January 2008 Newsletter - United Burmese Cat Fanciers
January 2008 Newsletter - United Burmese Cat Fanciers
January 2008 Newsletter - United Burmese Cat Fanciers
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Rock-Land cattery and begged her for a kitten, although I<br />
had no extra money with me at the time, as the New York<br />
show proved quite expensive. The cats in the kitten’s pedigree<br />
were not familiar, but I did acquire the kitten, which<br />
I named Rock-Land’s Sand and Sable, on a trade. When<br />
I got home and traced the pedigree, my eyes bugged out<br />
because she went back to GC Brierwood’s Babe, who was<br />
a national winner and not seen in many pedigrees. Sandy<br />
had huge eyes like saucers and could go from placid to fight<br />
in three seconds or less.<br />
I made a wonderful friend with Susan Beshears of<br />
WhoDat in the 80’s, and we maintain that friendship<br />
today although she is no longer in cats. Susan and Ralph<br />
Beshears had many winners in UBCF in past years, and I<br />
was lucky enough to acquire some of their lines going back<br />
to Puma Lair, Shawnee, and old Midwestern lines as well.<br />
A cat from Susan Mundell of Risu cattery and some lines<br />
from Dodie Granger of Yasmin blended in with lines I had<br />
acquired from Pat Swihart, who also ran a traditional breeding<br />
program as well as her contemporary program. Pat had<br />
some lovely Jeske lines as well as Tse Mau from Eileen<br />
Dunn in California, but the lines I loved the most were the<br />
lines coming from GC Koro’s Beau Brummel. His type<br />
was so deeply ingrained in the lines that it reappeared generations<br />
later. He was the key male in my early breeding<br />
years in my lines, and I thrilled to see GC Fongin Chop Soy<br />
through several different descending cats in his pedigree.<br />
The nineties were a time of pedigree research for me.<br />
I met Claudia LaGrippe, through Pat, who had developed<br />
the initial database sold with Compuped. I acquired some<br />
of her old pedigrees . . . quite a few actually, and made my<br />
own data base inputting the data by hand. The notes on the<br />
pedigrees were very interesting. Some of the old cats listed<br />
as sable were not really “sable” but colors, which were<br />
considered disreputable at that time so they were listed as<br />
sable. During this time I visited a friend in Arizona and<br />
while there met Marie Zeiner, one of the pioneers in dilute<br />
breeding. She told me that at one time she had a chart<br />
of the colors of Siamese used in the <strong>Burmese</strong> breeding<br />
program with Wong Mau, but a flood had destroyed much<br />
of her personal effects including this chart. Marie was a<br />
wonderful hostess and entertained me with explanations on<br />
the definite difference between the champagnes originating<br />
from the Brierwood cats and the ones from the Pomona<br />
lines. I got to see her Pomona male, and my only regret is<br />
I didn’t use him but at the time it was just so far to ship. I<br />
think he was the last of the Pomona males.<br />
I had a wonderful database on my computer in the late<br />
90’s and early 2000’s, and about four or five different <strong>Burmese</strong><br />
files on pedigrees. And, one year in the 90’s I won the<br />
Linechaser’s Ribbon for researching the most pedigrees for<br />
that club (in Europe). I made friends with Rosemary Hale<br />
and other Europeans through Linechasers and eventually<br />
sold Hilde Frank cats for her traditional Bombay breeding<br />
program in Germany. I also worked with Anni Hemme of<br />
Chandigarah and received two gorgeous cats back from her<br />
from cats that had gone to Germany. I took a pale platinum<br />
male to Silvia Roll-Becker for Martha McMillan of Ineedakat<br />
cattery in Pittsburgh, although I almost had to fold<br />
up Ineedakat’s Lover Boy to fit him in the carrier he was<br />
so large. Eventually I was the happy recipient<br />
of one of his offspring Vom Silvan’s Silverado<br />
of Stagelight. I was very happy to have these<br />
lines of Martha’s as I don’t think too many got<br />
them.<br />
I showed a good bit in the 80’s and 90’s,<br />
but haven’t of late because of my stressful<br />
job, some health issues of my own, and my<br />
mother’s advanced age. However, I would like<br />
to do a bit more showing in the next few years.<br />
I have been working on outcrossing lines and<br />
acquiring type so that my cats are competitive<br />
with what is being shown in the Southern<br />
Region.<br />
CH Stagelight’s Daniel My Brother<br />
© Twisted River Photography<br />
Shirley D. Storey<br />
Stagelight <strong>Cat</strong>tery<br />
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