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the czarina ethic

CZARINA SIBERIANS is situated in the heart of the Canadian grasslands.

The clean air and pristine water of southern Alberta inform the ethic and mindset of Czarina Siberians. These deep-rooted values keep us invested in perfecting the balance of our Siberian Cats’ sweetness and glamour. Bred and raised with an eye to beauty, health, and affectionate nature from a lineage of World Champions; at Czarina Siberians, our cats’ genetics and personalities are unadulterated and unmatched.

CZARINA SIBERIANS is committed to raising well socialized, champion pedigree kittens with immaculate bloodlines and origins. We are experienced, registered breeders in good standing.

IW BW SGCA Czarina Galadrien is a seal lynx point and white hypoallergenic Siberian looking over his shoulder where his tail is in the foreground against a black background

INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED & AWARD WINNING members of The International Cat Association (TICA), Czarina Siberians Cats and Kittens and Alters perform with excellent in TICA Cat Shows. TICA judges frequently commend us on the calibre of our Siberian Cats in their confirmation to the TICA Siberian Standard and on the excellent of our breeding program seen through our show cats, kittens, and alters.

IW BW SGCA CZARINA GALADRIEN, our Siberian Alter (show category for neutered and spayed cats), enjoyed a phenomenal 2022-23 show season, finishing strong with our first International Winner (IW) title as one of the top 25 Alters in the world. He achieved another first for Czarina Siberians by earning his Breed Winner (BW) title as the Best Siberian Alter in the world. With high competition, this is a very difficult title to achieve. We are so proud of all darling Galadrien accomplished his first show season!

To top it all off, Galadrien quickly became a Supreme Grand Champion Alter (SGCA) by placing Best In Show after earning his Champion, Grand Champion, Double Grand Champion, Triple Grand Champion, and finally Quadruple Grand Champion titles - at only 11 months of age. A 2-show Supreme is highly coveted by rarely happens, and our boy did it!

Galadrien keeps blowing us away, along with the esteemed TICA Judges who have loved our darling and repeatedly chosen him for their Top 10 Finals.

We showed Galadrien again for the 2023-24 show year, and he continued to perform as an exceptional example of the Siberian standard with a beautiful show temperament - he loved showing and finished his year a Regional Winner in the Top 25 Alters in the Pacific NorthWest Region of TICA. This current show year 2024-25, we have a goal for our outstanding Alter to bring another huge first home as Czarina Siberians’ first Lifetime Achievement (LA) title holder. To reach this goal, he must place in the Top 25 Alters Internationally (IW completed 2022-23) and he must place twice in the Top 25 Alters in the Pacific NorthWest Region (RW completed 2023-24, so just one more to go hopefully in 2024-25).

CZARINA SIBERIANS is ecstatic to introduce our fourth generation home-grown TICA star: IW BW SGCA Czarina Galadrien.

QGC Czarina Nataliya is a seal lynx point and white Siberian looking into the camera with large rounded blue eyes and a sweet expression

ONGOING EDUCATION, both formal and informal, influences every aspect of our care of our beloved cats and kittens. We are continually further our understanding of ethical breeding, Siberian standards, and exceptional cat care. Our sense of pride in our progress over the years and excitement to continue learning, refining, and improving every aspect of Czarina Siberians keeps Czarina Siberians among the best Siberian Cats and Kittens available around the world.

Czarina Siberians cats and kittens receive superior care. They are given, and readily give in return, exceptional love. When you reserve your own Czarina Siberians kitty, you are receiving the culmination of all our expertise and love in the background and socialization of your precious kitty.


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preservation breeder

CZARINA SIBERIANS undertakes to protect, preserve, and propel forward the Siberian Cat as preservationists.

Internationally, pedigreed cats make up less than 5% of the domesticated feline population, rendering every pedigreed cat breed a minority breed in need of human intervention to avoid extinction in our lifetime. Siberian Cats are a landrace breed, meaning they evolved naturally without human intervention in their native habitat of the Siberian wilds, which adds to the critical need for preservation efforts in ensuring the longevity of the Siberian breed. Ethic breeders who understand this legitimate concern work tirelessly to preserve and improve their chosen breed of cat, thus ensuring their cat breed will continue to be a healthy, beautiful, structurally sound representation of the breed for years to come.

Every home that welcomes a pedigreed cat is both supporting and benefiting from the passionate and educated work of preservation breeders.

To be classified as a preservation breeder, a number of key foci in the pursuit of genetic management of the chosen breed are required. In looking to national park preservation efforts, preservation of animals, plants, and other organisms classified as endangered or nearing extinction, and even preservation of historical structures, there is a clearly defined purpose, process, and proof of increasing success. As humans, we understand it is vital we protect our natural and historic sites, flora, and fauna. Preservation breeders of pedigreed cats follow this established procedure as well.

SIBERIANS are medium-large, semi-longhair cats originating in subarctic Siberian, Russia. Siberians evolved for survivability in continuous permafrost across 13,000,000 square kilometers of tundra, steppes, swamps, taiga, and mountains. Slow maturing in their harsh environment, Siberians grow for approximately 3 years then bulk out for 2 more years. Touted the most cold-resistant domesticated cat, Siberians are a landrace known for circles and roundness from well-furnished ear tips to tufted feet to barrel-shaped torso to bluntly thick tail to rounded muzzle and head.

Siberians’ slightly thicker nictitating membrane protects their eyes from blowing sand or snow, just as their coarse guard hairs prevent anything from settling on their coat. A unique textured triple coat, also includes warmly insulating resilient down hairs and water-repellent awn hairs, enables Siberians to hunt in any terrain, thriving despite the extreme cold of Siberia and its extreme heat for a few weeks each summer. Canada is second to Siberian for these extreme weather conditions.

Preliminary research indicates Siberians are hypoallergenic with notably lower levels of secretoglobin Fel d 1 (Felis domesticus 1) responsible for 90% of cat allergies (which affect 20% of the human population). Further targeted research is undergoing and needed; however, anecdotally, a significant portion of Siberians live with allergy sufferers who report mild to non-existent reactions to their Siberians. The majority of our Czarina Siberians kitties live in homes that formerly could not have any cats due to allergies. Amazing!

Avid hunters, Siberians love playing solo or with their family or other pets. Siberians thrive on living in community with their people, other kitties, or dogs or other pets. Many of our Czarina Forever Families who do not adopt two kitties at once return for a second, third, or even fourth kitty to cherish in their home. Siberian play hearkens back to their pre-domesticated roots: enjoying playing in water, leaping in the air, climbing high up their cat trees, racing across the room, pouncing and batting toys about during their energetic spurts all hearken back to self-preservation of their ancestors. We love playing with our kitties and seeing the ways they use their clever minds to change vantage points for better success in hunting their toy prey in our home.

The Siberian primordial pouch has a gelatinous feel in stark contrast to otherwise firm musculature. In the Siberian wilds, the primordial pouch serves multiple purposes from protection in a fight to starvation rations to housing stretchy skin necessary for extending into powerful leaps. The first muscles and thick boning with the squishy primordial pouch work together to create the unique rounded look and unexpected heft characteristic of the Siberian breed.

Siberians are a quieter breed known not for mighty meows but for simply being present or their rumbling purrs, delightful chirrups, and squeaky meows. Slavic folklore, writings, paintings, and oral tradition is peppered with Siberians, who domesticated themselves to Siberian’s sparse inhabitants and monasteries as sociable and agile kitties able to handle rodents and other pests. In return, Siberians quickly earned the affection and care of the people those chose. Eager to please, Siberians bond deeply with their family on a foundation of mutual trust. Loyal, affectionate, gentle, patient, comical, and playful, Siberians are well suited to loving and prepared homes, including homes with seniors, children, and other pets.

CZARINA SIBERIANS is committed to making well seasoned decisions that enable the Siberian Cat to be preserved and gradually improved in perpetuity to grace our homes with their gorgeous, loving, weather resistant, hypoallergenic, intelligent, therapeutic nature intact. In the Cat Fancy, Preservation Breeders balance a number of key factors in ensuring the preservation of their chosen cat breed. At Czarina Siberians, we have curated and continue to finesse our breeding plans and feline husbandry skills to ensure the Siberian Cats produced in our home are retaining the genetic value of all key features of the breed for predictability in type, health, welfare, and temperament, while also improving each of these features toward the Siberian ideal as set forth by major registration bodies, such as TICA.

CZARINA SIBERIANS places profound emphasis on choosing every Queen and King we keep only after investing abundant research, assessment, health testing, genetic testing, pedigree analysis, socialization practices, and family history to ensure we are maintaining the true essence of the breed while also improving the offspring generation after generation.

Understandably, this is no easy task; however, we are Czarina Siberians are passionate about this breed preservation work and utterly delight in each and every one of our cats and kittens from the moment they enter our home.

RW Czarina Jasmolika is a black brown torbie hypoallergenic Siberian kitten sitting beside a flocked tree with a sweet expression and stunning big rounded green eyes

Rest assured, when you bring home your own precious Czarina Siberians kitty, you are bringing home fathomless hours of this very work that enables us to be called Preservation Breeders.

Congratulations on your well-considered choice! We are confident you will be thrilled with the kitty we thoughtfully and lovingly place in your care, and we anticipate getting to be part of your new kitty’s life their entire life through the updates you share with us.

THANK YOU for keeping in contact and allowing us to see the result of our hard work - the kitty we have loved from their inception and cared for with expertise over our 16 years in order to prepare your precious kitty for life with you. We deeply appreciate each one of our Czarina Forever Families!


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giving back

CZARINA SIBERIANS is so passionate about the role of preservation breeding mindset in pedigree breeding that Winona ran for Siberian Breed Committee with TICA in 2023. By vote of the Siberian membership of TICA, Winona is one of 7 Siberian enthusiasts, of which two are TICA Judges, tasked with updating and maintaining the Siberian Standard (the concise description of the Siberian Cat ideal all show cats should strive to met, which is referenced by TICA Judges) and Seminar (the foundation of training provided to TICA Judges and Siberian exhibitors and breeders to ensure comprehension of what makes a pedigreed Siberian an ideal example of the breed) during their 3 year term.

When the TICA Siberian Standard and the TICA Siberian Breed Seminar are updated, approved, and ready for presentation, Czarina Siberians will be honoured to share these vital documents far and wide.

In the meantime, enjoy Winona’s campaign slideshow for the TICA Siberian Breed Committee Elections 2023 below.

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CZARINA SIBERIANS

LINEAGE & LIFE

CZARINA SIBERIANS works diligently to raise healthy, balanced, and playful Siberian kittens.

Siberians are among the largest breeds of domesticated cats. Their medium-longhaired coats boast a wide spectrum of colouring. Siberians' rich colours and eye-catching patterns range from golden tabbies, to striking brown tabbies, to exquisite silvers, to creamy colour points, to shimmery smokes.

We thoughtfully and excitedly select each of our Kings and Queens based on first-rate beauty, incredible personality, excellent health testing, championship pedigree, and conformity to the timeless Siberian standard.

CZARINA SIBERIANS cats and kittens receive regular visits to our excellent ABVMA registered Veterinarians to maintain optimal health, updated routine testing, quality nutrition, and complete feline care. We love our Siberian Cats deeply and strive to provide them with the healthiest and most comfortable environment in our home, specifically tailored to their enrichment needs and preferences throughout their development.

Each cat in our home has his or her own celebrated personality and is a beloved part of our family. Each kitten adopted from us receives countless hours of specialized socialization from birth, and forever holds a special place in our hearts and memories. We love keeping in contact with our kittens’ adoptive families throughout their lives together, both expecting and appreciating this precious life-long relationship.

ADOPTION is always an important decision and commitment. We encourage prospective Siberian adoptive families to interact with us with any questions, big or small. We sincerely welcome correspondence with all current Czarina Siberians families. We are always available to our adoptive families to keep in contact and to receive pictures and stories of our beloved Czarina Siberians kitties throughout their lives and adventures. We love little more than seeing our kittens continuing to grow and thrive in their adoptive homes.

4 colourpoint hypoallergenic Siberian kittens are fluffy and snuggled together in a basket on a blue background that matches their big blue eyes

POISE

play

RW SGCA Czarina Czarnika is a blue lynx point hypoallergenic Siberian Cat dressed up in blue checkered pajamas and hat, tucked into bed with a warm pink plaid blanket looking at the camera with big and round blue eyes

CZARINA SIBERIANS’ DAY-TO-DAY STORY

Our social media is peppered with pictures and videos from our beloved kitties’ lives because we love taking pictures of life with our kittens and their parents. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram to enjoy pictures and videos of our beloved Czarina Siberians kittens (scroll to the bottom of this page for links or search for Czarina Siberians on those social platforms).

CZARINA LIFESTYLE is our blog where you can experience life along with us, as well as helpful tips and tricks, shopping lists with links to the items we recommend to our Czarina Forever Families. Engage with us as we open our home to you and invite you into our Czarina Lifestyle.

Are you a CZARINA SIBERIANS FOREVER FAMILY?

Please connect with us on Instagram so we can follow each one of our beloved kitties’ wonderful lives in their loving homes. Tag us @CzarinaSiberians in all your posts, as we love interacting with our kitties on Instagram and getting to see them grow up in real time in their fabulous families. We can’t wait to connect on Instagram!

SUMMER

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CZARINA’S SEASONS

WINTER

 
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ENVIRONMENT

CZARINA SIBERIANS is located on rolling hills enveloped in clean air and bordered by pure flowing water in the heartland of southern Alberta. Our Northern Shield region's exceptionally cold winters and long, bright summer days are reminiscent of the breed's origins in the Taiga — the first home of the breed in the Siberian band of northern Russia.

CZARINA SIBERIANS kittens are raised as part of our family. They are nurtured exclusively inside our home, where they tumble about our spacious ranch house and ramble near us or snuggle as we relax on a sofa or drift to sleep in bed.

Their cozy purrs fill our hearts with love, and their rambunctious climbing and tussling is always a source of good humour.

We work tirelessly to specialize the socialization process for each kitten to give the best possible foundation for their adoptive family to build upon with our extensive training and life-long support.

We are proud of our kittens and delight in placing them in the loving arms of their forever families where they can continue to develop and thrive in their nurturing forever home.

CZARINA SIBERIANS Kings and Queens love to roam the idyllic landscape with us, always safely secured in their halter and long leash from the time they have completed their kitten vaccination protocols. They thrive on climbing trees, pouncing through the snow, joining us in the kayaks on sunny beach days, or simply watching the cool water flow by on our riverside walks.

We have built spacious catios in our yard, nestled among evergreens, lilacs, poplars, and honeysuckles, and surrounded by songbirds, butterflies, and gentle breezes, allowing our cats to freely come and go from home to safe and fully secure outdoor play spaces.

The Czarina Holistic Ranch property is a Siberian haven, with perches and climbing posts and myriad toys our cats love throughout our home and catios.