PINARDAN?- Little bit more about us...  

My companion and I live in a 120qm large apartment in Munich. Pets were already a part of our life before we met. When our old dog Bonny became ill in 1995 tom cat Igor was facing a lonesome life in an empty apartment during the day. Therefor I began to look around for a semi longhaired, robust cat, which would be easy to look after. We wanted this cat to be Igors new companion after the dogs death.
I noticed an advertisement in a newspaper. Turkish Angora, hmm...  never heard! Lets check, what that is. This way I became acquainted with the race and found in these cats all the deeply loved characteristics, which I appreciated with my first cat, long long time ago.
That white, semi longhaired male street cat from former Yugoslavia had two different colored eyes. He was not only an eye catcher; above all he had an affectionate flexible character. He was like a dog in a cat coat and I never got over his death completely. I really thought his character was unique among cats but then I discovered, that his character is typical for a whole cat race, the Turkish Angora!
After some time tom cat Maoui joined our crew. There still were no definite plans for breeding, but I couldn't get the idea of a female counterpart to my first tom cat out of my head. Of cause it had to be a Turkish Angora.
A lot of time passed by in which I learned more about Turkish Angoras and looked for my first breeding cat. We found her in Ankara Zoo. That way I changed from a cat lover and Turk fan to a hobby breeder.
Though we have a lot of space, we will remain a very small cattery. Every cat is a member of the family, with it's own wishes and needs. The more cats exist, the less time we find to respond on each of them. Our old-established neuters would not deserve this and especially such sensitive intelligent cats, like Turkish Angoras, should not be kept alone nor in to large groups and of course never caged!
Since 1998 I am a member of the 1. DEKZV e.V.the German member club of FIFe, one of the few cat clubs, which has the regulation to detect perfect hearing with all white breeding cats. It has to be certified by doing an audiometric test (BEAR test).

PINARDAN is our cattery's name. It is Turkish (spoken: Pnardan) and means "OUT OF THE SOURCE" in English.

Ed is technique- and computer freak , so that I became a radio amateur and user of a personal computer. This second hobby we share goes well with our hobby cats. Our job sharing is also typical. Ed plays with the cats, I care for them and train them. I advanced the plans for breeding, Ed made me persistently continue to write and create our homepage.
He finally accepted the fact, that from time to time a whole gang of little Turks will prevent every activity on the computer and I accepted that I regularly will have to learn the latest software and will never find my files at the same place and under the same name, as I saved them under.
The cats do not understand what we are doing for hours and hours on the computer, but friendly as they are, they effectively help us by permanent walks on the keyyyyyyyyyyyyboard and mouse hunting.
Ed and I totally agree on one thing: there's hardly anything nicer than a happy and satisfied cat, that purrs into your ears...

April 1998