Welcome to Ahmischi Cattery! Glad you could stop by!
A little about us:
We are two sisters, Barb Romeiser & Karen Swan, located in Canandaigua, NY.
We reside in CFA's Region 4 - the Great Lake's Region (GLR), and show in CFA exclusively. Karen started showing & breeding
her first whole cats in 1993. Both Barb & Karen also started showing Premiers in 1993, the very first Persians they purchased
as pets - we can thank Susan D. of Labonita for "Kuma Ki" & Laurie S. for "Peaches", the cats that started it all & led us on our
way! By 1995, we each had acquired the cats we needed to shape our breeding program, with cats that fit the breed & show
standard. Our cattery name was inspired by a little Seal Point kitten born at Karen's.....she was just a bitty thing, so she needed
a special name! We were given the words "Ahmischi Piak", which meant "Little One" in the Cree Indian language. So, from that
little kitten, we took the first part of her name for our cattery....."Ahmischi."
We have two separate breeding programs here at Ahmischi.
Barb works with Bi-Color & Solid Persians, including Whites, the Van pattern & the occasional Tabby and Tabby/White.
Karen works with the Himalayan & CPC Persians, including Lynx Points & Tabbies.
We are very thankful to some wonderful breeders for sharing their lines & babies with us! Wonderful friendships have been
made on our journey through the cat fancy.
A special Thank You to Kevin & Kris Pfister of Mollycoddled for our first Grand Champion. He was a special boy as we know.
We would also like to thank Debi Cotton of Co-Bridge - you have been a true friend & we are so grateful for everything! And of
course we need to include Jennifer Malcolm of Jentopia, you have been a wonderful friend & support to us!! Many thanks
to Brian Gravett as well for sharing his lines with us & letting us own several of his cats! Our lives would not be the same
had we never got to know each other, we thank you all so much!!
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Some of our Bicolor/Solid lines include:
Purrty Katz, Harwood, Farallon, Polcann, Harborhill, Cobby-Corp, McPuddy, PaJean, Fabuls,
Ronlyn, Fountainhead, SkyHy, Catillak, Vickits, Jovan, Anz, Myshadows, Joleigh, Brannaway, Kitty Charm.
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Some of our Himalayan lines include:
Mollycoddled, Twinshire, Strelets, Co-Bridge, Whisperwood, Brigantina, Stumar, Jasea, DeMiara, Desert Winds, Sulltans,
Karabel, Peaceful Paws, Sandilair, Jolee, Oakheaven, Chakebec, Laureden, Catsafrats (and some of the above mentioned lines).
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We hope you enjoy your visit!! Be sure to leave your paw print in the guest book below so we know you stopped by!

* PKD Tested ~ Scanned & Now Doing DNA *

*We are proud members of the following CFA clubs:*
Canada's Capital Cat Club
Atlantic Himalayan Club
Hallmark Cat Club
Tammy Swan, daughter of Karen, is the Atlantic Himalayan Club's current Paws Applause writer
for Cat Tracks magazine. If you are a member of AHC, email Tammy for information about sending Paws Applause wins at:
tootsie7@frontiernet.net

Our Guestbook
  
View our old guest book entries at these pages:
Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4

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To see our special tribute page
to our sweet babies we lost in
tragedy in 2005, please click
on the above linked graphic.
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Here is our very own little boy featured on the Holiday 2005 cover
of the Care-A-Lot magazine, one of the places we love to shop!
Click on the photo to see a larger version.

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In memory of "The Intimidator"....a legend lost, always remembered.

September 11, 2001 ~ Never Forget!!

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