Russians in the family?

Something rather strange happened to me in the library today. I was sitting working on my computer when an English voice whispered from behind me: "Oh, you've got a Siberian!" My first thought was of a husky, until I realised the woman was looking at the picture on my computer of Gabriela and Teddi. (Like this one here.) "He's a Siberian, isn't he?" she asked me.

The strange thing is that earlier in the year I saw some photos about a cat show in one of the English newspapers of the Costa del Sol, and there were some Teddi and Tobi lookalikes that were actually pedigree cats called Siberians. Turns out that this English lady has three Siberians - all with Russian sounding names like Sasha and Koshka. But I told her that Teddi, huge and fluffy as he is, couldn't really be a Siberian because his mother was just a short haired street moggie.

So she said, who knows, maybe the kittens' father had Siberian in him, and did I know that Siberians continue growing until they are around five years old. The funny thing is that Gabriela had said just last week that Tobi seems to be bigger than Tamba now, and that Teddi is bigger than the neighbours' dog! (The dog's a yorkie, so that's not hard.)

I've always said that Teddi is like a substitute dog for me, but Ada and I just had to laugh at the idea of his continuing to grow even bigger over the next four years. Watch this blog to see if he really does get any bigger.