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Welcome
to Alfresca Here you can read the latest news about our Black Silver Tabby and Silver Spotted cats, and learn something about the British Shorthair breed. You can also look at pictures of our cats, both boys and girls, get information about kittens and buying them, find useful cat links and find my contact details. My name is Francesca Harrison, and I live with my cats in Prudhoe in the Tyne Valley, not far from Hexham.  I have been breeding and showing British Shorthairs for the past few years. Previously I bred Persians. My prefix Alfresca was first registered with the GCCF in 1984, and in those days I bred and showed Longhair Silver Tabbies and Brown Tabbies with a lot of success. Champions in those days included my lovely Silver Tabby Champion Alfresca Belle Helene, and my stud boy who went on to become a champion at under 12 months of age, Champion Alfresca Hero - again a Silver Tabby. In Brown Tabbies there were Champion Alfresca Iolanthe and her sister champion Alfresca Elizadoolittle. Also their brother, Champion Alfresca Invincible. Beautiful chunky cats with big coats and wonderful type. After the death from old age of the last of my Persians, Alfresca Georgie Girl, I knew I wouldn't be happy without my cats, and after meeting John Rawlings (Aljora) at the Tabby Cat Club show in 2001, I went on his waiting list for a female kitten from his then Grand Champion Aljora Delciana and Grand Champion Aljora Astral Invader. Delciana is now a UK Grand Champion. Some 18 months later, Aljora Silver Superstar, (Minty) came to live with me and was joined at the same time by a gorgeous British Bluecream from Marion Wade of Rodwaye Cats. Both Minty and Tilly are now Champions, although Tilly has now been neutered and lives as my 'house' cat. |
