A little about cattery Silkyvans

Small breeding of purebred and well balanced Turkish Vancats.

Lise Bech & Hans Reppel

Skuderløse Indelukke 18b

4690 Haslev

Tlf.: +45 31130802

Mail: Lise_bech_@hotmail.com

Our name is Lise Bech & Hans Reppel & we live just outside Næstved on sealand. We both work in the service business, Hans work with car-assesories and I work with pet-assesories. We spend most of our freetime with our biggest interest, the cats! We go to alot of catshows, often once or twice a month.

Our breeding originally started in 2005 were we bought our first Vancat, DK Wrensted Acamayára. He is from Lone Antonisens breeding, also located in Næstved. First we actually wanted another breed. But in the end, The Turkish Van won. They are absolutely beautiful, strong naturecats, free from inbreeding and other desises. They are very social, affectionate and best of all playsick their entire life. All things I appreciate alot. In the meantime we found another Love, the longhaired manxbreed Cymric.

Acamayára needed a friend to keep him with company. We chose a sweet oddeyed girl from Germany, Ilghi Van Kedi von Alexis. I never thought I would start breeding these cats, but it quickly became more and more interesting with genestics and because the Turkish Van is such a small breed, it also became interesting to spreed knowledge about this wonderful breed.

The two "Turks" quickly turned into more. S*Feride's Cemile moved here in the fall 2005, FIN*Semiramisin Ak Bertta moved here in the fall 2006. In the start of 2007 Aledo Pinar & Halima Attakan moved in. The last new one is S*Win'te Sams Trine Sabrine, who moved here in the fall 2007. Then FIN*D'manns The Queen came the summer of 2008. Sometimes there comes along a kitten you have to own. In this case it was 2, DK Silkyvans Gamma & Grover is now living with us aswell. The newest star is Caitria's Kirby who came in the fall of 2009.

We had our first litter in April 2006, Amazing 7 kittens were born and they were the start of our small hobby breeding of Turkish Van located just outsite næstved on south sealand. We want to breed healthy, harmonic and typical Turkish Vancats with a sweet mind and great temper.

There will accasionally be kittens available for new forever loving homes. We will often be to find on cats shows, both in and out of country. Where we always are ready to a good cat-talk! If you would like to know more about the breed, you are welcome to call for a talk or we can arrange a visit.