The Siberian Cats - A Russian Treasure

Siberia is a cat, that nature is designed to cope without the extreme type. Siberians are a natural breed, and are unforgiving climate of Siberia as well as in cities and on farms in Russia. Siberians have been documented in Russia 1000 years. Were needed to protect grain and other products from little rascals, such as Russia was an agricultural country. Siberian mentioned in Russian fairy tales.

Traders in Moscow were known to compete with each other over whose cat was the biggest and thickest. Russian people like cats and most children in Russia grew up with a kitten and the favorite cat was and still is that siberian cats. President Gorbachev was a Siberian named Murat for a pet. Dmitri Medvedev, the current president of Russia, a Siberian Colorpoint for a pet.

Siberians have been shown in Russia in 1987 to the first cat exhibition in Leningrad. Two cats Kotofei clubs’ and ‘Kis’ organized. This is the real beginning of the breeding Siberians registered in Russia. With the fall of the Iron Curtain and the Cold War between Russia and the United States, the doors were opened in the Siberian cats imported from the United States. First breeding Siberians were introduced in the United States in 1990. Elizabeth Terrell imported the original litter. They arrived June 28, 1990. Their names were KALIOSTRO VASENJKOVICH Starpoint, Ofelia Romanova and Naina Romanova of Starpoint Starpoint.

All the Siberians imported for the first time stamped “Kotofei ‘to prove they were the Siberians and recognized by the Russian club. Club breed in Siberia for the first time the U.S. was TAIGA Siberian breed club. He launched in November 1992. It was created to promote the Siberian and work on getting the breed recognized by all agencies of the cat saving the United States.

The Siberians were first presented to the Committee on Freedom of Association in March 1994, but were not accepted into the miscellaneous class. CFA accepted into the class of several in May 2000. Siberian Cat Club was formed to promote the Siberian CFA and the recognition of the provisional status (2005) and then the state championship (2006). Siberians are known for the championship in all records in the United States.