PREVIKA Cattery of Eveline & Karl Preiss

KARL

I am project manager for outsourcing of network installations, a job which leads me to a lot of different countries and cultures all over the world.

In cats I'm since I merried Eveline. She brought six neutered red tabby Persians into my life. As I thought to do my own breeding program we decided to go into Ocicats. Meanwhile we have more than 7 Ocicats, who keep us quite busy, as this breed is very vigorous and always surprising us with their new ideas.

Since 1991 I'm president of KKÖ, Austria's first cat fanciers' club, one of FIFe's first members. I am also judge for shorthair, siamese and orientals, I enjoy to handle cats very much.

EVELINE

I work in quality assurance for telecommunications programs, mainly developed for public telephone services of telecom companies all over the world.

In cats I'm for nearly 20 years. I started with red tabby Persians - tabby cats are still my favorites. When we got our first Ocicats our Persians, which changed meanwhile to their shorthaired version the Exotics, got as healthy and fit as they never had been before.

Just to have cats and breeding them was not enough for me, because I was very interested to know more about the various breeds of the cats. Therefore I started in 1990 with my judge career and now I'm a FIFe allbreed judge.

We like cats.
Meanwhile we have stopped breeding Ocicats, because we have reached here everything what we could reach.
We have put now our effort in breeding healthy, strong and large Exotic and Persians. We think that breeders have gone sometimes a bit too far in their breeding programs. And so we find it a challenging program to improve the Exotic and Persians, concerning their bone structure and health.

Our plans for the future are simple:

to promote the European Ocicats

to breed exotics of moderate type, which are healthy and have a strong bone structure.

OUR CATS

Our Exotics We only use PKD negative cats in our breeding program. We had a very tough time, when we tested all our Exotics and Persians for PKD. And it turned out that more than 60% had been PKD positive. Our best cats which we wanted to use for breeding, had been PKD positive. The consequence was clear, to neuter and spay all those PKD positive cats. So we had to redo all our breeding plans and have got many neuters and spays more, and have left very few cats for breeding.
Gesha el Mahidi	Hi, I'm little Gesha. Klick on my photo I want to talk with You ! red tabby Exotic female	Move your mouse over the picture and see how it works
	Previka Indiana Rosy tortie tabby Exotic female pictured with 7 months	And that's our little Previka Eisbär black tabby bicolour Exotic boy pictured with 4 weeks

Have a look on some of our babies that you can imagine what we mean with moderately typed and strong boned cats. Meanwhile they are grown up, and the largest one is the tabby and white Exotic boy (at the right of the picture).		Hello, klick on our picture to visit us.
Our Ocicats
If you are interested in some pedigrees, just click on our name to see our impressive pedigree.
Previka Joker chocolate spotted Ocicat male, son of Dandy and Kachina pictured with 7 months If someone is interested to get a really good male for breeding, we would place him in a new home.		GIC Aruby's Sir Lancelot cinnamon spotted Ocicat male
		Wrentree Cherries in the Snow tawny silver spotted Ocicat female
		IC Cup-Previka v. Eisenstein tawny silver spotted Ocicat female
Hi, I'm the proud father of that boy. If you want to see me in my real size, you should click on my picture.	IC Dandy v. Eisenstein tawny spotted Ocicat male	Auxarcs Kachina Doll chocolate spotted Ocicat female Thanks to Barbara Stewart for this wonderful cat