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always been very infatuated with animals. Since my childhood we have had
a dog at home. Dogs are sweet and attractive but it took me until my year
as an exchange-student in Australia in 1985 and ´86 to realize how
attractive creatures magnificent and independent cats can be. Having returned
home I spoke over my parents to get us a domestic cat from Vikajärvi
to accompain our dog, Vilho. Even today in 2002 my mother and the 16-year-old
cat share their retirement-days living together in Rovaniemi.
After highschool I moved in with my future husband Pertti, and it was clear that we would get a bearded collie called Fonzie and soon after that a cat called Katti-Matti. Ten years passed the four of us living together. Fonzie, Katti-Matti, Pertti and I would circle around Finland studying and working. Five years ago we settled in the area of Jämsä in Central Finland. I work as a project chief in the education centre of Jämsä area. I have a master´s degree in healthcare. Pertti has his own computer business. We fell in
love with the ragdoll cats in the 90s. The big and dog-like cats
charmed us. When Fonzie died we decided to have a ragdoll cat to befriend
Katti-Matti. Pami was found from Riitta Paakki´s cathouse Mirandos
in Masala Finland. Pami is a beatutiful neuter, so having her we got
a lovely new hobby the cat shows where we still continue going nearly
once a month. Luckily my husband and I we both like going to cat shows.
Pami though isn´t as in to going to them as we are, so she stays
home relaxing as we go.Our other cats instead even enjoy the days of
show. A known phrase
goes " Ragdolls cause addiction", and so it was that
as soon as six months later we had to have another ragdoll, Nekku. Little
by little an idea of raising activities and foreign tomcat appeared…and
the rest you see on these web-pages.
In the laps of Maria there´s Rölli and in the laps of Pertti, Tanttu. There probably is no question in which of us succeed in exhibitions?
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