About me

My name is Carolina Björn and I live in Almunge, Sweden with my boyfriend Mikael and all our lovely cats. Our cats are strictly indoors cats and only goes out with harnesses. The "main Meny" for our cats is dry food from Eukanubas and sometimes they also eat wet food and BARF. We use "PeeWee" litter in the trays.

My prefix was not among my first hand choice, the fact is that it was my sixth! But like this afterwards, it feels very right and I am very glad that it become my prefix. The idea for the prefix where from a free postcard that SF handed out for a lot of years ago. On the postcard they had played with the letters so that if you read it right, was a sentence even though it was a completely different spelling. If you want to express my prefix right? It's "Cutie Cat" (kjutikat).

My Goals and Values
Being a breeder is a big responsibility and it means a lot of work and commitment from you as a person. I was going to share my goals and how I have thought myself to get there.
Breeding is an ongoing work and you learn something new all the time. Depending on that you never have any guarantees that everything is as it has been thought, your values and goals can change over time. It is therefore important for me to respect everyone's values on the breeding and objectives and see the positive in that we all are not going exactly the same way about everything and nothing.This is what creates variation and that is what makes it so wonderful to be human- You can change your opinion over time, where after you get new experiences! You keep learning all the time.

Today, I think like this
An obvious goal for me is to strive towards cats that are prosperous and healthy throughout their lifetime, and that these cats also have a wonderful temperament. I want them to be secure individuals who love to love and who love their people. Cats primary mission is to be just a wonderful loving pet!
To achieve these goals, I will regularly test all my breeding animals for the recommended health tests available for the race, even after they have been neutered (HCM). A good temperament for my cats, I hope to achieve by using social and friendly cats in my breeding, with a temperament that appeals to me, and that with my own personal upbringing of the kittens have them safe and stable during their first time as a cat.
I avoid to replace my cats that are no longer in the breeding programme, they are for me first of all my loving pets and friends. I replace only if the cat is no longer happy with me and not doing well. I have chosen to use "fodervärdar" to avoid that I have more cats than I have time and afford with. I have also chosen to keep my breeding rather small, but personal, and therefore I do not plan for more than a maximum of two litters per year. This choice is also of practical reasons, I plan my litters for myself and with the idea of maintaining an offspring itself to proceed with in my breeding.
I value the genetic variation and therefore seeks to make it as close to 0% as possible in the inbreeding rate my matings as I do. I will work to broaden the genetic base for the colourpointed British Shorthair and to encourage more males used in breeding.

Carolina Björn
Mobil: 070-47 82 049    
Mail: myssan121@hotmail.com

Qtcat
British Shorthair & Selkirk Rex