens kattehåndbog". That was definitely the breed for us.
I had never seen such a beautiful cat before. The cat was Soyadi's T van
Alexander. We read that the Turkish van cat was a very rare breed in my
country, but since I could not forget this beautiful cat I succeeded in
finding a breeder of the Turkish van cat in 2003. Later on I realized that
the breeder was the proud owner of the beautiful cat from the book.
Cattery Soyadi's had just had kittens, and after a couple of visits we
decided to buy our first Turkish van cat; Soyadi's Anamur. - A little red/white
female that we called Malou. She is actually the granddaughter of Soyadi's T
van Alexander.
We bought the kitten to cheer up our old cat, and it was our intention to use her in a breeding program when our old cat had past away. Unfortunately our old cat was diagnosed with cancer and died shortly after the diagnosis. Our little kitten who came from a large cattery was very unhappy, and did not like being alone. At that time there was no other Turkish van cats for sale in our country, so we decided to buy a Turkish angora to keep Malou company untill she one day got her own kittens.
In 2005 Soyadi's Anamur (Malou) gave birth to 3
kittens of which the 2 kittens were black tortie females and the last kitten
was a cream male. Thereby we got the first cream Turkish van cat in Denmark
(Safkan Kedi's Joachim), and we were all very proud of the new mother.
In 2006 Soyadi's Anamur made us very proud again when she gave birth to the
first Blue tortie van cat in Denmark (Safkan Kedi's Marie Curie).