The Purest Love You Will Find
The Purest Love You Will Find
Welcome to my Siberian cattery, where we pride ourselves on raising exceptional cats. Our kings and queens are imported from Russia, boasting champion bloodlines. All parent cats undergo rigorous health testing, including checks for heart and kidney conditions, ensuring the highest standards of health and quality in our kittens.
We specialize in breeding both Neva Masquerade and traditional Siberian cats. Our Neva Masquerades feature striking color-point patterns and vivid blue eyes, while our traditional Siberians are known for their robust build and diverse coat colors. Both types possess the breed’s renowned friendly and playful temperament.
We are TICA and CFA registered home-based cattery of purebred Siberian cats and kittens.
At my cattery, we specialize in breeding well-socialized kittens that make excellent companions and therapy-like cats. Our kittens are raised in a loving environment, ensuring they develop friendly, calm, and affectionate temperaments, ideal for bringing comfort and joy to any home.
Siberian cats are often described as dog-like due to their loyal, affectionate, and playful nature. They enjoy interacting with people, can be trained to fetch, and often follow their owners around the house, making them wonderful and engaging companions.
Our Siberian Cats make the most wonderful pets, in particular for those people who have issues with cat allergies.
Siberians usually produce a lower level of the Protein gene in their saliva than most cats breeds. Every cat has allergen levels. There is no such thing as a non-allergic cat. A common misconception is that allergen levels is caused by cat hair, which is why a lot of people do not believe a long hair breed, such as the siberian cat, can be hypo allergenic. Cats produce a protein in their saliva called Fel-D1. This protein contains the allergen levels. Because the cat grooms itself, the saliva, and with that the Fel-D1 protein ends up on the coat, and causes dander.
Siberians produce much less of this Fel-D1 allergen protein then any other breed. Because of this, the Siberian cat is often a good choice of allergy sufferers. Some people will still have reactions so please discuss with us if you've experienced reactions to cats. Siberians all have some degree of allergen levels, and the body needs time to adjust to that. In most cases, a kitten goes home and for about 4-6 weeks the allergic person’s body is adjusting and they may have allergy symptoms. After a 4-6 weeks they should be gone, or at least significantly taper off. When the cat starts shedding it may temporarily flare up again. An allergy test will tell you what reaction you will have short term, but to know long term, you need to have a siberian in your house for at least a month, and be prepared to give it that much time to adjust to the cat’s allergen levels.
Siberian cats can be very sociable and can get along well with other pets, including dogs, rabbits, Guinea pigs, ferrets and more if introduced properly and given time to adjust.
Siberians are heavy cats – when fully mature, you should expect 12-17 pounds for males; females will be around 8-13 pounds. They’re not supposed to be oversized or cartoonishly large like a Maine Coon, though – if Maine Coons are the Great Danes of the cat world, Siberians are the bullmastiffs.
Siberians are heavier than they look, with big solid bone, round heads and bellies, and a lot of muscle. They grow slowly and mature over a full four or five years. Males typically put on about a pound a month until they are a year old, and then add their last four or five pounds over the next few years. Females at their first birthday are usually under ten pounds, and still very much kittens. By three they have their full size, but continue to bulk up until age five.
Beware of breeders who guarantee a 20+ pound cat – a 20-pound Siberian is likely overweight, which is not healthy.
Our Siberian kittens are friendly and outgoing, but when they arrive to you they’ll be a bit like human four-year-olds – easily overstimulated, needing regular naps, and craving a healthy routine. It can be incredibly scary to be brought into a new home and expected to get to know everyone and everything all at once.
The right way to introduce a kitten is with a “soft quarantine” – a comfortable room that is just the kitten’s, with no other animals allowed, but with lots of human interaction. A bedroom with a door that can be closed, a basement family room, a home office, or similar is ideal. Let the kitten feel protected and safe, and let her explore this room at her own pace for at least a week. After this point you can open the door with a baby gate between the kitten and the rest of the house, so that existing cats, dogs, and visitors can meet her but not overwhelm her. Once she is asking for the gate to be open, do so for short periods. Before you know it, she’ll have the run of the house and be the confident, social little creature she has the potential to be.
We will always be available to support any issues if they arise.
They’re fantastic – but are they the best choice for you?
Siberians are truly unique. We didn’t quite believe it either, before they arrived, but they really are as different from the typical American “pet cat” as one breed of dog is different from another.
They are fluffy and gorgeous, but more than that they’re confident, easygoing, and sociable. When one of our dogs runs into the room, our rescue cats jump for the corners and the cat trees; our Siberian cats open one eye and purr a little louder.
Siberians adore people, especially kids, but are never obnoxious and demanding. They love to be touching you, but they’d rather walk beside you (and probably encourage you to head toward the treat jar) than be carried. They’re incredibly clever; they can open doors and even drawers, but once they’ve got the drawers open they tend to just luxuriously snuggle in them rather than cause any trouble.
They change their clothes for summer and winter. The winter coat is the one you’ve probably seen in pictures – a wide thick ruff, full tail, and lots of hair everywhere. In the spring, they shed that coat almost completely. The summer coat is only medium-long; in some cats it can almost look like they’re short-haired. Then in the fall the warm clothes come out again.
They adore toys and will do amazing acrobatics and flips for wands and teasers.
If you dream of a soft, round, reading-on-the-window-seat cat who comes alive when the toys are brought out, the Siberian may be the perfect fit.
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