Cats

Our cats
Al Gharb Cattery

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I love cats. Here you can see some photographs of my cats

Farruco when he was a kitten

Farruco playing

Funny was a cat with very beautiful eyes

Farruco and Funny as a loving couple

Vivaldi was a odd eyed kitten with many Angora's characteristics. Unfortunately he got Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP)... and he left us when he was only 6 month old.

Five weeks after Vivaldi's death we found a wonderful white Angora. We call him Tadzio,because he was so beautiful...(Do you remenber Death in Venice, of Thomas Mann-Luchino Visconti?).

Unfortunately, our little Tadzio got FIP too. Apparently the FIP virus can survive for months... but we didn't know it by that time... Fortunately we have many photographs of Tadzio, and we want to share his beauty with you...

So, we have waited for 6 months and we desinfect our home twice before getting another kitten.

In the beggining of October 1977, our friend Michael Knübben Winter, brought us, from the Netherlands, two wonderful Turkish Angoras: Ophelia and Olivia d'Inchmahome. They are littermates and they were born in my own birthday (19th February 1997)

Ophelia looks like a little princess with her pure white fur and the elegance of her movements.
She behaves like a princess too and she can be quite independant.

Olivia looks like a little fox, with an astonishing silky tail.
She seemed a little shy in the beggining but now she is very sweet and friendly.
She is a magnificent cat!

It was obvious that our girls needed a boy friend.

However, as there were no registered Turkish Angora cats in Portugal, we decided, with the precious help of Michael Knübben Winter, to look for a boy in Finland.
I was really happy to know that, at Nazarlik cattery, in Helsinky, there was a silver tabby Turkish Angora baby cat that could help me to remember my dearest Farruco.

Here you can see Claudius de Nazarlik, still in Finland, with one of his brothers.