Jude is owned and operated by Judy and Hal Harper. During your visit, you may notice that the cats have names from the Beatle's era. Since my name is Judy, over the years I have often heard, "Hey Jude" called to me. It just felt very comfortable and JUDE was born. Now we are telling our age, so let's move on.

We are empty nesters and have replaced our 4 children with cats. Oh, we still have the kids, but now we are spoiling the cats instead. We now have a hobby we enjoy together. We love showing our cats and traveling to the shows in our JUDEmobile.

We spend countless hours and countless dollars on the cats and shows. Why not, it's only our children's inheritance. We have a work hard, play hard ethic here at JUDE.

We would like to take a minute to tell you about the breeding program we have and why we chose it. We consider our program progressive because we regularly use the Persian for type. Our main focus is on the Himalayan, although we do produce color point carriers (CPC'S). We do this by breeding Himalayans to Persians,thus resulting in improved type. This is done to achieve our high standards set for our Himalayan's. It takes a little longer, but we find that good results are worth the wait.

The Himalayan, frequently called the Himmy for short, is one of the most popular Persians. Yes, that is correct he is a Persian. For many years the Persian was cross bred to the Siamese to combine the point coloring of the Siamese with the type of the Persian. We frequently still use the Persian to improve the type in the himalayan. The Himalayan is sometimes referred to as the pointed Persian. So, just think of him as another color of the Persian. After all, he is only one of the seven color divisions of the Persian.

The Himalayan is bred and shown in a rainbow of colors. Some of our
personal favorites are the more rare chocolate and lilac Himalayans. The more traditional colors are seal, blue, flame and cream point. Out of these colors we can produce the more artistic of the Himalayans such as the torties, blue cream and the rare jewel, the lilac cream. Of course, let's not forget the lynx point. If you like lions and tigers and bears you will love lynx point kittens. They are special and a little harder to breed. Lynx is like tabby. It is the tabby of the Himalayan, so to speak. Lynx point Himalayans come in all the same variety of colors including the chocolate and lilac. Our Grand Champion, GC Jude Rocky Racoon is a very nice example of the Seal Lynx point. He is now breeding. I invite you into the cattery to see him. On all Himalayans, color is restricted to the facial mask and extremities with the body of various shades from white to fawn. All must have deep vivid blue eyes. JUDE makes every effort to meet these CFA standards, and of course health and temperment will always be first and foremost here at JUDE.

Please come into the cattery. We would love to show you around. Email Me.