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Name is Dorit Kersting |
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with
my
family
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the
old
City
of
Aachen,
located
in
the
very
west
of
Germany. |
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| I
welcome you
to the
Kadima
Cashmeres
website,
created to
introduce my
cats and my
breeding
program and to
share the
Cashmere
story.
Following the
links on the
left you may
find lots of
information on
the breed as
well as a
number of
Cashmere
photos. |
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| Together
with my
husband I run a small
in-home
cattery. Our cats are,
first and
foremost, our
beloved
pets. The
females have
free run in
the house and
follow us
everywhere.
They "help"
with the house
work and with
cooking and share our
bedroom at
night. We
give great
value to a
sweet
personality
and sometimes
I am too
surprised how
careful our
cats are with
their claws
when touching
us. |
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only have few
litters the
year
and our
kittens are raised
within the
family. They
are
handled with
love from
the moment
they are born. For us
it is pure joy
to see them
grow, watching
their
exuberant play
and cuddling
with them. |
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| Within
my
breeding
program I am working to
achieve
my
vision
of
the
perfect
Cashmere
some
day: Long,
sturdy
body
with
good
all
over
type
and
wildcat
like
movements.
Very
clear
and
silky
coats
with
warm
to
bright
colors.
Nicely
contrasted,
flowing
pattern.
Expressive
faces
with
big,
wide
set
eyes,
prominent
whisker
pads,
big
noses,
strong
chin,
good
profile
and
small
ears. |
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Please
note:
Kadima
Cashmeres is a
closed
cattery. We do
not give stud
or queening
service, nor
do we sell
kittens from
our breeding
program to the
shorthair
breed.
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How
I became a
Cashmere
breeder: |
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Sometimes
things in life
are starting
with tidbits
of colored
glass, fitting
perfectly into
the bigger
puzzle in the
end.
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of those was
an incredibly
beautiful
cat residing
like a queen
on an
accumulation
of bales
within the old
Bazar of
Marrakech. Her
coat was made
from golden
silk, covered
with huge ink
black spots.
Never before I
have seen a
cat with
longer hair,
laying beneath
the resting
cat like a
curtain. I
wished I could
have stayed a
little bit
longer, but it
was the end of
my holiday and
no time to
even take a
closer look at
her ... |
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| The
following year
I tried to
find her
again, but
within the
labyrinth of
Jamaa al-Fna
with all the
perfumes of
such a
different
world and it's
confusing backlash
of light and
shadow
I wasn't even
able to tell the
drapery apart
from all the
other
ones. |
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is no more
left than an
elusive image
of a small
golden cat
with an
oriental
shaped head,
but it seems
some of her
magic stardust
stayed on me. |
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| It
was spring
1998, when I
saw the first
Bengal on a
cat show. I
already stayed
for a while
close to the
cage, when
someone took
me aside and
whispered:
Such a beauty
with longer
hair, wouldn't
it be great? I
couldn't get
it out of my
head and
thought about
cross breeding
with Turkish
Angora. |
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to Bengal
breeders I
soon found out
that there are
born long
haired kittens
from time to
time. You may
imagine how
excited I was,
when I saw the
first
pictures! I
was totally
hooked. They
were precious
these
"wild
ones"
with the
longer hair.
And from coat,
color, pattern
and type so
very different
to any other
long hair
breed. Now I
was sure: They
should have
their own
place within
the cat fancy! |
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imagined how
they might
look some day,
"my"
Cashmeres: A
wild looking
cat, with an
extremely
clear,
shimmering
coat,
sparkling with
the colors
of an
autumn forest,
when the sun
makes the
leaves
glow, while
painting
golden spots
on the dark
trunks of
the trees. |
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that time
there was no
one, who
thought about
breeding for
pure bred long
haired
Bengals, nor
was there a
name for them.
But even
worse:
Unwanted
within the
Bengal breed,
these kittens
were denied
and hidden
away - and not
at all sold
for
breeding. You
may imagine
that it took
me a while to
find the right
breeding pair
- but finally
I succeeded
and got what I
was looking
for! |
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| As
far as I know
we still own the
only cattery
world wide,
breeding |
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and for
long haired
Bengals only. |
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