Previously, we most heavily worked with Solid Persian lines resulting in cats of the following coat color possibilities: Black, Blue, Red, Cream, Tortoise-Shell (Black/Red), Blue/Creams, and White (Copper-Eyed, Odd-Eyed, and Blue-Eyed).

We added a Dilute Calico Bicolor, which is a cat with color plus white. In her case she is blue & cream patched with white. Calico's are always females. The rare male calico is usually sterile because he is carrying an extra 'X' chromosome.
Bicolors can produce the same colors as solids and also the solid colors + (plus) white (spotting) (i.e. Black & White, Red & White, Black/Red & White=Calico, etc.)

After some years of scaling back and a couple of moves, we are pretty much starting over with our breeding program. While we were 'on a break' from breeding, we did show a couple of Japanese Bobtails, and granded one in Championship, then took her out for a regional breed award placement and regional color award placement. Naoki was a very shy cat and this made it difficult for her to show to her full potential, but after much patience and gentle persuasion, Naoki came to enjoy going with us to the shows.

We show in the CFA (Cat Fanciers' Association) and were long time members (and former officers) of the Tarheel Triangle Cat Fanciers, a CFA licensed service club that puts on two shows annually in CFA's Southern Region, in Raleigh, North Carolina, until we relocated in 2006.

In addition, we are still members of Foothills Felines, formerly in Spartensburg, SC; now putting on two shows annually in Simpsonville, SC. We joined this club when they were down to 6 full time members and pitched in with numerous show entry clerking, benching, show setups (especially those 5am setups) and breakdowns, judges' transportation, master clerking and ring clerking.
Also, we were founding members and helped with the formation of a new club in the Carolinas called Coastal Paws Cat Club, which tends to move it's shows around SE North Carolina and NE South Carolina. They have had shows in Fayetteville, NC, Myrtle Beach and Florence, SC, and Wilmington, NC.

We also were Board Members and Officers in Dixieland Silver and Golden Fanciers, celebrating the Silver and Golden Persians (and all cats in this pigmentation group). Being a club in the Carolinas, we supported the fundraisers and shows of this club from its start and because of our friendship with those who breed Silvers, like Andrew Ringler (now retired from showing) and Pam Martin and others who were key to this club's start up in North Carolina. We also used this show's date to celebrate the December holiday season with our friends and acquaintences in CFA and the fancy.

We both are Licensed Master Clerks and we are doing some development towards becoming Licensed Master Clerk Instructors. If you have any questions about clerking, feel free to contact us and we will give you an answer or put you in touch with the person who can answer your questions. We recommend clerking school for all new exhibitors, as well as, those persons interested in becoming clerks.