A little about us....

In the beginning....

When we started breeding American Curl cats  in April 2004, we had no idea how addictive these American Curl Kittens would become or how they would change our lives.  So when people who buy our kitties tell us the same thing after they bring our babies into their homes, we totally relate. Now we tell new Curl owners that Curls are like Lays potatoe chips.... 

"You can't stop at  just one!"

So, how did we get into this?  
Well, it's kind of a long story.  Here's the short version.
About 17 yrs. ago, our daughter's boyfriend asked us to "cat sit" for his friend's pair of "American Hard Ear" cats. Well, they weren't American Hard Ears.  They were American Curls with straight ears.  And "temporary" became permanent.  This initial accidental experience with Curls (or was it a divine direction??? you decide after reading our story) produced an admiration for this fascinating breed.  
We purchased our first breeding cats with the condition that we would show the cats in CFA at cat shows.  We had never seen a cat show... we didn't even know there was such a thing.  

We were really "dog people"... not "cat people".

We had at least seen dog shows on TV, however cat shows are rarely, if ever, televised and up to now, all our cats had been strays.  We had both  grown up with at least one dog in the family all her lives.   But to meet the conditions of the purchase of new kitties, we started taking our cats to the local CFA cat shows.

And so it began....

American Curl
At first, Mike only went as the 'dutiful husband' who tags along to help his wife... and only on weekends that didn't have an important football game on TV.  But then, at one of the shows, one of our boys started winning... a lot!  Mike's competitive genes kicked in and he was hooked too.  That was our first grand Champion boy, Curl Essence Cinnamon.  ("Cinns" is now in Brazil populating that country with pretty little red American Curls...  and we couldn't be prouder of him if he was the first male child in our family to get a Masters Degree).  Cinns-a-mon (as we called him) is shown on our Champion Hall page .  This is also him on the right.  (ok, so now's the time you comment to yourself "what a pretty boy!"  We still do whenever we look at these photos of him when he first granded.  ("Granded" means he earned his title as a Grand Champion in CFA.)  Cinns always had a great temperament which he passed on to all his offspring.

The rest is history... we've continued to show in CFA and now also show in TICA (The International Cat Association).  We have cats as pets and as show cats around the world.  We love to hear from the new owners of our cats with stories about how they've changed their lives.  Some of the stories are on our testimonial page.

Contact us by email at Psalm0512@yahoo.com or by phone at 951 743 8230 or 296 8589

CurlEssence... an American Curl Breeder since 2004