![]() Since the fifties, the British have been seduced by the Maus. All the progenies present in France take advantage from these contributions which are found also in several foreign parentages. In order to find a final solution to the consanguinity problems, Didier and Marie-Christine Hallépée have reintroduced specimens coming directly from Cairo: Sahourê, Otta and Maslama, which has permitted to keep the natural beauty and the endearing personality of the mau giving it in the same time the best robustness and a health. Consequently, during several years, the breeding of the Egyptian mau has been concerned by the consanguinity problems in spite of few external contributions. To breed a race starting from 3 original specimens is not an easy thing. All bred Egyptian maus descend from the maus of the princess. In 1957, Baba was the first specimen of the race to be crowned champion. She created her own breeding under the name of Fatima cat house. Once installed there, Nathalie Troubetzkoï went on in promoting the Egypt cats, exposing them and introducing them as a race under the name of the Egyptian Mau. When a cat dances a rock, it’s maybe a bronze Egyptian Mau © Giuseppe Mazza It’s in this way that Baba, Jojo and Liza left to the conquest of the United States. ![]() As she could not take all her cats, she had to choose three of them and found a house for the others. In 1956, she was, at last, authorized to emigrate in USA. Liza (or Donna Lisa) was presented in a contest in Rome on 1955. Nathalie Troubetzkoï began to render her cats known in Italy and went on in getting them reproduced. Later on, Gregorio made to Baba some magnificent kitten, also maculated (1953), with, between them, a cat with a new colour, Jojo, a bronze. Among them, Nathalie Troubetzkoï kept a small silver female, Baba. Lulu and Geppa soon generated the first brood (1953) which was similarly maculated as the parents. Her friend, the ambassador of Syria, brought her an authentic specimen from the near East, Geppa, a black smoke male. Some friends found her Gregorio, a black male, 11 years old, coming from a maculated family. ![]() She alerted her numerous friends to find her another cat of this type in order to get newborns of the same look. She had quickly understood that she had met a descendant from the cats of the Pharaoh. It is in this way that she deduced the origin of this wonderful cat. ![]() The princess noted that the box which had contained the kitten was coming from Egypt. Lulu had a nice silver colour with black spots. The kitten was named Ludivine and nicknamed Ludol or Lulu. The unusual beauty of this kitten did conquer her at once. One day, a young boy took to her a kitten inside a carton box. Nathalie Troubetzkoï was an exiled Russian princess brought to live in Rome by the cases of the life. On the other side of Egypt, this kind of cat can be found also all along the Silk Road. Road cats looking like the bronze mau have been sighted up to Morocco. On the contrary, the brown cat maculated of black seems to be still rather common in North Africa. In the movie “The Horseman on the Roof” (199-Jean-Paul Rappeneau), the feline hero has all the characteristics of the bronze mau. Nevertheless, maculated cats are still found in Italy, and as they say, also in Provence. After the descriptions, a wide number of them were cats with maculated hair resembling to the pharaoh’s cats.ĭue to the Second World War, many cats died in Italy and the direct descendants of the pharaoh’s cats had practically disappeared. The Egyptian Mau is the Pharaohs’ famous sacred cat © Giuseppe MazzaBy the beginning of the twentieth century, Italy was populated by the descendants of the Egyptian cat.
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