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We are Melissa, George, and Christina Alexander and we live in Blackstone Massachusetts not far from the boarder of Rhode Island.
The History of Into Wishin'
In 1999 we visited a local cat show and it was there we saw the Norwegian Forest
Cat for the very first time. We took our time researching the breed and in
2001, we acquired our first Norwegian Forest Cat.
From
that moment, we knew there must always be a forest cat in our home! What a
special breed!
In 2002 we started the search for our first breeding female. We fell in love with a black and white male named Bishop who went on to become a FIFe World Winner in 2003. Bishop was bred by our good friends Kicki & Jorgen Johansson of S*Lisjöskogen. From Bishop and Hedda, a lovely female from the cattery S*Drakborgens of Katarina 'Kattis' Strahl, the fabulous Felicia was born in the cattery av Boxerhaven (N) of Cecilie Strømstad!! Cecilie has given us the gift of three outstanding cats over the years! These three breeders from Scandinavia gave us a great start and for that, I thank them!
2003 was the year we brought
two more females into our home. From Germany came our beautiful Nova
a Beetlejuice bred by
Christina
Heinig.
Christina does not breed forest cats any longer which is such a shame because
her cats are just breathtaking! From Linda Stebner of
Epona in Pennsylvania
came the lovely and sweet Karina. Karina has given us some
beautiful
kittens over the years and we thank Linda so much for her. Linda has been
a great friend and mentor over the years. I do not know what I'd do without
her!
2006 was the year we met Eva Weber of am Baerenbach*CH, Switzerland. Eva is a wonderful person and from her we have "Ori", a male that has outstanding type and gave us two very nice litters of kittens with Karina.
The later part of 2006 and first six months of 2007 was a very sad time for us, the most difficult times since being introduced to this great breed. We lost two special cats, Baloo and Handel. You can see more of these beautiful cats on our memory page.
Our most recent addition, Planet Funk Blue Tanis, came to us from our good friend Nelly Bozzoli of Switzerland. After experiencing such sadness, this boy was what we needed to bring a smile back to our faces. He is so great in every way!
In 2008, we plan to spay and neuter some of our breeding cats and keep one or two kittens born in our cattery to carry on their lines. We regret not keeping any kittens out of Handel, but felt it was important to watch the development of the kittens for some time and then decide which combination was best. We are fortunate to have have his sister Hanne here with us and she gave birth to 5 beautiful kittens in March 2008. From that litter we kept her son Haakon to carry on the lines. Hanne is expecting kittens in March of 2010 (sire is Oropax) and we hope there will be a nice female in that litter for us!
We were fortunate to have two
Internationally Winning (IW) cats
in TICA (Planet
Funk Blue Tanis and Into Wishin Haakon of Epona) for the 2008-2009 Season.
In 2010 we plan to import a female with a pedigree that is new to us and hopefully we'll have a nice female from Hanne as well! We plan to neuter at least one of our males this year as well.
Our breeding focuses primarily on health, temperament, and breeding kittens according to the TICA NFC standards. Our cats are not caged and our kittens are raised with a lot of love and attention. We believe that it is important to continuously evaluate our breeding program and constantly work towards improving the quality of kittens we produce. In order to achieve that, we stay active in TICA and attend many cat shows in the US each year. We have traveled to Europe numerous times since 2002 in order to stay current with the happenings of the Norwegian Forest Cats being shown in FIFe.
For a brief overview of history of the Norwegian
Forest Cat, see the NFC
Breed Presentation that was presented at the 2008 TICA Annual in Arlington
TX (Aug 2008).
Thanks for visiting our website and please come back again!
Melissa Alexander
February 2010
Contact Info:
Melissa Alexander
Into Wishin' NFC
Blackstone, MA USA
phone: 508.415.9406
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Melissa has completed the 1st PawPeds Course! November 2008 |
