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second is Hullabaloo Celebration D.M. - Sally -
as she arrived just before my birthday. Gd. Ch.
Gitalaya Sable Shannasoo is one of the Burmese bred from Sally
that enabled Sally to gain her D.M. title. Sally
is one of the seven Burmese that own the
Francois family to be dignified by this
prestigious award! To date the only Burmese in
South Africa to gain D.M. status are Gitalaya
Burmese ... (I found it rather paradoxical that Elaine
was one of the Judges who awarded another
Gitalaya cat, Sp. Ch. Gitalaya Champagne Chula,
a chocolate/ champagne, the final certificate
enabling Sally to claim her D.M. title!)
The
third is Hullabaloo Spellbound who was placed in
a pet home in Johannesburg with Canadian
expatriates. Fortunately Elaine was amenable to
having her bred once - and I was given her
breeding rights! It would have been a disaster
(hindsight - isn't it wonderful ...) not to have
bred Spellbound before she was spayed.
Spellbound
came into oestrus and was bred by Gunga Din. I
was only advised when her kittens were 7 weeks
old that there were two surviving kittens, a
male and a female.
Under
normal circumstances, I do not choose "pick
of litter" type agreements... but
Spellbound's owner had decided, in her infinite
wisdom that
"I" should "have" the male.
Much to my horror when I saw the boy, his tail
had been injured by the woman's clumsy husband
... I insisted that the female was mine ... I had
to save the bloodline for future generations of
South African Burmese ... Needless to say I got
my baby: Sp. Ch. Gitalaya Sable Sensation (27)
... The first Supreme to be
bred from the Canadian lines!
By
the way, Ch. Gitalaya Tequila Sunrise, (left) a
Chocolate Tortie (27h) was bred from Patience
(27b) and Ch. Gitalaya Kubla Khan (27f), thereby
introducing the Canadian lines into the red and
cream programme in South Africa. I also kept her
sister, a brown Tortie: Ch. Gitalaya Tequila
Tiger I (27e). Another pair of sisters, Talisman
(27j - Lilac Tortie) and Keepsake (27e - Brown
Tortie) daughters of Sp. Ch. Gitalaya
Champagne Chula (now
resident
in Maidstone, UK) and Gd. Ch. Gitalaya
Adversane Aslan (27d) (Imp UK) have travelled to
our new "headquarters" in New Jersey ~
USA. (Gitalaya Burmese
relocated to Huntsville, TX in September 2003
after the unexpected death of my beloved husband
Ed Pomerantz in October 2002).
Suny
was accidentally bred by Knight Rider, our
Bombay stud, prior to shipping from South
Africa. On
January 16th, 1999 Suny delivered two kittens : a
Brown/Sable variant Burmese and a stunning Red Asian
Self. "Orange Julius", aka Rusty and his
brother "Dusty" have their own pages ..
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