Lee Harper is the founding editor of the award-winning online cat magazines ShowCatsOnline.com and PandEcats.com. She began breeding Persian cats under the Mockingbird cattery name in 1994, adding Exotic Shorthairs in 1999. In July 2000 she founded PandEcats.com, the first online breed magazine on the web, followed 6 months later by ShowCatsOnline.com, an ezine devoted to all breeds of pedigreed cat.