Welcome to Loretto Cattery, we trust you enjoy your visit here and we welcome you back again soon.

My name is Vicki Morskate, and together with my husband Mike, have been involved in breeding pure bred Persians since 2001.  We originally started breeding Chinchillas, and now we specialise in Himalayans and pure solid persians - blacks and whites.

We run the two programmes seperately, although we do introduce the solids into the himalayan programme when we need to. Our aim is to keep our persian line as pure as possible and will never put Exotic or Bi-colour into the lines knowlingly. We are also strongly committed to breeding Odd Eyed and Blue Eyed Whites, eventually masking Himalayan.

Loretto Cattery is currently registered with CAV Inc. and is an active member of the Atlantic Himalayan Club. We are associate members of CFCCQ and NSWCFA.

We are a small cageless cattery.  We have Himalayan kittens in most colours, except for Chocolate and Lilac. All our cats and kittens live inside with us.

You will currently find Loretto Cattery in the beautiful surrounds of the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...but we will soon be moving to rural Provincial Victoria.

We exhibit regularly at most local shows, and will travel interstate for larger National Shows.

Our motto is "Quality, not Quantity"

Loretto Limited Edition Seal Pt Male 13 weeks old in photo

Loretto Cattery's aim is to produce beautiful heathy persian kittens with cuddly teddy-bear personalities, with big sweet open expressions.  We breed for health and temperament as our first priority above all else.

We spent all of the 2006 breeding season iradicating the PKD gene from our breeding stock. We are now proud to annouce we are a 100% clear and tested cattery for PKD by DNA !! Its been a long and expensive not to mention stressful time in doing this testing, but it is for the betterment of the persian breed ultimately. So we had to take a few backward steps last season in order to go forward.

We only have a few litters per year, so if you are interested, please email us.    We only sell and export our very best for breeding.

We do not offer a stud service.

It is only early days for Loretto Cattery, and we do have a long way to go to achieve our own unique look.  The look we are striving for is one of large stunning flawless coats,  Heavy boning, LARGE round BLUE sweet expressive eyes, small ears, and that gorgeous sweet open expression.

Early 2007 we imported 2 magnificent persians from Bente Gundersen, from Uno Persians in Norway. These two boys will definately make their mark here at Loretto, and we should see a significant improvement with the overall quality and type of our persians from now on.

We place great emphasis on socialising our Loretto Himalayan kittens.  They are born and raised inside our home, and are loved and adored until it is time for them to leave to go to their own furreva home.

Our Prefix Name.....

People often ask us where we got our prefix "Loretto" from. Just before we started breeding, we had a trip around Europe, and on our trip to Prague we visited a little Chuch grotto called "Loreto". We are not religous people, but this moved us to tears, it was the most beautiful place we had ever seen, and that memory stuck with us.

So when it came time to select a name that would stay with us during our cat breeding career, we had to choose Loretto - we added the extra "T" to our name, so not to take away the focus from the Church at all. If you ever get the chance to visit Prague, we highly recommend a visit to the Loreto.

We would like to think that anyone who adopts a Loretto kitten is moved and has their life changed by their kitten, the way this church did for us.

With thanks.....

Loretto Eskimo Joe Photographed at 8 weeks

Without the generosity of a few breeders to entrust their babies with us, would we be where we are today. 

Thank you to Karen Thomson from Catmandu Cattery for entrusting us with our baby "Biscuit".  Biscuit was our foundation queen.  Biscuit has now gone to her furreva pet home to be spoilt just like her baies all have! But Biscuits lines will continue on within Loretto's breeding. Thanks again Karen for getting me started into the world or Himalayan breeding, and thanks for being such a good friend.

The biggest thank you goes to Bente Gundersen from Uno Persians in Norway. Bente has paid us the greatest compliment, by entrusting us with her "baby" "Blue Moonlight. He is a European Champion and he has sired many BIS and CH kittens all over Europe. To think we have him here in Australia is more than a dream come true. He will elevate the standard of the himalayan within Australia in time. Bente has also entrusted us with a gorgeous solid black named Spitting Image. His lines are impeccible and those big round bright copper eyes are the most amazing that I have ever seen. Thank you Bente for trusting us with your lines, you are a wonderful friend!

And thank you to Carolyn Baker from Sandypaws, Florida USA.  Little did Carolyn know, when I first emailed her to say how much I adored her cats, that we would start a long distance friendship.  I thank Carolyn for her patience and understanding and her guidance of this "newbie" in to the world of Himalayan breeding!

And a BIG THANKS to my wonderful true friends, whilst some do and some don't breed himalayans, it is refreshing to find true friendship that will last thru the rigours of the Cat Fancy and all it brings. Thanks to:

Rachelle from Cute As Cats - where would I be without you, your the one who keeps me sane!!
Dianne Hayes from Ashdene Persians, we started out together in silvers and who'd thought we'd come together again in our programme of solids! Thanks for being there for me thru thick n thin.
Sue Fitzgerald from Deearden Silvers, who also started guiding me in the beginnings of breeding silvers and today we are still good friends..... your friendship and guidance has made it all worth while - thank you!

Thank you for visiting......

We thank you for your time in visiting Loretto Cattery, boutique breeders of Himalayan kittens, and solid persian kittens.  Please leave a "paw print" in our guest book - we really enjoy reading your comments!

 

If you are interested in any cats or kittens, or just have some general enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us by phone, or by email, our details you'll find on the "Contact Us" page.

Thank you.

Vicki