Valleygirl's

Time will tell if Tassu is will be a show cat, it is still too early to tell about her show temperament. She has been once learning show life, and the judge told then that "she needs a bit practise..."

Perhaps Tossu is not the best Turkish angora, she is not as slender as her sisters and her ears are smaller, but she is very charming kitten. And she has a very nice "angora like" temperament, perhaps she is even too lively kitten.

But when I write this, Tossu limps. Both kittens, Tassu and Tossu, did not eat anything else than raw meat, and they got too little calcium. That caused them so called "paper bone syndrome". Kittens had to change their diet (now they have learned to eat canned kitten food). Tassu, who had much more radical effects, is now totally recovered, but hopefully also Tossu will recover totally. 

But at home Tuittu is if not a friend of other cats around her, but more or less she respects the the cats (at least her Deniz-mother) and she is, like an angora should be, an affectionate, lively cat and purrs loadly and all the time.

She is also a friend of our guests, likes to be noticed...

Tuittu has shown very motherly properties to Deniz's youngsters. We were a bit worried how she would react when she sees the kittens, but after some days Tuittu started to clean kittens, and she even milked them... Perhaps Tuittu should make an own litter also.

When Viraton was a kitten, he was more slender kitten than the others and had a very long tail and long legs. And even as an adult male, he still is quite slender male. He started his show career with a nomination, but he did not like travelling in a car and so we took him perhaps too seldom to cat shows when he should have been used to it and so his show career ended when he got Champion-titel. After that he has been in some shows but he does not like to be handled at all.

Viraton is an easy-to-handle cat who likes to have humans around him.

Although the pet name Viraton in finnish means about "worth of nothing" Viraton is a father, so far only 2 kittens, but perhaps he gets more offspring later.

Deniz was about 1 year old when she came to us. Deniz's owner had to find a new home for Deniz, as she had fights with other cats, but Deniz accommodated quite easily to our home. But she has some scratches in her ears which tells about her earlier life.

Deniz is a very nicely behaving show cat, but not only her temperament but she is also otherwise a beautiful Turkish Angora. So she has been nominated three times, and was graduated European Champion 12th of January, 2002.

Deniz is a playful cat, who shows her love to us sometimes even too much, crying behind the doors when we leave home or trying to conquer our bed from other cats.

When Kalle had his first cat shows in Finland, he was a surprise for other cat owners, as they had not seen any coloured Turkish Angoras, but still Kalle was too small and slender to be a Norwegian Forest Cat or Maine Coon either.

Kalle is a real Turkish angora from his temperament: very affectionate and playful boy who is a friend of our females now when he lives with them after neutering.

tortie spotted tabby female
(spayed)
Blood group A (carrier of B)
PKD-neg.
Born: 1.6.1996

So Sari had an honour to be our next mother also. When her first litter was born, Sari was still thought to be a typical Turkish Angora, but nowadays she is too old-fashioned... so when we planned to have a second litter with Sari, the reason was her line, which is nowadays quite foreign, Russian line. 

Sari was a bit withdrawn kitten, perhaps she though she is different from the others (other kittens were white and also mother was white). And even nowadays she likes to be alone from other cats, but definitely she wants to sleep on our lap or in our bed.

white, blue eyed female
(spayed, deaf)
Born: 1.6.1996

Silva will always have a special place in our hearts, as she showed us how wonderful a cat can be. She is a very affectionate lap-cat, perhaps because of her deafness.

white, blue eyed female
(spayed)
blood group A
Born: 28.12.1992

When she came to us, she had a fiance already and soon she also had her litter, which was the first Valleygirl's litter (Z-litter). Lulla was a very good mother, took care of her own kittens and also kittens of her own daughter, Sari, a year after her own litter. And even now she takes care of her "little kitten" Sari every now and then.

Vilma is a calm, but also a bit shy cat, so our guests don't normally see her, but she takes very calmly visits to a vet and manicure and so on. But yes, she tells also her opinions, but with smaller gestures than our other cats.   

Cindy came to us in spring 1995 from USA. She was extreamly afftectionate cat, who always slept on our lap and unlike our other cats, she showed her affectionate to all our guests also.

Cindy's life was full of illness, at age of 4 she was diagnosed a kidney disease and later also she diagnoses HCM. But the kidneys caused her death (according to pathology report indications of chronic infection in the other and acute, purulent infection in the other kidney could be found).