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My name is Jackie Reed and I live in Great Baddow  Essex, my nearest town being Chelmsford.

I had my first Siamese in 1973, a seal point female, which I bought from a local breeder in Brentwood. Unbeknownst to me I had purchased her from a very well known breeder at that time, Janice Brain of Moondance prefix. Although my new acquisition was not of Show quality she was the perfect introduction via Janice and her friends Jean Murchison and Ann Aslin to the World of Showing and Breeding Siamese cats!

In 1975 I attended Kentish Cat Society and there I saw my first red point owned and bred by the wonderful  ‘Bill’ Humphries of Patrician fame and the pioneer of outstanding red, cream and tortie points. I spent a great couple of hours quizzing Bill about these beautiful cats – how patient she was with such a green novice! I was hooked on the colour and determined that they would be my specialised breed. Through Bill I was introduced to Bru Greenland of the Moonfleet prefix and was able to book, through her, a tortie point (red point females were, as now, as rare as hens teeth).

Moonfleet Alfrida, a seal tortie, came to us shortly after – she was a round short little female not like the wonderful torties we see nowadays – early days indeed - but she carried that red gene! She was out of Bru’s red stud Ch Pitapat Otawi and through careful studying of Show Results, and noting what I liked, I quickly cottoned on to the fact that the best Siamese are born from line breeding. To this end I was fortunate enough to book a boy for stud – a lilac point who was also from Otawi – Ch Mylynn Lilac Siadi, and from the mating between these two came Johpas Blazin Glori, a seal tortie, who was a ‘star’ mum and so started the Johpas dynasty.

A year later I was grateful to Tatjana Folkes who let me have Cymbeline Mill Reef for stud – he was the sire of my first red point Champion (a milestone) Ch Johpas Tredje Mannen, his dam being Blazin Glori. He was the cat always remembered as the’one with the kink’! In those days the judges appeared to have much more leeway re. ignoring faults and I can well remember the late Ann Rickson’s words when I thanked her for making him a Champion – ‘well with a head like that he need not have had a tail’! I came home floating on air that day.

In later years I was fortunate to be trusted with my darling GrCh Pendenna Red Rocky – he is behind the pedigree of most of my cats today, and truly he ‘stamped’ my line for me- as well as, at long last, Patrician Cleopatra a  chocolate  tortie who came from one of the last litters bred by ‘Bill’ Humphries.

In the past couple of years I have been very conscious of the need to bring in an ‘out-cross’ line to my Siamese and to this end I was fortunate to be offered, through my good friends in Holland – Henk and Adrie Keers, a red male. I could not afford in terms of time to have to start from square one regarding type and I knew that they produced cats with the wide top of head that I loved and strived for as well as, by virtue of this line being chocolate based, they excel in the rich vibrant red that has for so long been lacking in our red points and in particular in the seal and chocolate torties we see today.

'Johpas Stud Quarters'

Baby Dippers (see photo later) were born from his half-sister  and it is a true testament to Henk and Adrie’s breeding that there were 3 perfect kittens. I was thrilled with that as my plan is obviously later to keep a female from Dipper or, preferably a granddaughter, to come back in to any of the boys and so continue my preferred line breeding.

I hope I have not bored you with my brief History of Johpas Siamese but you are inspired to carry on in the search of perfection, to your eyes, without disregard for health and stamina.

 Remember….. A breeder has responsibilities towards the breed.

                         There is no such thing as the perfect cat.

                         Win or lose you still take the same cat home from a Show!