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Breeder of the Turkish Van cats

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Safkan Kedi's is Turkish and means pure breed Cats.

 

Our cattery is with JYRAK, Denmark an approved Cattery. The "approved Cattery" means that we are following some rules that is considered ethical for cats and kittens. All our cats leaves our home with a Felis Danica (FIFe) pedigree.

 

Vision for Safkan Kedi's

1. We work to improve the knowledge of the Turkish van cat.
    
2. 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.
    
3. 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.
    
4. All our cats live as part of our family, which means that our kittens are happy and well socialized.
    
5. We prioritize quality before quantity, therefore we have only a limited number of cats in our home and only have kittens occasionally.
    
6. We give lifelong support for our kittens, and are always happy to show our cats to anyone who is interested.

About us

We are a small family with 3 people. We have the common interest that we are crazy about anything to do with cats. Therefore we decided in 2003 to buy our first purebred cat with the intend of starting breeding cats later on. We started breeding in 2005 when our female Soyadi’s Anamur, we call her Malou, had her first litter. We found that it was very interesting to follow the growth of the kittens and have decided to have another litter here in 2006.

Our family consists of:

Pernille aged 32, works as a radiographer at the hospital in Aalborg. This is a very interesting but also demanding job that is constantly evolving. Previously I have among other things worked at “Kattens Værn” (a shelter for homeless and abused cats) in Aalborg where I took part in the day-to-day care of homeless cats. At times it was tough to watch cats that came from not so nice circumstances, but that is part of working in such an environment.

Mads aged 33, works in the shipping industry. It is a very interesting and varied job unfortunately at times it calls for very long working days. Besides the interest in cats I follow the local sports teams closely.

Our son Mathias aged 10. He of course attends school.

 

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.

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).
In Spring 2007 Safkan Kedi's Victoria gave birth to her first litter. 5 kittens were born, and hereby the first blue/white Van kittens were born in Denmark.

 

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