ABOUT US p2

Our names are Alwyn & Ted Hill and we live here in the heart of the Cotswolds with our family of Birmans.

On the outskirts of our village is a hill called Chosen Hill and on top of this hill among

the trees is the very old church of St Bartholomew. Long before the church was built there was a pagan temple on this site and artifacts from this temple have been found very close to our home.

The idea for the name of our cattery Chosenhill and the logo came from this historical base added to the Legend which surrounds the Birman cat. In the picture below you can see Chosen Hill with the range of Cotswold hills in the background. At night there is always a white light shining from the top of the church tower and this can be seen for many miles around as one travels in the valley of the river Severn.

Our cattery was started in 1996 when we purchased our first seal point Birman as a pet. We were so impressed with the Birman that it was not long before we bought our first seal point breeding queen Dubrova Bellaroma. A few years later were able to obtain a blue point male Ch Dijati Bluebayou and in November 2003 we imported a French stud INT CH Nerval de L'IrisDoree. to add new blood to our Birman lines.

We particularly love the seal and blue point Birman and we specifically breed them. However after reading about how the red gene had been introduced into the Birman cat, we felt we would like to try and produce two new lines for red series Birmans by using a cream Colourpoint Persian and a red Self Persian. We did a lot of searching to find the cats we wanted to use. We collected pedigrees and did masses of research into the ancestry of each cat and genetics. We had already collected many pedigrees of ancestors for Birmans so we knew most of their ancestors already. Collecting pedigree information has now become our second very interesting hobby.

None of our cats are allowed out to roam freely and because we wanted them to have access to fresh air we built a large pergola attached to our bungalow and covered it with weld mesh. This allows us to open the windows and doors without worrying. The females have a their own cat flap so that they can come and go as they please. There is a play house on the patio and they love to sit on top of the roof of it and watch the birds. All our cats are very spoilt as you can see. Our studs have their own separate accommodation and you can see one of the houses in the third picture. There are more pictures on the stud accommodation pages.