Aksum Abyssinians - Abyssinian cats - Atlanta, GA

We have shown and bred cats since 1985, off an on, mostly off with cats just as pets during that time while raising two boys. We have worked with seven breeds of cats over the years, showing three of them (Siamese in CFA, Bengal in TICA and Abyssinian in TICA and CFA).

During that time we have also helped local humane societies and shelters adopt out their pets, care for them, and have given four of them a home here over the years.

Our newest rescue is Second Chance Charlie, a tuxedo black and white cat who was targeted by a bow and arrow hunter and pierced all the way through his body by an arrow. Charlie and I go to shows and other events to raise awareness on the subject of animal cruelty and raise funds to help stop it. Please donate to help rehabilitate abused animals!

We rescue, foster, and adopt out purebred Abyssinians in the Atlanta area as well as help local humane societies and shelters.

We also keep a regularly updated state by state list of homeless purebred Abyssinians in shelters and foster homes in the U.S. and Canada.

I've been fascinated with Abyssinians since I first saw them in 1985 at a CFA show where I was championing my first show cat, a lilac point Siamese.

We now breed and show Abyssinian cats in Atlanta, GA, USA. We will ship our Abyssinian kittens to you domestically at cost (or internationally at an additional cost), preferably in the cabin and accompanied by a caretaker. If they are shipped within the continental U.S. you only pay the cost of shipping, there will be no additional costs. It is a lot more complicated to ship overseas or to another country, so additional costs will apply.

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We offer a health guarantee against all major and genetic diseases (including FeLv, FIV, FIP, Tritrichomonas foetus, ringworm, PRA and PKDef) as an integral part of our written contract. We raise our kittens in our master bedroom area and the kittens are integrated with the adult cats that sleep with us in our bedroom after they are vaccinated.

Aksum Abyssinians started in 2007 by showing regularly in TICA and carefully choosing only the best Abys that have the conformation and characteristics we are looking for as our foundation cats -- health first, personality second, and show quality third. We are mentoring new breeders in four countries including a co-breeder here in Atlanta, BlueRiver Abys.

The name Aksum comes from the ancient name of Ethiopia, known in the 1800's as Abyssinia, and the alleged source of the first Abyssinian cat imported into England in the 1800's from the Abyssinian War. The ancient city of Aksum still exists in Ethiopia.

Aksum Abyssinians has two in-house studs -- a double registered (TICA & CFA) ruddy boy from Russia that we co-own with Cedarwood Abys and Blue River Abys, Fenix Basement Jaxx ("Jaxx"), and our own sex-linked red stud male "Mikey" (Aksum White Room), a cream male. We will have other outcrossed studs and queens in our quest to continue the ancient Abyssinian breed and have the most healthy Abys possible.

We have other kittens ordered from around the world that will arrive and join our breeding program as they are old enough (usually around one year old, especially for the queens). We work hard to keep inbreeding to an absolute minimum to avoid genetic diseases. We also regularly do DNA testing on our breeding cats to look for and eliminate genetic diseases such as PRA and PKDef.

We started by working with an Abyssinian breeder, Bruce Alexy, who has been working with Abys for 20 years, and has imported cats from England and Europe. Alexy Abyssinians has TICA and CFA Abyssinians with the four main colors (ruddy, blue, cinnamon, fawn) as well as the newer colors, which are interesting and beautiful, as you can see with our now-retired chocolate Abyssinian Candy and her daughter Dancer.

We started working with Alexy lines because of their excellent breeding program and wonderful personalities as well as clear beautiful color. They are close to us in the southeastern U.S. and have a wide variety of Abys including the new sex-linked red colors.

We are also working with other Abyssinian breeders such as Cedarwood Abyssinians in upstate New York, to create our own look and continue outcrossing for healthy Abys. We prize a sweet expression, happy friendly personality, clear coat color with nice ticking, and an athletic balanced body. Health first, personality second, and looks third. That's our priorities, in order, here at Aksum Abyssinians.

Around the end of 2012, our next generation of queens (a chocolate named Sunrise and a ruddy named Soul Sister) will be old enough to start having kittens (we wait until they grow up fully, about a year old when they are bred). This is a transition year for us. Moonlight and Sacrebleu will all be retired after their current kittens are weaned, and Dancer soon too. Mikey will go to our friends at Sumatra Abyssinians as one of their Abyssinian studs.