We are a family of 5 on two legs, including my two children; Anja who’s 18 and Mattis who is 15, my husband Arne who’s 49, my mother who is over 80 and myself who just turned 43. At the moment the family also includes 7 on four legs: 6 ruddy Somalis and our dog Zelda. She is a 2 ½ year old Border Collie and she is the best “nanny”  to our kittens. 

We live in the finest house in Kristiansand, we recon, and loving all this space.

I run a Nature-kindergarten for kids at the ages between 3 and 6, which has it’s base in the basement of our house. The name of the kindergarten is Revehiet, or in English; the fox-den. This is not just taken out of the air. Read further down how I came about my pedigree name. 

With a home office and quite some administration time at my desk, I’m able to spend a lot of time with my four legged friends also at work. Zelda goes with the kindergarten out into the forest every day, and loves her “work” with the kids.

I have a fenced in yard for my cats in the garden, where my male cats spend time every day and my kindergarten kids love to visit. My Somali boys love playing with feathers and straws, much to the kids delight. They also bare gifts for my cats like swan feathers, crows feathers, straw, flowers and other treasures they have found in the forest.  

I got my pedigree name; of Revebo(N) at the beginning of the 90`s, but registered my first Somali litter not until year 2000. I’ve had cats and other animals most of my life. My first cat of my own I got when I was 7 years old. After this it’s always been cats, but also dogs, horses, ginny pigs, mice, hamsters, rabbits and a turtle once.  

My pedigree name, which means; where the fox lives, is not only because the Somali often is called “the little fox” among the cat breeds. The house we live in is my mothers childhood-home and her father, my grandfather ran the tobacco factory with the logo of the pipe-smoking fox!! So what more appropriate than to name my cats something that connected to this fox-area of the history of our house J 

My first real meeting with pedigree cats was in New Zealand when I lived there for a while in the late 80`s. My sister in law at the time had a chocolate Burmese. She wanted a seal male as well but I ended up getting him. So when I moved home again 6 months later, I couldn’t leave him and took him with me home to Kristiansand instead. I showed him a bit here in Norway and at a local show I saw a ruddy Somali for the first time. I was completely spellbound!!! Just stood there and stared into the cage most of that show. I had never seen such a lovely creature in my life, and I decided then that my next cat was to be a Somali. 

Autumn 1998 I got in contact with Lisbeth Falling who breeds Somali and British Shorthair under the pedigree name; of Rubicon. I wanted two female kittens from her next litter, and lucky me I got exactly that. That’s how Godzilla Gini and Gatita came to me in April 1999. This I have never regretted. Two beautiful girls who has given me lovely kittens and lots of joy. 

I’ve had lots of help and support from Lisbeth all this time, and she has thought me how a breeder ought to take care of those buying kittens who wants to become a breeder themselves. She has also helped and supported me through difficult tasks I have experienced as a breeder through these years. Two years ago I also got my beautiful Noble Pendragon from Lisbeth, which I will always be in her debt because of. The words most beautiful and most cuddly creature ever. Mummy’s baby !!