TICA BEST Siberian Alter in the World SGCA Alexandrite Akiro

The news is official our very own handsome Siberian Alexandrite Akiro is TICA BEST Siberian Alter worldwide and he finished 4th BEST Alter in the Region so this means Akiro can add Regional Winner to his name!!!

Akiro also achieved this season his SUPREME GRAND CHAMPION ALTER Title. The first Seal Lynx (Tabby) Point and White to achieve this in the UK.

What an accomplishment and he wasn't shown all season!!

We are all so proud of him and he is such a loveable boy. We knew Akiro was special from an early age and to achieve this as a breeder is just amazing.

A big Thank You to all the judges who picked him for their Final.

Well done Akiro and this is his new official title...

Regional Winner Supreme Grand Champion Alter Alexandrite Akiro

Kitten Available

We have one kitten available in Anyanka's litter he is a Black Smoke and very cute with a personality to match. He is 9 weeks old and will be ready to go to his new home middle of June.

He will look similar to his Uncle Grumpy when he is older and the antics he gets up to are so similar to Grumpy when he was a kitten.

If you think you can offer Little Grumpy a loving home please email kittens@ alexandrite-siberian-kittens.co.uk for more details.

Introducing Alexandrite Anuta Ekho

Some photos of Anyanka's and Mishka's beautiful baby girl. Who will be taking over from her mum. She has some big paws to fill. From a very early age she showed a lot of promise and we feel that Anyanka will be very proud of her.

We have named her Anuta Ekho in honour of her Nana Anuta as she has the same Silver Classic Tabby pattern.

Little Anuta is very sweet natured like her mum and very pretty, with great boning and that all important round tummy!

Willow & Cimus Kittens photo in Catworld!!

What a lovely surprise I had while looking through this months Catworld I came across this advertisement. I looked at it and thought those kittens look familiar! Well they would they are from Willow and Cimus litter from 2007!!

Gosh we had forgotten how little Boo Boo and Frosty were :-) and still can't believe we got them all to stay so still for Krissi to take the photo!

Update on Hendrix and Mystiques Kittens

We had an update and some photos from Mandy and Paul on how the boys were doing. Thank you to them both for looking after them and spoiling them. 

This is what Mandy said:

Just thought I'd give you a quick update on our lovely kittens.  We called them Larry (Noel) and Jasper (Lenny) in the end and they have already become utterly beloved members of our family. Larry is incredibly affectionate, always rolling upside down on the floor to be stroked, while jasper is the one who comes to greet us at the door when we come in from work.

They are both constantly on the go, chasing up and down the stairs and getting into mischief. They also seem to adore each other and spend loads of time curled up together on an armchair or on the bed! We couldn't have asked for more sweet natured, fun and intelligent little creatures. Thank you so much for bringing them up so well!

Nogs Cat Shop Website Launch!

Well after lots of work we are just about ready to launch our Nog inspired enterprise called Nogs Cat Shop!!

Yes we know Nog is an American Curl and not a Siberian but he has many Siberian friends :-) so wanted to update our Alexandrite Siberian blog with the news.

Please visit the website at www.nogscatshop.co.uk there are some great product links on there and we will be adding more over the next few weeks. In the future we hope to have our own Nog inspired products and even some Siberian ones. We are also planning to have gifts for us cat loving people.

The website has been designed by Anne at Kangablu and I can't thank Anne enough for the great job she has done. And of course it has Nogs full approval...

Fudge & Marishka

A quick shot of Fudge looking after our newest addition Marishka. She has bonded with Fudge and he enjoys looking after her like he did Kahlan. Marishka has settled in very well since joining us and loves playing chase with Nog and Pepper!

Fudge celebrated his 12th Birthday last weekend and is still a very handsome chap.

...to an Alexandrite Adult

All grown up in the snow!
And one with his beautiful sister.

From Alexandrite baby to...

Alexandrite Tynan - Black Smoke

New Home for Mishka & Ajax

Due to problems with asthma at their home brother and sister Ajax and Mishka need to find a new home together. They are 8 months old and very loveable. They are currently living in Barnsley, South Yorkshire.

If you think you can offer them a new forever home together please contact Andy or I email, kittens@alexandrite-siberian-kittens.co.uk and I will forward on the contact details.

Older Kittens Available

We have available 2 boys and a girl, they are currently 5 1/2 months old and ready to go to their new homes. Please contact Andy and I for more details email kittens@alexandrite-siberian-kittens.co.uk

Many thanks...and second thoughts....

Thank you to all our friends who emailed us and posted comments on the blog in response to my last blog post. A special thanks to Maria and Melanie who were very supportive at the last TICA show and helped me, in particular, rethink the whole situation. So on a happier note, Andy and I will be continuing to breed Siberians and hopefully will have kittens available later in the year.

We will still be looking for homes for some of our retired girls so if you think you can offer a home to one of our loving girls please email me for more details kittens@alexandrite-siberian-kittens.co.uk

The end of an adventure...

It is with a great deal of sadness but Andy and I have made the decision to stop breeding Siberians. We will shortly be looking for homes for our retired adults. I will update the blog with details when I have any.

For the time being we will be keeping some of the youngsters just in case we are able to start again later in the year or next year. And we may continue to show.

Thank you to everyone who has sent us lovely comments over the years about our Siberian kittens.

Introducing Musrafy Marishka

We are very excited to introduce Musrafy Marishka to our family and Siberian breeding program. Marishka is a Brown Tabby and White and has a fantastic pedigree.

Marishka has been bred by our close friend Maria at Musrafy Siberians. We are very pleased to have such a fantastic opportunity and we are looking forward to her joining us soon.

A big Thank You to Maria for this very beautiful girl.

The very cute Musrafy Marishka

Naturally TICA Show - Alexandrite Akiro, another super show!

Last weekend was another show for Alexandrite Akiro and yet again he made us very proud. The show was at Elsecar, Barnsley and we went both days. There were 12 rings, 6 per day and on the Saturday Akiro made 4 Finals and on the Sunday 5 Finals, including the very last ring where he received another BEST Alter Final. Way to go Akiro!!!

Saturday's Finals

Monika Dany - 2nd Best Allbreed Alter

Connie Webb - 3rd Best Allbreed Alter 

  Sue Hart-Jones - 3rd Best Longhair Alter

  Kim Tomlin - 9th Best Allbreed Alter

 

 Sunday's Finals

Connie Webb - BEST Allbreed Alter

   Sue Hart-Jones - 2nd Best Longhair Alter

Monika Dany - 3rd Best Longhair Alter

  Heather Roberts - 4th Best Allbreed Alter

Kim Tomlin -  7th Best Allbreed Alter

Akiro receiving his BEST Allbreed Alter Final from Connie

Akiro and his Rosettes, and a little extra friend!!

A big Thank you to all the judges who finalled Akiro and of course mum who came along on the Sunday to help with the show catalogue. After a tiring Saturday I was very glad of the help! Also mum made another great lunch, thanks mum xx

We also had the pleasure of showing Musrafy Yanara for our very good friend Maria, she did brilliantly with many BEST finals and we were very tempted to kidnap her! Well Done Yana!

It was lovely to see Alexandrite River's baby girl too, Midnightstar Rika who also did very well at her first show. Well Done Rika!

Mystique's Kittens and Kitten Update

Mystique's kittens are growing very fast and will be off this week for their first vaccinations. They are all super kittens and are very playful and cuddly. Mystique has again been a fabulous mum. 

The dad is the very handsome TICA Regional Winner Champion Alexandrite Hendrix.

The kittens will be ready to go to their new homes around 17th December, just in time for Christmas!

These are the last kittens to go from Alexandrite this year and we are looking at plans for next year.

Gemini's Kittens

Gem's kittens are now 3 weeks old and doing really well we have 1 Red Lynx Point Boy, 1 Blue Lynx (Tabby) Point Boy, 1 Brown Torbie and White Girl and 1 Seal Lynx (Tabby) Point Girl.

The dad is the very handsome TICA Champion Alexandrite Phoenix Mishka.

We are hoping to get photos soon. At the moment the Seal Lynx (Tabby) Point Girl is under assessment.

Gem's kittens will be available to go to their new homes end of January.

Mystique Kitten - Silver Classic Boy

This handsome boy is Optioned

Kittens @ 8 weeks old

Mystique Kitten - Silver Mackerel Boy

This super boy is Optioned

Kitten photos @ 8 weeks

Mystique Kitten - Silver Classic Girl

This sweet girl is currently Under Assessment

Kitten photos @ 8 weeks

 

 

Akiro does it again!! Another fantastic Show Result!!

We went off to Newbury yesterday for the CatTICA show. We took along Alexandrite Akiro to hopefully get more points towards his Supreme Alter Title and he couldn't have made us prouder. He finished the show with a total of 5 Finals

Chris Unangst - BEST Longhair Alter

Katherina Krenn - 2nd Best Longhair Alter

  Frencesca Gagern - 3rd Best Allbreed Alter

  Heather Roberts - 5th Best Allbreed Alter

  Jeff Roberts - 5th Best Allbreed Alter

Way to go Akiro!

Again we were asked "Why is he an Alter???" Which just makes us very proud of our Siberians and  for anyone who breeds cats, you can't keep everyone in the breeding program. This the judges understood. But by showing him as an alter it proves that we have picked some fantastic Siberians as our foundation cats and we are keeping those lines going with our own bred Siberians.

Big Thank you to all the Judges who picked Akiro for a Final and special thanks to my mum for all her help and catalogue scoring and for those fantastic sandwiches! xxx

Some photos of him in his finals sorry for quality the hall lighting wasn't great.

Akiro and his BEST Alter final with Chris Unangst

Akiro and his 2nd Best Alter Final with Katherina Krenn