The Burmese cat, Almond's Eleonora, and I met at a catshow in the end of year 1995. By that time the Burmese breed had become familiar from cat books, but after seeing this incredible creature alive, there was no other breed to compete, choice was obvious! The next day I started to plan a trip to Jyväskylä and Almond's cattery, and in December 1995 Elli moved to live with me in Pori. The Burmese is my breed: it's the most sociable and intelligent cat added with loads of independence and stubbornness. 

In February -96 we visited our first catshow together, Elli and I. The result was only excellent 1 in class 11 (kittens 6-10 months), but we were hooked. I've visited catshows in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Estonia, Poland, Austria, Czech Republic and Russia with my cats. Elli got titles European Champion and European Premier and two years in a row earned the Veteran of the Year -title. And just before her 10th birthday she became the first Burmese DSM in the whole FIFe!! My SUPER-girl!

Elli has now retired, but we go to shows with Molla, the new super-girl, mainly  to meet "Burmese-people", our other friends, to see other cats, hear "news", and of course those trophies are very interesting... 

In the end of 1996 begun the Ninelli's story. The A-litter, a bluetortie female Matami and a brown male Armas, never left home, as they were the only ones out of ten kittens to survive, it was out of question for me to let go of these two. Also a tortie girl Kuperkeikka, from the Ninelli's C-litter, stayed at home and in March 2003 we got Kuperkeikka's granddaughter Molla (from Ninelli's E-litter) to live with us, too! G-litter's Nuppu wouldn't move away from home, and in Easter 2007 I just had to have another bluetortie so Molla's great-granddaughter Aura came to live with us, from Almond's cattery!

Breeding has never been a "profession" for me, or could it never be such: It is always very hard for me to let go of kittens, I'd rather keep them all home with me. I'm very strict of the families who deserve a Ninelli's -kitten, both parties are expected to be open towards each other and I want to keep up with my kitties' lives also after they leave my house. 

Our hometown, Pori, is located on the west-coast of Finland, about 150km north of Turku. It’s the tenth largest city in Finland and it has about 76 000 inhabitants. I work for our family company Niwelco.

We live in our little red house in a nice quiet neighborhood appr. 1,5 km from the city center and 1,5 km from the airport.

In our small garden we have a small strawberry-plant and a potato field, tomatoes, two apple trees and a cherry tree, many different flowers, lots of little birds, a hedgehog, a squirrel... The whole family loves the summer, sun and sunbathing! Unfortunately the summer in Finland is quite short, but we eagerly wait for April, then gardening can begin again!

Elli, Matami, Armas, Kuperkeikka, Nuppu and Molla