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Foundation cat photos in our pedigrees

Due to having to redo my cattery website twice over the past few years, I have lost much of my files and photos. I will, however, be searching for them on old thumb drives and on paper files, stacked away and not organized. This page is an attempt for you to see cats, added to long pedigree show lines, that helped bring inbreeding coefficients down.

I am finding some of my old photos unmarked on the back and others have minimal markings that are hard to read now. I may think I know who the photo is of, but understand I am giving it a good guess. If later on I find I am mistaken, it will be corrected then. If you see otherwise someplace online, please send me information link so I can get it all corrected.

I also had a bit of a bad habit when I was working heavy in foundation lines: I did not always keep photos of the F1 cats. Unsure if they would be kept, I sometimes waited until later to get photos and many I guess I did not save. So many of my photos are from their children who are F2's. You have to understand that when working in foundation, sometimes a couple years in, we would neuter/spay the cats and place in pet homes. Back then you paid for photos to be developed and they did not always turn out to be good photos to even keep. So, photos were taken more of cats we were sure to keep in breeding program and then children we then chose to keep. So, it is possible this directory of foundation line photos won't be thoroughly done. Sorry. I also will be posting cats as I find their information, thus they will not be oldest ones first. In fact, many of the cats from the 90's may be last except for a one or two.

Over the next year I hope to keep finding more and more information to add here. I started breeding with first foundation cats back in the 90's and thus all of this will be a bit older. Bear with me as I look through old files, some digital and some old photographs. I will work on this page as I find the time to do so.