My name is Anda-Elena Porumb and I live in Bucharest together with my cats in a very cosmopolitan villa and surrounded by good friends. I had my first cat when I was in 5th grade, when my father brought home from Chisinau a beautiful black „Angora” (it was just a beautiful house cat, but back then I had no idea what breeding and breeds meant. Unfortunately, Sisi crossed the rainbow bridge when she
was five years old, struggling with some pyometra related complications. For my 18th birthday, I've received from some friends a super tortie cat, which is now living happily with my grandmother. Soon after, at the end of my first year in university, my aunt had this tiny miracle, a so called „Birman”, but again just a regular house cat. My mother was calling to ask about exams and I was announcing her that on my next holiday, I will bring home a new cat. It was late summer 2005 when I met the people that would later form the Sofisticat Feline Association - my club, when everything started. I knew from the first minute that I will definitely become a breeder. I had no idea what breed and I used to like and fall for every breed, but in the spring of 2006, at the first show we have ever organised as Sofisticat, I saw THEM. There it was Ozzy, this beautiful, with this 'I can’t be bothered attitude', red Norwegian Forest cat. There was also one of his wives, a snow queen called Andromeda Reine de la Neige, and there it was, my final decision: 'I will breed Norwegian Forest cats'. However, in meantime I had already fallen with this superb Ragdoll tortie called US*Siambalirags Tabitha. Since I was about to move on my own, away from my uncle and aunt's house, I said it was the time to have my first pure breed cat... This is how Tabitha moved in with me and how, in the autumn of 2006, I made my début as an exhibitor on a cat show. Tabitha was already seven years old and I showed her until the summer of 2007, when she moved in with my parents. Togheter with Kitty, she leaves with my parents, my brother and one of the kittens born in my first litter, a 9 kg neuter RO*Phoenix's Cats Piratte of the Caribbean. My beginning as a breeder was not easy. A terrible accident has left me without my first Norwegian, a super boy, for whose loss I will never stop blaming myself. So there I was, in the summer of 2007, with Beatrice, my first Norwegian female, at a crossroad not knowing where to go and how to continue. After much thinking and after that year's World Show, I've decided to move on. That is how I've found Inti, my sweet, precious boy. Since then I've dedicated to breeding Norwegian Forest cats. That is, until I have also fallen in love with the Maine C**n cats. In autumn 2008, I saw her, Joop, this beautiful silver tortie Maine C**n. She wasn’t mine from the beginning, but in a twist of fate in the summer of 2010, this cat has joined what is now the extended Phoenix’s Cats family. Also in 2010, my friend Anna decided that she would like a blue maine c**n, after long search we found Hoop-Dee-Doe and Easy Loving, and this was the beginning of me breeding both Maine C**ns and Norwegians. RO*Phoenix’s Cats is registered with FIFE through Sofisticat Feline Association and F.A.F. Felis Romania since 2007, and since then I bred healthy, sociable and adorable kittens. I try to show my cats as much as I possibly can. My cats and I enjoy cat shows, sometimes we win, sometimes we don't, but there wasn’t a single show when we didn’t come home with at least one nomination or a Best in Variety or, why not, a Best in Show or a Best of Best (I, II, III). My biggest achievements are Inti’s Distinguished Variety Title and the fact both him and Beatrice won Best of Best titles various times. And, to be honest, for me every single Best in Show that I win with one of my kittens or with cats born in my cattery is an achievement. We only place our kittens in loving homes with great environments. We don't sell kittens to pet shops and our pet kittens are neutered before leaving us. We only sell kittens with breeding rights in FIFe, CFA and TICA registred catteries. We do not offer stud services, except to people that we consider to be worthy of this privilege. We keep the right not to answer to some emails or messages and also we keep the right not to sell cats in some countries. Our kittens live the cattery until they are 12 to 14 weeks old, are vaccinated twice, receive one anti-rabies shot, are dewormed and microchipped, are given a European Passport and are sold only based on written contracts and of course come with my life-long friendship. I hope that you will enjoy visiting our site! RO*Phoenix's Cats Familly :))))
