About Us
GP Sarmicel's Lucky for Me
of Catizen
     ABOUT SARMICEL CATTERY

My love for Burmese began in 1974 with my first
Burmese, Jai-Burs Nekko Li. She was the sweetest cat
I had every known, though she was pet quality and
never grew beyond a lean 5 lbs in her 19 years.
Almost 25 years after getting my first Burmese I was
finally able to start raising them myself. The cattery
was originally located in the village of Arnold,
Nebraska, on the edge of the famous Nebraska
Sandhills.  However, I have recently moved to a new
home located just south of  the small village of
Gibbon, Nebraska.  The cattery is 120 miles west of
Lincoln, Nebraska, and 15 miles east of Kearney,
Nebraska, adjacent to Interstate highway I-80.  
Without a doubt, my relocation has made obtaining a
Sarmicel kitten much more convenient, since we are
now located within minutes of one of America’s  most
heavily traveled transcontinental highways.

In 2001, I purchased my foundation female, CH
Nakodo Autumn Lily of Sarmicel from Alice Hidaka of
Nakodo Cattery, Lenexa, Kansas. I later obtained my
senior stud, GC BW Nakodo Joker's Wild of Sarmicel,
from Alice. My first serious show cat, "Joker" earned
the title of
2001-2002 CFA National Champion Dilute Burmese.
In addition to having been an extremely successful
show cat himself, "Joker" has proven to be a sire and
grandsire of grand champions. His first kitten, GC
Sarmicel's Martina McBurm was  nationally ranked as
the No. 2 Dilute Burmese kitten in 2002-2003.  
Martina’s full brother, GC Sarmicel's Otto Graham was
nationally ranked as the No. 2 Dilute Burmese in the
Championship class in 2003-2004, and again in 2004-
2005.   In a "show career" that lasted less than 4
months, "Otto" competed in only 11 shows, earning
10 Best Cat awards.

Sarmicel cats have continued to make an impact in
the show ring.  In 2005, Joker “visited” 2 of the most
prominent Burmese catteries in Colorado, while Otto
spent approximately 6 months on lease to 2 equally
notable catteries in California.  As a result of their
travels, kittens sired by Joker and Otto have rocketed
to the top of the national breed rankings.  One of
Joker’s daughters, Cheruburm’s Little Flower earned
the titles of Grand Champion and Regional Winner as
one of the top 25 CFA cats in all-breed competition in
the Gulf States region.  Another of Joker’s kittens,
Quercetin Sirius achieved the unprecedented honor
of being named the Best Kitten by all 6 judges at a
show in Salt Lake City, Utah this past season.  One of
Otto’s daughters, Anoka Comice was the top Burmese
kitten at the CFA International show this past
November.  At that show, “Comice” earned the honor
of being the 19th place kitten in all breed competition
against a field of 305 kittens.  After turning 8 months
of age, “Comice” earned her Grand Champion title in
her first competition, thereby taking her place in the
elite club of “One Show Grands.”  This required her to
beat a minimum of 200 other “Champion” cats in that
single show.

In addition, to the kittens sired by Joker and Otto while
“on loan” another of Joker’s sons GP RW Sarmicel’s
Lucky for Me of Catizen became Sarmicel’s first all
breed Regional Winner.  He ended the 2004-2005
show season as the 8th ranked Premier in CFA’s
Midwest Region.  GC Sarmicel’s Bronco Nagurski
gave Sarmicel an additional honor when he obtained
his Grand Champion title.  He was the 5th kitten born
to Sarmicel Lisa Simpson to earn his Grand
Championship, thus presenting his mother with the
title of Distinguished Merit; Sarmicel’s first “DM”.  In
addition to his showring success, a photo of “Bronco”
was selected by Cats USA magazine to appear in its
2006 Annual publication.  His photo appears on page
27 of the magazine in conjunction with an article
entitled “Take the Kitten Cost Quiz.”

With the granding of GP Sarmicel's Larry Czonka in
2007, Sarmicel received its second Distinguished
Merit award for CH Nakodo Autumn Lily of Sarmicel,
DM.   Most recently, GC BW Sarmicel's Walter Peyton
became Sarmicel's 2nd national CFA Breed winner for
the 2006-2007 show season as the national
champion Dilute Burmese.  Walter now is actively
siring another generation of exceptional show cats for
us.

In the years since I first established my breeding
program with emphasis on cats from the Nakodo
Cattery,  I have subsequently added cats with
bloodlines from some of the most successful Burmese
catteries in the U.S., including Austriana, Acrocats,
Brenwood, Burpur,  Mar-Chu & Kawpaw. It is my
intention to breed show winning Burmese in all four
recognized colors; sable, champagne, blue and
platinum.  However, rest assured that I will never
abandon my pledge to make Sarmicel a reliable
source of healthy, playful yet mellow, affectionate,
people oriented Burmese cats and kittens.  Although
Sarmicel has achieved a remarkable level of success
in showring competition, the one role that our
Burmese fill without equal is that of loving
companions.  Whether your Sarmicel kitten is
destined to be a Grand Champion or your lap-loving
companion that never competes, I want you to always
believe that adopting one of our Burmese kittens was
one of your very best decisions.
GC Sarmicel's BB King of
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