czarina siberians
preservation breeder
CZARINA RANCH
ENVIRONMENT
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. This adds a layer to the critical need for preservation efforts in ensuring the longevity of the Siberian breed.
Ethical 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 nearing extinction, and even preservation of historical structures and sites, there is a clearly defined purpose, process, and proof of increasing success. We understand it is vital we protect our natural and historic sites, flora, and fauna. Preservation breeders of pedigreed cats see the gravity of the situation and follow this established procedure as well.
SIBERIANS are medium-large, semi-longhair cats originating in subarctic Siberia, Russia. Siberians evolved for survivability in continuous permafrost across 13,000,000 square kilometres 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 their 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 help prevent anything unwanted from settling on their coat. A uniquely textured triple coat, including warmly insulating resilient down hairs and water-repellent awn hairs; enables Siberians to hunt in any terrain, thriving despite the bitter cold of Siberia and its blistering heat a few weeks each summer. Canada is second to Siberia for these extreme weather conditions.
Preliminary research indicates Siberians are hypoallergenic with notably lower levels of secretoglobin Fel d 1 responsible for 90% of cat allergies (20% of the human population experience cat allergies). Further targeted research is 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 love living in community with their people, other kitties or dogs, or other pets. Of our Czarina Forever Families who do not start off adopting two of our kitties, later return for a second, third, or even fourth kitty to cherish in their home. Siberian Cat play hearkens back to their pre-domesticated roots. Enjoying playing in water, leaping in the air, climbing their cat trees, pouncing and batting toys about during spurts of playfulness brings levity to any home. We love playing with our kitties and seeing the ways they use their clever minds in hunting toy prey.
The Siberian’s belly has loose skin near the rear legs, called a primordial pouch. This primordial pouch has a gelatinous feel in stark contrast to the Siberian’s otherwise firm musculature. In the Siberian wilds, the primordial pouch serves multiple purposes from protection in a fight to a place to store starvation rations to housing stretchy skin necessary for extending into powerful leaps. The Siberian primordial pouch has a gelatinous feel in stark contrast to the Siberian’s otherwise firm musculature. The firm muscles and thick boning with the squishy primordial pouch work together to create the rounded look and unexpected heft characteristic of the Siberian breed.
Siberians are a quieter breed known for their rumbling purrs, delightful chirrups, and squeaky meows. Slavic folklore, writings, paintings, and oral tradition is peppered with Siberians, who domesticated themselves to Siberia’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 they 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 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 to ensure the Siberian Cats produced in our home retain 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 registries, 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. This is no easy task; however, we at Czarina Siberians are passionate about the Siberian breed preservation work and utterly delight in each and every one of our cats and kittens from the moment they enter our home.
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 know you will be thrilled with the kitty we thoughtfully placed in your care, and we anticipate getting to be part of your new kitty’s life their entire like 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 inception and cared for with expertise to prepare for life with you. We deeply appreciate each one of our Czarina Forever Families!
CZARINA SIBERIANS is located on rolling hills enveloped in clean air and bordered by flowing spring 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 with lifelong support always available from us at Czarina Siberians.
CZARINA SIBERIANS Kings and Queens love to roam the idyllic landscape with us from the time they have completed their kitten vaccination protocols, always safely secured in their halter and leash. They thrive on climbing trees, pouncing through the snow, joining us kayakking 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 honeysuckle bushes; and surrounded by songbirds, butterflies, and gentle breezes, allowing our Queens and Kings 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.
While our Queens and Kings have the luxury of adventuring with us outside, our kittens are indoor only so they can seamlessly join any home without concern of an expectation for outdoor exploration. Our kittens are raised to not be door-dashers, as they have no taste for the outdoors before leaving our home for their forever home.
CZARINA SIBERIANS’ informational emails include details for keeping indoor life stimulating and all your kitty needs as well as details for safely preparing your kitty for joining you on adventures outdoors if you should so choose. Both lifestyles suit our kitties beautifully.
KINGS
CZARINA SIBERIANS Kings have been thoughtfully selected from among the most reputable breeders around the world. All have thoroughly health-tested lines, and are themselves health tested, full of World Champions and similarly titled parents and ancestors. We love taking our Kings and their offspring to TICA shows. It is always exciting to hear the judges confirm how well they represent the TICA Siberian standard and commend us on their part in our exceptional breeding program.
CZARINA SIBERIANS Kings’ gorgeous, spacious rooms are themed after famous Slavic landscapes with adjoining catios nestled in the trees. We love spending time snuggling and playing with each of our Kings in his domain and have created an oasis of sorts for ourselves where we relax and enjoy time with each of our phenomenal Kings while sipping tart home-brewed sun tea over ice on those bright, warm days of summer or aromatic steaming tea when the days turn chilly in winter.
We are ecstatic to announce our newest TICA (The International Cat Association) title for one of our Kings, which is the most coveted title among pedigree breeders around the world. It requires 10 offspring to achieve a Grand Championship title or higher, and our OUTSTANDING SIRE ELIZAR achieved this prestigious title with 11 offspring in 2023! Check out Elizar’s introduction below for the impressive achievements of his 11 offspring that worked together over several years to make their daddy Elizar, along with all of us at Czarina Siberians, so proud and honoured.
If you have adopted a kitten from us whose daddy is Oliver, Osya, Bobby, or Groshik, we would LOVE for your kitty to join with their brothers and sisters in helping their own daddy kitty achieve the prestigious Outstanding Sire title, too. We can make the process easy for you (where your kitty joins us for a TICA show weekend) or help you get started showing your kitty if you find that enticing. Just ask us how!
Now, we are delighted to introduce you to our Kings, the fathers of our precious kittens.
Elizar - Outstanding Sire
Elizar means God my helper, and he is a socialite who wins the hearts of everyone he sees. Thank you to Anna and Tatiana of Maris Stella cattery for our charismatic and loving Elizar!
Elizar’s comically hilarious approach to life keeps us laughing as he lazes about the house in some of the most ridiculous positions imaginable. Even in his TICA show debut as a kitten, Elizar kept the audience and judges in stitches with his hilarious positions in the show cage each judging ring. What a ham!
On the judges’ table Elizar was routinely commended for his perfect head type, incredible body condition, fantastic alignment, and confirmation to the Siberian standard. We were so proud of Elizar when he achieved TICA 2nd Best Siberian Kitten of the Year in the Pacific NorthWest that year. What a phenomenal king is our Elizar!
Beginning with his first litter of kittens, we have been working toward Elizar receiving our very first OUTSTANDING SIRE (OS) title. He outdid himself, with eleven (when it required ten) of Elizar’s offspring having accomplished Grand Champion (GRC) all the way up to the highest Supreme Grand Champion (SGC) titles and more. Elizar’s phenomenal offspring have helped him achieve this well-deserved title he always held in our hearts! Elizar is a truly exceptional king, and here are his titled daughters and sons to date!
IW BW SGCA Czarina Galadrien (now in his forever family, home with us for show weekends)
RW SGC Czarina Anastasia (retired queen now in her forever family)
RW SGC Czarina Lapushka (current queen)
RW SGCA Czarina Czarovich (now in his forever family)
RW SGCA Czarina Czarnika (now in her forever family)
RW QGC Czarina Zariyana (current queen)
RW QGCA Czarina Yezdra (now in his forever family)
QGC Czarina Nataliya (retired queen now in her forever family)
QGCA Czarina Petr (now in his forever family)
DGC Czarina Karolina (current queen)
GRC Czarina Tyanna (retired queen now in her forever family)
Athletic, Elizar loves racing around his catio, enjoying the jungle gym we built. In the winter, he pops back in through his kitty door to soak in the warmth or luxuriate in snuggling arms before heading out for more playtime. Elizar is a true son of Siberia!
Elizar’s zest for life is tempered by his passion for being carried. He’s pure muscle, filling out his excellent barrel shaped body gorgeously with that Siberian build that is so densely heavy. His sandpaper-rough tongue is always ready to give kisses. Elizar readily captured our hearts from the first moment he joined our family with his loudly rumbling purrs and affectionate nature.
Elizar passes on to his kittens his expressive big eyes, broadly rounded face, beautifully barrel-shaped torso, delightful charisma, sturdy body, affectionate nature, and excessively confident friendliness.
We are proud to call Elizar daddy to many of our Czarina Siberians kittens.
Bobby - triple grand champion
Bobby means famed, bright, shining, which perfectly described the bright joy he’s brought into our home and the admiration he garners everywhere he goes. Thank you to Albina of Arkaim cattery for our sweetheart Bobby!
With his incredibly sweet disposition and even-keeled approach to life, Bobby is ready for whatever ideas we have. He adores living life as a lap kitty, melting into our laps. He loves going for car rides, cozying into our laps with contented purrs rumbling and his gorgeous big blue eyes taking in all the passing scenery and other vehicles with rapt attention only broken when he frequently turns his loving gaze on us with gentle chirrups.
With Bobby’s incredible blue eyes, sweet personality, and love for affection, he immediately filled a place in our hearts and home we didn’t even know was empty.
Shortly before flying across the ocean to join our family, Bobby took in a European TICA show and achieved his first title of Champion. Once he arrived and was fully settled in and beautifully bonded with us, we continued his TICA show season. That year, Bobby earned 5th Best Siberian of the Year in the Pacific NorthWest. Two years in a row he earned International Best Blue Point Siberian of the Year in the Pacific NorthWest. Our Bobby-boy has achieved the title of Triple Grand Champion (TGC) with TICA, and we are so proud of all he has accomplished.
Bobby has an incredible show temperament, loving to play with the judges’ toys, standing well for them, and showing off his breathtakingly blue eyes to one and all. Bobby is memorable and leaves a wonderful impression on all he meets. We feel so thankful for our beloved Bobby.
In the nice weather, Bobby loves lying on the cool grass in his catio, enjoying the flitting chirping birds flying overhead and the gently flowing waterfall while soaking in the sun’s warm rays. He also adores our large dog, playing with him and snuggling with him in the house.
Bobby passes on to his kittens his breathtakingly big eyes, expressive face, gorgeous thick coat, affectionate confidence, beautiful confirmation, and snuggly loving nature.
We are proud to call him daddy to many of our Czarina Siberians kittens.
If you have adopted one (or more) of Bobby’s kittens through the years and might like to participate in helping their daddy Bobby achieve the title of Outstanding Sire, please email us pictures of your kitty to winona@czarinasiberians.com
We need your help! Currently, Bobby has just begun his journey to this accomplishment with 1 of 10 of his offspring achieving the title of Grand Champion or higher. We would love to chat with you and hopefully have your kitty join this list of phenomenal offspring who call our incredible King Bobby their daddy:
RW QGC Czarina Naida (current queen)
groshik - regional winner & supreme grand champion
Groshik means a red penny, which hearkens to his stunning red lynx point coat. Groshik excelled in TICA shows with us. Thank you to Oksana of Tsar-Koshka cattery for our huge and loving Groshik!
When Groshik joined our family, he quickly endeared himself to us with his sweetly affectionate nature and hilariously lazy playfulness. It was love at first sight, and we and our darling Groshik bonded quickly and deeply. This big boy adores being held close, as he loudly purrs and kneads the air with his massive paws.
We worked hard preparing Groshik to start his TICA show career, and he has exceeded our expectations as he learned what to expect and how to handle himself in the show rings for each judge. Groshik quickly developed an enjoyment for showing, even becoming unfazed by the cacophany of sounds at Pet Expos, where barking dogs, loudspeakers, milling crowds, myriad pets from pigs to amphibians to birds, and even the deafening dog competitions happening all around us did not bother him. We’re continually amazed by our Groshik!
Groshik routinely wowed the TICA judges with his unexpected heft even in seeing how big he is, his gorgeously dense red lynx point coat, his stunning big blue eyes, his excellent barrel-shaped body, his perfect head, his conformity to the Siberian standard, and his darling personality.
Groshik so impressed the TICA judges that he frequently placed Best AllBreed Cat and quickly earned his Supreme Grand Champion title at just one year of age! He finished the show year strong as the 4th Best Siberian Cat of the Year in the World, the Best Siberian Cat in the Pacific NorthWest Region and in Canada, and the 6th Best AllBreed Cat in the Pacific NorthWest Region, earning him his Regional Winner RW title. He had a fantastic show season, and we’re so proud of all he accomplished in his TICA show career.
Groshik has driven and flown with us across Canada and the States and takes in the sights and sounds with such sweet confidence from his travel carrier, his halter and leash, or our loving arms. He's even experienced Niagara Falls with us and loved sniffing the misty air from our arms with eyes closed, taking in all the scents and sounds and simply lounging in our arms. What a sweet, sweet king is our Groshik.
Groshik passes on to his kittens his phenomenal big round eyes, broad head, gorgeous dense coat, unexpected heft, lovely confirmation, high intelligence, and affectionately sweet nature.
We are proud to call him daddy to many of our Czarina Siberians kittens.
If you have adopted one (or more) of Groshik’s kittens and might like to participate in helping their daddy Groshik achieve the title of Outstanding Sire, please email us pictures of your kitty to winona@czarinasiberians.com
We need your help! Currently, Groshik’s kittens are barely old enough to start earning titles beginning when they reach 8 months of age. Your kitty could be among the first to begin the journey to this accomplishment, requiring that 10 of his offspring achieve the title of Grand Champion or higher. We would love to chat with you and hopefully have your kitty join this list of phenomenal offspring who call our incredible King Groshik their daddy.