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About Our British Shorthair Cattery

We are a small British Shorthair cattery in Denver, Colorado, raising a handful of litters a year in our own home. Everything below is how we actually work, so you can judge whether we are the kind of breeder you want to buy from.

How We Started

We did not set out to become breeders. We fell for one British Shorthair, a blue female with an unbothered expression and a habit of supervising everything, and spent the next two years reading, asking questions and getting to know the breed properly before a single kitten was planned.

That order of events still shapes how we run things. We are not a facility and we do not scale. The cats live in our house, under our feet, and the number of litters we raise is limited by what we can do well rather than by what the waiting list would absorb.

Where the Kittens Actually Live

Kittens are born in a quiet nesting room where the queen can settle without traffic. For the first few weeks that is deliberately boring, which is exactly what a new mother needs.

At around four weeks they move into the main living area. This is the part that matters most and the part that is hardest to fake in photographs. Kittens raised in the middle of a household get used to the vacuum, the doorbell, the television, pans in the kitchen and people walking past at all hours. Kittens raised in a spare room do not, and you tend to find out which you bought about a week after they come home.

What a kitten’s week looks like here

  • Daily handling by adults, from short sessions as newborns to proper lap time by eight weeks.
  • Litter training alongside their mother, who does most of the teaching for us.
  • Weaning in stages, never rushed to hit a collection date.
  • Play, climbing and the rough-and-tumble with littermates that teaches bite inhibition.
  • Short, calm separations, so that being alone is normal rather than frightening.

How We Breed

Our queens have few litters, with long recovery between them, and they retire early into homes where they are somebody’s cat rather than somebody’s breeding animal. Parent health records are shown to you before any money changes hands, not after.

No kitten leaves before it is ready. We aim for twelve to fourteen weeks, and if a particular kitten needs longer, it gets longer, even when that is inconvenient for everyone involved. A kitten that is slow to gain weight or still clingy with its mother is not one we will hand over because a date was written down three months earlier.

When We Are Not the Right Cattery

We would rather lose a sale than make a bad placement, so it is worth saying plainly who we are probably not right for.

  • If you need a kitten by a fixed date, for a birthday or a holiday, we are a poor bet. Litters do not run to schedule.
  • If you are looking for the cheapest British Shorthair available, you will find one elsewhere. We do not compete on price.
  • If you want a cat that will be handled constantly by very young children, this breed tolerates a great deal but prefers to come to people on its own terms.
  • If nobody is home for long stretches most days, a single kitten of any breed is a harder ask than people expect.

None of that is a lecture. It is the same conversation we would want from a breeder if we were the ones buying.

Come and Meet Them

See which kittens are looking for homes, or just ask us a question. We are in Denver and happy to talk things through first.

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