Welcome

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Welcome to Cherjon Burmillas. We are John and Cheryl Stringfellow, our cattery is in Taupo situated on the northern shore of beautiful Lake Taupo in the centre of the North Island New Zealand.

As we had both been involved with animals in the past, John with Sheepdog Trialing and Cheryl with breeding and showing German Shepherds meant that we needed a new hobby when we moved into Taupo to live.

When we first saw the Burmillas on TV on "Harry's Practice" we loved what we saw and decided that we would like to become involved in the positive development of the breed here in New Zealand.

Our breeding goal is to breed cats with excellent health, beautiful expression, good confirmation and most of all a truly loving temperament. We registered with the New Zealand Cat Fancy and purchased our first Burmilla in 2005 and have been breeding and showing since then.

It soon became evident that the gene pool was very small and that if the Burmilla was going to continue to develope here in NZ new blood lines would need to be introduced. So in April 2009 we imported a male kitten "Miamber Silver Zeus" from Michele Ristuccia of Melbourne Australia and in November 2009 we imported a female kitten "Miamber Silver Xena" also from Michele.

From the very beginning we believed that we needed to show our cats so that the public could see what a beautiful breed the Burmilla is. We hope you enjoy your experience viewing our Burmillas.