Melanie has bred Maus for almost 20 years, a short time in the scheme of things, but in that time Melanie has used her time wisely. She has devoted herself to

the understanding and improvement of the breed and the results have been pretty spectacular.  In the always difficult to crack Cat Fanciers Association (CFA), Melanie has put the minority breed of Egyptian Maus on the map as a perennial player and has produced some of the top examples of the breed.  In an admittedly difficult breed Melanie has established herself not only as the top Egyptian Mau cattery, but as one of the top CFA catteries in the history of CFA  - not an easy thing to do with a mainstream breed and nearly impossible with a difficult minority breed.  Many of Melanie's cats have gone on to serve as the foundation for the breed around the world, including in the UK... and all this was achieved with relatively few cats.  Add to those credentials that Melanie spent most of a decade preparing for and entering the CFA judging program.

Melanie is an approved Allbreed judge and is not only asked to train nearly every one of the CFA's new judges coming in, but is also in charge of all the new CFA judges coming in to their International division. Just to take it a step further, Melanie is the chair of Breeds and Standards for CFA.