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Baby Rosamunda (SIA n 21), age 1 month.
Photo (c) Dagny Dickens |
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Young Enchante (SIA n 21) with neuter lady
IC Novarita Montserrat Caballé 'Musse'.
Photo (c) Dagny Dickens |
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Aprilia (SIA n 21) & Thomsonii.
Photo (c) Dagny Dickens |
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‘Sealpoints Venus & Thomsonii
Photo (c) Dagny Dickens ...
More about EMS (Easy Mind System): FIFe
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Dagny
Dickens:
Fifty years with Siamese
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Very
special sealpoint lady: EP & EC
Novarita Venus, neuter.
Photo (c) Eivor Rasehorn, Stockholm,
Sweden
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I have been owned by Siamese cats
for more than half a century now,
getting my first seal point girl as
a very young school girl.
The adult Siamese breeding career
started in the beginning of the 1970-ties,
when I learnt to know Eiwor Andersson
of the prefix San-T-Ree, the leading
lady of all Siamese breeding in Europe.
I started with three cats from Eiwor:
San-T-Ree Dark Stisse, SIA n male,
IC San-T-Ree Nova’s Fay, SIA c female
and PR & IC San-T-Ree Tiger Favorita,
SIA n 21 female. In 1974 I got my
prefix Novarita, a combination of
the names from my two girls from San-T-Ree.
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San-T-Ree
Dark Stisse. (You can see his extraordinary
deep blue eyes.)
Photo (c) Anne-Marie Nilsson, Nykvarn,
Sweden
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The
lilac point line was not a very fertile
one, so I stopped breeding SIA c in
1980.
But the tabby point line – oh, what
joys it has given me! Most seal tabby
points and solid seal points, but now
and then also other points colour.
1977 I had a mysteriously coloured kitten
in a litter from a SIA d male and a
SIA n 21 female. I knew he was tabby
pointed, but the points seemed to never
start getting seal. The mother carried
chocolate from her father, but behind
the father there were no other colours
than seal, red and seal tortie.
When he was 1 month old, the penny fell
down, he was chocolate tabby pointed,
the first one in Scandinavia.
A little research of the father’s english
background revealed a SIA b in seventh
parental generation. The boy was named
Novarita Svarthöfde and of course stayed
with me.
He achieved the title GIP, which was
the highest one a cat could get at that
time. Also, then there was no certificate
to get, but instead a cat should get
3 of either BIV, NOM, BIS.
As he was the only SIA b 21 neuter at
that time, he had to aim higher.
He got his Grand title being BIS three
times. I am very proud of him. |
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PR
& IC San-T-Ree Tiger Favorita
(SIA n 21).
Photo (c) Anne-Marie Nilsson, Nykvarn,
Sweden
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My
lines today all go back to San-T-Ree
Tiger Favorita, her daughter Novarita
Plaisir d’Amour, SIA n 21 (sire: IC
Koldemos Bonetti, SIA b) and the son
of Plaisir d’Amour, Novarita Svarthöfde
(sire: IC Harlekins Röde Orm, SIA
d).
Of course there are some number of
cats and generations between 1972
and 2008. Most remarkable is the input
of english-norwegian lines based on
Shermese (Celia Simpson, England)
and N*Hagar’s (Britt Hagar Alvestad,
Norway).
From Britt Hagar I got N*Hagar’s
Mr Bugatti, SIA n 21 male (also known
as Johannes) and from a mating CH
Harmony’s Merry, SIA n (a great grand
daughter of N*Hagar’s Mr Bugatti)
with N*Hagar’s Byron, SIA n male,
I got Novarita Venus, the most beautiful
seal point I have ever had or seen.
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EP
& EC Novarita Venus.
Photo (c) Eivor Rasehorn, Stockholm,
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She
became European Champion competing
in Sweden, Norway, Spain, Finland
and Austria and later also European
Premior.
A great show cat who always managed
to develop that extra look that caught
the attention of the judges.
She sadly left me in october 2006.
Today I have a lady league, three
seal points and three seal tabby points.
Breeding cats are IC Novarita Aprilia,
SIA n 21 and Novarita Extravaganza,
SIA n (daughter to Aprilia).
Retired from breeding are GIC Novarita
Absinth, SIA n 21 (SW98, PR &
EC S*Splendid’s Union U2, SIA b 21
x CH Harmony’s Merry, SIA n) and IC
Novarita Montserrat Caballé, SIA n
(SW98, PR & EC S*Splendid’s Union
U2, SIA b 21 x EP & EC Novarita
Venus, SIA n).
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Novarita
sealpoint generations: Extravaganza
& Musse (Montserrat Caballé).
Photo (c) Dagny Dickens
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With
Extravaganza I again have a seal point
with dense, deep, even points and excellent
contrasts.
She has done quite well at show, being
BOB Siamese (thus winning over her mother)
and BIS Junior Kitten.
Her father has a colour that is far
from my favourites, as he is blue tabby
point (GIC S*Malvikens Axel Munthe).
But I could not resist his look and
expression.
And when I saw his pedigree I understood
what I had seen: The Shermese and N*Hagar
look. His grand father was N*Hagar’s
Byron, the sire of Venus. |
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Novarita
Extravaganza girl being BIS junior
kitten in November 2007.
Photo (c) Gunnel Hedberg, Tierp, Sweden
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So
when I breed, I study the pedigrees
thoroughly. I look for lines I like
as much as I look for lines I do not
like and thus want to avoid.
Health/longevity/fertility is priority
#1, then comes the rest.
I aim for dense points and clear contrast,
I aim for dark blue eye colour. I
do not use lines with OSH-mixing.
...
Some personal info: I am All Breed
Judge (FIFe-trained and examined).
I have been member of Breed Commission
in Sweden for about 20 years and once
official registrar, always registrar.
Today I count about 25.000 official
registrations.
As co-author together with ms Eva
Minde, Norway – the Creator – I had
the delight of presenting the EMS
system to the FIFe GA 1990 where it
was successfully accepted.
I live in Vällingby, a famous suburban
in western Stockholm, and there is
another hobby too, I collect pot plants
of the genius Hoya (“grandma’s wax
plant’’). I have about 100 different
ones.
Dagny Dickens, 2008.
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Three
sealpoints enjoying a warm place..
Photo (c) Dagny Dickens
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*We
are grateful to Mrs. Dickens for her
Siamese story and beautiful photos
of her cats.
K. Polaček, 2008.
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