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Show Cedar City Cattery Local pair establishes "Cattery" in home "fun and profit" hobby terest with animals by having a cattery yet still continue with his chosen profession of social work. Mr. Chapman teaches social work at Southern South-ern Utah State College. Mrs. Chapman, a native of Scotland, smilingly goes along with her husband's interest and enthusiasm. "Most men dislike cats because be-cause you can't conrol hem and man wants dominance", James Chapman made this statement when discussing literature concerning cats, catteries, and the Cat Fan-ciars Fan-ciars association. Mr. Chapman and his wife Margaret, are Cedar's exception excep-tion to the rule. In their home the Chapmans have establish-ed establish-ed a cattery for fun and profit. Trie cnttery is set up in a basement bedroom and the cats are kept in cages wtih only occasional access to the entire home. Included in Chapman's "Cat Family" are the state's only three registered Burmese, two female Burmese kittens (the first litter to be born at the Cattery), two Tonkinese (the only ones in Utah), and two registered silver Persians. Burmese cats having hair that is fine, sleek, sable brown, and the shortest of any established cat breed. The only on-ly mutations of this breed are champagne and blue. The Chapmans have one of the few blue mutations in the nation. With the birth of the two females from the sable Burmese Bur-mese the Chapman's hobby turns into profit since the average price on the Western States market for a Burmese kitten is $125 per kitten. The Burmese is a very muscular mus-cular and heavy cat with large yellow gold eyes. The Tonkinese is a cross breed of a Siamese and Burmese. Bur-mese. It is larger than a Siamese Sia-mese but with Siamese points. It has Burmese coloring. It has fine, sleek, coffee brown hair and gold eyes. The standard price for a Silver Persian kitten is $50. The Chapman's six children enjoy the cats and kittens; but Mr. Chapman indicated that raising cats is an adult and sophisticated hobby. He belongs to the Salt Lake affiliate affil-iate of the Can Fanciars Association As-sociation which is the largest cat breeder's association in the nation and the world. Mrs. Chapman pointed out that the I960 census showed that the cat has now replaced replac-ed he dog as America's number num-ber one household pet. "Greatly rewarding" and "exciting" were the adjectives the Chapmans used in describing de-scribing trips to annual shows held In the Metropolitan Metropoli-tan areas throughout, the west. According to Mr. Chapman, the Cat Fanciars are trying to establish mutations as es-ablihed es-ablihed breeds and further perfect the breeds. When asked why people raise cats, Mr. Chapman said that it meets a basic need to work with live animals. Using Us-ing himself as an example he explained that he was raised on a farm where he was around animals and had shown livestock in fairs, etc. He can carry on this in- |