Alishma Cattery was started in 1992 in Cairns Queensland. It began like many foundation stories, with the first visit to a local cat show. Whilst wandering around admiring all the cats, I came upon the striking and exquisite Birman .... that was it for me, love at first site. I did more research and the more I read the more I fell in love with the Birman. It was then that I decided I wanted to breed and show this stunning breed.
I was given the opportunity of rescuing some registered breeding stock of British Shorthairs and whilst I enjoyed learning about the British, the love of the Birman was still very very strong. After a few litters of British, I decided that I was still going to focus on Birmans.
We got our first Birman girl Page Ma–Teesha ("Tessa") in 1994 from Page Birmans in Brisbane. Tessa was an absolutely gorgeous seal point with wonderful eye colour. When Tessa was due to start breeding I was fortunate enough to use Bonniebrae Jardene, a seal point boy. They produced a sweet little blue point male after which time I was given the opportunity of buying Jardene. We had many gorgeous kids from these two beautiful cats and it is because of Tessa and Jardene that Alishma Birmans was finally started.
We moved to Hervey Bay, Queensland and Alishma Birmans has grown since. We now have many more gorgeous Birmans to help strengthen our breeding program and we owe a great deal of thanks to the many breeders who have entrusted us with their babies.
Our cattery is really a family establishment, hubby Roy, myself (Louise) and our children, Sinead (17) and Rhys (15) (all pictured above), all get involved with all aspects of breeding, from cleaning to spending hours playing with the little birman cherubs.
Alishma Cattery is registered with the Queensland Feline Association and a member of the Birman Cat Fanciers Queensland.
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| Email: | louise@alishmabirmans.com |
| Phone: | +61 (07) 4125 7998 |
| Mobile: | +61 (0)412 763 661 |
Why buy from Registered Breeders???
A pet Birman from a Registered Breeder costs you, the buyer anywhere from $550 WHY???...
For this amount you receive a Healthy, happy, well socialized pedigree kitten, that can live out a happy healthy disease free life.
Please think for a moment the costs involved in producing this kitten. These costs include:
1. Purchase price of registered show quality breeding stock.
2. Rearing, desexing, vaccinating, vet checks of kittens.
3. Vet Bills, to keep our breeding stock in tip top shape they must be 100% healthy and our vet makes sure of that.
4. Feeding, breeding cats need a healthy diet to be able to produce healthy kittens.
5. Membership, Registration fees for Governing Cat Council and registrations of all cats.
6. Sometimes Breeders do use other Studs service’s so this is another added cost.
7. Show Entry Fees.
8. Worming and flea treatments we don't want any parasites infecting our cats.
9. Cleaning products - we need to make sure all our cattery's and our house is 100% clean and disease free at all times.
10. Advertising costs - it's all very well breeding the cats but we must be able to find quality homes for all our kittens, this means Internet advertising, web site design and maintenance, newspapers and a lot of phone liaisons with prospective purchasers all this costs time and money.
So please when you are making enquiries regarding the purchase price of a purebred kitten from a Registered Breeder remember the expenses that we have to pay out to make sure you receive a healthy, socialized Pure Breed Kitten/Cat. Please don’t ask us to make our kittens cheaper or for a discount.
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