Cattery Paepeghembos

is a small scale family Somali cattery. We are members of the family of Yana, Tim, Finn, Iryna and Guido. We live in Vlierzele, East-Flanders, Belgium.

Already in 1990 we bought our first somali but only in 2016 we decided to start our own cattery Paepeghembos. Our cattery is member of Felis Belgica. It is our goal  to breed healthy and beautiful somalis which are very friendly and sociable. By nature somalis are very curious animals and are participating/present in all aspects of our every day family life. We try to breed somalis as close as possible to the governing FIFe Breed standards by mating compatible animals. We have mainly ruddy cats but we also have a blue and a sorrel boy. It is our ambition to soon welcome also a fawn individual. We adhere to rules and regulations imposed by the “Fokkerijbesluit” and rules of the departement “Dierenwelzijn” of the Flemish government. We test our breeding animals for all relevant hereditary diseases relevant to the breed. And we ensure that they are free of parasites and bacteria and virussen that might harm them.

Occasionally we have kitten. They will have a FIFe pedigree and are offspring’s of their parents as indicated by a parental DNA verification. Although the somali population is rather narrow worldwide we try to limit inbreeding to a strict minimum as imposed by the “Fokkerijbesluit”.

Guido is vice-president and pedigree secretary category 3 & 4 of Felis Belgica the Belgium representative of FIFe. He is a member of the FIFe’s Abyssinian & Somali Breed Council. He is also consultant member of the Flemish Breeding Healthy Pets program, the Brussels “Raad voor Dierenwelzijn” and the EU DGSANTE Study Group Regulation on the welfare and traceability of dogs and cats .

Registered as Cattery Paepeghembos FBE-C-2020-0285.

We are member A00885 of SAN

Our state approval number as a cattery is: HK 20405726

Our contract veterinarian is Daisy Schollaert from Vlierzele

The name Paepeghembos is derived from a wood situated behind our property.