Welcome to the Barrkudos site my name is Christine Barrell and my hobby is breeding and showing the Persian cat for over the past 20 years.  I live in a town called Ipswich which is on the South East coast of Britain.  

I'm married with 2 grown up children, also now a Grandma,  and my love of all animals has always played a huge part in my life.  I first fell in love with the Persian 20 years ago and am still just as passionate about them as I ever was.  I adore the Smokes and the Cameo colours  so it was a natural choice to breed these along with the associated self colours.  I have recently decided to add the bi/tri colour to Barrkudos (2006). Moving forward I have begun to breed bi/tri smokes which is proving to be successful.   The bi/tri smoke  breed policy has now been approved by GCCF and all kittens can be registered from June 08 and can go onto the show bench from June 2009.  Barrkudos cattery is also registered with TICA as they do recognise the bi smokes and attended my first Tica show in Sept 07 which I thoroughly enjoyed and look forward to the next show.

I decided to introduce a few solid bred cats with pure solid lines including pure dilute pedigrees (3,5,13) not only to increase the gene pool of the smoke, but also to breed a few solid pedigree kittens.
I have also recently bought in a silver tabby male in to the Barrkudos cattery who will be included in a new breed programme with my bi colours and bi smokes in the hope that this will produce some silver tabby/white kittens. 

Please note  that the breed standards of each different colour eg patched, smoke, cameo are closely followed at Barrkudos to ensure a good pedigree. In addition to this their well being and good health is vital and is always first and foremost.

I love showing my cats and have enjoyed reasonable success on the show bench over the years achieving several Grand Championship and Championship titles for the Barrkudos and other prefix's.   In 2002 I made the decision to scan my cats for PKD which turned out to be a very long and soul destroying journey which took over 3 years to come through, but a very worthwhile one as all my breeding cats are now F.A.B. P.K.D. neg. I am also P.K.D D.N.A testing several of my cats to ensure their status. 
Initially I had several cats that scanned positive so they were all neutered and i only have one still with me living happily in retirement, unfortunately I have lost some over the past 6-7years to this awful disease which is absolutely heartbreaking to watch. I  have lost cats as young as 18months through to the grand age of 14years old but no cat should have to suffer this painful death when we can eradicate it by using only PKD NEG CATS FOR BREEDING.

All my kittens are lovingly reared indoors in the nursery (my bedroom) then into their own room until the  inoculations are given, then  are allowed the run of the house and are bought up as part of the family.  Some times after retiring my girls from breeding they are available for adoption.     

Although my passion is to breed and show these gorgeous creatures to the highest standard  the  love I have for my cats is always paramount.

Please feel free to browse through the site and I thank you in advance for your visit,  any comments you wish to make are greatly appreciated via email chris@barrkudospersians.com

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