Hello and welcome to the Choctaws Orientals web site.

I hope  you enjoy looking at my

 beautiful cats and  web site !

My name is Sue Bowen. I have been a  breeder of  Orientals for five years.  These cats are a very loving breed, quite Egyptian in looks but as you can I did not choose an Egyptian prefix.

I chose  instead, Choctaw as I specialise in Chocolate  and Apricot Orientals, shaded and smokes... also my husband Dave is very interested in North American  Indian history and found a web site on the Choctaw Indians.  It was extremely interesting to learn that the 'Choctaw' Indians were very involved in code talking in  World War 2 and they used their native tongue, inventing a code against the Japanese.

Through the course of  reading up about the Choctaw  Indians,  Dave also learnt that they love cats and  wolves. Therefore wolves  are involved in the names of  our cats and are featured throughout the  web site.

Our cats  and prefix  are officially adopted by the Choctaw  Tribal Indians of Oklahoma.

I have been involved  in the 'cat fancy'  for twenty years. Originally I used to exhibit and bred Persians but as the breed  changed type and health problems within my own family (the  human side), I retired for a few years. Then one day, I bought a  Siamese kitten and saw for the very first time an Oriental cat and the rest as they say is history !!