Champion Pontaby Luciana
(Mina)

Mina, now my oldest breeding queen, came to me, from Maureen and Lorraine Pontello, of Pontaby Abyssinians. She, like Zoe, is a Usual and was born on 20 February 2008 .

She is, however, a long-awaited addition and fulfils a personal wish of mine to link the two lines of my neuter family, since her father, like Jasper's, is the wonderful IGrCh One Shot from A'far and her mother, Ch. Abyglen Anyla, is a full sister (in parentage terms) of all my Abyglens.

The Pontellos have been trying hard to achieve my ambition to do this for quite some time but the disadvantage of trying to plan something specific where live creatures are concerned is that things often don't work out as one hopes on the first - or, in our case, even the third attempt. A big thank you to them for sticking with me (in spite of the disappointments along the way) and for allowing me to have such a very outstanding girl in the end!

Since she is One Shot's child, Mina had little trouble charming her companion Zoe and soon brought the Abyglen neuters more or less into line. Jasper, her half-brother, is slightly less convinced of her supremacy (as seems only reasonable) but, generally speaking, puts up with her teasing with only the occasional complaint.

Mina had her first litter of kittens in April 2010 and is proving to be an exemplary mother.