Meet Our Cats
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Dearheart & Cherie-Finesse Line
L’Classique Princess Leia
Leia was our first Dearheart Persian. Â She is also the one we got at the same time as Elsa. I wanted so much to have an Elsa, but I got outvoted on her name. For our first cat. Todd and Taylor wanted to name her after a star-wars character. So we compromised and I got to add Princess to her name. We did not know at that time we were going to get Leia’s litter mate as well. So Leia was supposed to be our one and only. Originally we were not even planning to breed but as time went by and we learned more about these beautiful babies we decided to be a part of that. So from there our next original plan was to just have Leia, use a stud. But as fate would have it, we were blessed to not only get Leia, but also a litter mate that I got to name (Elsa). Â Leia is a great mommy and she likes to have big litters, so far they have all been 4-5 kittens, including her very first litter. Around here, we like to call Leia everybody’s cat. She runs from no one including a big German Shepherd. If someone is getting attention you can believe it is this girl. She knows no strangers.
*In the pictures with two cats it is Eli, he is the one to the back or farther away from the Camera and he is the darker one, the other is Leia.
L’Classique Queen Elsa
Queen Elsa – Is my very special girl. As you probably already read from Leia’s purchase, I was not supposed to get Elsa originally. We originally only planned on one female, but as fate would have it we ended up with two and she was our second one. We got her because when they shut flights down because of covid, her buyer and the breeder could not get a flight for delivery. I was fortunate to have a flight not canceled for her sister Leia, so the opportunity for Elsa was requested by Barbara since we were in the breeding program and of course, we were more than glad to agree to purchase a second cat. Elsa has only had two litters, we lost the first one due to it being a singleton litter and the kitten was too big to pass. Her second litter was a success, with two babies a boy (Rocco) and a girl (Tatiana). Tatiana went as a breeder in our program and will be the only one carrying on Elsa’s name. Any intact female cat can develop pyometra, an infection that follows heat cycles or sometimes birth. We decided to spay her due to her repeated history of pyometra. Our cats are more than just breeders and income, they are our beloved pets above all. Elsa is now a retired female and lives happily at our home as a pet.
We are grateful she got to experience motherhood and have two beautiful babies, Rocco and Tatiana, and that Tatiana will be carrying on her momma’s legacy as a Dearheart Persian.
SIRE – AnointedPaws Elisha Roi
You may be thinking ‘What an odd name’, and wondering if there is a meaning behind it. Well, there is, and it’s a funny story that started as a joke among friends who thought we were crazy for spending so much money on cats. So instead of the crazy cat lady, we are the crazy cat family, haha. So, my funny, wonderful always joking around husband would always respond with, “Just wait till we get our male, we are going to call him Roi (Return On Investment and laugh at their comments)”, So, as any good, supportive wife, my response was always “we are NOT going to call our cat Roi”. Well, it became such a joke among friends that it stuck. So, we added the name Elisha to the front of that name and called him Elisha Roi, so that he could be a double portion blessing, not to our finances, but in hopes of saving this breed. So we are believing our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for a blessing on him, not for the sake of our finances, but rather to produce many offspring that can be used in our gene pool.
* In the pics with the other cats he’s the darker one on the floor.
L’Cara Tesoro Amaretta Bleu
Now this girl was our mystery kitten, her parents are a silver chinchilla (Sister to my Elsa & Leia) and a shaded golden male Sterling CHL Emile of L’Cara Tesoro. Originally we were not really sure what color she was going to end up having. She appeared chinchilla, but her tipping looked more blue and as if that was not puzzling enough, she had this beautiful golden hue to her main color as well. So would she be a dilute? Would she be a blue golden or a blue silver? We really didn’t know originally. We now know she is silver shaded, as the golden tones mostly faded away and we also know she is not blue silver because we did a DNA test to see if she carried the dilute gene and she has 0 copies of that. We know now that golden hue is called warm spots (some refer to as tarnish), but this is not bad if you are looking for a silver that is a golden carrier. That is because those warm spots are also the indicator that those silvers are the golden carriers. So yes, Ami is full Dearheart, she has the same amazing lines just like the others, only her daddy being a golden, is what makes her a golden carrier. This is amazing, since we have so few goldens from these lines.
So depending on your breeding goals, whether you want a golden Dearheart or if you just want a pet, her offspring may be your pic. Ami’s offspring COULD produce; Silvers, Goldens, and also silvers that are Golden Carriers. Ami has produced silver and golden and golden carriers, all of which are full Dearhearts. That being said, Ami is absolutely beautiful and she is constantly purring, she loves to cuddle and be on top of anyone who will pay attention to her, but she is really my husbands baby. She claims him as her human. She is a total lap cat, not a sit beside you cat. She has the perfect personality.
L’Cara Tesoro Princess Peach
Peach, who I often call my lil Peachy Pie, is my one and only golden. She is a full Dearheart. I know what you’re thinking… “But she’s golden how can you call her a full Dearheart, that isn’t even a thing”. Â Oh, but yes it is. So let me explain. Silvers carry a golden gene, golden is just recessive to silver, this makes it possible to produce goldens from silver parents and silver lines. Now those goldens should also still have the same nose and eye liner that the silvers have, after all thats what makes these cats so stunning. Since they are from silver lines. (Understanding how the color distributes is better understood by researching genetics and looking specifically at the silver and golden genes called agouti, wideband, and inhibitor genes.) So it is true, that silvers can produce goldens. However, Peach’s parents are both goldens and they were the first two goldens in our network to come here from South Africa, Peach’s parents are Emile and Lina, they were imported from South Africa but they are still the Dearheart lines. Peaches great grand parent is…. Gr Ch Catanova King Solomon of Cherie-Finesse, who was a silver that had been bred to a golden chinchilla named Ch Persianna Golden Lady of Kietsiekat. Â Peach’s grandpa was also know to produce blue goldens so we also knew there was a chance if either of peaches parents carried a dilute gene, then 25% of their offspring would also be a dilute carrier. So we knew it was possible Peach could carry the dilute gene. Â So we had her DNA tested. Â When talking about Dearhearts, goldens and blue goldens are something you don’t hear much about. You likely haven’t heard of a Golden Dearheart, much less a blue golden Dearheart. That’s because Dearheart is actually a cattery name and the owner of that cattery was Jeanie Ramsdale, these breeders focused on breeding for silvers, so the Dearheart cattery never produced a golden it’s self, but there were goldens in the linage as well. They just chose to focus on the silver side of the line and not as much on the goldens, but if you view pedigrees and generations on back you can see, they certainly did use them from time to time, so they did exist. This is why we are so excited to have our lil Peachy Pie, not only is she another golden in our network, but her DNA test showed she is a dilute carrier so she can produce not only silver and golden, but when bred to the right stud, she can produce blue golden and blue silvers as well. So she will play a huge role in us having blue goldens and blue silvers in these lines here in the USA.
SlvrPalace Hello Kitty of Slvr-Cherie of SlvrC’Finesse
Hello Kitty is my special miracle and she belongs to my daughter. She was Born Jan 25th and she is from Leia and Eli’s 2nd litter. Leia lost her entire first litter due to all 4 babies being premie’s. So when her 2nd litter came we were all very nervous till she hit full term and the babies were all born. A day or two after delivery we noticed one not gaining weight well, so we would let her eat first, then we started supplementing, still struggling we got concerned and made a vet trip, but he found no issues, her pallet was good, everything appeared normal, we were told do what you can to get food in her, but it looks like she has fading kitten syndrome and we wi’ll likely loose her. There is no reason for it just some kittens just fail to thrive he said. For a while I was literally force feeding a drop maybe 2 drops at a time, scared to death I would make her aspirate by accidentally pressing the syringe plunger to hard, then finally came the day she ate that full 1oz, felt like I fed her an entire steak dinner, then she got up to the 2 oz feedings, I was thrilled but to see her eventually syringe feed without me forcing the plunger to dispense milk, to see her suckling on her own for it was the best feeling ever. We tracked her weight daily. Â Bottle feeding a kitten can be so hard and it’s often not successful in the best circumstances. So to see her kitten pics next to her litter mates and realizing now just how tiny she was blows my mind. To see her now you’d never know she almost was not here. So, even though I didn’t really want to have another cat here, after all that work of bottle feeding every 2 house for weeks till she was big enough to survive on her own and eat food, you can imagine we got a little attached. Â Needless to say, we just could not part with our little miracle baby.Â
