We are Brigitte and Hardy Förster.
We live together with our Norwegian Forest Cats in a little village named Kreuzau-Winden by the outskirts of the Rureifel.
If our dreams will be fulfilled there will be a further cat joining us in autumn 2007, preferably in the colour, which of course is no colour, white.
Let us see if this works out.
We are somewhat fastidious, especially as we are well aware of the hearing problem or to say not hearing. We will obviously take care of an audiometric test.
Yes, and adding to the list she should have proper genetic material and a good mentality to match our already existing darlings.
Summarizing she should be a typical Norwegian with character, vivacity and charm as well as strong minded.
So as you can see, not an easy goal to achieve.
Nevertheless we didn't take the easy way out and have travelled through half of Europe to make things possible.
Now enough of this, as we do not have more information ourselves yet. And the rest will be a surprise for all of you.
Now I have stuck with these plans for so long without telling you the rest and how it all came along.
From the beginning of childhood I was raised in a small village in the community of Hürtgenwald at the bottom of the Eifel National Park together with cats.
Leaving my parental home, these creatures have thoroughly left my mind.
Even my mother's attempts to talk me into having one of her frequently newborn baby cats didn't succeed.
Then in summer 2001 a tortoiseshell-coloured house cat came along and somehow adopted us.
She lovingly was named "Häschen", which in German is a pet name for "little rabbit", and she accompanied us till December, the 5th 2004 when she died of cancer.
For the next 1 and a half years it wasn't possible by heart to get a new cat, because all were continuously compared with our "Häschen".
In April 2006 my profession took me to a farmhouse in the Eifel and by coincidence my eyes were attracted to a litter box where a baby tortoiseshell cat was lying.
The old lady living in the place couldn't withstand my questions very long and so I was aloud to pick it up two weeks later.
It was baptized Jinx. And I won't deny this is due to the starring actress from the James Bond movie "Die Another Day". If I now confess that I am a great fan of this movie series, then of course there won't be a necessity to make a secret out of the reason for the cattery's name.
So far so good, we were still with Jinx. Unfortunately at the age of six months on September, the 13th 2006, she was overrun by a car in front of our house.
After overcoming the major pain we didn't want to be without a cat to long.
On top of that there was my Against-All-Odds-Mentality in combination with impatience.
So I had to have a new cat and it had to be a Norwegian Forest Cat a breed that has excited me for a long time.
Oh, and of course it had to be tortoiseshell, as you might have guessed from the above told story.
After reading a lot in a short amount of time, surfing the internet and hanging on to the phone, thank god to Dagmar Ertl-Hackstein from Duisburg, we were lucky to get a beautiful Norwegian Baby coloured Black-Torbie-Mackerel/White named Gwendolyn from her.
But how should she become happy without roaming our garden, but on the other hand facing all the dangers of running around free?
O.K., shortcut: 44 metres of a hedge had to go to install a safe fence.
After about seven weeks of work and some improvements we had to make, our 200 square meter garden including pond was available to the generic kind Felis without taking a risk.
Now two other things aroused. 1. Gwenny shouldn't be to much on her own and 2. I have fallen in love with a silver coloured cat visiting another cattery. So where was silver to be offered?
Nothing to be found at first, until we reached the webpage of Doris Schröder and Trude Marnach from Niederzier-Ellen.
They still had a male kitten in the colour Black-Silver-Tabby-Classic/White but only because an English breeder rejected from his reservation. Oh well, if the English guy knew what has become of him. We are talking about Snekkvikka's Inari who at the time was just to be a lovely companion for Gwenny. He has coped very well. But as you can see…the judges thought he was capable of even more…
But also Gwenny was well noticed.
So after a while not before long we had the thought of them having babies.
That brought up the necessity of a conversation with both the breeders.
The positive outcome of that is our website.
I hope that because of the lifelong experience with cats, picking up knowledge during winter by reading every free minute and professional support of the highly experienced breeders of both our little rascals, I will do the thought of a serious Norwegian Cattery justice.

Kreuzau, 2007-04-28