Monika Wernli

My name is Monika Wernli, and though I've always had cats, Tonkinese entered my life in 2002. I completely fell in love with the sweet personality of these cats and decided to breed them. My prefix Nashira's is registered with FIFé, and I live with my cats in the Northern part of Switzerland. I'm also a member of the Interessengemeinschaft Tonkanesen & Tibeter.

As the Tonkinese is still a rare breed, inbreeding can be a problem. I started collecting pedigrees in order to find out which lines are related to each other and to chase the different lines to their parent breeds, Siamese and Burmese. I am grateful to all the people who have already kindly submitted the pedigrees of their cats and also to Ulrika and Peter for agreeing to host the database on PawPeds in Spring 2007. My long-term aim is to get the Tonkinese breed recognized in FIFé.