Affection and sunshine wrapped up in a red fur coat. There is no other way to describe our Oriental Red stud cat. What a delight this young man is. Tuaca was originally homed with his brother, however, 9 days later, through no fault of THEIR own, the boys were returned to us. Unlike his brother Tuaca seemed to rely on Graham and myself, and was extremely demanding of our love and our attention. After assessing him, it become abundantly clear that this little charmer was going nowhere. He had decided that now he was back home, he was staying put. Graham and I discussed his future and realised what a fantastic asset he will be to our breeding program and what a great addition he would be to our cat family. Prior to Tuaca coming home, we had already made the decision to retire Sheridans in 2007, and as Tuaca is Sheridans' son, then his homecoming was the perfect opportunity to help us make up our minds as to who would take over Sheridans' duties.

Tuaca has a non stop purr, you only have to look at him and his little motor starts going. It is impossible to resist picking this baby up and cuddling him, all he has to do is come to any of us, look up in our eyes, and we all melt straight away. We do feel incredibly blessed to have this darling boy in our home and our lives. Like all Red boys, he is such a ray of sunshine. He just loves the world and expects the whole world to love him. Of course, being a Red, there are times when he really does try our patience, but considering we share our home with 3 Tortie girls, this is something we are definitely used to.

Despite being grown up now, Tuaca and his mum, Toussaint, are extremely close and every afternoon, they can be found together curled up in the bottom bunk bed having a nap. Toussaint still adores her son, and he adores his mother which is so sweet to see, especially when at 7 months of age, he is bigger than his mum! Taking his cue from Ashanti, he has already been "trying it on" with a few of our girls, particularly Nocello, however most of the time so far it is only a half hearted effort but he is very young and we're not that keen for him to take on stud duties just yet :)

He is great company for "Ashanti" our other Oriental stud cat and they are firm friends, despite Ashanti being a few months older, and much larger than Tuaca.

Tuaca and Ashanti both live side by side indoors in their own stud room which you can view photos of by clicking here.

Like Ashanti, Tuaca is at closed stud.