Welcome to our website and I hope you enjoy your journey through our wonderful cats.

To give you some background; I have always been owned by a cat or two when growing up and it was a natural step to obtain a
couple of furry friends when I finally bought a home of my own. These furry guys were Bilbo & Timon (see British boys). When I
met up with Norman a couple of years later I soon realised that he too was very much into the cats and enjoyed having a multi
cat household. After moving house twice to a much larger detached in 1999 I decided it was time to take the cats seriously
and see if I could go in to breeding and showing my own kittens. That's when the cats went from minority to majority!!
We found a wonderful breeder and now a good friend Anne Edney of Rocadanne who intrusted to us our first Maiden girls. Start
ing with just the British Shorthair and then over the last four to five years we have acquired several wonderful Selkirk Rex
cats that have complimented my British breeding programme with our first Selkirk kittens having been born in 2005.
We also bought our first Devon Rex 'Beaugly' in January 2006 with the hope of breeding this gorgeous breed of little
aliens....and a Persian girl has expanded our little harem...
Please note that we do not make any profit from kitten sales. Everything goes back into the pot towards the several thousands
of pounds it costs to keep these wonderful animals and support my hobby of showing.
Please feel free to browse our site and see our wonderful boys and girls.
If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact me direct:

Zoë L Amarilli
(+44) 0121-430-8082        email: zamarilli@aol.com

Selkirk's nick name is the "sheep cat", though named after a breed of
rabbit. The curly cat  is a rarity that they share with the little long-eared
herbivore, and with their cousins from Devon and Cornwall, otherwise they
look quite different.

The Selkirk owes' their humble beginnings within a litter of ordinary
kittens after a natural mutation. The breeders thought that they looked so
pretty they decided to establish the breed. The first ancestor, 'Miss
Pesto', was born in Wyoming USA,in 1987, of a common American Shorthair
mother and unknown father. She was adopted by Mrs Newman, a Montana
breeder of Persian cats, and so moved up into high society! Her first
partner, a black Persian called 'Photo Finish', gave her three curly kittens,
so the Selkirk is genetically dominant, because just one Selkirk parent was
enough to produce these curly little cats.

The Selkirk's have a robust, gracefully round body, lush curly fur and even
curly whiskers and eyebrows. They have a gentle nature and a loving
temperament.
The Sell kirk has just become recognised by the Governing Council of the
Cat Fancy thus launching their UK show career. For the first part of their
acceptance they can only been shown as an Assessment breed, but shortly
will have full recognition once their numbers on the show circuit start to
rise.

For more details of this wonderful new breed please visit the Selkirk
dedicated website:
Selkirk Rex Cat Club Web Site
"We would do well to look to the gutters for our education,"
wrote Moncrif in his History of cats in 1727. The
nineteenth-century cat lover and painter Harrison Weir must have
agreed with him, as he hand picked cats from the gutters of
Great Britain to breed and show, thereby raising the common or
garden alley cat to the rank of "British Shorthair". This terribly
colonialist appellation was used at the time to refer to a variety
of continental household cats, and was the cause of much
confusion, until specific breeding programmes defined the precise
standards for the British and European Shorthairs, according to
morphological differences.

Nowadays the British Shorthair still has a slightly rugged look
which betrays its common origins. It is a medium to large sized
cat, with a sturdy muscular body, broad shoulders, short robust
legs, and a deep rounded chest. The tail is thick at the base, and
should be as long as two-thirds of the body. The head must not be
too short, and is round, like the muzzle. The eyes are also round,
and are orange, gold or copper-coloured: in case of the
silver-coated cats, the eyes should be green, and white cats can
be odd-eyed.

The eyes are set quite wide apart, accentuating the width of the
nose, and there is a very slight stop between the nose and the
well-defined forehead. The very thick, short hair covering the
forehead gives it a rounded look. The ears are quite wide at the
base, and quite small., with rounded tips. It's short, plush fur
makes this cat look round and fluffy - most inviting to touch! With
it's sweetly innocent, picture book face, it looks like a cuddly toy
come to life.
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