Chianti is a Turkish Van.

He was born in New Ellenton, South Carolina at Mrs.Karen Hooker's house, Pairodocs Turkish Vans, son of Piano Man and Allie, you can see Piano Man in this page, click here.

He was purchased via Internet and he flew from South Carolina to Miami where his aunts Yolanda Fley and Risqui Company took care of him during two days and Gunther brought him to our family in his own hands.

He is an American cat, living in Brazil, brought by a German, with a Turkish origin with itailian/brazilian behavior.

He arrived, was freed from his cage, start to walk and the heart of my wife at that exact moment belonged to him.

He is our happiness today, he is the absolute owner of the house, he has a private fountain and he owns also our king size bed., sometimes we can sleep there too.

Everything that happens at home, he is aware about or investigating and everything we do, we consider the great cat as first priority.

He is smart, extremelly smart and we are quite sure that he will talk someday.

He is a copy of my wife, loves as few as possible people around him, hates leaving home, he has her personality.

He loves to:

• Stay in front of the monitor while you're working on the computer
• To sit on the top of the keyboard, when you're trying to work
• To sit over the magazines and newspaper when you trying to read
• To sit on the calculator keyboard
• To dig inside of the printer when the paper is coming out
• To get into the refrigerator immediatelly after you open it (see photo)
• To stay in the refrigerator until nearly frozen
• To open the water flow in the filter
• To open the wardrobe sliding door with the two legs and the head
• To chew expensive New Yorkers cashmere dresses until it became full of holes
• To hide, all the day long he is hidding and surprising you when you are passing by
• To walk over you during the night when you deep sleeping
• To chew my poney tail when I am sleeping
• To drink cold water
• To stay in the wind
• To stay at his fountain ( see photo) and try to eat the plastic leaves it has
• To throw into the floor everything is distrubing him, like the hooks to held the kettles, portraits, speakers,books and after keep watching to floor and say, look this thing is in the floor!
• Paper clips, if you want to wake him up , just open the little box of paper clips
• To eat with paper clips at his bowl, at least a dozen with the food
• To climb any ladder with no ideia how to come down after
• My wife, he follows her all the day long, we call him "the Shadow"
• To watch war films during the nights with me.
• To play with the water
• To bite me, to bite me, to bite me...
• To jump in the table over a hot soup plate, a soup blow up, and a bath after around 11.30 PM.
• To eat bread
• To eat red fruits, like strawberries,cherries, raspeberries etc

He hates:

• To be in any person arms, but cute girls
• The bread making machine, he become absolutelly disturbed when the machine start the kneading process.
• To leave home
• To be touched in his back legs
• To cut the nails

It is time to tell you all, what a Turkish Van is:

Turkish Vans has the origin at the lake Van in Turkey, close to the Armenian border from where you can see the Ararat Mountain and if you look close, very close you can see Noah trying to rebuilt his arch.

There are less than 30 Turkish Vans in the Lake Van region nowadays, some American (like Karen) and English breeders are saving the Turksih Vans from extintion, but a normal litter is barely composed of more than two Turkish Vans.

In Brazil, as far as we know there is just Chianti and he is anxious to get married, we have to find a bride for him.