Marie Eve introduces us to Topaze, Playboy, Kalinka and the others, Chartreux and British Shorthairs, which she breeds with passion.
We asked Marie Eve to tell us a few words about her selection: “I’m specialised in Chartreux and Colourpoint British Shorthair. All our cats are family-bred, they live with us, along with our parrot Ruby, a female eclectus, and our dog Rimbaud, a cavalier King Charles. Our kittens are all micro chipped, vaccinated, dewormed, and have an official pedigree.
When you live with Chartreux cats, the only risk you have is to become happier and richer!” says Marie Eve. “Ask my Chartreux, and you’ll see what he’ll answer:”
“I might be a bit proud about my velvet coat, with its subtle and beautiful blue colour, yet I still like people o think that under I have a robust and elastic body, which makes dream all my slender and fine female companions. I haven’t lost my hunting instincts: my lively eyes, yellow like two brand new copper coins, can see the smallest motion; my large and high set ears, can hear sounds inaudible to my owners. And then I jump, silently and quickly…”
“I like family life above all. I purr when my young mistress caresses my shiny fur. I follow her when she goes out, and there she is, even more beautiful. I can also hear her friends praising my large shoulders, my face and its round cheeks, my bright, expressive eyes, and my graceful walk. To thank them, I move my tail, which is just the right length, and as usual, I’m all cuddly and friendly…”
As for The British Shorthair, Marie Eve lifts the veil on the history of the breed: “In the second half of the 19th century, the Cheshire Cat in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, is already represented under the look of a Tabby British Shorthair. At the same time, English breeders, like H.Weir for instance, selected the most beautiful household cats, and showed them at London’s Crystal Palace in 1871.”
“These cats were called British Shorthair cats, so as to distinguish them from the Foreign and Oriental cats on the one hand, and on the other hand from the long haired cats, such as the Angoras. This breed is the British tantamount to the European Shorthair in Western Europe, and to the American Shorthair in the USA.”
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