I have always been an animal lover, and have had pet cats since I was a young child.\u00a0 I discovered the wonderful Tonkinese breed in 2005, and have been hooked ever since!\u00a0 I worked as a nurse\u00a0on a paediatric ward for 15 years, but was forced to retire due to ill health.\u00a0 While I miss my work, this has given me the time\u00a0to devote to my Tonkinese, with the hope that I can help to spread the love of these amazing cats.\u00a0 My aim is to occasionally breed a litter of kittens in a responsible manner, raising happy and healthy Tonks.<\/p>\n
I registered under the name Lilyput with the GCCF as\u00a0a tribute to my\u00a0mom whose\u00a0maiden name was Gulliver.\u00a0\u00a0The story passed down through the family is that\u00a0one of her ancestors provided the name of the eponymous hero of “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift when the author saw the name on a gravestone.\u00a0 In the book, Gulliver visits a land called\u00a0Lilliput.\u00a0 I deliberately spelled my prefix differently in order to reflect the name of my first breeding queen, Lily<\/a>.<\/p>\n I live with my husband and cats\u00a0in Ibstock in\u00a0Leicestershire.\u00a0 We are\u00a0easily reached from Junction 21 of the M1\u00a0and Junctions 11 to 13 of the M42.\u00a0 Our Tonks are always pleased to welcome visitors!\u00a0 Please contact me<\/a>\u00a0if you have any comments or questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have always been an animal lover, and have had pet cats since I was a young child.\u00a0 I discovered the wonderful Tonkinese breed in 2005, and have been hooked ever since!\u00a0 I worked as a nurse\u00a0on a paediatric ward for 15 years, but was forced to retire due to ill health.\u00a0 While I miss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lilyput.co.uk\/tonkinese\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lilyput.co.uk\/tonkinese\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lilyput.co.uk\/tonkinese\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lilyput.co.uk\/tonkinese\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lilyput.co.uk\/tonkinese\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.lilyput.co.uk\/tonkinese\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"http:\/\/www.lilyput.co.uk\/tonkinese\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lilyput.co.uk\/tonkinese\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}