Tonkadello
Description
We breed beautiful Tonkinese cats - friendly, loving, intelligent - the perfect pet! Check out our little kittens looking for new homes... Having previously owned both Siamese and Burmese cats it was a delight to discover the wonderful Tonkinese, which brings together the best of both breeds. We started with a couple of handsome boys, a blue and a brown, and a little chocolate girl. At this stage we were purely looking for pets to share our lives with but, having seen the beautiful kittens this lovely breed produce, in such varied colours, we were hooked.
We then found our queens - Millie, a pointed blue tortoiseshell and Florence, a delicate lilac mink coat pattern.
Our beautiful Florence (aka Whyoo Juanita), who won ‘Best in Show’ at the Tonkinese Breed Club Show 2009, had a lovely litter of adorable kittens at the beginning of September 2010 sired by our newly acquired brown tabby stud, Tyger, and we decided to keep one of the girls, Rosie, a lovely lilac tabby girl.
Tyger also mated with Millie, producing more beautiful kittens, but then, because we didn’t really have the facilities for a full time stud, we decided to have Tyger neutered. Very sadly, a short time afterwards, Tyger had a very bad reaction to a bee sting and passed away.
We are currently working with a group of like-minded breeders to develop new lines of Tonkinese and widen the gene pool, and to that end, in April 2012 we collected Louis an F1 chocolate boy who we will keep as a stud.