We are Rosie & Barrie Alger-Street. We have been involved with cats all our lives in one way or another. Barrie’s father bred Persians so he was brought up in a very cat orientated breeding household, whereas Rosie’s mother took in all the local pregnant strays who had litters of kittens in the bottom of the kitchen cupboard. Totally different approaches, but still each highly educational and a good grounding for their future vocation.
Barrie went into the Navy for 24 years and had to forego felines for that period, and Rosie had full-time employment and didn’t think it fair to keep pets as well. However, as soon as she was able to go part-time, Rosie got her first Burmese – Moorings Seryna Sadie and in the early seventies the famous Typha line was started.
Now here comes the lovely mushy bit! Barrie & Rosie met outside a cat pen at The Rosery in 1991, when Barrie came up to collect a friend’s Burmese from stud. Barrie was already involved with Burmese at that time but was also all fired up about Bengals and kept visiting to chat about cats and Bengals in particular. He finally persuaded Rosie that there were other cats as good as Burmese and they consequently were among the first to bring Bengals into this country.