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Our son Karl was extensively brain damaged in a car accident in December of 1996 and he died in May of 2001.
When Karl had the accident I, Ian, was working for a dog grooming parlour. One day I asked the owner about a cat with a very bushy tail like a squirrel which we had seen on television. She told me it was probably a Norwegian Forest cat, which I had never heard of before, and that she was breeding with them in conjunction with a friend of hers. She told me that these cats love to talk and interact with their owners. We started talking about Karl, whom she had known as a young boy, and the therapeutic benefit of having a cat like this in our house. She discussed this with her friend Lara (Ratatosk Cattery) and they decided to look for a suitable cat for him.

So entered our first Norwegian into the house, Joanie Blue, who changed our lives so much with her antics and games.
Our breeding programme officially started in 1997 with the Norwegian Forest Cat.
Our second Norwegian was Serendipity, who is the mother of our queen "Valkyrie" and grandmother to our queen "Lady Tabitha". All three have now been retired from breeding.

In 2005 we started to breed with the similar, but slightly larger Maine Coon and imported several cats from Germany and catteries in Johannesburg.
In 2007 we started to breed with the Russian Siberian Cat and imported 3 females and 1 male from Canada.

To finish off, all we can say is our home would not be the same without our cats and we feel privileged and blessed to be able to breed with these beautiful creatures.