Category Archives: Cat Shows

Show News!

February 8, 2015 admin 14 Comments

Hello my friends, Spot here!

If you’ve followed us for a while, you’ll know that I’ve recently been turning “Spotty’s Spotlight” on each member of our cat family in turn…. so far I’ve written about Spike, Harry, Lula and Robbie. Who’s next? You’ll need to be patient, my friends, because we’re not going to be letting you know until next week! That’s because Spike and Annie went to the cat show yesterday, so I’m going to be telling you all about it!

Yesterday it was the Shropshire Cat Club Show which, although it doesn’t actually take place in Shropshire as it’s in Staffordshire, it’s still one of the nearer ones to us, so although it was an early start, it wasn’t as bad as some 🙂 We all had an early breakfast and then mummy put the peskies in their carrier ready to get in the car 🙂

Spike and Annie share a large carrier as they made too much noise the first time they went to a show and they were in two individual ones, so my mummy had to buy yet another one that will be big enough for them both to be in (bearing in mind they have a lot of growing to do) (or at least Spike does) – they have snuggly, soft blankets in there, so they cuddle up together and you hardly hear a peep out of them! But to be fair, all 4 of us Bengals are great travellers, unlike Robbie who never shuts up from the moment he sets paw in his carrier to the minute he leaves 😯

So, after about an hour or so on the road, they arrived at the sports centre where the show was taking place. They were one of the first there as mummy has to be early to set up her stall, so there was no queue to see the vet and they passed vetting in with flying colours! So then, daddy took them off to clean and set up their pens and settle them in, whilst mummy got her stall sorted out, which is taking longer and longer with the more stock she gets! 🙂

As you can see, Spike is such a laid back boy, he can chill out wherever he is! 🙂

© www.bengalcatworld.com — Spike the chilled out kitty

Once all the other cats arrived and were settled, the morning judging can commence – all the owners must leave the hall at this time for GCCF shows as this is when the important title classes are judged and they are done on an anonymous basis, the judges are not meant to know who the cats belong to 🙂

Our breeder, Sue, was Duty Vet at the show, and as it was a very large show (517 cats were entered), she was kept very busy indeed! She gets called to any pens where the judges feel there are any issues: if a cat becomes ill or stressed during the show, for example, or if they need advice on whether a cat has a squint or a non-perfect bite! There are lots of different things she gets called for, thankfully most are quite routine.

This was quite a landmark show for the peskies as it was the first show where they were no longer classed as kittens due to them being older than 9 months – they are around 9½ months old now 🙂 This in turn means that they compete for certificates that go towards earning titles, so Spike needs 3 Premier certificates to earn the title of Premier cat and Annie, being as she is in the Pedigree Pet section, needs 3 Master Cat certificates to earn the title of Master Cat.

After a while, the results from the morning judging were slowly announced and we were so pleased that Annie had been awarded her first MC certificate! She didn’t get Best in Colour though, she was beaten by a much older boy who has already earned lots of titles – he is an Olympian Silver Imperial Grand Master Cat! But he’s also a gorgeous Bengal, so Annie said she didn’t mind being beaten by him 🙂

Annie is giving her pen some love, the card you can see is the reverse of her Master Cat certificate – in case you can’t see the judge has written: “Such a beautiful girl” 🙂

Unfortunately, Spike wasn’t so successful – another boy beat him to the Premier certificate but that’s ok 🙂 You don’t go to shows expecting to win every time as that would be boring! 🙂

The next show is only two weeks away! And it’s a double show – so Spike has two chances to earn Premier certificates, and Lula has two chances to try and get an Olympian! Though this is exceptionally tough and she has not managed to be so lucky yet 🙂 Annie is going to have a rest and stay at home to cuddle me!

I think that brings you all up to date!

Take care my friends!
Love from Spot

xxxxxxx

Annie, Cat Shows, Friday cat, Harry, Lula, Robbie, Spike, Spot, Spot & Lula

A Year in our World – Part Four

January 4, 2015 admin 18 Comments

Hello my friends, Spot here!

Welcome to the final part of my review of the year which covers October to December and what a busy three months it was! I have really struggled with choosing the photos for the blog today – it was so hard deciding what I should leave out as there are so many I could have shared 🙂 But being as I posted a random pic of me at the start of the last post, here’s a random pic of Lula to start things off today! 😆

October

Early October saw Lula, Spike and Annie go off to the Tabby Cat Club show in Warwickshire 🙂 This was Spike and Annie’s second competitive show and I don’t have enough fingers and toes to count which number show it was for Lula. Once again, her Olympian class was very tough and she wasn’t placed, but in their subsequent reports, one of the judges said that she is: “A super gentle girl with plenty of star quality” so that was quite nice 🙂

Spike did very well at the show, he won his breed class and two of his large side classes and was such a good boy, but was overshadowed slightly by Annie who not only won all but one of her classes, but also went on to be judged Best in Show Pedigree pet so was up for the final Best in Show Judging! There she beat the Best in Show Non Pedigree Pet to win Best in Show Overall Household Pet! What an achievement at only her second show! We were all so proud 🙂

Also in October, that mysterious building I mentioned last time was finished, and it turned out it was a nice office for my mummy! 🙂

But even nicer than that, it also meant our cat garden could be re-modelled and was made twice the size, incorporating the office too! So we now have even more space to run around in and more things to explore! 🙂 And mummy can keep her eye on us if she’s in her office, though when we get cold or tired, we of course also go in there and have a nice catnap on the sofa 🙂

November

We had two of our favourite cat shows in November – the Bengal Cat Club Show and the pinnacle of the show calendar, the Supreme!

At the Bengal Cat Club, Spike again did very well, winning almost all of his classes 🙂 Again he was a very good boy too, except for when he spilt his water all over his pen 😯 It’s a good job mummy takes spare blankets with her 🙂 But again, he took it all in his stride…

We didn’t dare believe that Annie would do as well as she did in her last show… but that’s exactly what she did! She won Overall Best in Show Household Pet for the second show running! What a clever girl! 🙂

Three weeks later and it was time to go to the Supreme! Lula went on exhibition for the Bengal Cat Club and was impeccably behaved all day, she does like to show off though 🙂

Annie and Spike both again did tremendously well! Annie won the special fun kitten class, beating lots and lots of other kittens; she came first in her breed class and also won best of breed too! 🙂

Spike didn’t come anywhere in the special kitten class, but like Annie he won first place in his breed class and Best of Breed, but the difference was his breed class was one of the largest in the show! Such an achievement at that level to beat so many other wonderful Bengal kittens, again we were so proud, though Spikey was his usual chilled out self 🙂

Phew! What a busy month that was!

December

We decided we’d be on our best behaviour in December as we wanted to make sure the nice man in red visited us at Christmas, though I’m not quite sure Spike got the memo saying that!

I thought I’d at least pretend I liked the two peskies and allowed them to share my perch 🙂

It’s not like I do like them, you understand, but they just seem to follow me everywhere! 🙂

Pretty soon, it was time for our final show of the year, the National! Again, Spike and Annie went and were very good kitties. They had an excellent show, though not as good as previous ones. Mind you, you’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise if you looked at Annie’s pen!

The weather was quite reasonable most days, so we spent lots of time in the cat garden

And we also managed to get together for our very first group photo of all seven of us!

And then we had Christmas when our good behaviour paid off and we got lots of yummy treats 🙂

Which pretty much brings our review to a close, my friends! I hope you enjoyed travelling the journey with us! Let’s hope this year brings lots more exciting things and here’s to a happy and successful 2015 to all of you!

Take care!
Spot

xxxxxxx

Annie, Cat Shows, Friday cat, Harry, Lula, Robbie, Spike, Spot, Spot & Lula

A Year in our World – Part Three

January 2, 2015 admin 18 Comments

Hello my friends, Spot here!

Welcome to the third and penultimate instalment of my review of last year 🙂 I must warn you in advance that this post will probably feature those two pesky kittens quite a lot, so here’s a random non-kitten photo to start off with 😆

July

Hmmm… I’m trying to recall…what was that big thing that happened in July? Oh yes! That was the month that not only one but TWO kittens invaded my World! 🙂 In the last episode of my blog, I revealed that the hoomins were only going to bring Spike home… a few visits to Sue’s house later and it had been decided that Annie would be living with us after all! What a palaver! 🙂

So on Friday 18th July, one day before they were 13 weeks old, the two peskies arrived here 😯 At first it wasn’t too bad as they stayed in their own room; I could hear but not see them which was fine by me! Mind you, they made enough noise in there, they sounded like a herd of elephants at times, not two little kittens 😀

But then, just a couple of days later, they were allowed out into MY cat garden! The cheek of it – no-one told me that would happen! 😯

But after a little while, I decided they probably weren’t so bad after all. Lula decided she liked them within a couple of weeks. Harry and Friday had accepted them quite quickly, though Robbie took a couple of months! But we knew he’d be like that, even before they were brought home – he’s a funny old chap sometimes who doesn’t like things to change.

We had another new arrival in July too – our Tigga Towers tree had proved such a hit and was such a wonderful place for us to rest in the kitchen/diner area, that it was decided we could also have one in the conservatory to watch birdies and the cows in the field and generally watch the world go by from in supreme comfort! Even Robbie decided to forget he didn’t like the kittens sometimes to have a snooze on it 😆

August

From lovely weather in July, August was a little less summery, though the Peskies continued to make themselves at home… *sigh* … 😀

Zzzz...Zzzz... Zzzz... — Zzzz…Zzzz… Zzzz…

Their big event this month was their very first show! They were going to The Pet Show on exhibition, along with Lula, to show off the Bengal breed to all the visitors. There was no judging involved, and although busy, my mummy and daddy were able to be with them 100% of the time, along with Sue our breeder, so they had a familiar face to look at and a cuddle whenever they wanted… Mind you, nothing phased them and they took it all in their stride!

While they were snoozing in their exhibition pen, mummy and Lula went for a wander around the show hall, and who did they see? The very lovely and famous Bob from the best selling books by James Bowen of how they went from the streets to worldwide fame! Here’s Bob chillin on the chair!

James was meant to be signing books, and had a very long queue, but when he saw Lula, he decided to get up and say hello! He had a very long chat with both Lula and mummy (Bob stayed on his chair as he doesn’t like other cats). After a while, his agent had to drag James back to his chair as people were getting impatient for their books to be signed, what a very lovely man he is!

September

September dawned and Spike and Annie went to their very first competitive cat show! They did very well, both winning nearly all their classes 🙂 My mummy and daddy were very proud! 🙂 They were so well behaved too and were a real hit with judges and visitors 🙂

They also went to another exhibition show – the National Pet Show at the NEC in Birmingham. Again, they behaved impeccably and were real ambassadors for the breed 🙂

But the thing they most enjoyed? Spending time in MY cat garden 😆

But pretty soon we noticed changes on the other side of the fence from our garden! Whatever could it be? A mysterious building was emerging (my daddy was actually building it, but “emerging” sounds a lot more mysterious 😆 ) …

We will no doubt find out in the next episode what that turned out to be, so tune in then folks! 🙂

Take care my friends!
Love from Spot

xxxxxxx

Annie, Cat Shows, Friday cat, Harry, Lula, Robbie, Spike, Spot, Spot & Lula, Spot's Blog

A Year in our World – Part Two

January 1, 2015 admin 20 Comments

Hello my friends, Spot here!

I hope you all enjoyed your New Year celebrations, whatever or wherever they may have been. As I said to Edna on our Facebook page, I’m only three years old so I couldn’t stay awake that late and was enjoying a lovely little catnap by the time the clock struck midnight 😉 Luckily there were hardly any fireworks around us so I didn’t get disturbed 🙂

Thanks for all your lovely comments for yesterday’s post – we’re glad you enjoyed the first part of our year in review; let’s hope you like the second just as much! Quite an important event happened in this episode, one that would change our World for ever!

April

Easter fell in April this year. And something magical happened on Easter weekend… On the morning of Saturday 19th April, three little furry babies were born to Flirtie who I showed you in the first part of our review yesterday 🙂 She had two gorgeous spotty girls – a brown and a snow – and a brown spotty boy too!

Our breeder, Sue, was very pleased that all three kittens seemed healthy and happy and Flirtie gave good signs of being a wonderful mother, looking after them with lots of care.

You’ll no doubt notice that I said these babies were born on the morning of the 19th…. In the evening there was a bit of a surprise! Just when everything seemed settled, another baby decided to make an appearance – 10 hours after the others! This was a BIG boy, and seemed to be quite a light, almost blue colour, though neither parent carries the blue Bengal gene so this shouldn’t have been possible.

But my mummy and daddy weren’t too perturbed by all of that because they were due to have the brown spotty girl and got regular updates from Sue as to her progress 🙂 Here’s the babies when they were a couple of weeks old

Pretty soon all 4 babies were named – my mummy and daddy chose the name Annie (pedigree name Tobysden Tsarena Anastasia) for their girl, whilst the snow girl was called Mia and the boys were called Vladimir (chosen by Andrew, his future daddy) and Coco.

Mummy and daddy went to see Annie as soon and as often as they could and it soon transpired she was a bit of a cheeky girl! 🙂

May

The kittens continued to make good progress and Flirtie turned out to be a wonderful mother! 🙂

The babies were starting to explore their surroundings out of the nest, though they did sit still long enough for a group shot now and again 😀 Coco had developed rich brown colourings by this time, he had clearly come out of his Blue phase 😆

Whilst visiting the babies, my mummy and daddy also met Lucy, another of Sue’s stunning kittens who was then around 5 months old, though she was big for her age!

Meanwhile, back in our world, Lula and I enjoyed playing in our cat garden as the weather was so glorious!

June

Time flies by so quickly and pretty soon, June was upon us! With it came some bad news…. mummy and daddy thought they wouldn’t be able to have Annie any longer 🙁 But all was not lost as Sue was happy for them to have Coco, the boy she was originally going to keep for herself. So very reluctantly the decision was made and not long after that, my mummy and daddy chose a different name for him – Spike – though his pedigree name (Tobysden Tereschenko) had already been registered and couldn’t be changed, though this was not a problem anyway.

However, my mummy and daddy were very sad that Annie wouldn’t be joining our World as they had become rather attached, mummy in particular….

But show time was here again and this time it was off to Ellesmere Port for the Merseyside show! Neither Lula nor I got placed in our title classes though Lula did win best of breed (again) 🙂 Little Lucy who you met earlier won not only Best Foreign Kitten but overall Best in Show Foreign Exhibit – a superb achievement!

After the show, I had a word with my mummy and daddy. I told them I didn’t really enjoy going to shows at the moment, so they agreed that I could have a break from them. We’re not sure how long for but we’ll see how it goes….

And so that’s the first half of the year in a nutshell my friends! Join us for more reminiscences in our next instalment!

Take care my friends!
Love from Spot

xxxxxxx

Annie, Cat Shows, Friday cat, Harry, Lula, Robbie, Spike, Spot, Spot & Lula, Spot's Blog

A Year in Our World – Part One

December 31, 2014 admin 22 Comments

Hello my friends, Spot here!

Happy New Year to you all! 🙂

You may recall in my last post on Sunday, I said I’d be writing an extra special blog this week to celebrate the New Year? Well, that’s exactly what I’m going to do! In fact, I’m not going to write just one, my friends, but indeed I think I will write FOUR 🙂 I’m going to take you all on a journey down memory lane with a review of 2014 in our World, starting with January to March today and doing the rest of the year as the week progresses! Does that sound OK? 🙂

January

The year started off quite quietly… much to Lula’s disgust we had absolutely no snow to play in though that was more than made up for by the fact that we got a different play area! We got our first Tigga Towers cat tree, and oh what fun we had exploring it! Four of us five kitties loved it straight away, Harry always takes a while to realise he likes new things so he wasn’t sure (though he loves it now!). Here we are exploring it within minutes of daddy putting it up 🙂

February

Despite keeping a close eye on the weather forecasts, February didn’t bring any snow to our World, in fact the weather was quite mild for the time of year!

Lula and I went to our ‘local’ cat show – the Shropshire Cat Club show, though, as in previous years, it’s held in the neighbouring county of Staffordshire and not in Shropshire at all! 🙂 I got a Reserve Imperial Grand Premier certificate and Lula, who was competing in the higher class of Olympian, wasn’t placed though she did get a nice rosette to show what an achievement it is to compete at this level 🙂 She also won Best of Breed so not all was lost, I suppose 🙂

March

Guess what? Still no snow in March so we’d pretty much given up on it by then… *sigh* ….

So instead we watched birdies in the sunshine from the comfort of our warm conservatory 🙂

Around the middle of the month, we had some wonderful news confirmed! Our breeder, Sue’s queen, Flirtie, was definitely pregnant – yay! We were excited because she had had a few false alarms, and also we were hoping to have a kitten from her litter, so this was very good news indeed 🙂

Here’s a pic of Flirtie when she was a kitten herself – she’s the one at the front, she always was a very confident girl 😆

Meanwhile, the new Tigga Towers was still a huge hit with most of us, though Harry still hadn’t got the hang of it, so Robbie (his best mate) kept him company in the big bed 🙂

And on that sleepy note, that’s where we’re going to leave it for now! Please come back tomorrow for Part 2!

Take care my friends!
Love from Spot

xxxxxxx

Annie, Cat Shows, Spike

All the news from the cat show!

December 15, 2014 admin 28 Comments

Hello my friends, Spot here!

I’m sorry I’m a little late writing my blog today – I have to dictate to my mummy who types for me (my paws are rather large for the keyboard) and she was very rude and decided to go out to the movies earlier this evening with her friend! 😯 So that left me kind of in the lurch! My daddy was here and I managed to get quite a few of my favourite chicken treats from him, but he said he was too busy to help me write my blog, so I’ve had to wait for my mummy to come home.
But she’s here now, so we’ll get on with sharing all the news from the cat show yesterday!

So, just to explain a little fact – some UK GCCF shows are double or even triple shows. This is where they have more than one show happening at the same time, in the same hall. If your cat is eligible, you’re allowed to enter 2 shows if you wish (you have to pay twice of course 😉 ).

Yesterday it was a triple show – the National Cat Club Show, and two smaller ones. Spike wasn’t eligible to enter the smaller ones, but as a household pet, Annie is able to enter almost any show, so this is what she did yesterday! She was in the Sphynx Cat Club show and the National too 🙂

It was a very early start to the day as the show was taking place quite a long way from home, and Sue the breeder was also going – she showed Spike and Annie’s mum, Flirtini 🙂 So they all went together – my daddy drove them all there and my mummy drove home 🙂

They got there nice and early and passed through vetting in with flying colours, then it was over to clean the pens and put inside clean blankets, litter trays, water and food. All that was left then was for Spike and Annie to settle in and have a few final checks to make sure they were still clean and tidy.

It was then a waiting game for the judges to make their decisions! It seemed to take forever, but eventually all the results came in.

Annie had a good day, though not as good as in some other shows 😆 In the Sphynx show, she came 1st in her main class and also beat the boys to be Best of Breed; she then came 2nd and 3rd in her side classes. In the National show, she came first but a Bengal boy beat her to Best of Breed, and she came first and second in her side classes. So she had lots of rosettes to show off!

Spike’s judge was very very torn between him and another boy to award 1st place in his main class. He took ages to make his mind up …. but eventually he awarded 1st place to the other boy and 2nd place to Spike. He wrote on the results sheet that it was ‘very close’ which is quite unusual. Spike’s side classes were quite big – he came 3rd out of 6 in one, and was unplaced out of 7 in his other one! This means that this was the least good that Spike has done so far in his show career, but we don’t mind and Spike was quite chilled out about it all…

Annie was also quite chilled out and was thinking about having a look around the hall!

As the show started to draw towards a close, all of Annie’s rosettes had been handed out and put on her pen, and Spike was able to leave his pen and join her. Not that you can see them very well!

Soon after that, it was time to pack up for the long journey home. We had all been good kitties back at the ranch, so we had some yummy food and treats and a bit of a play before a nice catnap 🙂

I hope that explains things for you all, but if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave them in the section below this post! 🙂

Take care my friends!
Love from Spot xxxxxxx

Annie, Cat Shows, Lula, Spike

Supreme News!

November 24, 2014 admin 28 Comments

Hello my friends, Spot here!

Phew! What a day yesterday was! I had so much peace and quiet, it was great! Harry and Robbie had a little play fight now and again which woke me up, but Friday was a good girl, she had lots of catnaps on the cat beds in the bathroom! We love the bathroom as it has a nice heated floor – just purrfect for a snooze 😉

I even let little Annie share my bed in the bathroom sometimes (when she’s not off gallivanting 😉 )

But what’s that you say? You’re not interested in all that? Hurrumph 😯 Well, I suppose I’d better let you all know about a little cat show the peskies and Lula went to, yes?

So, despite the fact the me and the moggies weren’t going, we were ALL woken up at some unreasonable time of the morning whilst the hoomins got ready. My mummy is still not very well, so my daddy was making most of the noise, naughty man 🙁 He would tell me off if I made all that noise and woke him up like that! 😯

Eventually daddy drove everyone off, and we were left in peace again whilst they made their way down to the exhibition halls in Birmingham. They got there very early and were at the front of the queue which was great as it meant there was only a few minutes to wait for the halls to open. Every cat has to be vetted in before a show, and although there are a lot of vets there, there are also a lot of cats (over 800 were there yesterday) so if you get there at peak times, you might have to queue for anything up to an hour!

But vetting in was passed with flying colours and they made their way to their pens. Unlike normal GCCF shows, everyone decorates their pens at the Supreme and we are very lucky as our friend Alex goes to the halls the afternoon before and sets up all our pens for us, so all my daddy had to do was find the pen numbers and settle everyone in! He made sure the litter trays had lots of nice clean litter (Lula loves to sleep in her litter tray at shows) and also that they had lots of fresh water and yummy food. So they could all then relax and wait for everyone else to turn up and the show to start!

Spike was the first to be judged in his breed class, but we weren’t confident at all! There were 7 stunning male kittens in the class, including the one who had won Best Kitten at the Bengal Cat Club show a couple of weeks earlier. The judge was very meticulous and examined each cat very carefully, he said how difficult it was, and how wonderful they all were…. but eventually after careful consideration, he made his decision and Spike was the winner!!! What a wonderful surprise!

Then it was the turn for the girl brown spotty Bengal kittens to be judged, so all the boys went back to their pens with the exception of Spike! He stayed in the judging ring pen as there was still the matter of Best of Breed to decide. There were 5 wonderful girls, the winner was chosen so it was then up to the judge to decide between the female and Spike for Best of Breed! And Spike won! Yay! 🙂

There was a bit of time then to take Spike back to his own pen and give him lots of cuddles before it was Annie’s turn! Her class was much smaller as there was another female pedigree pet kitten who was absent, so she was awarded 1st place in her class. But then she had to face the winner of the male class to decide best of breed! The winner from the male pedigree kitten was also a gorgeous Bengal and again the judge was very thorough in his considerations before finally choosing Annie as the winner! What another great result!

After lots more cuddles with Annie, Spike and of course Lula who was on exhibition for the Bengal Cat Club, there was then more time to relax before the special kitten class. This is a fun class just for kittens – Lula entered it when she was a kitten and she came 3rd which was an excellent result so Spike and Annie had a lot to aim for! 🙂 When Lula was in it, back in 2011, there were over 80 kittens entered, yesterday there was a little over 60. But that’s still quite a lot, so it was split into 4 sub classes 🙂 Spike unfortunately wasn’t placed, but Annie won her class! What a clever girl! 🙂

Then we were back to the more serious classes – the Best of Variety (BOV)! This is where all the winners from each group are judged against each other for Best in Show! So Spike was up against 20+ other winning kittens from the ‘foreign’ category which is what Bengals are classed as. He was up against Egyptian Maus, Russian Blues; Marbled and Snow Bengals; etc etc….. But unfortunately his luck had run out and he wasn’t chosen as the winner. A lovely silver Egyptian Mau won. So that was the end of the excitement for Spike, he could just chill in his pen for the remainder of the afternoon.

For household pets, the process is a bit different. Spike was judged just by one judge for his BOV, but there was a panel of 3 to judge who should be put forward for best household pet adult pedigree, adult non pedigree and kitten. Unfortunately again, this is where Annie’s luck ran out too and they chose a gorgeous Siberian boy called Tommy as the winner! We didn’t mind so much as we know Susie, who is Tommy’s breeder, so we were very happy for them 🙂

Here’s Annie’s BOV judging 🙂

So that was that for another year. Fairly soon, it was time for my daddy to pack everything up and to drive them all home again where we all had lots of treats and a nice dinner 🙂

Take care my friends!

Love from Spot

xxxxxxxxx

Annie, Cat Shows, Spike

What a Great Show!

November 2, 2014 admin 20 Comments

Hello my friends, Spot here!

You may have seen from our Facebook page that Spike and Annie went to one of our favourite shows yesterday – the Bengal Cat Club show! And what a great day it was – here’s all the news you need to know 😆

It was a very early start as the show is many miles away from us – this is the furthest Annie and Spike have ever travelled but they were absolutely fine in their new large carrier that our mummy and daddy bought for them! They cuddled up together on their comfy blanket and had a nice catnap for most of the journey 🙂

Eventually they arrived at the show and passed vetting in with no problems. Daddy settled them in their pens and looked after them whilst mummy set up the stall. At 10.30, the kitty mums and dads all had to leave the show hall whilst morning judging takes place, but at 10.29 Spike decided that he would knock his water all over himself and all over his pen! What a silly boy! Luckily, a friend of my mummy’s saw this and came and told her, so it was a bit of a rush to get Spike dried out and the spare bedding put into the pen – always best to be prepared my friends! With that little drama over, all that the hoomins could do was sit and wait and hope for the best…

And it was definitely worth the wait!

Annie came first in her breed class, then got ‘Best in Class’ (which is the same as Best of Breed)

Then she came first in one of her side classes and second in the other two.

Spike had much larger classes than Annie.

He came first in his breed class, though was beaten to best of breed by a very lovely female Bengal kitten.

In his side classes, he came first in two side classes (a class of 4 and a class of 6) and 2nd in another side class of 6.

But the best was yet to come! Towards the end of the show, the Best in Show judging takes place and for the second show in a row, little Annie’s pen number was called as she had won ‘Best in Show Pedigree Pet’! So she was swept off to the special Best in Show pens where she was up against a very experienced and well-titled non-pedigree boy to compete for Overall Best in Show Household Pet!

It was very tense as the judge got them out of their pens in turn whilst she made up her mind… she said they were both super cats and it was very hard to make up her mind… but then she decided and went over to Annie’s pen and announced her as the winner of Overall Best Household Pet! Yay! How exciting! This is now two shows in a row where she has achieved this 🙂

We are all so very proud of both of them – here’s some pics from the show so you can hopefully get some idea of this 🙂

So after all the excitement it was time for the long journey home… I was so pleased to see the babies when they got in! I ran around after them and had a bit of a sniff and a play and a cuddle! Of course we all had a special tea and then it was time for bed, a well earned rest for our two show stars 🙂

The next show – in 3 weeks time – is also one of our favourites, my friends! It’s the biggest one in the show calendar – the Supreme! Let’s hope we all enjoy that day as much as this one 🙂

Take care my friends!

Love from Spot xxxxxxx

Annie, Cat Shows

Annie the star!

October 5, 2014 admin 30 Comments

Hello my friends, Spot here!

Wow! What a great day we had at the show yesterday! You probably already know how well Annie, Spike and Lula did from our Facebook page, but we promised you a more detailed update, so here it is 🙂

Lula: She was in a tough class for her Olympian and was beaten by a fantastic Maine Coon lady who is much more mature and has so far achieved Olympian Silver. But all was not lost as she got Best of Breed, and then came 2nd and 4th in her side classes which were: Any Variety Foreign Senior Neuter and Any Variety Foreign Visitors Neuter. The Senior class is open to all cats who are 2 years old and above, and the visitor class means they don’t live in the area where the show is held. Foreign is the category that all Bengals belong to for GCCF cat shows, and it includes lots of other breeds like Russian Blue, Ocicats, Sphynx and many more.

Spike: He was in a competitive brown spotty kitten class! He managed to get first place in the breed class, but was beaten to best of breed by our breeder’s wonderful kitten, Lucy. This is the last time, however, that Spike and Lucy will be competing against each other at shows because Lucy will no longer be classed as a kitten at her next show, she will be going into the Adult classes as she is not a neuter; once Spike reaches 9 months old+ he will compete in the Neuter classes 🙂

Spike’s side classes all had lots of lovely kittens competing against him, but he managed to win them all, including one where he beat Lucy! That was in the class “Any Variety Foreign Tabby Kitten” 🙂 The other two side classes he won were “Any Variety Foreign Kitten not Bred by Exhibitor” and “Any Variety Foreign Limit Kitten”.

Annie: Little Annie! Spike’s results were fantastic, but Annie’s were even better! She of course competes in the Household Pet section due to her jaw being a little misaligned. She came first in her breed class, then she got best of breed. Then she won all her side classes which were:

Any Colour or Pattern Short Hair Kitten

Prettiest Adult or Kitten, Female

Most Appealing Adult or Kitten

Annie’s classes were quite small, but she then went on to beat lots of other wonderful pedigree pets to win Best in Show Pedigree Pet! So that meant she went to the Best in Show pens to compete against the Best in Show non-Pedigree Pet for Overall Best in Show Household Pet!

After a short wait, the judge came along to show all the gathered crowd who she had decided was Overall Best in Show….

And little Annie it was! What a clever girl! We were all so proud of her 🙂

So that was the end of a wonderful day 🙂 After all the photos were taken and the formalities done, it was then time to pack up and set off for home where all of us had a special dinner and lots of my favourite chicken treats 🙂

Take care my friends!

Love from Spot

xxxxxxx

Cat Shows, Lula, Spot

Cat Show Success!

February 2, 2014 admin 26 Comments

Hello my friends, Spot here!

Oooh! What a busy day we had yesterday! As you may already know, Lula and I went to a cat show so I thought I’d let you know a bit more about the day 🙂 This was the Shropshire Cat Club show, so luckily it wasn’t too far from us and we didn’t have to get up as early as we usually do when we go to shows – about 6:30am, lie in!

My daddy was feeling a little poorly and decided to stay at home so we just went with our mummy 🙂 She didn’t have her trade stand at this show, so she was able to give us her undivided attention 🙂

So we set off just after 7:45am and had a uneventful journey to the show. Being as we weren’t early, we had to queue for a while, but my mummy was happily chatting away to another exhibitor in the queue while Lula and I had a good look from our carriers at all that was going on around us 🙂

We then got to see Sue, our breeder 🙂 She was duty vet for the show and we passed our vet inspection with flying colours! (of course 😆 ). We then went to our pens which mummy cleaned and prepared for us while Lula and I had a good look at what was going on around us from our carriers. Then, we were in our pens and made ourselves at home so we were nice and settled before the judging started.

My mummy had to leave us for the morning judging but kept a close eye on results 🙂 She was more than happy when she got them! Lula didn’t manage to get her Olympian certificate – she was in a class of 8 fantastic cats of all breeds, all of them quite a bit more mature than her 🙂 But we were pleased when Sue’s girl, Fanny (our Auntie) got the Reserve – a Maine Coon won the class. All of the contenders got a Rosette to say they were Olympian Contenders, though, which was nice as it is quite an achievement to reach that standard 🙂

I did slightly better in my Imperial class because I got the Reserve Imperial certificate! I was beaten by a Devon Rex but I beat other great cats to get Reserve, so my mummy was very pleased 🙂 She was even more happy when Lula was then awarded Best of Breed! 🙂

My mummy was allowed to join us again at lunchtime when she gave us lots of fuss and treats 🙂 All that was left was for the side classes to be judged, though we’re not too worried about those and mummy had only entered us into two each (instead of 3). We were unplaced in one of them and then we were up against each other in our final class where I came 2nd and Lula 3rd 🙂 I have liked to remind her of that from time to time today 😆

Here’s some pics!

We all got a bit wet when we left the show as the rain was pouring down, but Lula and I didn’t mind too much as we were in our carriers – my mummy’s fur was quite soaked though! But we had another uneventful journey home where we had some treats and a nice dinner 🙂

Take care my friends!

Love from Spot

xxxxx

Bengal Cat World

Category Archives: Cat Shows

Show News!

A Year in our World – Part Four

October

November

December

A Year in our World – Part Three

July

August

September

A Year in our World – Part Two

April

May

June

A Year in Our World – Part One

January

February

March

All the news from the cat show!

Supreme News!

What a Great Show!

Annie the star!

Cat Show Success!

Tales from a Spotty cat