Ajooba Cats

Contact us for kitten availability or enquiries regarding our breeding programme by email or phone: 0121 246 2268. Please do NOT call us to ask prices, our kittens are from £400.

 registered since 2007

Legal Disclaimer: We have no affiliation or connection to any other breeder or their cattery, despite any unauthorised use of our cattery name. Please beware of any internet scams and contact us on ajoobacats@me.com to clarify any confusion.

Ajooba Braveheart

SGCA Gradena Golden Nugget of Ajooba

We contribute to the Bengal HCM research Fund at the Winn Foundation  and HCM scan our cats annually

Jasmine was a beautiful silver spotted Bengal who had a wonderful personality. Unfortunately Jasmine managed to get out of her home and was run over nearby. Every year we get queries from people who cannot understand why we insist on indoor homes. It is for this reason precisely that we insist you keep your Bengals from us indoors. This is the phone call and email we as breeders dread and we all go through it. Jasmine’s owners did keep her and her brother indoors and this small incident meant they lost poor Jasmine. Bengals are not streetwise cats and letting them out will inevitably shorten their life span. We share Jasmine’s loss with her owners and wish them and Tiger the very best.

Absent Friends

Our website would not be complete without a memorial to the cats we have lost since 2006. We have to say that we enjoy the breed but we are not alone in mourning the loss of our pets from FIP, HCM and other cardiac issues. All of which having experienced  first hand, we are ready to discuss with our kitten and cat owners. We are Bengal breeders but we are also pet owners who have older cats living with us. The following cats are the ones we have loved and sadly lost. We feel no shame or hesitation in being open  about these cats and their medical reports.

CH Purebliss Quinoro Pearl

Quin was 13 months old when we lost him to FIP. His illness was picked up at a cat show and when he saw a vet soon after numerous blood tests suggested FIP was the cause of his illness. Confirmation of this was made on extensive postmortem examination of his various organ tissues. Quin was kept in the same way we kept our other pets at the time and none of them have been affected by this horrible feline affliction to date.

Quin was a lovely Bengal and as well as being our pet he was also our show cat. He was very friendly on the show bench and gave judges cuddles and kisses. We showed him a total of 7 times in 7 months and hoped to have this boy with us for a lot longer. He was a lovable character and we will always miss him.

Left: Quin takes a nap on our TV

Quin lounging on a Saturday Morning

If you have suffered a similar loss of a cat to FIP please consider making a donation to The Bria Fund for FIP research

Suntouched Wow Factor of Ajooba

Auberon was our second brown spotted stud cat. We were thrilled to have him in our breeding programme. We took him to show on 4 occasions but he was not a big fan of being shown, which reflected in his placings and preferred to be at home. We discussed heart scanning Auberon, as part of the health promotion of our breeding cats with Mr Stafford at Martin Referral Centre. It was agreed he would be scanned at 2 years. Auberon was found passed away in his sleep at 23 months and postmortem revealed some changes in his right heart and acute heart failure. In his death Auberon taught us a great deal, as we researched cardiac issues and were subjected to some very searching questions about the health of the Bengals we have in our breeding programme.

Left: Auberon with our homebred girl Ajooba Argent Provocateur

To say we were devastated about losing Auberon our youngest stud boy is an understatement. We requested a postmortem promptly which posed more questions than it answered. We sought help from leading cardiologist Dr Mark Kittleson of UCDavies and we thank him for the time he spent answering our questions about Aubie's sudden demise. We also had a lot of help from other breeders here in the UK, but also from Canada and the USA in dealing with Auberon’s death an trying to understand why. We did not keep his bloodline in our breeding programme

Much more cardiac research is needed to understand and prevent these types of death in cats and in Bengals.

If you have lost a loved cat in similar circumstances we urge you to consider donating to the Winn Foundation to research more cardiovascular illnesses in cats.

Above: Aubie lounging in the living room.

Purebliss Stratus of Ajooba

Stratus’ demise to sudden death came 2 weeks after we lost Aubie. Stratus was two and a half years old. We requested his postmortem be carried out in the pathology department of the University of Glasgow. The results were sent to Dr Mark Kittleson, cardiologist at UCDavies and he concluded Stratus died of severe HCM (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy). HCM is widely considered a disease which is inherited in cats, and we chose not to breed Stratus’ line any further.

Stratus was the cornerstone of our snow and silver breeding programme. He was above all a beautiful and gentle cat. Words cannot express how much he meant to us and his passing was an incredible tragedy. We still have 2 of his daughters here who are much loved neutered pets. We dearly miss this affectionate and beautiful boy who was with us from the beginning of our breeding programme.

Below: Aubie enjoyng the fireplace with our pet boy Nugget just out of shot

If you have lost a cat to HCM, please consider donating to the Ricky Fund or specifically to Bengal HCM Research at the Winn Foundation

Left: Stratus shortly after he was neutered.

Ajooba Kiki Jewel of the Nyla

Kiki was a beautiful brown spotted kitten from Suntouched Wow Factor and Ajooba Nyla. She went to a wonderful home with her sister Bella and unfortunately Kiki became unwell and was diagnosed with FIP. Having had previous experience of FIP we were devastated. Kiki was put to sleep near the end of last year. She was a very sweet kitten and our hearts go out to her family who took very good care of her.

Ajooba Seiki

Seiki was the first silver boy we bred from Stratus. His mother was Purebliss Kukiko of Ajooba and after much consideration we decided to let Seiki go to his pet home rather than stay with us as a stud. He was a beautiful and gentle boy. He was a character and we were devastated to learn he had FIP after he went for a routine vet visit. Seiki had a wonderful home with people and cats and he is dearly missed.

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Please consider donating to FIP research at the Winn Foundation to help us find treatment and hopefully a cure for FIP.

Ajooba Jasmine