Icebreaker's cattery
I'm Maria Hautala the 45 years old breeder of Icebreaker's cattery in Finland in breeds exotics and persians. I started breeding with sacred birman cat year 2002 with litters A-E, then year 2024 first exotic shorthair breed litter was born.
I like to attend cat shows where I can connect with other crazy catladies and -boys and talk about my cats freely and let also other people to enjoy and get familiar with my cats and breeds persian and exotics.
As a veterenarian I truly understand the brachycephalic breeds healt issues concerning these breeds also, but I don't buy that pure breed racism persian and exotic cats are facing nowadays. Not every one of them have breathing problems, it's quite wrong to believe so only because you are told so, please get to know the breeds better in their home facilities before you judge them all being sick. I have surgically operated stenotic nares and too long soft palates of French bulldogs, pugs or English bulldogs, but I have never operated a persian or exotic cat for that. And of course we are on the wrong pathway to go in breeding if such operations is needed to correct nature made alignments of breathing system.
The problem of too long soft palate or stenotic nares still exists in some individuals in the elder age of life especially of course, but I don't think it's common to cats to faint because of breathing problems or suffer horribly in every breathe they take, in my opinion the problem isn't that bad in cats at all, but people who really don't know believe so.
Every breeder can work their lines for the better health status of these breeds and choose individuals with no breathing problems. My choice for these breeds is because of their character, so kind and good family cat breeds like exotic and persian cats is difficult to find. I don't choose these breeds because I'm a sick person who wants to buy sick product of animal breeding. Most of the human made breeds no matter the animal species or also even mixed breeds are somehow sick, but there are no compleately healthy human beings either. I have met more and more people who come to judge me for my choice of breeds, and they do it very unpolitely and rude, like they were Jesus themselves but are breeding dogs as sick breed as hell. Please look in the mirror and think how could I make my statement about breed choice nicely to another person who's darling babies you are talking about, because fanatism and idiotism are a very close isms.
In the future I hope some day I can study to become a judge in catshows, that's my dream, let's hope it'll come true some day. Then I could do my part of guiding breeders for healthier choices in giving the judgement of a cat also to assess possible health issues in concern like one judge I have met does. He says I recommend this cat not for breeding, and I know breeders who believe in that judges evaluation. Meanwhile I study trimming cats (something you can only learn by doing or from professionals and little by little you learn some more every day) and showing them in catshows mainly in Finland, sometimes Sweden and Estonia also.
I own three exotics and one pure line persian. My breeding is very small scale, and I don't want to have more cats than I'm capable of taking good care of. I have only two exotic females and two stud males exotic and persian, both to use in only my own breeding and only with the permission of studs breeders for other breeders females. Because every mating is a risk for cattery's health situation and for the male itself, I don't want to take them for vain.
Breeding is not my number one priority in life, I enjoy much more attending a good cat show than just being a kitten producing unit. My every cat is a precious diamond for me, I'll do my everything for their well-being.
See you in cat shows!
Greetings from us all,
Maria, "Pippa"=SC Mogi's Violet (EXO a 24), "Paavo"=SC AzuLejo’s Red Dragon (EXO d 24), "Kukka"=CH Icebreaker's Fleur de Lis (EXO f 24) and "Jups" KCH, JCH Jupiter Heinroos JW (PER e 01 62)
