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    Well I can certainly brag about how much of a fighter my cat is.
    If you don't believe me, I have at least 35 scratches on my arms
    and legs at last count and I'm proud of it.
    
    My cat would eat Rambo. 
    
    And I trained him to do it...   and he still loves me...
    
     
    
    I can see it now:   Residual - First Blood.

    
    PC

    So you think your cat is a fighter, do you?  Why, My kitty Missy probably
    eats cats like yours for breakfast (how 'bout that for bragging)!!
    One time when I lived in Lincoln, MA - she was cornered by a full
    grown boxer dog.  To make a long (but interresting) story short, she
    jumped up on the back of that dog's neck and started scratching.
    The dog was later found dead.  Missy had cut his jugular (poor doggie)!
     

    I have two cats whitch I constantly brag about to my friends.  I
    imagine they are getting tired of it so I'll say a little here.
    My oldest baby was found in the woods at one week old.  My husband
    and I fed it with a bottle.  We had doubts it would make it because
    it was so weak.  now Casey is a little over a year old.  He hopefully
    isn't as tough as the previous notes writer, but he's king of our
    neighborhood.  This fall, as the weather got cooler, we had a problem
    with mice.  Casey caught and killed three in the house and even
    found the hole the mouse were using.  He would stay out at night
    and kill the mice as they neared the whole and when we let him in
    the house he'd show us the mouse.
    
    my youngest is 6 months and she was also found in the middle of
    route 102.  she's all white with blue eyes - for those of you who
    don't know that means she is deaf.  It's a genetic trait.  We have
    to keep her inside because she can't hear cars, etc...  She hasn't
    got a mean bone in her body.  She makes up for her handicap in other
    ways.  She has far better sense of balance than casey, she makes
    meow sounds sometimes but usually she sounds like a bird.  It's
    the cutest thing I've ever heard.  Unfortunately I have to get her
    fixed this week before her and Casey get any ideas.  I am so scared
    that she'll be afraid.  
    I know this has turned out to bo long, but one more thing.  When
    the two of them are in the house all day they open the front door
    about two feet and turn off the volume setting on the tv.  I would
    like to know how they get the door open!
    
    CAT LOVER
    

    Mike and I are the proud (and crazy) caretakers of 7 (that's right
    - I said 7) kitties.  This really isn't alot; at one point we had
    10!  There's Cleo - 14, Annie - 4, Pistachio - ?, Noel - ?, Amber
    - ?, Buster Brown - 1.5, and Lucas - 1.5.  Lucas and Buster are
    the sons of Amber (Mum).
    
    There isn't another being in this world that loves me more than
    Cleo does.  She will do anything just to be held in my arms.
    Annie is very smart(sometimes to smart or her own good) - she's the
    one who will knock on the door to be let in.  When Clancy died (he's a 
    whole other story) she went right to the spot where we had buried him
    and laid down on top of it - she definitely knew what was happening.
    Pistachio can eat more people food than most people and has the
    sweetest face that you CANNOT resist.  Noel is the biggest grouch
    we have ever met.  She must hold the record for continual growling.
    (Yes, we know it's because she is afraid of the other 6 kitties!).
    Amber (Mum) has to have the fewest marbles of any kitty I've met
    (though Lucas and Buster are close seconds).  And the best part
    is that she is missing some teeth and her tongue sticks out constantly!
    She is the best mother I have ever seen (she still washes and sleeps
    with the boys!)  She also does the best job of clawing the new
    woodwork.  Buster Brown and Lucas - well, these two are a pair.
    Lucas does the best job of loving his mother and imitating her clawing
    techniques.  What I love best about him is when he's outside and
    I whistle for him to come in - he will run from wherever he is (he
    has a little gallop) and won't slow down even a little bit.  He
    just heads straight for the door knowing I'll open it before he
    gets there!  Buster Brown LOVES Mike - he does a wonderful job of
    following Mike around and watching him do things.  He also sleeps
    sounder than any kitty I have known - he takes the Express to
    Logsville and it takes a lot to wake him up.
    
    All the kitties except for Amber and Cleo love to watch TV.  There
    have been times when I've come home to find both TV sets on.  They
    also have a knack for turning the stations while we are watching
    TV, or turning it on when we are asleep (that's always exciting!)
    They can also turn the VCR on, as well as the gas stove (this
    required some quick modifications to the knobs - basically removing
    them).
    
    Now, if only I can teach them how to run the vacuum....
    
    Carole  
        

    I hadn't thought of any brags until I read  .3  -- my 18 lb., half-
    Siamese pure white with blue eyes George is most definitely not
    deaf.  In fact he is the first cat I've ever had that will come
    when called, usually.  He is also big enough to rattle doorknobs
    to let you know when he wants the door opened (to let him in or
    out, it depends).  So, not all white-hair-with-blue-eyes are deaf!
    
    (Our old vet, literally, asked me that every time we took George
    in for his shots -- I guess George is quite unusual!).
    
    Jan

    Well, I started this topic so now it is time to enter my brag story.
    
    Sunday, December 7th was the date of the Housecat Fanciers of the
    Bay Area (household pet cat club) annual all household pet show.
    No purebreds are allowed in this show.  Way back in August I entered
    all three of my mixed breed cats in this show.  There were 275 cats
    there total.
    
    I have been showing two of my household pets for about a year now,
    but had never taken the third one to a show.  He had always become
    ill right before a show and I had had to leave him at home.  As
    the date of the BIG show approached I decided I had better aclimate
    Monroe to the show world.  I took him to two smaller shows to see
    how he would act.  His first show started out as a disaster (car
    accident on the way there) but he did place in two finals.  His
    second show he did not do as well, placing in only one final.
    
    This particular show is a vetted show, meaning that each entry must
    be examined by the show vet and pronounced healthy in order to gain
    entry to the show.  Monroe has a mild allergic conjunctivitis in
    his left eye which causes his eye to water and become red sometimes.
    I was so worried that he would be disqualified because of this and
    then none of my cats would be allowed to enter, since the rule states
    that if one cat is diaqualified no other cats from the same household
    will be allowed to enter.  I would then be out the $80.00 entry
    fee and the time spent in preparation.
    
    P.S.- this is going to be a long story so hang in there.
     
    Here is where the real bragging starts.  Not only did Monroe pass
    the vet exam, he became one of the top winners in the show.  He
    was on his best behavior, and really hammed it up for the judges.
    We have always known that he was a people cat but this was fantastic.
    
    There were four seperate judgings.  Monroe recieved two first best
    of color awards, and one third best of color award.  These qualified
    him for shorthair division finals in which he recieved a 5th best
    shorthair and a 3rd best shorthair.  These in turn qualified him
    to compete against the longhairs for the all divisional finals.
    In the all divisionals he place 5th best and 9th best.  His total
    points from these wins placed him at 6th BEST of the BEST!!!  Out
    of 200+ cats Monroe finished in 6th place!!!  
    
    My other two cats did well also.  Jesse got one 1st best of color
    and three third best of color awards.  This qualified him for a
    second best longhair final.  Winston recieved one 1st best of color
    and one 3rd best of color which put him in the longhair finals at
    8th best.
    
    Monroe was a real suprise at the show and he certainly made the
    whole ordeal worthwhile.  He won us about 20 pounds of cheddar cheese,
    a case of cat food, a fur cat bed large enough to hold four cats,
    a wall clock and 5 trophies and a plaque.  Not to mention about
    10 huge rosettes.
    
    For anybody interested in showing household pets, this show is the
    greatest!  Each each exhibitor recieves goodie bags full of cat
    food and supplies.  The fees are less than those at other shows
    and the competition is terrific.  It is a great show and if anyone
    would like to enter it next year, I'll provide answers to any questions
    on how to enter.
    
    JoAnn 
      
    

    JoAnn,
    
    I'm not sure I could have waited 3 days and 6 replys before I bragged
    about my cats if they had done that well in a show.  GOOD JOB!!!

    It wasn't easy.  I had a midterm in a class last night and had to
    be disciplined enough not to do notes but to study instead.  It
    was the toughest 3 days of my life.  I love my cats and I love this
    notes file.  I could spend all day monitoring this file (and I often
    do!!)
    
    JoAnn
    
    ps- I won't know if it payed off til next week.

    Congrats JoAnn....
    
    I had been waiting for your response!!  You got me interested when
    you wrote the base note and then didn't give the reason for creating
    it!!  
    
    That sure is a special kitty you got there...planning anymore shows??
    
    purrs
    cin
    

    I THOUGHT IT WAS STRANGE MYSELF WHEN MY VET TOLD ME IT WAS A GENETIC
    TRAIT.  MY VET EVEN SAID THAT A CAT THAT IS PURE WHITE AND HAS ONLY
    ONE BLUE EYE AND ONE OF ANOTHER COLOR IS DEAF IN ONE EAR.  MAYBE
    YOU'RE CAT ISN'T AFFECTED BY THIS TRAIT BECAUSE IT'S SIAMESE????
    MY DEAF CAT SEEMS TO BE MORE LIKE NORMAL CATS AS SHE GROWS UP -
    SHE FEELS OUR VIBRATIONS AND REACTS TO THAT INSTEAD OF OUR VOICES.
    18 POUNDS IS PRETTY BIG - THE LARGEST CAT I'VE HAD WAS 17.5 LBS.
    HE WAS DEFINITELY NOT FAT -- ALL MUSCLE.  
    
    CAT LOVER
    

    Cin,
    
    My sweet baby girl (Sacrechat's Jouissance de MySinhs) has her very
    first show in SF at golden gate park on the 20-21st of this month.
    This show doesn't allow household pets (we are such irresponsible
    pet owners, you know) so Monroe won't be able to attend.  I am taking
    him to several more shows in January including a TICA show in Napa
    (wine country! oh boy).
    
    JoAnn

    I have a brag.
    
    At the time, I had 3 cats:  Fillmore, the love-cuddle, about 1 year
    old; Cheetah, a lovable wimp, about 3 years old; and Indiana (Indiana
    Johns, get it?  Huh?), a sweet but sick baby, only a few months old.  I
    had just moved into a new house, in an area of town that I was still
    just a little unsure of.  I was talking on the phone and heard a noise
    at the back door, a bump-bump, bump-bump.  Then it stopped.  It seemed
    too...something...to be a dog or wind.  I was sure it was human, and I
    was scared.  The cats did not react. 
    
    I told my friend to come over, and I called the police then another
    friend so that if anything happened to me that I would have someone
    who would immediately know about it and could help me.  After what
    seemed a long time (a few minutes) all of a sudden Cheetah and Indiana
    headed QUICKLY for the bedroom but stopped and looked back toward
    a window opposite me, and Fillmore went tearing through the house
    toward that window!  Fillmore was all growls, and jumped up by the
    window looking ready to tear somethings throat out.  He was growling
    so loudly I could hear him all the way across the house!  When I
    had the nerve to look out I saw a figure walking quietly (I never
    heard a sound!) across my deck with a flashlight and a gun.
    
    It was the policeman.
    
    But I am so proud of my Fillmore.  Who needs a dog when they have
    an Attack Cat!
    
                     Carol

    Carol,
    
    That is a terrific story and well worth bragging over!  I have a
    brass plaque on the wall by the front door that says "This house
    is protected by an attack cat, enter at your own risk"  We got this
    plaque in honor of our attack cat.  It is nice to know that our
    animals can sense things that we can't and can communicate potential
    dangers to us.  I think it gives us an edge.
    
    JoAnn

    Chorniy caught his first mouse!
    
    We've been hearing some scratching in the walls for about a month
    now.  Koshka has been ignoring it, but Chorniy has gone wild.  He'd
    sit in one spot for 1/2 hour or more, staring at the walls.  Well,
    Saturday evening I finally saw a mouse - a really little one, all
    grey - when it jumped out of the space under the cupboards, and
    hurredly jumped back in in another spot.  We woke Chorniy up and
    showed him the scent.  He sat there for about an hour and a half,
    but the mouse didn't show up again.  Last night there was a lot
    of noise under the cupboards.  Chorniy sat there for hours, waiting.
    Koshka sauntered by him a few times, nose in the air.  About 15
    minutes after we went to bed, there was this one THUNK sound.  I
    just *knew* our handsome clever patient kitty had caught his first
    mouse.  I turned on all the lights, went into the kitchen, and there 
    it was!  If ever a cat looked proud!!!  Boy, did Chorniy get some
    attention, and he loved it all!  He was still strutting around this
    morning.
    
    Now, mind you, this is a purely indoor neutered male cat, not the
    kind of cat who is "supposed" to be the best mouser in the world.
    I guess all those hours spent playing with him with strings and
    balls has paid off - he's gotten VERY quick with those long black
    paws!

    ---Louise <proud mommy>

    I have another cat show to brag about.  Took Jouissance (sealpoint
    birman female kitten) to a TICA show in Napa this weekend.  She
    came home with four finals out of six rings.  As follows:
    
             4th best LH, Diane Moreau
             4th best LH, Lynne Sherer
             9th best AB, Frances Yow
            10th best AB, Bert Williams
    
    The best part is I sold enough cat beds to finance the big show
    on the 24th and 25th in San Jose.
    
    Monroe, my household pet, placed in two AB finals, 5th best and
    2nd best.
    
    Jo

    Well, took Little Fi to the show this weekend.  I found out that
    my cute little Red Tabby kitten is a cute little Solid Red kitten!!
    Anyone got any ideas of how to paint stripes on a kitten???  
    
    Anyway, 4 rings where Little Fi was shown as a solid, she made 2
    finals....9th Best Speciality, and 6th Best Allbreed.  She was so
    little in compared to the rest of the kittens.  So, now I got to
    fatten her up and wait a month or so for the next show.  
    
    Anyone got any ideas on how to fatten up this little kitty???  
    
    cin
    

    Well, I know championships are not all that hard in a minority breed
    if the only other novice is your sister, but Tag-Along became our
    first little champ at our first attempt at showing!  She got 4 winners
    ribbons, and Nutmeg got the fifth.  The surprise is that Tag really
    IS a "tag-along."  We were all set to pick up Nutmeg, and the breeder
    said she there was one sister left, and she'd like to see them
    together, especially because said sister was so timid and would
    be unhappy alone.  So I told her to bring her along to the show
    in Hartford where we were meeting and I would "take a look." Ha!
    Always the sucker for a warm fuzzy, I acquired 2 cats, with plans
    to breed them both back to the top US Russian Blue of a few years
    ago.
    
    But Tag beat Nutmeg!  Tag's coat is gorgeous, and Nutmeg is a bit
    scruffy, even though Nut is the one with finer bone structure and
    more silvery coat.  I'd like to see them compete when/if Nut's
    coat fills out.
    
    And Tag has turned out to be the sociable one (maybe she *knows*
    she's a champ and struts around?)!
    
    So, it was a small win, but it was a fun first try.  (We were
    benched next to Cin and Little Fi and that made it *much* more
    pleasant!)  We're hooked.  Can't wait to have a special kitten
    or two in the future to take to shows!
    
    	Penelope

    cin,
    To fatten up my Joui I feed her four times a day.  She gets between
    1/4 and 1/2 cup of feline growth at 6:30 am, 12:00 pm, 5:00 pm,
    and again at about 9:00 or 10:00 pm.  When I got her at 13 weeks
    she weighed 3.4 pounds, at 17 weeks she weighed 4.5, and now at
    19 she weighs in at a hefty 5 pounds!  This is good weight for my
    breed.  I have also heard that Iams is high calorie.
    jo

    Jo
    
    Do you feed the feline growth canned??  I have been feeding the
    dry softened with water.  I'ld like to get her (Little Fi) to eat
    some hard, but the only way I can get her to eat it is by hand feeding
    one crunchie at a time.  She just started eatting it this way at
    the show this weekend.  A Big Breakthrough!!!!!  I've been feeding
    her the softened dry, and also Amore twice a day.  She actually
    has food available all the time.  Think I might get her to eat more
    if I didn't allow her to have food available all the time??
    
    cin
    

    cin,
    I think she will eat more if food isn't available all day.  My adult
    cats are only fed once a day and are on special diets because of
    health problems.  At that one feeding, all the cats are fed at the
    same time, Joui included.  She eats more at that feeding than the
    other three feedings because she knows that if she doesn't
    eat her food, they will.  When I first got her, I would feed her
    in a room by herself.  After about ten minutes I went in to check
    on her and she hadn't touched her food!  She was too busy crying
    at the closed door or playing with something to eat her food.  The
    idea of competition for food has helped her growth.  I started out
    trying to feed her science diet feline growth dry and she wouldn't
    eat it.  Then I switched to the canned and she ate that.  I didn't
    want to have her get too used to the canned because of the price
    factor so I force fed her some of the dry.  I literally opened her
    mouth and put in the food and then shut her mouth again!  It worked
    like a charm.  I have had to do that with several other things that
    I wanted her to eat also.  For instance, chicken meat, baby food,
    pounce, bonkers.  She is not very adventurous in the trying of new
    things, but once introduced, she will eat them.
    Jo

    cin,
    Have you tried Iams as the dry food supplement.  I have used
    both feline growth and Iams and their weight is much better
    since I switched.  I think the dry feline growth is almost too
    hard for them to chew so they don't eat as much as they do of
    the Iams.  My Winston at 7 months weighs 8 1/2 pounds.
    
    					Debbie
    

    I can vouch for Winston's 8 1/2 pounds (maybe 9 by now!), as I weighed
    him, and also nearly broke my arm off carrying him up to judgeing
    rings this weekend!
       Speaking of which, here's our brag (Debbie's and mine!)  Winston
    went to the Hershey Pocono show in Whitehaven Pa. this past weekend.
    It is traditionally a very tough kitten show - and though it doesn't
    have the nubers that houston had (only about 75 AB kittens - still
    a GOOD count!) the quality there usually stymies people.  Usually
    a cat/kitten that I have shown there doesn't final even though it
    finals well at other shows!  ANYHOW, Winston made 9th AB, 2nd AB,
    2nd LH and BEST KITTEN LH.  Wow was that fun!  And Mr. Winners (his
    latest nickname) had a blast.  All the judges comment on his purring.
    He was one of the highest scoring kittens overall - 2nd highest
    scoring LH kitten.  Not bad and gobs of fun!
    Cin - Winston's been eating Iams dry food mostly - with other 'snacks'
    of canned food occasionally.  He just keeps packing on the weight.
    He seems heavy for 6 1/2 months, but considering he'll probably
    top out around 12 pounds, 8-9 pounds right now is pretty reasonable. 
    
    Molly

    
    As we "speak" my little Toastie [Nubian Sweet Cinnamon Toast (ch)]
    is being bred to a male named Zingaro.  I went to pick him up last
    night.  I had a cup of coffee with the owner and asked her how "Ziggie"
    had been doing at the shows.  Was I ever suprised when she told
    me that he is now a Master grand champion, was top Abby in 1986
    and fifth best cat for that year as well.  I knew he was a great
    Abby, but I had no idea he was that good.  I guess there will be
    some real "hotsy totsy" kittens running around my place in 65 days!
    
    Marion (Who_is_so_excited_she_can_hardly_stand_it)

    Contrats, Marian....
    
    Zingaro must be a beautiful cat.  Were his awards in CFF?  The Master
    Grand Championship status sounds like CFF to me.  I'm wondering
    if Zingaro may be originally out of Canada.  
    
    cin...just trying to put the cat with the name.  
    
    

    Cin, 
    
    I'm suprised you don't recognize the name, Cin.  He is one of Meg
    Lambert's Abbys.  I mentioned this notes file to her and some of
    our cast of characters.  She mentioned that she knows you and your
    cats (speaks very highly of both) and she sends regards.
    
    I don't know if it was CFF or not.  I should have asked I know,
    but I was sort of in awe about his background and forgot to ask.
    I don't show much and only when Meg is also showing so I'll know
    someone there.  I must admit that I only enter a show to champion
    a cat I intend to breed.  

    Marian, 
    
    Yes, your right, I do know Meg well.  I thought I recognized the
    cats name, that's why I asked.  Your right, it is CFF, and Meg has
    some beautiful Aby's.  No surprise to hear that Zingaro was best
    aby last year.
    
    purrs
    cin
    

    Come on Molly... we are waiting!
    

    I just returned from a TICA show this weekend in Livermore 
    CA.  Jouissance placed in three allbreed finals!  She took a 10th
    best in Bert Williams ring, a 10th best in Betty Meins ring, and
    a 7th best in Jim Becknell's ring!
    
    Has anyone heard of a cream persian male kitten named Hager's Pomp
    and Circumstance?  I fell in love with this guy.  He took Best Kitten
    in Show yesterday and boy did he deserve it!
    Jo

    O.K. I finally got back to the office.....  Here goes the week late
    brag on LaForet's Winston Churchill's performance at the CFA San
    Jose show:
    	3 7th best kitten allbreed wins,
        2 2nd best kitten Longhair wins,
        3 BEST KITTEN ALLBREED wins!!!!!!!!!!
    Winston was highest scoring kitten in show, as well!  I'm pretty
    sure (very sure actually) that he is now among the top ten kittens
    in CFAs gulf shore region (probably in top 5).  Congratulations
    Debbie B.!!!!!  It's been lots of fun agenting my "grandson", and
    I'll have t say that because of that I've had more kitten requests
    than I can possibly fill for show babies.  It's been a great intro
    into my new region.  Winston has 3 shows left in his kitten career.
    This weekend Portland Or. Next weekend Phoenix Az. Weekend after
    Riverside Ca.  (Watch for future brags....)
    
    Molly

    Well Sacrechat's Jouissance de MySinhs achieved her first CFA final
    this weekend at the California Silver Fanciers show in Anaheim.
    Will Thompson gave her 10th Best Lonhair.  This was a longhair only
    show.  The kitten class consisted of 47 kittens, 1 Birman (Joui)
    2 Maine Coons, and 43 PERSIANS!!!!!!
    
    There were persians of every color known to man.  In fact, in the
    whole show there were only about 10 cats that weren't persians
    in the whole show.(not counting household pets)
    
    My girlfriend, who also breeds Birmans, and I drove down to Anaheim
    from the bay area on Saturday night.  She picked me up a midnight
    and we drove *all* night!  We arrived at the show hall at about
    6:30 AM on Sunday morning all full of energy and excitement.  The
    show committee took pity on us and let us set up early so that we
    could try and catch a few winks before the show started (ha).  By
    about 2:00 that afternoon we had eaten all the food that we had
    brought with us and were desperately fighting off the urge to 
    crawl into the benching cages with our cats for a cat nap.
    
    We left the show hall at 6:30 that night and drove all night to
    get back to the bay area.  We had to resort to desperate measures
    to stay awake on the way home, cranking the radio full volume, driving
    with open windows in the rain all the way home, singing as loud
    as we could, clapping violently at the end of each song.  We stopped
    and did jumping jacks at every rest stop and called our husbands
    to give them our ETA and to let them know we were OK.
    
    I DO NOT recommend doing this!!!  We will never do this again. 
    This marathon cat showing can be hazardous to your health!  Thank
    Goodness for Molly's S.O. Karl for his generous donation of a bag
    of M&Ms for the drive home.  We needed the quick pick-me-up from
    the  sugar.
    
    That CFA final made the whole trip worthwhile for me but from now
    on I will stay in a motel rather than trying to pull another all-
    nighter.
    Jo
    

    
    RE: .24
    
    When we last saw our fair heroine Nubian Sweet Cinnamon Toast - Toastie,
    she was desperately seeking to become "in a family way" with that
    dashing young master grand champion, Ziggie.  Well, as often happens
    in tales (tails?) like this, the feminine wiles of our sleek coated
    heroine won out.  When last seen, Toastie was practiceing how to
    count to 65, and knitting teenie-weenie booties (in sets of fours)!
    
    Marion (who_is_STILL_so_excited_she_can_hardly_stand_it) 

    OH BOY!!!	
    	A new brag for Winston Churchill, that sweet little red ball
    of persian type fluff.
    This past weekend Winston and I went to Phoenix for the Firebird
    Allbreed show.  It was an 8 ring show (6 Allbreed 2 specialty).
    Winston was finaled in every ring -
    			8th best AB
    			3rd best AB
    		3x	2nd best (2 AB, 1 LH)
    		3x 	Best in show (2 AB, 1 LH)
    
    These results made Winston overall best kitten in show.
    Congratulations to Winston and his proud owner Debbie Bittrolff
    (BLITZN::BITTROLFF)!  Winston has one last kitten show before his
    entrance into manhood (tomhood?) anyhow - before he turns 8 months
    of age!  He'll be returning home to Colorado Springs with his 'mom'
    next weekend.
    	We'll miss his dear little flat face and sweet disposition,
    but we want him to hurry home and learn how to make pretty babies.
    
    Other good news, Winston's mom was just bred by Winston's dad, and
    we're expecting new babies in april!         
    
    		Molly

    Another brag for Jouissance too!  This last weekend in Santa Barbara
    she recieved her second CFA final.  This one an allbreed by Ricky
    Carroll, 9th best!!!!!
    
    And this despite the fact that her mom was busy singing her praises
    to the spectators and didn't hear her number called til the third
    and final call.  Almost blew that one!!!
    
    Congratulations to Winston on cleaning up in Pheonix!
    Jo Ann

    Well, Okay, since everyone else is doing it!!!
    
    Here's one, or three for "Little Fi"....
    
    Took her to the Renegades Cat Show in NJ the weekend of the 7th,
    she made 3 finals out of 10....She had heavy competition in her
    own color class, going against two dynamite solid red males.  
    
    Anyway, she made 7th Best AB, 5th Best Speciality, and a Best Kitten
    Speciality.  
    
    
    Next show, will probably be Congers NY in March.  
    
    Purrs
    cin
    

    Well, congrats to Winston, Joui, and Little Fi (and to all the little
    Mommies to be)!
    
    And now for my brag...it has been one entire month that Chauncey
    has not had to be seen by a vet!  I can hardly believe it!  He gets
    his last FeLv shot next month, but other than that, could it be
    that the worst is over??  Must be all that TLC he's been getting!!
    
    Mary

    Mary,
    
    That's great news!!!   Hope Chaunacy is now on the right track.
    
    purrs
    cin
    

    Well Joui had a great weekend last week in Fresno at a TICA show
    but I couldn't access notes in order to brag about it!!!  Oh No!!
    
    So I will do a belated brag here now...
    
    This is from memory since I left my catalog at home
    
    Pat Harding - 3rd best allbreed!!!
    Carolee Hubbard - 8th best allbreed
    Don Shaw - 5th best longhair
    Joan Ray - 4th best longhair
    Bobbie Meyers - 6th best allbreed
    Karen McInchak - 2nd best longhair
    George Silva - 8th best allbreed
    
    Boy what a fun show that was!  I just wish they all went that well.
    She did miss out on a few rings but she did so well in the others
    it doesn't matter.  This was also her first show with direct
    competition from another Birman.
    
    This last weekend we went up to Vallejo for a CFA show.  She did
    very well once again.  This time placing in one allbreed final and
    getting a 9th best.  THis is very good in CFA.  Betty O'brien is
    the judge we will now be following.
    
    Once again at this show she had direct competition from another
    birman kitten.  This one is very good, but Joui took 5 out of 6
    rings.  I am very pleased with her progress.
    
    Jo Ann
    
    

    Well, I finally have time to get my brag in.
    I took Winston to Amarillo to a 6 ring CFA show last weekend.
    I entered him as an OPEN and was there to get his winners 
    ribbons to get him his championship.  We were able to get him 
    championed but he did even more than that.  He finaled in
    5 out of 6 rings, pretty good for an open.
    Ring 1 specialty      BEST CAT      Wain Harding
    Ring 2 specialty      BEST CAT      Ann Kimble
    Ring 3 Allbreed       2nd Best Cat  Lois Jensen 
    Ring 4 Allbreed       2nd Best Cat  Carolyn Owen
    Ring 5 Allbreed       5th Best Cat  Edna Field
    Ring 6 Dumped....                   Marge Naples
    I, to put it mildly, was in heaven.  Had a really fun time.
    Next step is to start on the path to Grandchampionship which
    we will do in two weeks at the Calif. Costa Mesa show.
    Wish us luck.
    
    					Debbie

    
    On March 18, 1987 between the hours of 4:00 and 5:00 AM, Nubian
    Sweet Cinnamon Toast gave birth to two Abyssinian Ruddy kittens.
    The sex of the kittens is not yet known.  Mother and kittens are
    doing fine.  This is fair warning: you FELINE notes readers are
    going to get your fill of "cute baby kitty" notes for the next few
    months.

    CONGRATULATIONS!!  I, for one, can't wait to hear "cute baby kitty"
    stories!  If only there were some way to put baby pictures into
    notesfiles...hmmmm...sounds like a good wish list item to me!
    
    Best wishes to Mom and babes!
    
    Mary

    Laforet's Winston Churchill is now a Grand Champion!
    I took Winston out over the last two weekend's to try and grand
    him.  Went to Costa Mesa the 14-15 of March and came home
    with 85 points.  Then took him to South Sioux City, Nebraska
    and was able to come up with another 172 points which puts
    him well over the 200 necessary to Grand.  It was exciting
    to be made best Allbreed cat by Evelyn Prather, a second best
    by Lois Jensen in an Allbreed ring, and then two thirds in
    specialty rings with Cathy Hummer and Larry Swanson.  I am
    very proud of my Winston.  He's a Grand at 8 months.
    
    					Debbie
    

    Congrats, Debbie...
    
    What are you going to do with him now???   Seems as if this guy
    has some potential!!!   What exciting possibilities!!!
    
    cin
    

    Thanks, cin
    
    Not sure yet what lies ahead for Winston.  We have two more
    shows (Denver and Colorado Springs) in April that I will take
    him to.  About time the locals saw my "winner".  Have considered
    trying to campaign him next year but that takes big bucks and
    not sure my budget can handle that many shows even if I only
    try for a regional award.  So I'll probably just wait and see
    how he looks in the fall and make a decision then, and hope that
    he figures out how to make babies in the meantime.
    
    I want to thank Molly Sherrick for all her help in showing Winston
    as a kitten, letting me stay at her house for shows, sharing her
    knowledge about cats, and being such a good friend.
    
    					Debbie
    
    

    Hi, I'm a little new at this, but here goes!
    
    Household Pet people - are you out there?
    
    This rags to riches story is about my baby Yurii Andreivich Trachman
    who was adopted from the Lowell Humane Society 2 December 1986.
    He is an all white, blue eyed male (pink nose, pink ears, pink pads)
    Domestic Shorthair (we think half Siamese).
    
    His first show was January 10th - he took a sixth (hhp).
    Next was the Coply - he thrilled me with a BEST, a Third, a Fourth,
    and a Sixth !!  Not too shabby for his second show.
    
    We just returned from Durham New Hampshire - (I'm still in shock)
    Yurii took two Firsts, a Third, a Fourth, 2 Fifths, and a Ninth
    2 trophies, and two Bests from the Happy Household Pet Cat Club!
    In Durham, I had a DIGITAL luggage tag on his cage, but didn't
    connect with any other noters.  Hope I see someone either in
    Torrington, CT this Sunday (4-12), or Portland ME (4-18) or
    Cranston RI (4-25-26)
    
    In Durham he came in 4th out of 32 on Saturday and 4th again out
    of 26 on Sunday.  What a show!  Nice people & a lot of fun..
    
    Thanks for listening - 
    
    E. T., a very proud Mom

    Congratulations to you and to Yurii!  He sounds like a very elegant
    cat.  Keep showing him and maybe someday we will run into each other
    at the Morris competition in New York!
    
    Jo Ann
    another household pet person

    Thank you very much, Jo Ann.  Yurii is just a soft white bundle
    of love!  He asks for nothing, but give so much.  If I smile at
    him - he purrs!  I just hope he is enjoying this as much as I am..
    I bought him a rabbit hutch today so he can see out when we travel
    in the car.  He really doesn't like his crate.  He rides with his
    little pink nose pressed against the door grate of the crate and
    cries!  I have to line the hutch with foam so he won't hurt himself.
    The test will be when we go to Torrington CT this Sunday (3 hour
    ride, groan).  Guess I can't complain - he travels poorly, but
    shows well  -  he also is very happy and comfortable in his crate
    at the shows - doesn't seem to mind that at all.  Boy, a Morris
    Award would just be something else!   He would probably chew it
    like he chewed one of his rosetts Sunday in Durham.  He also has
    three sets of speaker wires to his credit, and he is working on
    a telephone cord!  When I try to discipline him, he purrs and purrs
    and curls his tail up into a question mark and gives me the look
    with his almond shaped eyes that says, " I'm really sorry, Mom."
    What's a Mother to do????
    
                            A proud Mom
    
    
    

    Well Joui continues to do well in the shows.  I am very happy with
    her and have decided to get her another Birman to play with.  We
    will be adding a bluepoint female kitten to our household on or
    around July of this year!  She is just two weeks old right now but
    so far looks very promising.  She will also be coming from the east
    coast.
    
    So now I need help coming up with "K" names for girls.  I am looking
    for names that are slightly unusual in order to avoid someone else
    naming their Birman the same thing.  One choice is Kyrielle.  I
    also like Keepsake, and Kiss-N-Tell.  Any ideas?
    
    Jo Ann

    I think Kyrielle is a beautiful name!!!!]
    Keepsake, and Kiss-n-Tell I've heard before.  Some other suggestions:
    
    Kalifornia Dreamin
    Kandlelight
    Katydid
    Kashmere
    
    
    I'm having trouble coming up with K names that aren't really spelled
    with a C.  Maybe that would be better though - less chance of
    duplication?
    
    Good Luck and CONGRATS!
    

    I like Kyrielle too....does it mean something significant??  
    
    Only thing I can think of is Kismet.
    
    Keep knitin'
    cin
    

    How about Kalliope?
    
    M-L

    Thanks for all of the great suggestions.  I really liked Kashmere
    and Kismet and Kalliope.  Unfortunately a good friend and fellow
    Birman breeder has been waiting for the "K" year to come up so that
    she can name her cat Kalliope (she would KILL me!)
    
    Kyrielle came from the french dictionary (when in doubt, check the
    dictionary for great cat names, that is where I found Jouissance)
    It doesn't mean anything that relates to cats really.  It means
    long rigmarol, or string.  I guess I could say she was the start
    of a long rigmarol of Birmans in our house!
    
    Keep those K names coming since Joui will be bred this year and
    I will have to name a whole litter, males and females.  I came up
    with a few more myself...Kamille, Kirsche, Kindred Spirit, Knowing
    Glances (a little abstract).
    
    Here's a few names for the boys...Kendrick (my favorite), Kamchatka,
    Kiley, Karadoc.
                   
    The new little girl is from the same breeder as my first Birman.
    She called and said that she wanted to give me first choice at this
    batch of kittens (she has 12 right now) since I had been showing
    her other little baby so much and she appreciates my enthusiasm
    and the exposure that she is getting.  I am thrilled!  I wanted
    to get another female this year but haven't been able to locate
    a nice one.  Any comments on the advisability of getting another
    female from the same breeder.  The sire is the same on this one
    but the dam is different.
    
    Jo

    How about KISSAMEE?  I think it is a city in Florida, but sounds
    cute for an affectionate kitty.  
    
    Jan who_named_her_latest_arrival_Punkin_Head
    

    KISSAMEE is pronounced Ka-sem-me, short vowels except for the last
    "e", which is long.
    
    People in Florida love to hear us Northerners say Kiss-a-me.
    
    M-L who lived down there for 6 months
    

    Here's a new brag:
    
    	Last weekend I took my tortoiseshell persian spay to her 4th(?)
    show as a premier (the equvalent of champion for altered cats).
    She won enough points to earn the title of GRAND PREMIER.  This
    title is the equivalent to the title of Grand Champion for spays
    and neuters.  I am very proud of Baby Dee.  She was my first purebred
    persian, and show kitty, and is my pillow companion.  I had photos
    done and will be having her picture published in the CFA Almanac
    Grand Stand sometime this summer.
    	Showing a cat in premiership is very rewarding, and lots of
    fun.  Many people who are interested in showing, but not so interested
    in breeding have lots of fun with this type of competition.  Often
    a breeder will retire a cat from their breeding program, and then
    show the kitty in premierhsip, or find a loving home (with perhaps
    fewer cats) with a new friend for the kitty who wants to show. 
    	Baby Dee and I have developed a very special bond in the 5 years
    we've lived together, and going to shows together has meant a lot
    to both of us.  I feel very proud of her, and love to see her looking
    so beautiful, and happy.  It's nice to be able to share this with
    you all....
    
    Molly_the_very_proud_mom

    A birth announcement:
    
    	New babies born to GRC Myshadows Echo of Beaudee, and CH Anz
    Angelique of Beaudee!!!!  These babies are the repeat breeding of
    GRC Beaudee Annie, and her little brother GRC LaForet Winston Churchill
    (whose progress in showing you may have followed here...)  The babies
    were born in Colorado Springs on April 13th, in the evening.  Debbie
    Bittrolff (the co-grandma) assisted Angie with her delivery.  We
    have 5 new healthy babies!  2 black males, 1 cream male, a tortie
    female, and a red female.  Debbie and I are very excited about our
    new babies, and I can't wait to get out to see them next weekend!
    I sure wish there were a way to put pictures in this notes file,
    but then again, knowing all of us feline noters - there wouldn't
    be enough room on any system to hold our notes file!!! 
    
    Thanks Debbie, for being such a good grandma, and midwife!!!!
    
    Molly

    Today is Joui's birthday.  She is 8 months old today and from now
    on she will compete with the adults in the Championship classes.
    Her last two kitten shows were very exciting.  She placed in three
    rings in each of them, all 6 finals were allbreed.  Mom and Dad
    are very proud of her.
    
    We also made a very big decision this weekend.  We decided to take
    the plunge and buy not only the previously mentioned female kitten
    but also a male kitten from another east coast breeder.  He is only
    six weeks old right now so I have quite a long wait ahead of me.
    His name will probably be Kendrick, but I am open for more suggestions.
    Kyrielle and Kendrick, has a nice ring to it.
    
    How will I ever make it until my new babies get here!!
    jo

    This one I just couldn't hold in!  (but then again when have I ever
    held back a brag!8^) )  Joui was in her first adult show this last
    weekend and she got her four winners ribbons from the judges, but....
    she FIINALED!!!!!! TOO!!!!!  She finaled as an open!  This wasreally
    unexpected and Ken and I were delighted.  Michael Peterson was the
    judge that I will never forget for giving Joui her first allbreed
    final in championship competition... 10th Best.
    
    Jo Ann

    Congratulations!!!!!!!
    	That's really neat that Michael did that for you.  He's actually
    an ex-neighbor of mine from New Jersey.  The Peterson's are real
    nice people, and although they breed persians, have a real deep
    appreciation for other breeds.  They recently started breeding Cornish
    Rex as well.  
    	Keep up the good work Jouie!
    
    Molly

    Great!!!   So, now your on the road to "Grand"!!
    
    congrats...
    cin
    

    Yurii did it!  He won the Morris Trophy this past weekend in Beveryly
    at the Improper Bostonian Show!  I'm trying, as I type, to think
    of what to say - but I guess this will do.  I can't express how
    proud I am of him.  He was just so wonderful!  I'm a very proud
    and lucky mom.
    
    E. T.

    Congrats to you but especially to Yurii!!!!!  
    
    I know just how proud you must be.
    
    Purrs
    cin
    

    Thank you very much!  Boy, am I ever proud.  It's just so
    amazing - I keep moving "it"  from the coffee table to the
    kitchen table - I even had it engraved!  You know, it's 
    one of those things that sits on a table at almost every
    cat show - something that "someone" takes home with them -
    I never quite believed that one day that someone would be
    Yurii.  
    
    Cat's Mag had an article on the National Morris winner -
    from N.J. - I met the winner's person at the Torrington CT
    show - I think I now know a tiny bit of how she must have
    felt winning the big one!  Well, it's show time weekend
    after next - West Springfield June 6th and then on to
    Lexington MA June 20 -21, and then Boston Ma July 4th & 5th
    at the Park Plaza Castle (big show - 12 rings!) Lots of
    special fun rings (most popular cat/kitten, red, white, blue ring,
    NEW Morris Kitten Award, and the Morris Trophy Sunday pm) - and
    Manchester, NH in August.
    
    Thanks again, Cin..
    
    E. T.

    I can't hold back any more.  I have to brag.  My sweet kittie Amelia
    Earhart will be receiving an award at the Northwest Region Awards
    Banquet on June 13.  I don't know yet which place she'll get but
    she's up for an award in the category of Top Ten Household Pets
    for the region. 

    Brag by Jo Ann Cordes Brown as told to Jan Cordes:
    
    On May 24 Jo Ann's cat, Joui, received two finals as an Open in
    CFA.  Sixth Best Long Hair from Bob Salisbury and Ninth Best Long 
    Hair from Jo Ann Cummings.  She is now a Champion in CFA.
    
    On May 30-31 she received two finals as a Novice in TICA.  Tenth
    Best All Breed from Maureen Nottingham and Fourth Best Long Hair
    from Edie Dyer-Stover.  She is now a Champion in TICA.
    
    Jan

    CONGRATS!!!!!  That's really wonderful - brag you should!  Top Ten!
    That's really something.  Please update your note and tell us how
    she places.  Do you have a special treat in mind for her?  When
    Yurii won his Morris, I took him out for ice cream, but he wasn't
    having any - guess he doesn't care for chocolate - folks seem
    to think that cats like vanilla better!  Again, congrats!!!

  
    Last weekend I went to the Gulf Shore Region's Annual
    Banquet to pick up the award's that my wonderful
    Laforet's Winston Churchill won.  I am very proud
    to announce that he received two top twenty awards.
    He was the Gulf Shore Region's 5th best kitten AND
    he was also the 19th best adult.  I was pleasantly
    surprised when I learned that he had gotten the adult
    award as well as the kitten award, as I had only showed
    him in five shows as an adult. 
    
    					Debbie
    
    		

    At the Northwest Region Cat Show in San Jose, CA on June 13-14,
    Amelia managed to compete against all the top household pets in
    the region and come home with 2 7th Best Household Pet ribbons,
    2 4th Best HHP ribbons and 1 Best HHP ribbon and trophy.
    
    But here's the real news...my little Amelia Earhart is the 7th Best 
    Household Pet in the Northwest Region (Regions consists of Northern 
    Californa, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Utah and parts of British 
    Columbia, Canada).  Amelia was kind enough to donate her awards
    to her mom.  She received a handsome certificate, plaque and beautiful
    rosette.  I'm very proud of her and will be checking with her for
    her favorite ice cream flavor although I think she may be a "frozen
    yogurt" kind of kitty.
    
    Jan
    

    Congrats Amelia.....and of course you too Mommy Jan.  
    
    Hmmmmm, feels so good!!!
    
    purrs
    cin.....
    
    

    That is really WONDERFUL!  Please give her a hug from Yurii!
    We got the CFF National results last week - Yurii finished
    21st Nationally - missed top twenty by one - not too bad
    for 7 shows I guess - I am so proud of him I could burst!!
    
    At the TICA show in Lexington, MA - he Master Granded (if
    that is the proper way to say that - it was our first TICA
    show) - and my Lara The Lady - Silver Patch Classic Tabby 
    got 10 BEST KITTENs out of TEN RINGS!  That was really
    something!  She is six months old and a little honey!
    She has a cute trick - she licks the judges faces & noses.
    No, I didn't teach her how, she learned that herself and
    I'm not complaining - they loved it!
    
    Congratulations again Amelia, from Yurii & Lara !!  Have a great
    season - hope to see you in a show we are at!
    
    Elaine

    Congratulations....Hope I get to meet both of them at a show this
    fall.
    
    cin
    

    
    Didn't Lara also win some sort of trophy (and get her picture taken
    with former Celtic great Tommy Heinson?
    
    Congrats to Yurri as well!
    
    Deb
    
    

    Yup, she really did - Tommy presented her with a subscripiton to
    Cat's Magazine -  She took BEST HOUSEHOLD PET KITTEN for the show.
    (There were only two kittens, but she beat the other little Abby
    every ring!) Guess I'll have to get her reading glasses to read
    her copies of the magazine!!!  Not too shabby for her first show.
    I took some pics also - got them back yesterday (one hour developing)
    Tommy sure is photogenic and VERY LARGE - we could
    hardly see Lara!!  The poor guy had enough Yurii-hair (white)
    on his jacket (plus a lot of other hairs from others) to make
    a pillow!  In spite of it all, he was really nice and fun. We
    all had a great time!
    
    Yurii did well - finaled in 5 out of 10 rings. BD 7 out of 10 rings.
    Not too many solids entered - I think now I know why.  He ended
    up with 1225 points.
    
    We are really looking forward to the July 4th & 5th show in Boston.
    Will enter a separate not with all the details.
    
                      Thanks from,
    
                                   Yurii and Lara

    My congrats to you, Yurii and Lara.  Sounds like you're having a
    great year.  Keep up the good work.  Amelia sends her love and
    congrats too.  
    
    I hope somehow to meet everyone at a show in the future.  Could 
    be a problem though since limited funds keep me in the San Francisco 
    Bay area unless its a Morris semi-final show.  But, if you're ever
    in the San Jose area I just happen to have a spare bedroom.
    
    Jan
    
    P.S.  Jo Ann tells me the scoring is almost completed for the Happy
          Household Pet Cat Club and that Amelia may be in the TOP TEN
          again.  I'm not sure how this is scored or when the results
          are announced but Top Ten sounds fine to me.  ('Course Amelia
    	  is always #1 with me...okay so's Bailey, except when she's
          doing her chewing routine.)
                                                               
    Slipped in another brag on ya didn't I.  :-}

    Please give Amelia another hug from us for the HHPCC finishing!
    That's really wonderful.  Sounds like you HAD a great year!!
    If you ever enter a show in N.E., don't hesitate to let me
    know - I, too, have space for visiting kitties & their moms! 
    Yes, funds do seem to keep me to
    the New England area - maybe sometime we will head West.  I am
    hoping the Morris semi-finals for this area will be close by.
    I don't know yet.  I'm really looking forward to this weekend.
    It should be a fun show - they are expecting 10,000 folks to
    drop by!!  The Copley Show gate was 3,100 on Saturday & 3,300
    on Sunday - they hope to do better than that - the Castle is
    a larger hall! (groan - it's a 12 ring show with 2 cats !!).
    Well, off to vacation - I'll need a fews days to rest up before
    this weekend!
    
    Hugs to Amelia!
    
            Elaine

    Well, the little monkey (Lara) did her thing in Boston: kissed all
    the judges, chased her tail in the ring cages, played on her back
    on the  table!  Lara took Third for the weekend!  I had a lot of
    fun showing her!  Yurii had a VERY BAD weekend - hissed the whole
    time - have no clue what his problem was - I think I will rest him
    for a couple of months - he may have decided that he likes to be
    home better than strange hotels.  Anyway, I was really proud of
    both of them.
    
                             mom

    Well, I can't hold back any longer!!!!!   I took Tiger (Cattyshack's
    Just Plain Tiger is his "real" name) to the show in Braintree this
    weekend.  He's 5 months old....this was his first kitten show.
    
    Out of 10 rings, he finaled in 8  :
    
    8th best specialty
    6th best allbreed
    3 times 3rd best allbreed
    2nd best allbreed
    2 times Best Speciality
    
    Special Thanks to Penelope for taking him home with her Saturday
    night and showing him for me on Sunday.  
    
    Tiger is my first Exotic Shorthair kitten from my breeding.  It
    was such an exciting show for both of us.  (Actually, I don't think
    Tiger's all that impressed!!!  :-)  )
    
    I know there were others at the show that finaled....doesn't anyone
    else want to brag...just a little???
    
    purrs
    cin...formerly DONJON::SCHREINER!!!!!
    
    

    re: .77
    
    Blush!  Cindy, did you HAVE to publicize the fact that I took
    such a handsome male home with me for the night???
    
    Tiger IS just gorgeous!  (Well, a striking pattern like his is
    *really* striking to those of us who have single-shade cats!)
    
    Coo and Kosh did well also.  Ooops, I guess I haven't introduced
    Nordic Koshka of Meowsky...Coo's new little pseudo-sister, who is
    about a month older than Coo (5 mos and 6 mos).
    
    Kosh made 4 of 5 finals on Saturday (didn't show Coo that day),
    and Coo made 3 of 5, Kosh made 2 of 5 on Sunday.  Competition
    was keen.  [read that "Tiger beat us in all the rings!"  ;-) ]
    
    Had quite a houseful on Saturday night:  not only was Tiger
    there, but Bryan and his wife and his kitten stayed over!
    
    Okay, Bryan, now tell us how you are a member of the 
    	Kitten-a-day Club...
    
    	Penelope

    re: .77
    
    Yes, I must agree: Tiger is a wonderful cat. I love the face, and
    the disposition is wonderful. You really have a prize with that
    cat.
    
    Penelope's cats are really good looking too. I would love to have
    one of those. Promise me a male kitten?
    
    Anyway, I was really surprised when Tiger didn't final. As bad as
    it sounds, the rings that Tiger didn't final, I didn't feel bad
    that Keshia (our Lilac Pt Siamese) didn't final.
    
    All in all, it was an ok weekend as the show went. It was fun staying
    with Penelope and meeting Cin, and having a good time in general.
    
    Keshia finaled three times over the weekend - both the Siamese and
    allbreed competetion were stiff. With Tiger, Coo, and Kosh taking
    three of the ten finalists most of the time, how could they possibly
    put in another DECie in?
    
    As for the kitten of the day thing, we got a Siamese Male kitten
    on Friday from England. He's real cute, and he has real potential.
    At the show, we found a Seal Pt Siamese kitten, and he is striking!
    Now we have 5....
    
    Bryan
    
    P.S. Where's E.T.? She walked out with a boatload of rosettes..

    Here I am Bryan!  Congrats to All - Pen, Cin, & Bryan.  Your babies
    are really beautiful - I hope you all checked my pockets before
    I left the show hall (at 8:30 Saturday evening & 7:30 Sunday, groan).
    
    Well, I can't hold back any longer - my baby Katenka Dolly, a 4
    1/2 month old Calico took 3rd Best of Best out of 29 or 30, mostly
    adults - this was her second show!  She would have taken Best of
    Best if her sister Lara hadn't taken a Best Cat in the 10th ring
    of the weekend - Katenka got dumped in the 10th ring.  Actually,
    she took 2nd even though she was dumped in three rings.
    Miyagi had very tough competition - 6 Black & Whites - Lara had
    to compete with a total of 13 torties & calico's - that's a bunch!
    She was a VERY good girl and I was very proud of her per usual.
    She is a fun kitty to show.  I think that I am the luckiest
    mom in the whole world!
    
    Hey Pen, thanks for taking one of the kids up to the ring for 
    me when all three finaled at once!  
    
    Well, See anyone at the Mid-Cape show 11-7-87?
    
    E.T.
    

    I am in heaven!!!   This weekend, Penelope and I got up at 2:00
    am and trucked to Long Island NY for the CFF show....we both thought
    we were a little crazy, but the trip was really fun.
    
    Anyway, Tiger had his best show ever!!!   On Saturday, he made all
    5 finals, placing 2nd once, third three times, and 6th once.  Penelope
    and I trucked home to Mass saturday evening, and I left Tiger with
    a friend in NY to be shown on Sunday and Next weekend.  On Sunday,
    he made 3 Best Kittens, a Second Best Kitten, and a Third Best Kitten.
    He was BEST OF THE BEST KITTEN over two days!!!   
    
    He got this great big rosette and has thrilled him mother (me)
    unbelieveably.  
    
    Just wanted to share my excitement with all of you.
    
    Now all I gotta do is get Tiger back next weekend....I understand
    my friend is getting very attached to him!!!
    
    
    Thanks Penelope for talking me into this one!!!   
    
    purrs
    cin
    

    Congratulations Tiger & Mom!!  That is really wonderful - BUT, after
    seeing him, I'm not really all that surprised! He is a doll baby.
    If I were you I would truck on down there and grab him - if I had
    the chance, I wuda put him right in my pocket.  
    
    Gee, Pen, now I know where you were this weekend - folks in
    Cumberland were asking for you.  Weren't you registered for
    that show?? Or did someone agent for you?  Lara come in second -
    Indian Princess - they gave her a beaded Indian cape and a headband
    with a feather - cute & different.  She missed the Morris by 3 points.
    Fun time.
    
    Congrats again to Tiger & Mom from all of us!
    

    Congrats to Lara again too!!!   I bet she looked real cute with
    that feather and all....but probably was wondering why these weird
    humans were putting a toy on her head!!!   
    
    Maybe Lara will win her second Morris at the Christmas show in Boston.
    BTW, Lara must be on her way to a Top Ten Household Pet award in
    CFF this year??
    
    Looking forward to the Boston Show.
    
    cin...
    
    

    I am sitting here looking at my wall of pictures - Kantenka's eyes
    are looking at me saying, "When are you coming home, mom?  I want
    my tummy scratched!"
    
    When God made this little baby he put every bit of love and
    sweetness available in her tiny body.  
    
    At the Concord Show this past weekend, TenkaBabies took Best of
    Best on Saturday, Best of Best on Sunday, and the Morris Award
    on Sunday (total cumulative high score for the weekend).  She
    had 59 points total and the 2nd highest score was 47.  This 
    baby girl is really something else!  All I can think of is
    what if I hadn't stopped at that FREE KITTEN sign in Litchfield
    that Sunday....
    
    and then there is Lara (affectionatly nicknamed BEAST) - She 
    finished very well in 6th for the weekend - that's after she
    chewed on at least 9.5 judges!  As soon as she hits the judging
    table, she plops down and rolls over - guess she thinks she's
    home - then she wants to play
     I can hardly wait for the  
    season to end to see how these two girls finish.
    
    Pashenka - ah, my little red boy - he was cute as a button -
    Finaled in his very first ring and then once again. I had to
    leave him home on Suday because when we got home Saturday night
    he was VERY OVERHEATED - I think it was a little too much for
    his first show - hot show hall, huge crowd, lots of noise!
    We will try him again in Plymouth - smaller show - 4 rings.
    
    Well, if you all haven't guessed by now - I'm one heck of a
    PROUD MOM!!!  

    Re: .84
    
    But, still no sign up in the pictures note.  How can we survive
    without actually seeing these sweet little babies?  
    

    Gee, I know - I'm trying to find time to organize my closets after
    the move!  Just came back from the Guilford CT show - long ride.
    TenkaBabies finished third - missed second by 1 point!  The Morris
    came home in our truck, though.  My friend's baby won it - he is
    wonderful!  I just made hotel reservations in 3 hotels - the end
    of the season is fast approaching - the CFF banquet is in July 
    after the Castle at Park Plaza show 7-2/3 - (used to be at the
    Copely )  I'm Secretary for my cat club, ugh!  I haven't even
    taken ANY new pictures of my little red boy lately - he and
    his silver tabby brother are growing fast - I have to get
    some film for the weekend - they are quite the pair - if
    one is in trouble, the other monkey is right beside him!
    I will try and send pics - this is not a promise! 
    Oh yeah, I also have to have drainage done in the driveway
    so the lower level of the house doesn't flood again! There
    should be 9 days in a week!
    
    E.T.
    

    Boy, I have a few things to brag about but unfortunately they are
    all a year old.
    
    Joui was TICA's 13th Best Kitten in the Southwest Region.  Not bad
    for a Birman.  She also made it to triple grand in TICA before we
    had to breed her and received one Best Cat in Specialty at the fourth
    of July show.   In CFA she was 5th Best Birman Kitten in the country.
    
    She was sent to the east coast for breeding in August. There she
    enjoyed an extended vacation, not returning until the middle of
    December.  Had her first litter in January, produced two show babies
    (a boy, and a girl that I am planning on keeping.) and now looks
    like S___!  
    
    I added two new Birmans to my household.  A female named Sacrechat
    Kyrielle of Mysinhs joined us last June, right after I got out of
    the hospital.  And my first whole male, Pleasantview's Kalliste
    of Mysinhs, a sealpoint born on August 6, 1987.  Kyrielle did very
    well as a kitten and now she has 62 grand points in CFA.  Kalliste
    was only shown once as a kitten and finaled once.  He has a point
    color problem since he had an eye infection a while back.  I need
    two more winners ribbons on him in CFA and his color is coming back.
    I have high hopes for him. 
    
    

    What's a point color problem?
    

    At the "Back to the Beach" (CFA) cat show over the weekend, Jan
    Cordes' cats did well.  Bailey took a BEST cat, a third, fourth,
    and two fifths.  Amelia took a 3rd and a fourth.
    
    And my poor ol' Rockie (brought out of retirement by popular demand,
    mine ;-}) took a fourth and a fifth.
    
    Bailey came in third in the Morris award competition, not bad for
    a cat who grumbles a bit.
    
    Dave Mc
    
    P.S. Rumor has it that Amelia is tied for tenth best cat in the
    CFA Northwest Region.   Congrats can be mailed to Jan.
    
    DMc

    Re:  .89
    
    I gave Dave some incorrect information.  Bailey's 3rd place ribbon
    should be corrected to a 2nd place ribbon.  I can't believe she
    did so well (that's my little grumble cat).
    
    Jan

    Well, I'll start the bragging for the Springfield show.  Everyone
    had a GREAT weekend.  Tabbatha got one 10th best, one 7th best,
    two 5th best, and one 3rd best cat in the Household pet catagory.
    
    Samantha almost ran away with things.  She got one 5th best, one
    4th best, two 3rd best, and one BEST cat in the Apparant purebred
    ring.  She also got 3 Judge's choice awards.  She is what they call
    a mitted sealpoint siamese.  
    
    Silver didn't do very well her first day.  Her second day, she got
    one 6th best cat and Second best champion.  She scored 23 points.
    Her first points!
    
    Ok, it's time for others to brag!  Penny?  Cindi?  Elaine?
    
    Holly
    

    Okay, Holly, if you insist...
    
    Little Coo (aka Secret Princess) became a Grand Champion on
    Saturday!  Gooooooooo Coo!   (does that mean I now call her
    "Granny Coo"???)  Mom (me) was delighted with the honor, and
    Coo was delighted with the baby food beef and the whitefish
    that I gave her!
    
    My first Grand Champion!
    
    Okay, Cin, if you don't tell about Sunday, WE WILL...
    
    	Cat_Lady

    Ok, Holly - Katenka Dolly ZhivagoCat won the Morris Trophy!
    
    Pashenka finaled in 8 out of 12 rings!
    
    Cin, where are you?
    
    Was this a DIGIT Cat Show or what??
                                          
    E.T.
    

    Here I am!!  Okay, Okay...Tiger made 3 finals over the weekend,
    and got the last points he needed to complete his Grand Championship
    on Sunday, just two days before his 1 year birthday.
    
    Of course, Mom was excited, but Tig couldn't have cared less!!!
     
    Congrats to Katenka, Coo, and Silver...
    
    Also, Matt's Mom's cat, a beautiful Egyptian Mau, Master Granded
    this weekend.  What a beauty!!!
    
    so...WAS this a DIGIT Cat Show!!!
    
    Purrs
    cin
    

    Congrats & hugs to Tiger!  He really is a GRAND boy!  Coo & Silver
    are yummy too!  Long but fun weekend.  By the way, if anyone stays
    overnight for that show next year, DON'T STAY AT ELSIE'S !
    
    E.T.
    

    Well its official.  Amelia did tie for 10th Best Household Pet in
    the Northwest Region.  Jo Ann went to the banquet in Seattle and
    picked up Amelia's awards for her.  She received a very nice plaque
    with her name on it and a beautiful black and white (reminds me
    of a tuxedo) ribbon and a certificate.  I'm so proud of her.
    
    Maybe next year I'll be announcing Bailey's award (I hope).
    
    Jan

    
    
     CFF's National 5th Best Household Pet - Katenka Dolly ZhivagoCat
           Regional 5th Best Household Pet - Katenak Dolly ZhivagoCat
    
     CFF's National 8th Best Household Pet - Lara The Lady ZhivagoCat
           Regional 7th Best Household Pet - Lara The Lady ZhivagoCat
    
     
    The CFF National Awards Banquet is Saturday evening at the Park
    Plaza after the CFF International Show - July 2nd - 
    
    What's a proud mom to say, except that these little girls are
    wonderful!!
    
    If anyone is interested in the CFF National Top Twenty Household
    Pet list, let me know and I will post it.  The results have been
    sent in to CFF, and the certificates should be mailed shortly.   
    
    E.T.

    Congrats Elaine,
    
    I know how much work it really is....you must be soooo proud!! 
    
    Hugs and Kisses to Katenka and Lara, they are absolutely beautiful
    creatures.
    
    hugs
    cin
    

    Thank you very much.  The girls say thanks also.  We still can't
    believe it's true.   It's work, but I had a lot of fun too.  I
    must have because I'm still doin' it.
    
    Have you heard how Tiger finished???????
    
    E.T. 

   A late congrats to Elaine and her two purr pots.  They are SO wonderful.
   Very deserving of this honor.
    
    Holly, Tabby, Silver, and Snooks
    

    Thanks Holly!  
    
    Hey Cin, welllllllllllllllll ??  
    
    E.T.

    And, now, for the moment you've all been waiting for!!
    
    Cattyshack's Just Plain Tiger is:
    
    CFF's 3rd Best Kitten National for 1987-88
    
    
    I have to give a special Thanks to Penelope Greene, for encouraging
    me, talking me into going to shows I wasn't planning on going to,
    and transporting and showing Tiger when I couldn't.  Pennie, we
    couldn't have done it without you.  
    
    purrs
    cin
    

    Stop the presses...this just in...
    
    Amelia Earhart (beloved sweetheart of a cat) is 13th Best Cat for
    the Pacific Central Coast Region for the Happy Household Pet Cat
    Club (HHHPC).
    
    I'm soooo proud of her.
    
    Jan

    More news...
    
    Chantilly Lace of MySinhs is 5th Best Kitten in the Pacific Central
    Coast Region of HHHPC.
    
    Yeaaa!
    
    Jan
    
    P.S.  Congrats Jo Ann!
    

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    Well, the Happy Household Pet Cat Club results came in the mail
    today.  I am in shock!  The HHPCC scores HHPs from all associations
    - TICA, CFA, CFF, AFCA, ACA accross the Unites States & Canada.  
    This is what they sent me:
    
    Katenka Dolly ZhivagoCat
    
    CFF 5th Best Household Pet - National
    
    3rd Best Kitten - New England Region (14)     
    
    2nd Best Cat/2nd Best Shorthair - New England Region 
    
    13th Best Cat - United States/Canada (tie)
                                             
    National Honorable Mention - Kitten (Top 15 win - not enough
                                         competitors to score)       
                                                
    ...................................................................
    
    Lara The Lady ZhivagoCat             
    
    CFF 8th Best Household Pet - National
    
    5th Best Cat - New England Region (14)
    
    19th Best Cat - United States/Canada
    
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    Mister Miyagi ZhivagoCat
    
    5th Best Kitten - New England Region (14)
                                                                       
    ................................................................
    
    Yurii Andreiveich ZhivagoCat
    
    National Honorable Mention - Cat - Top 15 win
    
    ...............................................................
    
    Katenka won the Morris this weekend at the CFF International Show
    I have a feeling that I won't get a lot of work done today!
    
    Elaine 
     
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    CONGRATULATIONS to you and all your wonderful cat winners.
    
    That is quite an accomplishment, what with working full time and
    getting that many cats ready for show.
    
    Take a bow........
    
    Barbara
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    Thank you very much, Barbara!  Lately I have only been showing
    two - this 88/89 season I will only show Katenka.  Guess I'm
    getting old and tired!  
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    Congratulations!  That's great!

    Karen, a point color problem in this case means that he lost his
    point color around his eyes and on his cheeks.  Any change in
    temperature (in the cat's body or even outside) has the potential
    to wreck havoc with a cats point color.  The cat starts to get white
    or cream hairs on his face instead of the desired seal ones.  The
    darker and more even the point color the better.
    
    Kalliste's point color has come back and he has been doing very
    well at the shows.  He has been to three CFA shows and now has 80
    grand points.  Very good for a Birman!  He made two finals at his
    first show, competing against 8 other Birmans.  He may turn out
    to be my first grand!  I have had to give up on Kyrielle for awhile.
    Kalliste is doing so well, I don't want to have to compete with
    myself.  Besides, Kyrielle wants to be bred very badly.
    
    I could use some help with the finer points of showing a whole male.
    
    Jo
    
    PS - Joui ended up being TICA southwest regions Best Sealpoint Birman
    and 2nd Best Birman, and Kyrielle was Best Sealpoint Birman kitten
    and 2nd Best Birman Kitten.  Not bad for a year whose emphasis was
    on CFA.
    
    

    I have some great news!  Announcing the first Birman Grand Champion
    in the Mysinhs cattery... Grand Champion Pleasantview's Kalliste
    of Mysinhs!!!
    
    Kalliste granded at the Los Colores Cat Club show in Pasadena
    California this past weekend.  He went into this show needing 39
    points which I didn't think he would be able to get considering
    the size of the show (450 cats) and the quality of the cats.  He
    ended up acquiring 83 points, his highest score yet.  He granded
    in 6 shows, quite a feat for a Birman.  (you persian people are
    probably thinking "oh no, how awful" 8^}).
    
    Kalliste will now be attending the Sacred Cat of Burma Fanciers
    annual Birman show as a Grand Champion.  Is anybody else out there
    going to Medina Ohio for this show?
    
    Jo

    Jo,
    
    Congratulations!!!!  That's quite an accomplishment.
    
    purrs
    cin
    

    Congrats, Jo, from all the kids!!  Way to go!
    
    E.T.

    Ok, my turn to brag.
    
    This weekend my kitties did very well at the cat show in Framingham,
    MA.  
    
    Micki, my persian, got BEST PERSIAN KITTEN in one of the allbreed
    rings (Rem Goldman's) and got 2ND BEST KITTEN!!!  I was THRILLED!!
    
    Then Snooks.  She got 9TH BEST KITTEN in all breed ring, 3RD BEST 
    KITTEN in a specialty ring, and 4TH BEST KITTEN in a specialty ring.
    
    Needless to say, we had a good weekend!  And Pat Daley even got
    to see Micki get her BEST PERSIAN KITTEN ribbon!!!!
    
    Signed,
    
    One PROUD mom.
    
    p.s.  It's time for Elaine and Penny to write in.

    Last year at the Framingham show, little Coo was the
    	"BEST OF THE BEST" kitten.
    
    This year (this past Sunday) little Karma was the
    	"SECOND BEST OF THE BEST" kitten (a British Blue beat her).
    
    I won't ever need to paint any walls here...I can just cover
    them completely with rosettes.
    
    As a relatively new breeder (2 years...Coo was the first of my
    own breeding), I have been overwhelmed...and delighted!
    Lots of treats for the little winners, and Momcats and Dadcats,
    and all!

    Congratulations, Holly !!  Your babies are beautiful!
    
    
    Katenka finished 3rd Best of Best out of 40 household pets and
    did so by only finaling in 3 rings, missed 2nd Best of Best by
    one point.  oh well.  what's 2 dumps!  This show was also history
    for Katenka - it was her first show last year and she finished
    Best of the Best Kitten - I think there were 18 or 19 kittens there.
    
    Miss Victoria Dolly finshed 5th out of 19 or 20 kittens!  her first
    show - she was really great on the table!  Victoria also was
    selected to be Princess and got a gold cape & crown, to follow in
    her brother Mister Miyagi's footsteps - he was crowned Prince last
    year at that same show - it was his first show also!  The two of
    them were selected by the same person - I don't remember who it
    it, but I remembered the face!
           
    Mom, very proud of her ZhivagoCat kids!

    Good Job, Penny!  I think I saw your babies - not sure, puff, huff,
    run!! See you guys at Boston Garden Saturday, then in Braintree,
    then in Canada, then in Montvale NJ, then in Poughkeepsie, then
    in Marlboro ??? then in Dorchester????  
    
    E.T.

    Elaine,
    Karma and Coo and I will be in New York this weekend, but little
    Karma's brother, Meowsky's Rachmaninoff (aka 'Rocky') will be
    there with his new Mom and Dad.  I can't wait to see how he does.
    Karma was the best of the litter, but just slightly;  all three
    of them were the best 3 kittens I have yet bred.  (My daughter in
    Seattle has the other kitten,  Meowsky's Silver Lining.)
    
    But see you at *all* the other shows you mentioned!
    
    	C_L

    Have a great show, cat lady!  See ya in Braintree !!  Will
    take a looksee at Rocky  ....  Good luck!
    
    E.T.

    My turn to brag now.  Kalliste has qualified to go to  the Purina/CFA
    National Invitational Show in St. Louis, MO on November 19 - 20,
    1988!!  A qualifying show was held in each region, with only the
    top cats being invited to the National.  Wish us luck in November.
     
    More good news.  I recently brought Joui out of show retirement
    (she was looking too good to keep hidden at home) and she now has
    100 grand points!  Half way there, hang in there baby!
    
    Kyrielle's first litter is due in three weeks!
    
    Jo
   

    Well, after a dry spell, my baby girl has done it again.
    
    Won Best of Best Saturday, Best of Best on Sunday and
    the Morris Trophy - in Canada!  
    
    E.T._A_VERY_PROUD_and LUCKY_MOM !!

    Are all of you sitting down?
    
    The call came late last night... "Jo Ann, are you sitting down?
    I just wanted to tell you how the show went this weekend..."
    (The show is the National Birman Fanciers Allbreed show in New Jersey)
    "Lysander granded!"
    
    Lysander is a male Birman of my breeding out of Joui's first litter!
    He granded in two shows, making well over the required 200 points
    in the show this weekend.  He is only 9 months old.
    
    The champagne is on me tonight!
    
    Jo

    Congratulations to you both from all the ZhivagoCat Kids  !!
    That's really something to be very proud of!!!
    
    E.T.

    Well, I have something to brag about!  We took Limoges down to
    Riverside, CA this weekend for a 4 Allbreed ring show.  She finaled
    in every ring!  She was 4th Best Allbreed kitten in Don Swanson's
    ring, 7th Best Allbreed Kitten in Betty O'brien's ring, 9th Best
    Kitten in Jimmy Thompson's ring, and 9th Best in Olen Wilford's
    ring!
    
    I have never shown a kitten who made every final at a show before,
    and I have to tell you, it feels great!!
    
    It is enought to make you want to campaign!!
    
    Jo

    Great going Jo, that really is something to brag about!!!
    
    Especially 4 Allbreed rings!!!!!
    
    So, did I hear you say campagne??
    
    cin

    That is another definite maybe....depends on the money situation.
    Right now, I plan to get her into as many shows as possible.  She
    just turned 5 months old the other day and already is doing this
    well!
    
    Her next show is an 8 ring in San Francisco, then an 8 ring in San
    Jose, both at the end of the month. If I can, I plan to drive to
    Boise, Idaho for our regional awards banquet and show her there.
    Kalliste is getting a regional award and it will be nice to pick
    it up in person.  Does anyone know how far it is from San Jose CA
    to Boise, ID?  I sure haven't got a clue.  
    
    Jo

    Probably about a good thousand miles....when i got my car, i drove
    from Deer Lodge, MT (between Helena and Butte) down thru Idaho and
    nevada them home...I think it was about 1200 miles (my car has sooo
    many miles it didn't make much of a dent).  so get ready for about
    3 days of driving, two if you hurry. 
    
    kim

    At the "Cat Trek" cat show on May 27-28 my cats (Bailey and Amelia),
    who haven't shown in months, did much better than expected considering
    Amelia's weight and Bailey's grumpiness.
    
    Dave agented them for me for the 1st part of Saturday due to
    conflicting plans (my sister Jaci graduated from college) and when
    I walked in they were both in a final (so who needs me, right?)
    Things went down hill from there, guess I'll have to let Dave show
    them more often.  Sunday was better though.  Here are the results.
    
    Saturday:
    
    	Leta Williams     -- Amelia-2nd Best Cat, Bailey-5th Best Cat
    
    	Norma Placchi     -- guess she doesn't like fat or grumpy cats
    
   	Michael Petersen  -- ditto
    
    Sunday:
    
    	Donna Fuller      -- Amelia-8th Best HHP
    
    	Carolyn Osier     -- Bailey-9th Best HHP
    
    	Patti Jacobberger -- Amelia-BEST HHP, Bailey-9th Best HHP 
                             ===============
    
    Patti Jacobberger is a riot to watch judging.  She has some cute
    remark to make about all the HHP's.  She attempted to play with
    Amelia with a feather and a silver sparkly thing and Amelia ignored
    them both to which Patti said (for Amelia) "I don't do feathers,
    I don't do sparkly things" then she picked her up and said "I do
    Purina, I do Carnation, I do 9-Lives..."  (ya had to be there).
    
    Amelia weights 13 lbs. but looks like she swallowed a soccer ball
    'cause she bows out on the sides.  Everyone likes to make fat jokes
    when she's being judged but she's the sweetest thing and her coat
    is in silky condition so she still manages to final occasionally.
    Back when she was in her prime she finalled alot and mom got very
    spoiled.
    
    HURRAY AMELIA AND BAILEY!!!!  Guess your show careers are not over
    yet (aren't you two excited about that).
    
    Next show maybe we'll see how Carrie Nation the holy terror of the
    Cordes household does in the show ring.
    
    Jan

    Jan,
    
    Congratulations!!!
    
    Jill
    

    
    Congratulations to Jan, Amelia and Bailey!
    
    Roslyn

    Well, I just have to do this.  It isn't 'exactly' feline related,
    BUT,....
    
    My daughter, Susan Ellin Trachman graduated from  the University
    of Lowell Sunday, June 4th from the College of Management Science
    concentration in Accounting, Magna Cum Laude - she finished
    98th out of 2500 in her class (top 2 % of her class). She completed
    her requirements in 3.5 years (December, 1988) and is now working
    for Peat, Marwick Main & Co. Boston, MA.
    
    Needless to say, this is one VERY VERY PROUD MOTHER writing this
    note.  What a year - my kid had a big finish and my so did Katenka!!
    
    What more could a mother ask for in this world, other than a little
    less cat hair and few less lumps in the pool ??                     
    
    E.T._ending_a_double_era_and_begining_two_new_ones

    re: .127 FANTASTIC!!!!!!!  Congrats to E.T. &  S.E.T.

    What??!! You have a baby who isn't a feline??
    

    Wow!!
    
    Jo

    She must take after her ever-young Mom!!
    
    Mary
    

    Thanks guys!  Yeah, I kinda thought she was a chip off this old
    broad!  Actually, she is really some kid!  
    
    Yup, I have a human baby, too.  Surprise !!!!!!  I was!!
    
    me

    Kalliste has made a regional award in CFA.  He is the Northwest
    Regions Second Best Sealpoint Birman, and Second Best Birman in
    the Region.  We are going to Idaho this weekend to pick up his award
    and to try to finish granding Laci.  Wish us luck.
    
    Jo

    Alright JO!!!  I understand that CFA is alot tougher than CFF.
      Nancy DC
    

    Way to go!!!!!!!!  Atta Girl!!!!!
    
    E.T.

    I am off to Idaho now, see you all on tuesday the 13th!
    
    Jo

    I am very proud to announce that
    
     
            Cattyshack's Tiger Lily of EmacX
    
    is, as of this past weekend, a CFA Champion !
    
    This show was the first time I showed Lil and she was so wonderful!
    She behaved beautifully and I think the judges really liked her.
    
    Lil is such a beautiful baby - she reminds me of a baby Koala bear!
    She purrs for anyone that touches her - I think the judges liked
    that also!  Her breeder/Grandmother should be VERY VERY proud!
    
    I don't want to brag tooooo much, but she, as an Open, took one
    
    Best of Breed win !  My feet haven't touched the floor yet !
    
    I think I'm a very lucky new mom!
    
    E.T.

    Guys, I just gotta share this with ya!!  Mysinhs Latisse of Birgatos,
    a sealpoint female kitten that I sold to a friend for breeding and
    showing, just pulled off a first for me!!  She made a BEST ALLBREED
    KITTEN final!!!  I have had 2nd Best Allbreed a few times, but never
    a Best.  This is no easy feat with a minority breed like Birmans.
    
    Here's to many more...
    
    Jo

    BIG CONGRATS to both E.T./Tiger Lilly (What a gorgeous baby!  I
    love her) and JO ANN/Latisse.  
      Now I've got to get on the ball and get Mr. Dundee into a few
    more shows so he can grand!

    Meowsky's Mr. Baryshnikov of Satineque has kept outdoing himself:
    
    I sold him to another breeder in NY as a breeder, with no guarantees
    about his show qualities (he has excellent blood lines, and he 
    looked good to me, but I was the very-biased Mom).
    
    He made several finals in most (all?) of his CFA shows as a kitten,
    with his final kitten show getting *two* BEST KITTENS!
    
    So then last weekend he had his first adult show, as an Open.
    Well, he got his winner's ribbons as expected, but he also
    (as an OPEN) got a BEST CAT!!!
    
    The new owner (who is absolutely delighted, despite the fact that
    little Mr. B. bred her black Persian -- Mr. B. is a Russian Blue!)
    is going to send me an 8x10 picture along with some of his
    rosettes.  
    
    I have another litter of the same breeding that is 2 days old.
    Maybe there will be another really special kitty.
    
    	Proud Mom Pennie

    Pennie,
    
    We've come a long way, baby!
    
    Jo

    I am VERY proud to announce that our dear and wonderful Jaltari's Lady
    Sings the blues (aka, PITA) became a Grand Champion at the TICA show
    last weekend in Boston.  Her best final was a 4th best cat.  The woman
    said that "She was taken by this cat".  I was complimented on her
    Disposition.  One judge said that usually when she judges a Korat, she
    has to judge the cat at Arm's length so that she doesn't get swatted! 
    PITA just stood there nice and proud!  Almost as proud as her mom!
    
    Holly
    

    Dundee has won another award!  A certificate and ribbon showed up
    yesterday from CFF proclaiming Dundee Regional 2nd best of breed
    and Regional Best of Color!!!!  I showed him his yellow and pink
    fringed ribbon and he proceeded to play with the fringe  :-)  
    He's such a humble boy!!
    
      Nancy DC

    Well, I guess it's time, since it's official.  
    
    Cattyshack's Tiger Stripes is CFF's 2nd Best National Kitten, 2nd
    Best Regional Kitten, and also 16th Best National Cat.  He was also
    Best Exotic Shorthair Kitten, and 2nd Best Exotic Shorthair Cat.
    
    I'm especially pleased about the Cat wins, considering he wasn't
    shown as a Cat until March. 
    
    He also scored another 61 points towards his CFA Grand at the
    Schenectady NY show, which means he has a total of 129 points...71
    more to go!!!
    
    Congrats Nancy on Dundee's awards, are you hooked yet???  ;-)
    
    cin...
    

    Congrats to Cin and to Nancy.  Sounds like things are going great
    for the two of you in the shows.
    
    Cin, Laci only needs 16 points to make her grand now.  I will keep
    my fingers crossed for you if you will for me...
    
    Jo

    Sure, Jo,
    
    I'm so jealous of you folks who have managed to have Grands so fast.
    Stripees will be my first CFA Grand, in almost 9 years of breeding.
                                             
    Of course I've owned CFA Grands, but they have always granded before
    I got them or shortly after.  But, this will be the first one of
    my own breeding, if he does it, that is.  
    
    I don't expect much at the Morristown show, 450 cats...could be
    pretty tough.  Especially with a minority breed, if your not Best
    of Breed, it's tough to make the finals amongst those persians!!
    
    I think it may be even tougher for Exotics because they don't have
    all the frosting that the persians have to hide the flaws....everything
    shows up and the damn judges expect them to have the same type as
    the persians, even though they are a relatively new breed to the
    Cat Fancy.
    
    Good Luck, Jo, 16 points won't be hard to make....almost won't even
    have to make a final for those points!!
    
    
    

    Cin,
    
    Boy, what was that comment about "those persians"?? ;^}
    
    I guess we do both have minority breeds now.  But, lets get one
    thing straight... Lysander was my first grand of my own breeding
    and he granded in two shows, but one of those was the National Birman
    Fanciers show, so there were about 25 points just in the ring, not
    to mention the finals.  So far, Lysander is the only grand of my
    breeding, but I have high hopes for Latisse.  She is the first kitten
    of my breeding to make a Best Allbreed Kitten final in CFA.  
    
    Kalliste, my stud, isn't of my breeding and it took him 5 shows.  Laci 
    is taking a very long time.  She has been shown as an adult for 7
    months.  The time of year makes a big difference too.  If it is the
    last half of the show season (Dec through April), it is much harder 
    to make it into the finals.  For Laci, I am hoping that she will
    get her needed 16 points in a final and go out with a bang!  Then
    the minute we get home, she will be bred!!
                                              
    Jo

    Well, Jo, I'ld prefer a CFA grand to a CFF National Win anyday.
    
    CFF is a relatively small association, mostly in the Northeast.
    I enjoy showing CFF because the people are friendlier and the shows
    are usually closer.  However, the quality of cats shown in CFF on
    the whole is not as good as in CFA.  In fact, many of CFF's top
    cats are not CFA Grands, and probably never will be.  Because CFF
    is really concentrated in the Northeast, we very rarely see cats
    from other parts of the country, where in CFA it's not unusual for
    there to be cats from all over the country.  
    
    I'm very proud of the CFF wins my cats have made, but the day the
    first Cattyshack Cat grands someone is going to have to hold me
    down I'll be flying so high.
    
    

    
    Well, this is official also (I just haven't received the notice
    in the mail yet).
    
    Katenka Dolly ZhivagoCat is:      
    
                  CFF's National 2nd Best Household Pet
    
            CFF Northeast Region 2nd Best Household Pet
            
    
    Happy Household Pet Cat Club: approximately 700 or 800 cats scored
                                  in four associations (CFA, CFF, TICA,
                                  and AFCA (I think ?).
    
                  United States and Canada - 12th Best Cat 
    
                  Region 14 New England    -  2nd Best Cat
                                              2nd Best Shorthair
                                          
    Katenka missed the CFF National & Regional Best by 100 points (close !)
    
    She also missed the HHPCC Region 14 Best by '10' points - (also close)
                                                                          
    Thank you, Katenka, for giving me 2 wonderful and exciting seasons
    of cat shows!  
    
    In case folks haven't figured it out, I'm VERY VERY proud of Katenka.
    She is a very very special baby girl !  A real trooper !             
                                              
    
    Katenka and I wish a hearty Congrats to show babies and their moms
    and dad for all their wins for the season.  It was, to say the least,
    an interesting and exiting season!
     
                                                    E.T.

    Just wanted to share my good news with all of you.
    
    Zauklapaw's Laci of Mysinhs is now a Grand Champion!!!!!!!!
    
    She went out with a bang, finaled in Boris Teron's allbreed ring
    as 2nd Best Longhair Champion.
    
    She is now looking forward to raising a family and putting her career
    on the back burner.
    
    Jo

Way to go, Laci!!!


			D-who-wants-all-the-kittens

    Great News Jo!!!  

    Well, I didn't know whether to put his here, or in the note that
    we discussed the SCBF (Sacred Cat of Burma Fanciers) show, but since
    it is bragging, it probably belongs here.
    
    Well, I have just returned from the Birman show in Ohio.  Lots of
    things happened, I don't really know where to start.  I was able
    to finally meet Linda Sobek, who has a Kalliste daughter, and Nancy
    Jenkins, who is just getting into the breed.  We had a wonderful
    time, got almost no sleep from Thursday till Sunday, and all three
    of us came home with a new kitten!
    
    The competition was tough!  There were 40 Birmans in the adult class,
    45 in the kitten class, and 17 in the premier class.  Not to mention
    the hords of other breeds.
    
    The biggest news is that a cat of my breeding, Mysinhs Latisse of
    Birgatos, a sealpoint female, went from having 0 grand points to
    having 135!  She needs only 65 more to grand.  She finaled in all
    three of the rings on Saturday.   Will Thompson gave her 2nd Best
    Longhair Champion, and 2nd Best Allbreed Champion.  Russ Hausman
    gave her 2nd Best Longhair Champion, 2nd Best Allbreed Champion,
    and 8th Best Cat.  The biggest thrill of all was when Latisse made
    the final in Sheila Reyes ring.  Sheila was being secretive in the
    class judging, and didn't hang her Best of Breed, Second Best of
    Breed, and Best Champion ribbons, and instead told us all that we
    would have to wait for the finals to see who made what.  When the
    finals came up, Latisse's number was called along with four other
    Birmans.  Still no clues of what was to come.  She started hanging
    her finals, and the other Birmans were making good wins, but still
    Latisse was not pulled out of her cage and awarded her ribbons.
    When the judge pulled out the blue female grand, Oxdowne's Love
    Bug, and gave her 4th Best Cat, I knew that Latisse was going to
    be Best of Breed Birman, and got a very tingly feeling on the back
    of my neck.  But, I was not prepared for the BEST CAT win that Latisse
    was awarded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Sheila gave her Best of Breed, Best Birman Champion, Best Longhair
    Champion and Best Cat in Show!  I have never had a Best Cat win
    in the championship class before, and I have to tell you, nothing
    can beat the feeling!  Latisse received a very large five streamer
    ribbon for the final, plus a special rosette from the club, plus
    the two champion ribbons, and a special rosette from a sister Birman
    club in Africa.
    
    Brad, the man I sold Latisse to, is thrilled beyond belief.  This
    is his very first show cat, and although she did well as a kitten,
    neither of us were prepared for her success at the Birman show.
    I am now trying to talk Brad into getting Latisse in the National
    Birman Fanciers show in New Jersey in October, and of course, the
    regional qualifier, and the Invitational show in St. Louis in November.
    
    I came home with my first show quality blue point female this weekend
    too.  She is Junsui Mirabel of Mysinhs, and is five months old.
    She is my "kitten back" for Lysander, the male I sent to Mirabel's
    breeder a year and a half ago.  Mirabel is settling in very well,
    and getting to know all the other cats.
    
    Needless to say, I didn't need the plane to fly home, I was soaring!
    
    Jo

    Our heartiest CONGRATULATIONS!!!
    
    Chuck, Jane, Doobie, Peaches and now Cassandra
    

    Jo, 
    
    All I can say is WOW!!!
    
    I bet you still haven't come down yet!!!
    
    congrats!
    cin
    

    Great news Jo! I remember when Kimi was best neuter/spay in show
    at the National Abyssinian Show a few years ago - we spent days
    going around saying "Best in Show! BEST in Show!! He really got
    Best in Show!"
    
    Shayne (NZ)

    My heart beat faster just reading this!!  Congratulations Jo!!
      Nancy DC
    

    Jo, WOW, WOW, WOW !  I hope I someday have that feeling!  DON"t
    COME DONW - enjoy and remember it for a long while!
    
    E.T.

    Congratulations to our California momma and our step sis for doing so
    well.  
    Keep up the good work!
    
    Lady Elizabeth of MySihns
    and
    Lucky Lindbergh of MySihns
    
    (Aw, it's us, Momma Jo, Lizzi and Lindy!)

    Well, Latisse granded this weekend at the Hayward California show,
    in judge Wain Harding's ring.  She made two other finals, including
    a Second Best Allbreed Cat final.  I am very proud of her.  She
    is my second two show grand.  Now, we will try and Grand her brother
    Westie (AKA Mysinhs Livin' in the Wild Wild West) in the premiership
    class.  
    
    Maybe some day I will be able to write in here about Joui being
    a D.M.  A D.M. (Distinguished Merit) is awarded to any female cat
    that produces 5 grand champion offspring, or any male cat that produces
    15 grand champion offspring.
    
    Latisse is Joui's second grand out of two litters.
    
    Jo

    re: .160
    
    Boy, go get'em Jo !!  Congratulations again!  Hey Jo, which Wild
    Wild West Show?  West Warwick Rhode Island, by any slight chance????
    I doubt that you would come this far for a RI show, would ya???
    There must be a show out your way with a similar theme!!  We will
    meet someday - again, from me and the kids, to you and yours,
    Congrations!

    Elaine,
    
    I was refering to a cat of my breeding whose name is Mysinhs Livin'
    In The Wild Wild West!  I loved that song when it was on the radio
    and since I needed a catchy L name, I used it.  We call him Westie
    for short, and he is an absolute charmer.  He is a sealpoint, litter
    brother to Latisse, incredible eye color, tons of coat (watch out
    persian premiers, here comes Westie ;^}) beautiful markings...
    I could go on and on.  He is the apple of my eye, as you can tell.
                                               
    I have got to get out there for a show someday.  Some of my grand-cats
    will be out on the show circuit in your area, and I would love to
    see them.  Linda Sobek is now the proud owner of one of my grand-cats,
    his name is Junsui Mistral of Patsucre, and he is Lysander's son.
    She will be showing him out there soon, and I would love to come
    and see them, and meet all of you.  Linda and Nancy Jenkins and
    I all had a great time finally putting the names with the faces
    in Medina.
    
    Jo

    re: 162
    
    ohhhhhhh.  Gee, and I thought my Lil had a funny name (just kiddin'
    Cin !!).  Boy, breeders sure name their offspring some really 
    strange names.  Wonder what kind of weird stuff I'll come up
    with when the time comes??  
    
    The Warwick show is doing a Western theme - guess it caught my
    fancy!!  I wonder how Lil will look in cowboy boots and a western
    hat???
    
    E.T.

    The Oklahoma show had a beach theme and a costume contest to go
    along with it.  It was hysterical.  Most of the cats had on little
    string bikinis (literally made of string), but the winner was a
    cute little occicat.....wearing a wet suit and goggles!!!!
    
    He was the cutest thing!  The owner had made him a little body type
    wet suit out of cotton fabric, and she had a little pair of goggles
    on his eyes.  He didn't fight the costume like some of the cats,
    and really seemed to be enjoying himself.  He stood there in his
    wet suit and goggles looking out into the audience, and the audience
    roared with laughter.
    
    
    More on names...
    
    It is hard to come up with great names, and even harder to breed
    the cat that is good enough to deserve the great name.  I am having
    that problem right now.  I have a great M name for a boy, and I
    have a pretty nice boy, and it is almost the end of the M year.
    So, do I go for it and use the great M name on the pretty good boy,
    or wait for the next litters and see if I find a great boy to go
    with the great name????  These are the questions that you have to
    ask yourself.  Westie was a great boy, and Livin' in the Wild Wild
    West was a great name, so that worked out okay, but....
    
    This year's up and comers are ... Mysinhs Midsummer Night's Dream
    who is a sealpoint girl, and Mysinhs Moody Blues, who is a bluepoint
    male. (he is the one who might end up with the great name if his
    quality lives up to the name).
    
    If gets even tougher when you are limiting yourself to one letter
    of the alphabet each year.  I don't like to use a name that anyone
    else has, so I have to get outlandish sometimes since all the normal
    names will be taken already.
    
    Jo                                    

    re: 164                                               
    
    
    Hmm.  Should I put Lil in a cowgirl hat and a vest and skirt
    for the Warwick show?  I can just see her stumpy little legs
    in boots with guns and holster hanging at her side!  Endless
    possibilities that border on hysterical (if you saw the little
    flat faced monkey - big eyes, lots of chin, stubborn - I can just
    see Lil facing a judge saying with her six-guns raised - "hand over
    that Best of Breed and Best Cat rosette, if you wanna make it to
    your next judging assignment!"    Naw, guess maybe I ought to
    skip the kitty costume....
    
    Wow, those are long names - how do you fit your cattery name
    and the lengthy name (Living in the Wild Wild West) ??
    
    E.T.

    I loved the mental picture of Lil demanding the Best of Breed
    ribbons at gunpoint!
    
    Westie's name, with my cattery name is exactly 34 letters and spaces.
    CFA allows 35 letters and spaces so we just squeeked by.  Actually,
    I dropped the G off of Living so that I wouldn't take up all 35!
    Westie's owner is not a breeder, so she doesn't have a cattery name
    to add to the end.  I usually won't name a cat a long name like
    that if I intend to sell it to another breeder, but it has happened
    a couple of times, like with Mysinhs Lady Sings The Blues, and now
    with Mysinhs Midsummer Night's Dream.  I had intended to keep Lady,
    but another breeder convinced me to let her go to him, and I did
    intend to keep Dream, but my husband is trying to convince me to
    let her go.  The new owners won't be able to fit a cattery name
    on the end of her name since it is 31 letters and spaces.
    
    Yah, but what about Katinka Dolly Zhivagocat???  That is a pretty
    snazzy name, if you ask me.
    
    Jo

    re: .166
    
    Ahh - that explains it!  
    
    Yeah, Katenka Dolly ZhivagoCat is VERY LONG !!  But, she will never
    be bred so it didn't matter much - speaking of the little sweet
    face, I will be picking up her awards this Saturday night marking
    the end of Katenka's show career for real !  She's VERY HAPPY staying
    home!  She and Lil roll around on the floor every day - I sometimes
    get the feeling that TenkaBabies is whispering the do's and don'ts
    of show business to Lil!  They sure are funny to watch - Tenka is
    not very much bigger than Lil - Lil is about 5.25 / 5.5 lbs and
    Tenka is just a hair under 7 lbs.  Of course, Katenka has a nose,
    and legs, and a slender body - Lil has no nose, no legs, no neck,
    and a very short FAT body!!!!  They really are funny together
    mixing it up, and Lil is usually the instigator, when she isn't
    busy falling into the full bathtub of water, which happened a few
    days ago!  
    
    E.T.

    E.T.
    
    I just about had about 7 heads pop up around my cube when they heard me
    roaring....
    
    I can just picture Lil in the outfit you described.  Only trouble is,
    that with her short, short legs, her boots would go up to her hips!!!
    
    Thanks for the chuckle, Elaine...I needed it this afternoon.
    

    E.T. I am also laughing.. I was telling your niece Happy about it..
    she said I already knew that MUMMY.. Lil is using my cowgirl outfit..
    tee-hee
    Kate

    Kelsey and Kirby did very well at their first CFF show yesterday.
    
    There were 3 allbreed rings and 2 specialty rings.  Kirby finaled
    in both specialty rings; 9th best longhair kitten in one ring and
    10th best longhair kitten in the other.  There were 38 LH kittens
    at the show so I was real proud of him!!  He was a real natural
    in the rings.
    
    Kelsey attained his championship, receiving a winners ribbon in all
    5 rings.  This wasn't hard to do as he was the only novice sealpoint
    male Ragdoll alter being shown but I was pleased nonetheless.  He
    also finaled in one of the specialty rings as 2nd best altered novice
    out of 10 LH altered novices.  He wasn't impressed by his wins but
    I sure was!!
    
    I'm entering them in Marlboro in November and hopefully, they'll
    do me proud again!!
    
    
    --Roberta (formally Waxman -- who's hooked on showing!)
    

    Ha!  I knew we had you Roberta!  Look out world - here come Kelsey
    and Kirby!!  I have a feeling Kirby's going to be a formidable
    opponent in the show ring!  Dundee better hurry up and grand!
      Congrats Roberta, they are beautiful kitties.
      Nancy DC
    

    Let's hear it for the Ragdolls !!!!!!!!
    
    I too am proud of your kitties Roberta. (I thought you would faint
    from nervisnous (sp) on saturday when you were in Nashua.) Your
    two  babies must have said to each other, "We gotta do good for Mommy
    as she works so hard at DEC to support us."
    
    I know how proud Linda (your breeder) will be also. She sure cleaned
    up on the ribbons in Nashua over the weekend.
    
    If only I could convenience Mocha to let the judges touch him........
    nawh........
    
    Hug Kelsey and Kirby those two show Ragdolls for me !!!
    
    Barbara

    Roberta, that is great!
    
    Glad to hear that Kirby and Kelsey did so well.  Now you will be
    hooked for sure.  All it takes is that first finals ribbon, then
    gotcha!
    
    Jo

Even though I don't enter FELINE much anymore, I guess this deserves to be 
bragged about:

One of our own breeding, Master Grand Champion TEMEK's Sitamon, was CFF's Best 
Cat this past year.

She is a beautiful Silver Egyptian Mau.  My mom deserves the credit since she,
and not I, travelled the entire show circuit.

Congrats to all CFF award winners whose "parents" work for Digital!

Matt Goldman
TEMEK Cattery

    Matt,
    
    Congratulations!!  That is quite an honor.  I like to see other
    breeds taking top awards, such as this.  
    
    Jo

    Matt, I'm sure I have already congratulated both you and mom,
    but here it is again!  Congratulations from me and Katenak Dolly!
    
    E.T.

    Having seen this cat I can vouch for Matt's claim about her
    beauty!  What a striking kitty!  and soooo humble.
    
    Congratulations Matt!  And to your mother.
      Nancy DC

    Well, at long last, I have the honor or announcing that CATTYSHACK'S
    TIGER STRIPES a.k.a. Stripees is now a CFA Grand Champion.  
    
    I have had many Grand Champions before, but Stripees is the first from
    my own breeding program.  And hopefully he will be followed by many
    more.  
    
    Thanks Stripees, for being such a love to show...
    cin
    

    yay Stripees! 
    
    Yay Cindy!

    
    A very hearty congratulations to you BOTH.  I feel very privileged
    to say that I was there when it happened!  It was amazing - I think
    that even Stripees knew - he stood up and raised his head up in
    pride.  He certainly was Regal and very deserving of this honor.
    I'm proud to be the owner of a Cattyshack Exotic.  
    
    

    Flame says to tell Stripees "Way to go!"  He's looking pretty
    proud to be a Cattyshack Exotic, himself.  
      Congratulations.
        Nancy DC
    

    Well, the regional qualifying show is over, and the news is good.
    Mysinhs Birmans faired very well this year.  Be warned, this is
    pure, unadulterated bragging!  
    
    In the adult class, there were 12 Birmans present, 3 of my breeding,
    and one that I own.  The Best of Breed Birman was GRC Mysinhs Latisse
    of Birgatos, the 2nd Best of Breed was GRC Pleasantview Limoges
    of Mysinhs, and the 3rd Best of Breed was GRC Deillusion's Kismet.
    Limoges granded at this show with only 1 point to spare (we think,
    still need to confirm with CFA).  These three cats will be going
    on to St. Louis next month for the CFA/Purina Invitational Show.  
    
    In the kitten class, there were 11 Birmans present, 3 of my breeding
    and one that I own.  Two kittens tied for Best of Breed, they were
    Mysinhs My Man of Kattah, and Deillusion's Mirage.  The 2nd Best
    of Breed kitten was Mysinhs Midsummer Nights Dream.  All three of
    these were invited to St. Louis also.
                       
    In the premiership class, there was one Birman present, he was of
    my breeding.  He is Mysinhs Livin In The Wild Wild West, and he
    made four finals, added another 40 grand points to his total, and
    will be going to St. Louis too.
    
    It was a great show, and I am very pleased with how well all the
    cats did.  I can't wait to see how they do next month in St. Louis
    against all the other regional winners!
    
    Jo

    Jo,
    
    Congratulations!! Your cats were beautiful!  How did Moody Blue do?
    He's so handsome; I just love his color.
    
    I really enjoyed my day at the show and I'm looking forward to entering
    Gwen (at least!!) in the January show in San Jose.
    
    Jill
    

    Moody Blue did great!  He seemed to have a really great time, purred
    and made bread all day.  He almost qualified, but didn't make a
    breed win in the last ring.  Oh well, we will take him next year
    as an adult.
    
    He is such a young little guy, it was hard for him to get the attention
    that he deserved from the judges when all the other kittens were
    so much older, not to mention bigger! :^)
    
    It was good to see you there.  Glad to hear that you are coming
    to the San Jose show in January...I am show manager of that show!
    
    Jo

    Wow Jo!  What a showing!!  Congrats to you and all your beautiful
    Birmans.  I really hope we get to meet some day.
      Nancy DC
    

    Jo,
    
    < Glad to hear that you are coming
    < to the San Jose show in January...I am show manager of that show!
    
    Egads!! My first time out and I'm going to have to mind my manners.
    ;-)   :-)  :-)
    
    Good for Moody Blue--he's such a handsome boy.
    
    Jill
    
    

    Well, it is official...Pleasantview Limoges of Mysinhs is now a
    Grand Champion!!  Just made it too, she needed 55 points at the
    regional qualifier and she got 55 points.  How is that for cutting
    it close.  I sweated for a whole week trying to find out if she
    made it or not.  Finally had to call CFA and explain that due to
    the earthquake, I have intermittent phone service and couldn't reach
    Herman (AKA Dial-A-Grand).  They were kind enough to give me the
    good news in person.
    
    More good news...Mysinhs Livin In The Wild Wild West (boy isn't
    that the truth, ;^D) is also a Grand now, only he is a Grand Premier.
    It takes 75 points to be a grand premier, and Westie was fortunate
    enough to earn all those points in only three shows!  That is no
    easy feat in the premiership class were the classes are smaller.
    In his three shows, he has only missed three finals, and has made
    Best Cat in Premiership two times!!  Suzie is just thrilled and
    so am I.  Of course, being new to this showing thing, she thought
    that his show career was over now that he is a Grand.  I can see
    it now, today a Grand Premier, tomorrow a Regional Winner!!  You
    can see what direction I am leaning in...
    
    ;^)
    
    Jo

    Great News Jo!  
    
    If I did my calculating right Dundee picked up 28 Grand points in
    Braintree this weekend PLUS his 5th best cat!  I think he only
    needs 10 pts depending upon whether its 75 or 80 pts for an altered
    Grand Champion in CFF.
    
    Unfortunately I can't find my other show books to verify the point
    tally.  Does anyone know if I can call CFF and get a point count?
    I'd like to know before Nov 11th as he may Grand in Marlboro.
      Nancy DC
    

    RE .188
    WAY TO GO DUNDEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    I knew he was a winner from the first time I saw him.  Good going
    Nancy.
    
    Sandi
    
    

    I called CFF and Dundee's count is 66 pts.  He just needs 14!

    Dundee and I went to a CFF show in Plymouth this weekend and
    you wouldn't have thought this was the same cat that I had
    in Marlboro.   He finaled in his first four rings with two 
    BEST CHAMPIONS in the Allbreed rings and two SECOND BEST
    CHAMPIONS in the specialty rings.  
    
    so DUNDEE IS A GRAND CHAMPION (with 3 pts to spare)!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    I didn't have any champagne at home so I celebrated with a
    glass of plum wine.  
    
    I can't wait to see how he does in Haverhill as a Grand Champion.
    
      Nancy DC

    Nancy, CONGRATULATIONS, to you and Dundee. Following your progress
    at the shows it doesn't seem like it has taken anytime at all for
    Dundee to make Grand Champion. After seeing him at one of the shows
    I though he was pretty special, (Marlboro must have been an off
    day.) 
    
    See  you at Haverhill
    
    Barbara

    Congrats Nancy and Dundee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    Pam

    
    YAY DUNDEE!  WAY TO GO!!!
    
    Next stop, Master Grand!  We know you can do it!!
    

    Congrats to you from ALL of us !!!
    
    E.T.

    
    
    	Yay Dundee!!  clap, clap, clap!!
    
    

    Congrats to Dundee and to you to, Nancy
    
    Chuck, Jane, Doobie, Peaches and Cassandra (The Flea)
    

Nancy,

    Hurray for Dundee!  I bet he is just strutting around now at home
    as well he should! 

    I loved talking with you and meeting Dundee at Marlboro -- maybe
    I can get away to the Haverhill show on the December 2-3 weekend
    to say hi again.  Best of luck in all the upcoming shows. 

    			-- Julie

    Well, we are back from the big Purina/CFA Invitational Show.  And
    boy, was it ever a show!  There were 729 entries from 44 states
    and Japan!  The Birman class was incredible.  Kitten class had 9
    entries, and every one of them was fantastic.  The Championship
    class had 10 cats present and competing, all but three were Grand
    Champions.  The Premiership class had 7 cats present and competing
    and *all* were Grand Premiers!  The competition was very tough.
    
    Well, when it was all over with, we had done very well.  GRC Mysinhs
    Latisse of Birgatos, a seal point female that I had bred and sold to 
    Brad Sharp tied for Second Best of Breed in the Championship class 
    with her auntie GRC Pleasantview's Ladyhawke.  Brad and Julie each 
    went home with a HUGE rosette.  
    
    In the Premiership class, GRP Mysinhs Livin In The Wild Wild West, a
    seal point neuter, who is the litter mate to Latisse, picked up
    the 2nd Best of Breed award.  Westie was shown by his owner this
    time, Suzie Fung.  Ken and I had shown Westie to his Grand, due
    to Suzie's schedule (she is a real estate agent and works weekends)
    and had planned to take him to St. Louis with us, but when Suzie
    got his engraved invitation in the mail, she couldn't resist going!
    She is now hooked on showing, and plans to try and show Westie to
    a regional award this year.
    
    In the kitten class, Junsui Morning Song of Cincicatti was the Best
    of Breed kitten.  He is a grand child of ours, and littermate to
    Linda Sobek's Mistral.  He was looking fine this weekend, and the
    judges loved him.
    
    The show was well managed, well run, and incredibly exciting.  The
    format was such that none of us knew who would be the top winners
    until the presentation.  We had an inkling of who would be Best
    of Breed, and 2nd Best of Breed but weren't quite sure.  When the
    finals were presented in each judges ring, they would rank the cat's
    on paper, but not reveal each cat's placement in the finals to the
    audience or exhibitors.  The rankings were all entered in a computer,
    and the results printed out just prior to the awards presentation.
    The awards presentation was taped, and it is planned that it will
    be broadcast on PBS stations sometime in the future.  A group of
    people from a show called Living With Animals was also there filming.
    
    We had a great time, and I cannot wait till next year!  I will have
    to plan my breedings carefully so as to have something to qualify
    with next year!!
    
    Jo

    That's fantastic news Jo!!!!  If you find out when that show
    will be aired make sure you tell us.  I'll tape it!
    

    Congratulations Jo, That's quite an accomplishment!!!!!  You should be
    very proud.
    
    cin
    

    Great going!  Congratulations - WE are proud of you and your babies.
    
    E.T.

    I seem to be on a roll this last couple of weeks.  I took four of
    my cats to a show this weekend and the impossible happened.  Dreamer
    took a Best Allbreed Kitten final!  I still can't believe it!!
    
    The judge was Jimmy Thompson, who had liked Dreamer before and usually
    finaled her in the top half of the finals.  Well, I almost missed
    the final cause I was in a Championship Final with Limoges when
    the number was called, and I didn't hear it.  I was taking Limoges
    back to the benching cage, when they made an announcement that if
    kitten #3 didn't get to ring 2 in 30 seconds they would pick another
    kitten for the final.  I grabbed Dreamer, fluffed her up with my
    fingers, and then ran (hobbled) to the ring as fast as I could.
    The first thing that Jimmy did was ask all the audience to hold
    up their hands, palms facing him.  We all thought it was odd, but
    we did it to humor him.  Then he says "good, no one has any rotten
    tomatoes with them!"  and I thought, wow, he must be puttin up a
    minority breed as Best Kitten, and thinks that the persian people
    will be stunned.  I looked at the kittens in the final, one Bombay,
    one Javanese, one Occicat, Dreamer, two Himmies, a smoke tortie Persian,
    a red male Persian, a tortie Persian, and a black Persian.  Well,
    it either had to be the Javi, the Occi, or the Bombay, cause judges
    *never* put Birmans up as best Kitten (never say never is my new
    motto).  Well, he put the Javi as tenth, the Bombay as 9th, the
    second place Himmie, and so on. I expected to be 5th or 4th, but
    when he didn't put Dreamer in either of those spots, I started thinking
    that just maybe I was to be Best.  Naaaahhhhhhhhh.  Then finally,
    all that was left was the Himmie and I.  The Himmie had been best
    kitten in the other three rings, so I was sure that I would be 2nd,
    which was thrilling enough.  But, that statement about the tomatoes
    would suggest that the Himmie wasn't going to be Best.  Just about
    that time, the judge pulled out the Himmie, held her up high over
    his head, and yelled "second best Kitten in show!!"  The crowd went
    nuts, and so did I!  The judge took my rosette from me and signed
    across the front of the ribbon with a flourish.  I told him that
    I had sold kittens that had made Best Kitten and Best Cat wins,
    but that I had never had it happen when I was showing the cat. 
    He confessed that it was the first time he had ever put a Birman
    up as Best anything!
    
    Well, I just sold Dreamer a few weeks ago, and this was to be our
    last show together.  She made it a very special show for me.  Dreamer's
    new family will continue to show her, and will breed her under my
    guidance.  They are picking her up tomorrow night, and her first
    show with them will be in Portland Oregon next weekend.  I hope
    that she continues to do well for them.  I am so proud of her.
    
    Jo

    Our heartiest congratulations, Jo!! You are definately on a roll.
    
    Chuck, Jane, Doobie, Peaches and Cassandra
    

    Wow, way to go, Jo!  That is really wonderful.
    
    

    Had a great time at the show in Haverhill this past weekend and
    enjoyed seeing so many of you Feliners there!
    
    Mistral got his winners ribbons and is now a Champion in CFF. He was 
    Best of Breed in 5 out of 6 rings, 2nd Best Novice in an allbreed ring
    ...and Best Novice and 5th Best Cat in a Longhair Specialty ring. 
    
    Magic had no competition in her class, ...but pleased me by getting
    5th Best Kitten in a Longhair Specialty ring.           
    
    They both seemed to enjoy the day and all the attention they got.
    I gave them all kinds of extra hugs and many thank yous for making
    showing so much fun for me.  ...Only it's addictive. I can't wait
    for the next show!
    
    Hope to see you all there!
    
    
    Linda :^)
               

    Yay Mistral and Magic!  I'm glad I was there to share in your wins
    and am sure there will be plenty more to come!!
    
    Kirby did well too.  For the first time since I've shown him, he
    had competition -- another sealpoint mitted male Ragdoll kitten,
    same age, and Kirby took 1st place and best color class in 5 out
    of 6 rings and finaled in a longhair specialty ring as 8th best
    kitten.
    
    Murdock definitely has what it takes to be a show cat.  He doesn't
    cry in the car, shows off in the cage, and acts like he never even
    left the house!  I think we're going to have fun with him at the
    shows; that is, if we can get him to enjoy being bathed and having
    his claws trimmed!!
    
    Currently mapping out his show plans with Linda and Nancy... had
    a great time on Saturday, congrats to all who showed!!
    
    
    --Roberta
    

    Way to go, Roberta!!!!!
    
    Give those kids a hug for me.
    
    Jill
    

    We had a wonderful time at the show in Haverhill this past weekend!  
    Really enjoyed meeting so many of you Feliners at the show!
    
    We are very proud of Scottie, our Shaded Cameo in White Scottish Fold.
    His official name is Skeldale's Scottie Beam Me Up (we love Star Trek).
    He got his winners ribbons and is now a Champion in CFF!  He was also Best 
    in his color class (only one in that class) in all 6 rings, was 2nd Best
    of Breed in 1 ring, 2nd Best Altered Novice in 3 Allbreed rings and 2 
    Shorthair Specialty rings....and Best Altered Novice and 7th Best Alter in
    a Shorthair Specialty ring.
    
    Scottie seemed to enjoy most of the day.  There was only one tense 
    moment...he really doesn't like his fur to be brushed in the opposite
    direction.  One of the judges did that to him a bit too much.....

    We didn't make it back on Sunday cause everyone was too tired and we
    didn't get up in time to get there......oh well, next time.

    Just as Roberta warned me.... it is addictive. Looking forward to the next 
    show!   Thanks to everyone for the kind words of encouragement and
    advice.  We REALLY appreciate it!!!!

    Congrats to Lil, Kirby, Blue Hope, Dundee, Mistral, Magic and Bailey....(I
    hope I didn't forget anyone).....for all your awards on Saturday!

    Looking forward to seeing you all again soon!


	Diane, Alison and of course, Scottie

    P.S. Maybe my husband, Andy will also join in.  He was really proud of our 
         baby, too.  Help me convince him....he can be reached at ASDS::LEVIN
    
    

    Way to go, Scottie!!  I was going to write you off-line, Diane,
    to find out how Scottie did.  Glad you got your "brag" in!
    
    He is a GORGEOUS cat!!  Very pretty markings.  He deserved his wins!
    
    I've never done a two day show before and can just imagine how
    exhausting it can be.  We'll be doing it with 2 CFA shows; one in
    Boston and the other in Salem, New Hampshire, both in February.
    
    I'm glad you had a good time.
    
    
    --Roberta
    

    The only way I can get through a five day work week is to do a 2
    day show on the weekend.  You have to admit, the adrenaline really
    keeps you going!  So really, don't worry about 2 day shows, they
    are a piece of cake...
    
    Jo

    Welll, I am very proud to announce that I am owned by my VERY FIRST
    
           GRAND CHAMPION
    
    May I introduce to you:
    
    
            Grand Champion Cattyshack's Tiger Lily of EmacX
    
    This is a CFF Grand - onward and upward to finish her CFA Grand in the
    spring!
    
    Needless to say, I am very proud of Lil. Thanks to you, Cin, for making
    this all possible!  Lil is one in a million!
    
    E.T.

    Congrats, to Lil ,
    regards
    Kate

    Yay Lil! Yay ET!
    
    jack

    Alright Elaine, that is great!! And congratulations to Cin too for
    breeding such a lovely little girl.  You both must be very proud.
    
    Jo

    Thanks, all!  Right on, Jo !!

    Way to go Lil!!!  Now you can start producing Grand Champion offspring
    soon!!
    
    She's one pretty baby!
    
    --Roberta
    

    Oh my!  All of this bragging is fantastic!  Congrats to all of the
    winners!!!  
    
    I guess it's my turn to brag.  Sweetie did pretty well at the Haverhill
    show as well.  He got best of his breed in 6 out of 11 rings (He
    couldn't be shown in Phil Albert's ring).  He was 2nd best kitten and
    4th best kitten in 2 specialty rings.  In the allbreeds he got a 5th
    best, 9th best and a 10th best.  Needless to say, I was QUITE proud.
    
    We just had him altered last night so we will be showing him as an
    alter at the Danbury show.  Hope to see everyone there!!
    
    Holly
    
    p.s.  I do have one question.  How come I didn't see many of you???
    At the next show, even if I'm clerking, make sure you come and say hi!!
    
    

        
    > p.s.  I do have one question.  How come I didn't see many of you???
    > At the next show, even if I'm clerking, make sure you come and say hi!!
    
      Holly, its just that we all hold the judges in awe  ;-)
    We're afraid to approach the ring other than to put our cats in
    the ring cages 
    
    (congrats to Sweetie)

    
    	Not many of you know me very well, but some of you 
    	will be noticing a name/account change shortly. I
    	got married Christmas Eve, and my new name will be
    	Robinson, when the system people get around to changing
    	it. 
    
    	Rosie, Missy and Squeek drew straws, and Squeek ends
    	up being the one to come with us. My other poopies will
    	remain with my mother until we have a bigger home to
    	bring them to. I'll be living in the same town, so I'm
    	sure I'll get to visit them, and I will miss them a lot!
    	The good news is, Squeek is getting a little sister!! (more
    	on that later...)
    
    	Also, I would like to thank everyone who sent us Christmas
    	cards, I hope that you will forgive me for not getting them
    	out to you in retrun, under the circumstances...!
    
    
    	Sherry   (Rosie, Missy & Squeek)
    

    Well, the Tails and No Tales show is over, and Ken and I are ready
    for the funny farm now.  I think that next year, I will let someone
    else be show manager, and maybe choose another job, one with less
    stress and physical labor.  
    
    The show was a raging success, with only one set back.  Many Feliners
    showed up to wish those of us well who were showing.  I got to meet
    Cynthia Jolicouer, and to see Dian Wilde again.  Also, Jan told
    me that Teresa Bromar was there too, but I was running around so
    much I never got a chance to talk to her.  
    
    We did very well at this show.  I will let the other Feliners brag
    about their own successes, and just brag for myself.  This was the
    greatest show of my show career!  All four of the cats that I was
    showing made finals, some more than others.  
    
    This was Mirabel's first show as a champion, and she picked up about
    85 points towards her grand championship.  She was second best of
    breed in two rings, and made three finals.  She was awarded Best
    Longhair Champion and 2nd Best Allbreed Champion in Stan Barnaby's
    ring, 2nd Best Longhair Champion in Bob Salisbury's ring, and 2nd
    Best Longhair Champion and 8th Best Longhair Cat in Joan Benson's
    specialty ring.  
    
    Limoges was at her best this weekend.  She was really showing herself
    off well, and was selected Best of Breed in 6 of the 8 judges rings.
    She made three finals, and picked up lots of regional points towards
    being Best Birman in the region.  She was 4th Best Allbreed Cat
    in Stan Barnaby's ring, 8th Best Allbreed Cat in Jimmy Thompson's
    ring, and 7th Best Longhair Cat in Joan Benson's ring.
    
    Dreamer was kind of being overshadowed by Moody this weekend, but
    she did make one final.  Joan Benson gave her 4th Best Longhair
    kitten in her specialty final, and I was glad that Dreamer made
    a final in this, her last kitten show.  Next weekend will see her
    in the championship class.
    
    Moody did me very proud.  He made all six allbreed finals, and brought
    some lots of points.  I haven't had a chance to calculate it exactly,
    but I *think* he was 3rd highest scoring kitten in the show.  Donna
    Fuller and Robert Salisbury each gave him 10th Best Allbreed Kitten,
    Barbara St. Georges gave him 8th Best AB, Jimmy Thompson and Walter
    Hutzler gave him 7th Best AB, and Stan Barnaby gave him 6th Best 
    Allbreed kitten.  Only one kitten made 7 out of 8 finals, and I
    think that only one other kitten made 6 out of 8 finals.  BTW Cin,
    highest scoring kitten in show was an Exotic!  It was Glory Gates
    Shoot For The Stars, bred and owned by Camila Farmer.  I had met
    Camila in Palm Springs, and we had both only made two finals there.
    We sweated out each ring this weekend, and held each other's hands
    while our two cats were called back to Donna Fuller's ring for a
    second look.  She is very nice and her cat is terrific.
    
    Anyway, we all had alot of fun, Moody made bread and purred and
    showed off for spectators all weekend.  He really seems to have
    been born to show.  I have high hopes for the Salt Lake City show
    this weekend.  Moody and Limoges are coming with me, and Mirabel
    is going with Ken to a local show to try and pick up some more grand
    points.
    
    Now that it is all over, I would just like to go to sleep and not
    wake up again for three or four days.  
    
    Jo
    
    PS - I had one benching complaint.  A woman from Seattle told me
    at the end of the day on Saturday that I had not benched her for
    the show.  I asked her where she had her cat.  She said that a friend
    let her split her cage in half, and they each had half.  I couldn't
    believe that I left anyone out, so I went and got my lists, and
    my benching chart, and asked her for her check in envelope.  Right
    on her envelope it said "your benching is on row 4".  She said that
    the chart didn't show her on row 4.  So we looked, there she was
    on row 4.  So, I took her and we walked over to row 4, and there
    sat an empty cage with her name on it!  I asked her why she didn't
    ask for help in the morning, rather than waiting all day.  She said
    that she was just too hurt and mad about not being benched to talk
    to anyone about it.  Oh well...
    
    

    Jo, that's great !  Sigh, it will be a while before I'm back
    in a show hall.  Having babies is fun, but it sure limits 
    you in showing unless ya have a bunch of kids around. Guess
    I'd better stock up of Exotics, huh?  Hey, Jo, if you guys
    plan early, think you might make SeaCoast (Manchester, NH)
    this August?  
    
    E.

    I will try for Seacoast, but my restrictions will be vacation time
    I think.  That is the weekend before the Birman show in Ohio, and
    I usually take off from Thursday - Monday for that.  If I can't get 
    out of MA on Sunday night, and have to take Moonday off that weekend, 
    then I am only in the office on Tuesday and Wednesday that week, and
    Gene (my boss) starts getting ansy.  I would love to do Seacoast
    though, I have regretted having missed it the last two years.  If
    Moody keeps developing, I will be running him next season and will
    want to hit all the good shows.
    
    So, when are you going to get another Exotic?  Do you know Camila
    Farmer?  I think she lives in the L.A. area.
    
    Jo 

    Hmm - hope you can make it.  No, I don't know her - will look for
    her name when I'm back out and around this spring.  Wellll, I'm
    sure hoping that flat-face throws me a short-haired baby girl -
    a red classic would be real nice !!!! actually, I have asked her
    for two short-haired baby girls, but I think that's pushing my
    luck - (my first order was for 5 short-haired baby girls, but
    that was on the seriously rediculous side, so said Lil - worth
    a try ) if she throws a VERY nice shorthaired boy, I might keep
    him (he would have to be seriously wonderful for me to keep a
    boy) if none of the above happens, I will either wait and breed
    Lil again late summer (after SeaCoast) or look around maybe. I
    really haven't decided yet.  I do enjoy showing Lil, so that's
    always a fun option and then wait until she throws something
    very nice, which she will.  I think she will throw nice, but
    she will have small litters.  Right now she looks SO nice -
    she has really changed these last couple of months.  She never
    really had a neck, and now you can't tell where her jowels
    end and her shoulders begin - her chest was broad and now is
    broader.  A pretty baby girl!!  I think her eyes are going to
    fall out of her head - they are huge.  If I get any good pics
    (my daughter's boyfriend took a roll over Christmas) I'll get
    one out to ya, if you want to see her.
    
    E. 

    I would love to see pics of her and of her babies.  I love little
    Persian and Exotic faces.  My Persian friends think I am weird cause
    I always want to kiss their kitties on the nose, you can feel the
    chin and forehead hairs brushing against your face at the same time!
    
    Carl Widmer, our show photographer, needed to shoot the end of a
    roll of film that he had in his camera at the end, so I let him
    borrow Moody.  Moody is a blue point, and so this time I decided
    to be different and put him on a black background.  If the proofs
    come out good, I will send you a few pictures.  I haven't been good
    about sending off pictures to people.    Also, Carl is coming to
    the house to do some promotional shots for himself.  He likes to
    use kittens for those, and I have seven of the little buggers right
    now.  Again, if we see anything good, I will send some out.  
    
    I take terrible pics of my own cats since my camera has built in
    flash, and the blue eyes always come out glowing red.  Kitties
    possessed by demons.
    
    Jo

    Oh, I am the world's worst photographer - I have a 5 - 7 ft. flash
    restriction on my camera - all my shots come out with great
    background and the item (cat) I'm focusing on is blurry cause
    I forget to back up - I'm so intent on getting the cat's face
    and features....  I also am not good about sending pics to
    folks - sigh - but, I've been yakking about her so much, I'd
    love for you to see her!  Yes, with the babies (or baby, who 
    knows) if I  can get my daughter's LISO (live in significant
    other) to come up with his new camera.  It's funny, I try
    to kiss Lil on her nose and all I get is CHIN, whiskers, and
    eyebrows (when they are not trimmed back) - I can't get to
    her da*n nose!  Then she looks at me and says, ha, you tried
    again - I told you last time you can't do that.  She's a hoot!
    Channon took 3 great shots of her at SeaCoast - I haven't had
    any of those made up yet - she looks so much different now.
    She changes every week.  She's really getting nicer - listen to
    me - good thing this is the bragging note - but, I am just so
    proud of her - she is very very special!
    
    E.

    E.T., that happens to me also when I try to photograph the cats.
    The flash restriction causes blurry kitties and great shots of the
    couch, dinette, plants, scratching post, etc., etc.  My husband
    brought me home a Polaroid camera one day (instant gratification!!)
    and believe it or not, I'm getting better pictures than ever now.
    I can get in real close with the Polaroid and focus on just the cat.
    The blurriness is minimal and only real camera buffs, such as my
    husband, will notice that the picture is blurred.
    
    I'm sure the more sophisticated camera folks in this file will poo-poo
    Polaroids, but I'm having lots of fun with it.  Best pictures are
    taken during the day, when the natural light streams through the
    house.
    
    Guess I'm one of the lucky ones cause I've seen Lil many times up
    close and personal.  She's a real cutie!!
    
    
    --Roberta
     

    Tanx!  I think lots of folks use Polaroid to take pics of kittens
    to show off - they don't have to wait to develop them!  I need
    a camera with a zoom lens or something!  Lil does pose real well,
    so it's fun!  I can hardly wait to see the roll Bruce took.
    
    E.

    I have a telephoto lens on my camera, and when the light is right,
    at 3:00pm, I can and do get terrific shots.  Only problem, I am
    never home at 3:00pm unless I am sick.  Most weekends I am out of
    town at a show.
    
    Polaroid would be great for taking kitten pictures.  I always hate
    having to wait to fill up a roll.  As a solution, I shoot the whole
    roll, then have a zillion pictures.  Ken says I spend a fortune
    on photos.  He is probably right.
    
    Jo

    Hi, all!
    
    I took Gwen to her first show this weekend (Jo's show) and we did
    great.  She got 5 Winner's ribbons out of 8 rings so she only
    needs one more to become a Champion.  We're going to enter the
    Hayward show on Feb. 11th and hope that she gets her last required
    ribbon then.
    
    I would like to thank and commend Jo for the terrific job she
    and Ken did the entire weekend.  She benched me across the aisle
    from her, next to Gwen's breeder, and down the aisle from Jan (whose
    Bailey was Best Household Cat for Walter Huntzel!!!--I think).  For
    my first time entering a show, I felt welcomed and surrounded by
    folks who could help--and, boy, did I need it!!  I had a great time;
    thanks, Jo!!!
    
    Congrats, too, on all of your wins!!!
    
    See you guys at more shows--in fact, I may be getting a new Japanese
    Bobtail male kitten to show shortly.  I'll keep you posted.
    
    Jill
    

    OK, MY TURN TO BRAG AGAIN!!	
    
    Sweetie had his first show as an alter this weekend.  Considering the
    competition in his breed, I think he did pretty well.  He was up
    against "I rex d' house of Joan Z", a black and white cornish rex who 
    was in the top 10 alters of the year last year.  And he got best of 
    breed in 2 RINGS!!!  
    
    But wait!  It gets even better!  In the allbreed rings he got 2 nineth
    best alters and a 4th best alter!  
    
    Even better! In the specialty rings he got a 9th best and...
    
    
    
    
    A BEST CAT!!!!!
    
    
    I was THRILLED!  His first time out and he takes a best cat!
    
    Needless to say, I was on cloud nine for the rest of the day.
    
    Holly
    

    Since Jo Ann and Jill have entered their brags about the show last
    weekend I guess it's time for me to enter mine.
    
    I had originally tried to enter Carrie but she got sick so I was
    able to enter Bailey in her place.  Now Bailey is not very fond
    of showing and is not afraid to tell everyone about it, especially
    those judging her so, I thought since there were only 10 household
    pets this would be a good opportunity for her to pick up some 10th
    place ribbons.
    
    It turned out that there were only 9 HHP's Saturday and 8 on Sunday
    but that didn't phase Bailey.  She picked up an 8th Best HHP and
    two 3rd Best HHP ribbons in spite of the friendly male cat benched
    between her and another tortie type female who kept wanting play with 
    them...Bailey wasn't impressed and was giving him her best hiss
    to prove it.  I wanted to ask the male cat's agent if he shouldn't
    be benched by himself but didn't want to cause any problems since
    I didn't really know her as well as the owner of the cat.  
    
    On Sunday the male cat's owner was there and after the first ring
    she decided he should be benched away from the rest of the cats.
    Bailey picked up an 8th Best HHP ribbon in that ring.  The very
    next ring was the Walter Huxtler's ring (and the first ring where
    the two female tortie types were not being annoyed by the male)
    and Bailey got BEST HHP (the male cat and other tortie type got
    2nd and 3rd, respectively, which certainly validated the change
    in benching).  The last ring of the day Bailey got an 8th Best HHP.
    
    I'm very proud of her BEST HHP award.  It's so rare that she behaves
    herself well enough to get one of those.  She was very good in that
    ring.  Also, I tried some new grooming stuff with her (THANKS FOR
    THE SUGGESTIONS JO ANN) and her coat felt wonderful.
                                     
    Jan

    I almost forgot:  Gwen also picked up 2 Second Best of Color Class!!
    
    What a gal!  And she sat there so nicely once she got in the ring.
    I couldn't have been more proud of her.
    
    Jill
    

    Yay, Gwen!  Congrats to both of you!!  Glad to see the show but
    has bitten you so hard, Jill.  Looking forward to reading future
    brags about your kids.
    
    --Roberta
    

    re: winners ribbons - Here's a tip for you novice show'rs.  If
    you cat has picked up winners ribbons in previous rings and then
    a judge doesn't give you a winner's ribbon check with the ring
    clerk.(not the judge)  It is my understanding that if the cat
    doesn't earn a winner's ribbon then its because it has some
    fault.  99% of the time, what's happened is that the judge
    just forgot to award the ribbon.  So if your cat doesn't get
    its winners ribbon, politely question the ring clerk after
    you've been told you can take your cat back to the benching area.
    
    No sense paying to show your cat again as a Novice/Open if its
    really a Champion/Premier.
      Nancy DC

    At the Framingham show, I checked with a ring clerk when Kelsey
    wasn't awarded a winners ribbon after judging.  He already had 3
    from previous rings and my husband insisted that I ask the clerk
    if it was an oversight.  Good thing I did because he *was* awarded
    a ribbon.  The judge simply forgot to hang it on the cage.
                                
    

    I think that something to remember is that if you cat is
    competing with other cats of the same color and class,
    and title (Open) only one of the Novices will get the
    Winner's Ribbon.  In other words, if there are 3 solid
    red Persian Novices (not sure if sex is a factor) - one
    of the solid reds will get the award.

    REL .237
    
    Yes, sex is a factor.  In order to get the winner's ribbon, your cat
    must be the best novice (open) of it's sex and color class.
    
    
    Being a clerk, I can vouch for the fact that 99.9% of the time that a
    cat doesn't get it's winner's ribbon is basically just because the
    judge forgot that the cat was a novice (open).  If you don't get a
    winner's ribbon, talk to the clerk.  The just probably just forgot.
    
    Holly
    

    Jill's cat did have direct competition for her winners ribbons at
    our show.  She did very well in getting five out of the eight ribbons.
    The other cat was very nice also.  
    
    In CFA, forgeting to award a winners ribbon to cat is not as big
    of a problem as it appears to be in the other associations.  Our
    judges books show the titles of the cats, and the winners ribbons
    are hung with the class awards (1st, 2nd, etc.).  The CFA clerk
    will alert the judge at the moment the ribbon is hung, if he has
    neglected to give the ribbon.  There are several reasons that a judge
    can withhold a winners ribbon on a cat with no competition,
    insufficient merit, disqualifying faults, poor condition, or if
    the cat is acting in a threatening or recalcitrant manner.   
    
    Jo

    Hey Learn something new every day!!  Maybe DUndee or Flame will
    have some competition at the TICA show this weekend.
      Nancy DC
    

    Well, I had Murdock in his first show last Sunday, a six-ring TICA
    show.  I am going to show him in CFA from now on, but wanted to
    get him out there and used to showing prior to mid-February, when
    his first CFA show is.
    
    He did pretty well for his first time out (with me anyway, his breeder
    showed him once at 4 months; he's 7 months now).  He made both LH
    specialty finals, 7th and 8th best kitten.  The best part of all
    was his show temperament!  It's amazing how much more calm *I* was,
    knowing that he was enjoying his day in the spotlight!  Usually
    I'm a wreck with Kirby, because he gets fussy, refuses to use the
    litterbox, and cries in the car.
    
    May all future shows be this easy!!  CFA, here we come!  (Get ready
    Linda and Nancy!!)
    
    
    --Roberta
    
    
    

    Congrats to you and Murdock, Roberta.
    
    I took Flame and Dundee to that show.  Flame made 6 out of 12 finals.
    He was a joy at the show and only hissed once, to which I replied
    "I didn't know you knew how to do that!"
    
    re: "Watch out Nancy and Linda"...I ain't worried.  Wait till you see
    what I'm bringing out when she's four months old.  Eat your hearts
    out!!

    Nancy DC --  I meant Nancy Jenkins, not you!!  Both Nancy and Linda
    Jenkins also have Birmans but theirs compete in a different class
    than Murdock, so there's no direct competition, just lots of fun!!
    
    I'm sure your new little girl is simply gorgeous and I'm looking
    forward to seeing her at future shows.
    
    
    --Roberta
    

    Another name clarification, it is Nancy Jenkins not Linda Jenkins,
    but we all knew what you meant. :^D
    
    Okay, my turn to brag a little.  The Moody Blue, he is such a
    character.  He was in his usual great mood this weekend at the show,
    making bread, purring, nuzzling judges.  He just loves the shows,
    and everyone can tell.  Anyway, it was a tough kitten class, and
    thinks weren't looking too good for us on Saturday.  There were
    four Birman kittens, but the other three were seal points, and Moody
    was the only blue, and since there is no best of breed for kittens
    in CFA, the only way we would know was if he finaled.  Well, he
    made the last kitten final on Saturday, and ended up getting a BEST
    ALLBREED KITTEN final from Ann Kimball.  When she got down to the
    last two cats, the other kitten was Judy Shoemaker's gorgeous blue
    cream girl, a cat we have seen go best kitten across the board in
    the last three shows, so I never expected a Best Kitten win!  And
    Moody was so happy, he just kept nuzzling Ann's face and making
    biscuits in the air while she held him up.  He didn't even seem
    to mind when she got mixed up and called him a girl (story of his
    life!).
    
    Well, that was what we need to get the show back on track.  He made
    two more finals the next day, a 3rd Best Longhair Kitten from Joan
    Benson, and a 4th Best Allbreed from Dick Koepp.  In just 5 kitten
    shows, I think he is going to surpass the other Birman kittens in
    this region in points, and maybe he will make Best Birman Kitten
    in the region this year.  That would be nice.  I have to go count
    up his points again.
    
    Limoges did pretty well too.  She was best of breed in 7 out of
    8 rings, in a class of 7 Birmans, with 2 sealpoint female grands.
    She made two finals, a 9th BAB from Jim Kilborn, and a 7th Best
    LH from Joan Benson.
    
    Jo
    
    PS - It appears that Lyscentia may be having a false pregnancy.
    Remember, she was bred by Moody when he was just over six months.
    Her due date is Feb. 10th, and she is not very big.  A vet trip
    to confirm pregnancy didn't settle this.  The vet is stumped too.
    We may x-ray her next week.  
    
    Now the bad news....or is it good news?  Joui is pregnant.....drumroll
    please.......by MOODY!!!  That little dickens!!  All I can say is
    that he better give me some nice kittens.  They were only loose
    together for one day, and we were home all day that day.  Immaculate
    conception??
    
    

    You will have to excuse all my typos, it has been one of those kinds
    of days.  My fingers just aren't working today, or maybe it is my
    brain that is out of wack.
    
    Jo

    
    sounds like moody is pretty active outside the ring as well as inside.
    ;-)
    
    congratz on his best all breed--or should that be breed-ER?
    
    diane, stella & stanley
    
                                                               

    Actually, with all these "opportunities" moody seems to be
    "accidentally" having, I have a feeling someone really wants
    moody-babies. :-)
    
    

    Well, I wouldn't mind Moody babies, but I would have preferred to
    get him out of kitten class first!!  I like to have titles on my
    daddy cats.  :^)
    
    Moody is under lock and key now, and only out and about when he
    has stud pants on.  He is a real sneak, acting all kittenish and
    leading us to believe that he isn't interested in girls.  I never
    once saw him anywhere near Joui, and yet she is now as big as a
    house.
    
    Still waiting to find out about Lyscentia.  Afraid Moody may have
    been "shooting blanks" that first time.
    
    Jo (who keeps watching all the other girls in the house for those
    first signs)
    
    

    It was great to see some of you folks at the Cats-Plain & Fancy
    show at the Copley/Marriott this past weekend. Congratualtions on
    your successes! 
    
    This was the first show for Mistral as a champion ..and he really
    came through for us. In Frank Roderick's All-Breed ring Mistral
    was placed Best Long Hair Champion, Best Champion, ..and 3rd
    Best Cat!!!!
    
    Cin, as I was standing there watching the judge place the 10th best
    up through the 3rd ..I was thinking of what you said and trying
    very hard to remain calm and act as though this happens every
    day and I expected no less. ..not easy to do! Talk about excited!!!
    
    I can't deny I was thrilled with the 46 (to be confirmed) grand points
    that he picked up ..but it was just as exciting to hear the "AAAAAHHHHHH"
    that came from the audience when the judge took him out of the cage
    and placed him on the table. Gee, E.T., how long does it take to
    learn to keep a 'poker face' at times like this?
    
    Magic earned her winners ribbons this weekend, so she also will be
    competing as a champion at the show in Salem, NH this month.
    
    Hope we'll see some of you there.
    
    Jo, those Mysinhs kids and grandkids are sure coming through for
    me!  
    
    
    Linda  :^)                            
         

    Congrats Linda...
    
    Sometimes it's REAL hard keeping that poker face.
    
    Good Job!
    cin
    

Um, Linda, aren't you being a bit modest?

After all....

He was *2nd* best cat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
:^)

Congratulations!  I had fun carrying the rosettes!!


--Roberta

    Congratulations Linda!  That's great!!!  Believe me, it's REALLY tough
    keeping that poker face.
    
    But you were asking the WRONG person when asking E.T. how to keep a
    poker face.  Right Elaine?  Admit it! (-:
    
    Holly
    

    Linda, that's really wonderful!  Those babies are really wonderful:
    Linda's, Nancy's, and Roberta's - they are so sweet!!
    
    Well, Linda, if you ever really achieve that face, stop showing cats!!
    
    Congratulations !!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    E.T.

    
    Hol, am I really that obvious ??  The wins are great, but the real
    thrill is seeing the cat on the table and being held up by the
    judge so you and the whole world can see just how beautiful YOUR
    cat is - and the best part is the it's YOUR CAT !!  ah, what could
    be better.  Well, maybe a 2nd Best Cat, Best Longhair Champion,
    Best Champion Albreed.  sigh !!
    
    Welllll, ok Holly!  I usually cry!!!!  Poor Katenka - her fur was
    usually dripping by the time I got her back from the ring to her
    cage!!!  She would usually look at me, and say, ' Yeah, so, what's
    new?  I'm used to it, when are you gonna get wise, Mom??  Hump, and
    I did all the work!! "    Poor Lil, if she gets a Best of Breed,
    I usually squeeze the stuffin' out of her on the way back to the
    bench !!!  All she wants to do is get back to her cage so she can
    EAT some more!!
    
    E.T._who_is_getting_better_and_not_pinching_arms_anymore_right_Cin_???

	I happened to be in Boston Saturday and remembered the show
	at the Marriot.  Out of curiosity, I dragged my boyfriend
	along and we checked it out.

	My favorite breed was definately the Maine Coon.  I'm afraid
	that the long necks and pug faces of some of the cats didn't
	appeal but that is probably because I'm not used to it.  I
	also loved the Ocicats.  It was real interesting to see some
	of the various breeds of cats that I've read so much about
	in here.  I didn't see any Ragdolls though!  Nor did I see
	any DEC feliners!

	From what I saw, Bandit is definately part Maine Coon.  T.K.
	is a tabby.  I saw a tabby who looked alot like T.K, the only
	difference was in his mannerisms and his stripes were slightly
	different in color.  T.K. has very bold stripes but this cats
	stripes were not as bold.  Too bad I can't show T.K. since he
	would be a good contender.  Bandit is too plump.

	My boyfriend was rather offended at the way the judges	
	examined the cats.  When I got home, I tried to examine T.K.
	that way but he was offended too.  Men!

	The only thing that I didn't like is that many of the cats
	were frightened.  I was talking to one lady who was holding
	her Maine Coon and the cat kept crying.  In front of her,
	in the cage was another Maine Coon and he was shivering.

	The cat toys were great.  I picked up a catnip stuffed 
	watermelon for the cats.  I should have gotten too though
	because they have been squabling over it.  

	Karen	

    Gee Karen, I was benched right opposite the catnip watermellons!
    Cindy & I were both right there - may not have been sitting 
    there when you came through.
    
    Jo, it was a spectacular show - the gate was unreal, the cats
    were wonderful and the show was a real success !
    
    

    Karen, the reason you didn't see any Ragdolls is because Ragdolls
    are not an accepted breed in CFA.  Did you see the Birmans?  That's
    where I was benched, and the Maine Coons were right next door.
    The show was so huge that it was difficult
    to find anyone, let alone watch your own cat get judged in the ring!
    Sorry to have missed you.  Will you be in Salem?
    
    Re:  judges and handling.  One of the female judges took Murdock
    out of his cage with her hand grasped firmly on his, err, PARTS!
    I was furious and so was the breeder who owned his competition!!
    I agree that the majority of the judges there were not too swift,
    to say the least.
    
    My favorite part of the show was seeing S.H. III, the Fancy Feast
    cat.  Wow!  He's my idea of a CAT!
    

    You are right Roberta, I meant to say *2nd* Best Cat. Watching the
    placings of 10-3 put me into a state of shock. It was quite a thrill.
    I had all I could do to hold together when the judge was telling
    me what a great cat Mistral is ..and that he hoped he would grand
    in the one show because he felt he deserved it! Mistral must have
    thought I was crazy getting that excited. He just sprawled and enjoyed
    his hugs as usual. He's like a big teddybear! :^)
    
    Sorry we didn't get to speak at the show Karen. I was benched beside
    a Lady with two Maine coons ..one of them a lovely colored silver
    tabby. Nancy Jenkins was wearing her DEC badge and was benched between
    me and Roberta. Hope you get a chance to stop by in Salem.
    
    Roberta, it was fun seeing the Fancy Feast cat. It is amazing how
    well he is trained. ..and such a pretty boy too!
    
    L  :^)

    re :.256
    Catnip Watermelon?.. oh-oh.. e.t. and Cin please do not tell Pookie
    I did not  make this show.. I am dure she would have preferred
    that HER birthday presents have from the The Marroitt instead
    of Salem.. tee-hee
    Kate

    Linda, the best part was after the judge hung Mistral's rosettes
    and he stuck his paw out of the cage and batted at them.  He knew
    he'd done good!!  I deliberately stood right next to his holding
    cage, cause I thought you might need life support getting back to
    the benching area!!
    

    Roberta,
    
    	You were right. I did need life support. There was no way I
    could have figured out how to carry Mistral and three rosettes while
    I was in that state. ..and it was a good thing Nancy (Jenkins) was
    there to rescue Magic from where she was being judged in another
    ring. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to get her and
    watch Mistral's final at the same time!   
    
    Mistral and Magic must think I'm awfully silly. "Sure it's fun to
    have a new ribbon to play with ..but what's the big deal, Mom?"
    
    
    Linda  :^)

    Linda,
    
    I think we need to condition the other feliners at the show to deal
    with my hooting at the finals ring.  I am sure that horse show people
    wouldn't jump out of their shoes standing next to me when I holler.  To
    say the least, Mistral in that final was the height of the weekend and
    gave me a special opportunity to scream at ringside for a really nice
    birman.  The ahs.... were unbelievably wonderful and he was the *only*
    cat all day to have received it.
    
    Once again congratulations,
    
    Nancy

    Okay, Let's hear it for HopeyCat!
    
    He made a couple of BEST CATs in Premiership (the bits are gone,
    etc.) class.  He only missed on final while he was there.
    (But I got sick, and had to pull him from the show midway through
    Saturday...that HURT.)
    
    Upward and onward...he seems to be picking up steam, not petering
    out (no pun intended, of course, about his physical status... :-)
    
    	Pennie

    Way to go Hopey!  Definitely a class act, that cat.
    
    Congrats to everyone else too!  I can't wait for Bonnie to win some
    of those 5th or better ribbons. 

	Re: all

	I was only there for an hour and for most of the time I was
	so busy looking at the cats that I forgot to look for you
	feliners.  E.T., I did think to look for you.  My boyfriend
	was ready to leave but I told him I wanted to find you.  I
	asked at the desk and they said that you would be there on
	Sunday, not Saturday.  Were you there on Saturday?

	I don't know if I'll go to any other cat shows since it was
	hard enough to drag my boyfriend to this one.  All cat shows
	are on the weekends and that is the only time I get to see
	my boyfriend (we live 1-1/2 hrs apart).  Maybe after I marry	
	him....

	;-)  Karen

    Well Karen, then get married already - or find a local friend
    who'd like to go to shows with you.  Gotta get those priorities
    set  ;-)

Re: Nancy...

>    Well Karen, then get married already 

	I'm working on it!!  I have to get him to propose though.  You'd
	figure that after a year and a half he'd be ready!

	:-)  Karen

    Congratulations Pennie! 
    
    	I've been waiting to hear from you so we could all share the
    news of HopeyCat's success.  HopeyCat is a special kitty and it is such
    a great feeling to see him doing so well for you. He's rewarding you
    for all the love and effort you put into giving him a chance at life.
    He really wows the judges with his elegance! 
    
    	..Glad you were feeling better on Sunday ..and able to give
    HopeyCat the chance to continue that great winning streak. Best
    Cat in two rings! ..now that's something to brag about! Nope,
    pokerfaces are out when the excitement gets that high! :^)
                
    
    	Hope we'll be seeing you and HopeyCat in Salem. 
    
    
    Linda :^)              

    Gee, I'm bummed!  I never got a chance to meet Hopeycat last weekend!
    He sounds like one lovely kitty!!
    
    Congrats, Pennie!  Hope there will be many more best cat wins to
    come!!
    
    
    --Roberta
    

    re:.267
    	
    Karen.....I know where your coming from!!!!  :*) 
    
    Michele (who's working on 3 yrs)

    Well, Karen, I was there both days - I didn't enter the show,
    just helped my friend show her two kittens - I brought Lily
    in on Sunday so I could play with her - she hasn't been out
    of the house for quite a while and she has some shows coming
    up - wanted her not to be too surprised when she goes for
    the first one!  I didn't see any DIGITS - I was lucky to
    spend a few minutes with Roberta, Linda, and Nancy (a very
    few) without being crushed - they were in a mob scene where
    they were benched!  ugh  I did get a chance to hug and leave
    lip-marks on Murdoch, though !!  Lordy, he is a doll baby.
    Roberta, you really better check my laundry bag before I
    leave the next show you both are at !!  He is really a wonderful
    sweet baby!  Nancy and Linda - your babies are beautiful !!
    I dunno Nancy, you may be right that I need one of those!
    They are like little bundles of love.   Only problem is that
    they have faces, necks, legs, and LOTS of fur!  I sorta like
    flat faces, no legs, no necks, short cobby bodies, and short
    hair and poppy eyes, and very short high noses!!
    
    E.

    Gee Elaine, I must admit that I cringed everytime you took Murdock
    from me and loved him up!  Right after I got him all nice and groomed
    too :^) !!  He adores attention of any kind, and was glad you were
    there to give it to him.
    
    That Lil is one cute baby!  I *LOVE* her face... she looks like
    a mini Stripees.  And I wasn't prepared for her to be so heavy either
    when you handed her to me... I almost dropped her!!  Lord, where
    on earth does she pack it?!
    

    Roberta, don't ya hate it when the judges mess them up after
    you have spent hours making them look wonderful?  ugh  I
    couldn't help myself - he is such a cuddle bug!  Boy, he
    would have just let that happen for ever, little devil!
    
    Yeah, she is looking more and more like her 1/2 brother, in
    miniature.  I'll tell ya the truth Roberta, I think she was
    packin' it in her large intestines on Sunday, maybe a little
    anyway.  Actually, she kept over a pound of the prego weight -
    almost all of what she put on when she was prego!  I'm very
    pleased with her weight right now.  Hope she holds it for a
    while.  Better keep an eye on that boy of yours - I'm gonna
    send him directions to the EmacX/ZhivagoCat Inn !!
    
    E.

    Actually, Elaine, pointed exotics with white feet would be awfully
    cute!  I'll send Murdock up!!
    
    :^)
    

    Roberta,
    
    Bite your tongue before Murdock bites it for ya :^).  
    
    Elaine,
    
    You are surely ripe for a birman.  I call them a wash and wear cat
    since they are so easy to groom.  I'll bet they take no more grooming
    than Lil.  They don't mat and that purr... and kisses that I get from
    my girls makes them worth everything in the world to me.  Another
    party at my house should have you convinced.  
    
    Nancy

    Nancy, they reall are sweet sweet babes.  Yes, I, too, call Lil
    wash-and-wear - if she has no show, I just let her drip dry.
    She looks just as good that way, as if I had blown her dry.
    It's faster if I blow her dry if I'm showing her.
    
    Roberta, just remember, if I touch 'em I own 'em !!  Send him
    up and he won't wanna leave.  Hmm. Pointed Exotics, interesting!
    Wonder if they would have faces, noses, necks, and legs??
    
    Oh, Murdock, where are you?????  Come to Auntie......

    Well, Folds are certainly easier than Birmans in the grooming
    department,  but I know you already have far more than your share
    of "brat-cats" in that house so I guess you don't need any scottish
    folds.  Of course, who knows what'll happen in a year when I have
    a littler of adorable little "Bonnie-bairns" ready.  ;-)
    (OH I CAN'T WAIT!!!  MAYBE I SHOULD GET AN ADULT)
    

    Congratulations to EVERYONE for all of their wins!  It is so nice to
    hear!
    
    As for grooming, I'll take the Korat any day!  Clean the ears and eyes
    and run a chamois down their back!  NO problem!!  
    
    Does anyone know if there were any Korats at the Boston show?  
    
    

    Well, we had such a great show this weekend, I really have to brag
    about it.  
    
    There were 9 Birman in the class.  Mysinhs My Man of Kattah took
    Best of Breed in one ring, and that judge finaled him as her 2nd
    Best Longhair Champion and 10th Best Cat.  That brings Manny up
    to about 60 grand points now.
    
    Limoges was Best of Breed in 6 out of 8 rings, and finaled in those
    six rings.  She made a 6th BAB from Donna Jean Thompson, a 10th
    BAB from Larry Swanson, a 7th BLH from Joan Wastlhuber, a 5th BAB
    from Betty Denny, a 4th BLH from Carolyn Osier, and a BEST LONGHAIR
    CAT from Joan Benson!!!!!  This is my first Best Cat win in a
    championship class with a cat that I owned.  It has happened to
    cats that I have bred and sold, but never to me.  It was heaven!
    :^)
    
    Moody did very well too.  This was his first show as a champion,
    and he made best of breed over Limoges in one ring, but that judge
    didn't put him in the final.  That was the only judge that didn't
    use a Birman in his final, George Summerville.  Moody was second
    best of breed in three rings, behind Limoges, and Joan Benson put
    him in her final too.  She made him her 2nd Best LH Champion, and
    her 5th Best LH Cat.  That gave him his first grand points, of which
    he now has 31.  We were very proud of him.
    
    The competition was tough in the Birman class, and we are happy
    with how well Birmans did in the show as a whole.
    
    Jo

    Good going Jo!
    
    Your grandkid came through for us again at the Salem, NH show this past
    weekend. There was a good turn out for this show in spite of the
    snow and slippery roads.
    
    The competition was tough but Mistral got three Best of Breeds  ...and
    Frank Roderick picked him for his 2nd best LH Champion, 2nd best 
    Allbreed Champion ...and 6th Best Cat in his Allbreed ring.  That
    should bring him up to around 118 points from the two shows he's
    entered so far as a champion.
           
    Mistral accepted his win with his usual calm demeanor ...now if
    only I could learn to be that 'cool' about the whole thing!
    
    Linda  :^)
                             

    Ha, Linda, you cool - I thought we would have to pick you up off
    the floor you were shaking so bad!  Right, Nance?????  After you
    sat down I didn't think you would ever be able to stand again !!
    
    E.T.

    Elaine,
    
    I'm just glad that she had time to recoop prior to driving home last
    night.  I was proud of myself though that I had the composure not
    to scream this time.  I still got goose bumps though when Roderick
    made his announcement.  Too bad he didn't have room for two birmans
    though right Linda??  Well, maybe next time.
    
    Nancy

    Congrats, Linda and Mistral!  Wish I was there to share in your
    excitement!!
    
    
    --Roberta (who was too chicken to brave the snow and slippery roads
               and stayed home).
    
    I need a show traveling partner from the Grafton/Worcester area!!!!!!
    

    Really!  At least you don't cry !!!!  I usually stand there dripping
    and get Lil all wet when I take her out from the ring ! Lordy, the
    things we put ourselves through.
    
    E.

    
    re: ...the things we put ourselves through.
    
    You're right, E.T.  What happened to the days when I used to stay
    close to home, drive slowly all the time, never drive in snow ..and
    have a laid-back approach to things.
    
    That was before I found out that speed limits are set purposely
    for making you late for benching time, snow is just one more thing
    in the day of the life of an exhibitor ..and Mistral's first final!
    
    Let's see ...it's three weeks until the Uniondale, LI show. That
    should be just about enough time to regain my composure. ..Then
    there's Warwick, RI ..and Weston, Ct. ..and Boxborough, MA.........
    
    I have this feeling that life is never going to be the same again!
    
    Linda :^)
                                                                      

    Ha, I dunno, me!
    
    Wow, I get to Linda pass out in WestWarwick, RI, and Weston, CT, and
    Boxboro, MA, etc.  I'll let Cin report to me about Uniondale !!!!!!
    Linda, you better wear your padded pants and wear soft gloves cause
    when you wring your hands, you will wear the skin off of them !!!!!!!!
    
    Fellow Feliners, stay close by Linda in case she falls - when she goes
    down, she just goes straight down !!!!
    
    See, Roberta, it's not your turn any more !!!!!!!!!  You are becoming
    an old-timer !!!
    
    E.

    Yup. If Mistral's streak continues I'm going to need all the Feliners'
    support that I can get.  So far I've managed to get Mistral back
    to his show cage before I've collapsed. Last night I caught him
    browsing through the 'protective gear' catalog. ...must be worried
    I won't make it next time!
    
    I told him not to worry. Give me six ...maybe seven  ..years of
    doing this and I will have learned how to maintain a little dignity.
    Won't I?
    
    Gee, Roberta ...you always said I looked so calm....  
    
    Linda :^)
    

    Linda, you really do look calm out there!  You know how I can be,
    always opening up my mouth when I should have kept it closed
    (with comments like:  "Well, it's ABOUT TIME a judge put my cat
    up first!" or "Finally!  A judge with good taste!!").  Course those
    types of outbursts won't win me any brownie points in the long run
    ;^).  I don't think I'm *too* loud but the wrong people always manage 
    to hear me!!
    
    Anyway, I guess your quietness is what throws me.  You just stand
    there, all cool-like watching the finals, then when the judge awards
    Mistral's ribbon is when I see your body sort of fall back toward
    the floor.  Well, I guess that's better than what I do when one
    of my cats makes a final:  jump up and down and scream and make
    a scene for everyone to witness!  I think your approach is definitely
    more dignified and appropriate!!
    
    Murdock will be going for his winners ribbons in Boxboro.  I've
    got my supply of rotton tomatoes ready for any judge that DARES
    to withhold one!!!  :^).
    
    I definitely have to change my approach to these shows in order
    to maintain some sanity.
    
    Congrats again to Mistral.  He certainly has mastered the art of
    winning very quickly -- just sit there... and act like you expected
    it all along!
    
    --Roberta (who is not at all looking forward to a campaigners show
               --Boxboro-- with 450 entries!  UGH!!!)
    
    
    
    

    Yeah, Roberta.  That's how Salem was - I"m not sure if I'm even
    going to bother entering that one.  A real shame, with it being
    so close to home.  This really isn't the time for some of us
    to be out.  I may just save my money, breed my girl, and wait
    until May or June.  
    
    E.T.

    This time of year, we minority breeds have to be content to do well
    in the breed, and not worry too much about finals.  It is the same
    all over, these are the last months to get points, so everyone is
    out showing.  I really can't blame them though, if I could, I would
    do the same thing.  Besides, this year we might see another Birman
    national winner in CFA!  That helps the breed as a whole.
    
    Besides, we can all use this time to practice our poker faces.
    
    Jo

    Jo, which Birman will be the national winner this year?  I finally
    got a copy of the CFA yearbook, and was very impressed with last
    year's winner, Lalique.  She is a beautiful Birman.
    
    I  also recently joined SCBF and NBF, and am looking forward to
    receiving the newsletters.
    

    Right now, GRC Sherchar's Major Valentine is 22nd in the nation.
    If he continues to do well in the next couple of months, there is
    a chance that he may break into the top twenty.  We will all have
    to keep pulling for him.  Having Lalique make a national win last
    year has helped the judges take Birmans more seriously.
    
    The SCBF newsletter will be out shortly.  Julie tells me that it
    is the largest issue so far, will probably be over 30 pages.  This
    issue will feature Regions 2 and 7, along with the usual stuff.
    I actually wrote a couple of stories for the newsletter this time,
    something I have been wanting to do for a long time, but didn't
    have the courage.
    
    The next step for you Roberta is to subscribe to the CFA Almanac,
    then you will have all your bases covered.
    
    Jo

    I'll look forward to receiving the newsletter, and reading your
    stories.  Will there be any pictures of your cats in there too?
    
    Linda shared past issues with me, and I just love looking at all
    the different pictures.  Dana thinks they all look alike, but I
    see similarities between some, and lots of differences in others.
    The yearbook pictures were glorious; I especially like the one of
    Kalliste in Julie's ad.  That photo with the red background is very
    striking.
    
    While we're on the subject of newsletters, I have received nothing
    from NBF, but my check was deposited and cashed.  Does it usually
    take a long time for the applications to be processed?  I would
    hate to miss out on the March issues of both newsletters.
    
    Sorry, everyone, to digress from the bragging topic.  We will be
    back shortly, after these interruptions.  :^).
    

    I sent Julie two stories, a newspaper clipping of a story that was
    written about me (name was changed to protect my identity), litter
    announcements, show wins, cattery ad, a picture of GRP Mysinhs Livin
    In The Wild Wild West, and a picture of GRC Pleasantview's Limoges
    of Mysinhs.  I don't know how much of that will be used. Oh, I also
    sent a pedigree of my newest stud, Moody Blue.
    
    The NBF newsletter just came last week, if you didn't get it, better
    call the editor and ask her to send you a copy.  Could be that she
    hasn't received notice from the secretary about your membership.
    
    Yes, I like that picture of Kalliste too, I have an 8X10 of it that
    I set on top of my cage at shows.  Both Kalliste and Limoges are
    related to Lalique, as they are both bred by Julie.
    
    Jo

	Well, this isn't exactly about my cats but I just had to tell 
	everyone.....

	I just got engaged!  In June of 1991 I will be come Karen Healey.
	Yippeeee!!

	T.K. and Bandit think Steve is wonderful (I agree).  He is
	really good with the cats.  I told him that they get to sleep
	on the bed with us and got no arguments there.  He may call
	T.K. Rodent but I'm always catching him playing with them and
	petting them.  T.K. wants to be the best man but I think
	Bandit would be better since he already looks like he is
	wearing a tuxedo.

	Karen

    
    many congratz to all four of you...
    
    diane, stanley & stella
    

    Well, Ms. Bonnie Bairn MacTavish of Putiput had her first show
    this weekend.  There were EIGHT scottish fold kittens!!  This included
    two of her littermates.
    
    Aside from stealing the heart of just about everyone who looked at
    her (No - she's not for sale!  Sorry. - nope, Dundee isn't for sale
    either) her big wins were a 4th best kitten (allbreed) and a 3rd
    best kitten (allbreed).  In the same ring that Bonnie got her
    3rd best, Beverly's little black fold kitten got Best Kitten!!!
    It was a very exciting last ring of the show for us.
    
    Dundee really surprized me on Sunday too by taking a 2nd best grand
    in a SH ring and TWO best grands in allbreed rings for a total of
    (I think) 31 points!!  Maybe he'll get that Master Grand after all!!
    
      They are such good cats!!  I think Bonnie actually kind of liked
    it - but Dundee's still figuring out what the price is this time.
    (You owe me for this mom!)
    
    

    Congratulations, Karen, on your engagement!!  So glad that you found
    a cat loving man to spend your life with. :^)
    
    Nancy, that is terrific news about Bonnie and Dundee.  Sounds like
    Putiput Scottish Folds is off to a grand start!!
    
    Jo

    Thanks Jo -  If Bonnie can make kittens as beautiful as she is then
    I'll have nothing to worry about - not even with the straight earred
    folds.  I love that little girl!!  
    
    Showing the cats really creates a special relationship, doesn't it!
    Or perhaps I should say it ads a special dimension to the relationship.
    
    Karen - that's wonderful news!!  I know it was a big surprize and it
    sounds like Steve definitely has "class",
      Nancy

    Congratulations Nancy! I agree with you that showing cats adds a
    special dimension to the relationship. I found the same thing with
    my show kids.
    
    I hope I get a chance to see Bonnie someday. Sounds like she's a
    really pretty girl and she's making some nice wins for you! Glad
    to hear that Dundee is doing well for you too.
    
    Keep up the good work Putiput!
    
    Linda :^)

    Well, if I ever get my Olympus back from the shop I'll take some good
    pics of Bonnie-B-Bitten-the-fuzzable-kitten (as Jack calls her) and
    send them around.
    
    Of course, she's going to be at Hudson 3/24-25

         Congratulations, Karen!  Here's wishing you many, many happy
    years.
    
         And congratulations, Nancy!  Onward and upward ;-) !!
    
    					- Andrea
    

    Best wishes for a fantastic life with your future husband, Karen.
    
    And now, as for Bonnie!!!  she is absolutely ADORABLE!!  I attempted to
    steal her a few times, but Nancy wouldn't let me.  Phil Albert, the
    judge that I was clerking for on Sunday, absolutely loved her.  I
    talked to Don LeClair afterward and he fell in love with her too.  She
    is SO precious!  Especially when she's playing with her toy, right
    Nancy???  
    
    Sweetie did VERY well this weekend.  He finaled in EVERY ring.  Got
    either Best SH champion, second best SH champion, or Best allbreed
    champion.  He also got a 5th best alter, 4th best alter, 3rd best
    alter, a 2nd best alter, and a BEST alter!!!!!!  FANTASTIC!!! 
    Everybody loves him to pieces.  Needless to say, all three of his moms
    are QUITE proud!
    
    Holly
    

    re: .303  Way to go Sweetie!!  So did he grand in one show, or what?

    Nope.  He needs 2 more points to grand!  He did it in just about 3
    shows. 
    
    Next week for sure!  Will we see anybody in Torrington, CT???
    
    Holly
    

    Well, I must admit, I was wrong!!!!!   I had planned on retiring
    Dundee as a CFF Grand Champion because I thought he'd never get the
    BEST CAT he needs for his Master Grand.  Dundee has never done better
    than a 5th best cat........  Until this weekend.
    
    I almost had heart failure when in a specialty ring Dundee got the
    best grand and when the second best grand had been part of the top
    10 and it got past 5th best and Dundee hadn't gotten a rosette.  Then
    the did 4th best and 3rd best and Dundee still hadn't gotten a rosette.
    I was shaking.  Well, he took SECOND BEST CAT!!  I was so proud of
    him!!  It wasn't a best cat, but it proves that he's got a chance.
    
    He followed up on Sunday with one 5th and TWO 3rd best cats.  At least
    one of the 3rd bests was in an allbreed ring.  He also took 5 best of
    breeds out of 8 rings.  
    
    Bonnie took a 5th and 8th best kitten on Saturday.  There were six
    fold kittens.  Tough tough competition.
    

    
    Congratulations, Nancy!  And of course, Dundee and Bonnie.  I got to
    see those two sweet critters, and met Jack too.  But as luck would have
    it, we missed seeing you at the show yesterday morning!
    
    Sandy 
    

    
    Way to go Nancy!!
    I got to meet Nancy and Dundee and Bonnie at the show on Saturday.  It
    was my first cat show and did I have fun!  I had never seen a Scottish
    Fold in person, and Bonnie let me say hello and stroke her soft little
    face.  What a love!!  Dundee said hello, but he did not feel to
    sociable, (he doesn't take after his mom, Nancy, we had a great chat!) 
    it is so nice to get actually see the folk that I "know" through the
    notes file.  
    
    I got to see an Occicat for the first time to.  Spent some money on cat
    toys too.  Almost brought Merlin home.  He was with the Kitty Angles
    people.  I was very tempted.  He and I bonded  right away.  But I had
    promised my husband that I wouldn't bring home anything live from the
    cat show.   (Maybe I can go and visit Kitty Angles now that the show is
    over....Hmmmmm He is the same color as my crew, black, he has more
    white on him, maybe I can convince Jerry that it is just one of the
    ones we already have?  ;-)
    
    Feline Glad to have meet some Feliners!!
    
    Sue & Panther & Spot
                                        

    Congratulations to Dundee and Bonnie! Stay with it Nancy. That Master
    Grand on Dundee is just around the corner ...and Bonnie sure got
    off to a flying start for you. Wish I could have been there to see them
    get their wins.
    
    We were at the RI CFA show this weekend ..and Mistral received a
    Best Allbreed Championship and 6th best cat against some tough
    competition. This win came at the very end of the day and if the
    championship count is correct ..this will bring Mistral to *exactly*
    200 points ..making him a four show grand.
    
    Any advice on how to survive until later in the week when I can call
    Herman, the CFA computer, to get the official count?  My fingernails
    are just about gone!                                
    
    Linda  :^)
                         

    Congratulations to both Nancy and Linda.  I was fortunate to be right
    by Linda's side when Mistral got the Best Allbreed Champion and 6th
    Best Cat and I must say that:
    
    Linda, poker face you ain't.  What a grin!!!!  I was just as guilty
    as I must have had one that big myself because someone in the crowd
    congratulated me!!  I guess we just haven't had enough practice, huh
    Linda?  It was an exciting weekend to see Linda make a final with
    Mistral and another birmam who is already a grand, make two finals.
    Birmans did quite well for themselves I must say.  
    
    Jo, you should feel quite proud that there are now two grandchildren
    of yours from the same litter to grand.  Looks like Mo will have a
    quite impressive show record to finish off the season in style.
    
    Nancy, I wish I could have been there to see Dundee and Bonnie but
    I do congratulate you.  It is tough when CFA and CFF are running
    tough show schedules to decide where to enter.  
    
    Nancy

    	Ref last few...
    
    	That's nothing! Look at what Kai got Saturday:
    
    	Best Cat	for litter box
    	Best new kitten	(Blackie came in second)
	Grand Champ	for making the most noise in the morning
    	1st place	meowing at odd hours
    	2nd place	for coming to dinner (Blackie beat him here)
    
    	Now Blackie got.....
    	
    	1st place	for napping
    	1st place (pet) ie: don't pet me, you will mess up my coat"!
    	2nd place 	obedience (everybody else was tied for 1st)
    	Best of Show	he walked into the room, he thinks that's enough.
    
    	I can't wait for the next one!
    
    Mike ;-)

    Ha, I was was on the left side, just in case she fell to that side!
    
    Mistral is really wonderful!  Congratulations, LINDA!!!
    
    E.T.

    This weekend was pretty good for DWeeBs (Cattyshack's Dirty White Boy). 
    This was his second show, and he behaved like a champ.
    
    He scored an 8th Best Kitten on Saturday under Catherine Hummer, and a
    10th Best Kitten on Sunday under Walter Friend.  Both Allbreed finals. 
    I was really proud of him.  Considering there was only 1 kitten in the
    show younger than him, I think he done good!  ;-)  
    
    Congratulations to Linda, Nancy, and E.T. ... it was a fun weekend.
    
    cin
    

    DWeeBs looked fantastic so I wasn't surprised when I saw him called
    up to final. What a sweetheart. He stole the show in Long Island
    a week ago ..and he was just as popular in RI this past week. You
    have to see this guy to believe him. Talk about wrapping the world
    around your paw!  
    
    Congratulations to DWeeBs and Cin!
    
    Linda :^)        

    Well, I had a good show too.  Moody didn't make any finals, but
    pulled four out of six Best of Breeds in a class of 10 Birmans,
    9 of them champions.  That gave him another 32 grand points, which
    is better points than I have gotten in some finals!  He is about
    half way to his grand.
    
    Westie did real well, made two specialty finals, a 6th and a 10th.
    The Revelers give out sterling silver bowls to all finalist's, so
    Westie came home with some silver in addition to his three foot
    rosettes.  Suzie is very happy even if Westie wasn't.  It has been
    six months since we have shown him, and I guess he thought he was
    retired.
    
    Two Birman kittens made finals, littermates out of my Kalliste.
    The little female, Marios, got an 8th BAB, and the male got a 10th
    Best Longhair.  The kitten count was 107, so this was very good.
    Each of them took a silver bowl home with them too.
    
    This was a great show.  The brought the judges to their rings in
    the Excalibur again.  It was quite a site.  All the big guns were
    there, Katrina's Postmarque, QT Cats Danny Boy, Bonjonga's Rusty
    Knockers, San Toi's Yankee Doodle Dandy, Copacats Bojangles and
    Kanab's Luanne's Mahoganey Rush, to name a few.  I also ran into
    the exotic, Amy Lou Retton, in the premiership class.  Quite a cat!
    I had a great time, went through about 500 business cards, and made
    tons of contacts.
    
    Congratulations to all the weekend winners, and a special big hug
    for Linda and Mistral, my "grand" son. :^)
    
    Jo     
    

    I had a good show also, or rather Lily did!
    
    She took 7 out of 8 Best Champion's and 7 out of 8 2nd Best of Breed
    wins - Best of Breed went to the Grand (sigh).  I was VERY proud of
    her - she looked and felt wonderful!  No finals, but she was called
    for eliminiations in one ring - close, but the persian took it. sigh.
    Maybe next show.  Some points are better than NO points !!
    
    E.T._a_very_proud_Mom

	Congratulations to Dundee and Bonnie!  She's a doll and Dundee wass his 
	loveable self.  It was nice seeing Nancy and Dundee again, and meeting 
	Bonnie.

	I was also at the Hudson, NH show with Scottie, but only on Sunday.
	This was his second show....his first since becoming a Champion.  He
	had a good day!  He was a lot calmer about things and didn't hiss at
	anyone (also, no one brushed him the wrong way like last time).

	We are VERY PROUD of Scottie, our Shaded Cameo in White Scottish Fold.
	He was 2nd Best Altered Champion in the 2 Shorthair Specialty rings,
    	2nd Best Altered Shorthair Champion and 2nd Best Altered Champion in
        the 2 Allbreed rings, was 2nd Best of Breed in 2 rings, and NINETH
    	BEST CAT in a Shorthair Specialty ring.

	There weren't that many points involved because there weren't many 
	Champions there on Sunday, but he's on his way!

	Congrats to all the Feliners that were there.  Got to meet more of 
	you on Sunday.....looking forward to seeing everyone again.....
    
        Also, congrats to Cin, Linda, ET and Jo and their babies!
    
    
	Diane, Alison and of course, Scottie

    Hey, wat to go Scottie!!  Give him a hug for me Diane!
    
    
    Love,
    Auntie Ro
    

    And of course congrats to the rest of you and your cats who did
    so well over the past weekend!
    

    re: 318,319  That's alright Roberta, we know who your favorites
    are  ;-)

    Well, I got a chance to stop into Hudson on Saturday(READ that as
    Pookie gave me the rest of her list of demands, also I needed to
    buy Happys Birthday present, and  little presents for everyone else)
    Bonnie is cute,, Nancy,,and of  course the lovely Sheba.. Congrats
    to all.. Hey Nancy, Pookie would like a certified letter stating
    that I did not  pickup, touch, cuddle , wink , play with any
    other furry babies,, hmm.. Any thoughts, better yet can you help?..
    Kate

    Auntie Ro,
    
    THANKS!!  Mom and I were hoping to see you and Murdock on
    Sunday....Missed you....  I know Mom will give me a hug for you
    tonight, but I wanted it in purrson......hope to see you soon!
    
    Kisses,
    Scottie
    

    well, this might not sound like much, but Argus just had a weigh in
    last night and he has reached his goal of 14 LB!!! The vet would still
    like him to try to lose another pound, but I'm still very proud of him!
    
    Deb

    Congratulations to Argus -- that's quite an accomplishment! I'm sure 
    he will be an inspiration to his fellow full-figured felines.
    
    Linda

    Well, thank you. It is so different to think of Gussie as svelte rather
    than, er, "full figured". 

    I'm not sure what the J in Argus J. Pussycat, Esq is going to stand for
    any more. (It used to be "Jellybelly").

    Deb

    Congrats to everyone!
    
    Nancy.  Were you and Dundee at the Hudson, NH show on Sunday or were
    you at some other show?
    
    Pam

    Re: .326

    > I'm not sure what the J in Argus J. Pussycat, Esq is going to stand for
    > any more. (It used to be "Jellybelly").


    How 'bout "Justright"?  I think "Argus Justright Pussycat, Esq" would 
    look quite nice on his business cards.

    Of course, then he'd have to stay that way.... :-)

    Linda

    Congratulations to Argus.  That IS an accomplishment!
    
    Pam -
      Jack was in Hudson on Sunday morning covering for me while I
    sang my little heart out at Church.  We were doing some special
    music that was a REAL stretch for me.  Requiem by Durefle' (sp?)
    and all in latin!  I arrived around 1:00.
    

    I was in Hudson and saw a Scottish Fold win 5th best (I believe) and I
    told my husband that I thought he looked like Dundee.  There was a
    Abyssinian in the same ring that took 2nd best Grand and 8th Best cat.
    (this Aby is Zula's Aunt).  If that was Dundee (must have been around
    noon) he is a real cutie.  The judge loved him.  I was looking for
    people with FELINE/DEC badges but didn't notice any.
    
    Pam

               Introducing ...drum roll please...
    
    
    	   CFA GRAND CHAMPION JUNSUI MISTRAL OF PATSUCRE
    
    
    Herman (the CFA computer) confims that Mistral granded last Sunday
    with exactly 200 points ..making him a four show grand.
    
    Congratulations, Jo, on one more grand from your wonderful lines
    ...and thanks to all of you for sharing this with me ..making it
    so much fun.
    
    We'll be breaking out the champagne as soon as my feet come back
    down on the ground!
    
    Linda :^)
    

    Ah Linda, he is so pretty!  Congratulations to all THREE of you.
    
    
    and I was there to see it !!!  You did good Linda, you actually didn't
    even fall down.  
    
    E.

    Yay Linda and Mistral!!  I am so excited about this.  Your first
    grand, that is wonderful.  Many more to come too.  I will have to
    have a picture of my first *grand*son to put on my wall.
    
    Can't wait til Medina...where we can celebrate this together.
    
    Jo

    
    Congratulations to one and all!!!!  It's exiting to have friends
    on both coasts that are doing so well!  A special hug to Cin and
    DWeeBs, Bailey and I are waiting for that picture...
                                          
    Marlene

    YAYAYAYAYAY MISTREL!!!  
      Nancy DC

    Well, I congratulated Linda off-line but will extended my
    congratulations again here in Feline!
    
    Mistral will have his first litter on the ground in a month or two.
    All you New England Feliners who have always wanted a Birman, here's
    your chance to sign up!  Linda gets first pick, then the line forms
    to the left.
    
    
    --Roberta (Linda's P.R. Person)
    
    

    Linda,
    
    As soon as we can get together again we will have to celebrate in
    style.  I've already got the champaigne on ice.  What a way to start
    out and I'm sure there will be many more to come.
    
    Again, congratulations, I am glad I could be a part of it.
    
    Nancy

    Linda,
    
    I don't want to wait till you feet hit the ground for that champagne.
    
    ;-)
    
    Congrats.....we'll have to celebrate big time in Weston!
    

    Right on , Cin !  Very big time !  Linda, Cin, shall we all do din-din?
    I feel a really gooood time comin' on - it's been a long month!  I
    think some time spent raising our glasses to Linda a Mistral will
    be time well spent !!
    
    E.T.

	We were at the Bristol, CT show (originally scheduled for Torrington, 
	CT) with Scottie this past Sunday.  I didn't see any other DEC
	feliners, though.

	He had a really good day!  He was bored at the beginning since we 
	didn't get to our first ring until almost 1:00.  Then things were
	rush, rush after that cause we were in the finals in one ring and
	being called to another ring for judging at the same time.  He wasn't
	as calm as he was in Hudson 2 weeks ago.  I think it was cause of all
	the rushing around.

	We are VERY PROUD of him!!  He was called for 3 of the 5 finals
	(1 Specialty and 2 Allbreed).  He was 2nd Best Altered Champion in
	the Shorthair Specialty ring, 2nd Best Altered Shorthair Champion and
	2nd Best Altered Champion in 1 of the Allbreed rings and was BEST
	Altered Shorthair Champion, and BEST Altered Champion in another
	Allbreed ring.  He also was 2nd Best of Breed in 4 rings, and BEST
	OF BREED in 1 ring.

	He now has 23 points toward his Grand!  Yeah!!

	Looking forward to Kennebunk in 2 weeks.  Hope to see the DEC feliners 
	represented there!  (I know that Nancy DC will be there!)  Scottie 
	wants to know if Auntie Ro and Murdock will be there?


	- Diane, Alison and of course, Scottie
                                                    

    drum roll please.......
    
    ANNOUNCING GRAND CHAMPION MYSINHS MOODY BLUE!!!!!!!!!
    
    Moody granded this weekend at the Napa show in judge Carolyn Owen's
    ring.  She gave him 2nd Best Longhair Champion, which was more than
    enough points to put him over the 200 mark.  Moody is ten months
    old, so I guess he qualifies as a "baby grand".  He is the third
    baby grand of our breeding this year, and if Manny makes his grand
    by the end of April, we will have bred four grands, and show to
    grand two others this year.
    
    As we speak, Moody's mother, Kaitlin, is at home contemplating having
    her next litter, a repeat breeding of Moody.  She is due on Wednesday,
    but seems to be considering going early on us.
    
    Jo

    AttaGirl, Jo and Moody!!!!!  That's really fantastic - you must
    be sooo proud!  He must be WONDERFUL!
    
    Congratulations from all my flatfaces and cats_with_faces !!, and ME

    BABY GRANDS!!!! HA!!  I LOVE IT!!!
    
    Congrats Jo.  You sure make first class kitties!
    

    
    jo...
    
    **now** can moody be a papa, since he has the title behind the name?
    
    stella, stanley, & diane
    

>>    **now** can moody be a papa, since he has the title behind the name?
    
As i recall, he wasn't waiting around for approval....8^}

    Well, he did kind of take matters into his own hands, so to speak,
    but nothing came of it.  Neither girl was actually pregnant.  We
    still tease him about shooting blanks! ;^)
    
    To be honest, I am not sure when he will get his chance.  His intended
    is Limoges, and she is in season now.  Since I have one litter due
    any moment (a repeat of Moody), and another due next month, I am
    not in a hurry to breed anyone at the moment.  Limoges may have
    to wait until the summer.
    
    The Moo Man is quite a guy, bred his first girl at 6 months, his
    second at 7 months, and granded at ten months.  Keep your fingers
    crossed that he will continue to do extraordinary things, like grow
    up to be a stud that doesn't spray!
    
    Jo (who spent two hours cleaning the stud room last night)
    

    Announcing Grand Champion Mysinhs My Man of Kattah!!!
    
    I was hoping that he would grand before the end of the show season.
    His grand is very special to me, as he is my fourth home-bred grand
    of the season, and he is my first grand out of a cat of my breeding.
    His mom is CH Mysinhs Lyscentia.
    
    His owner, Patsy, and I had been keeping careful track of his points,
    but his granding snuck up on us.  I got a letter in the mail from
    CFA yesterday stating that "a cat of my breeding had recently granded"
    and listing his name.  We had counted his points, and they only
    came to 190.  We were hoping that he would get the final 10 points
    in Vallejo this weekend.  Well, Patsy got his Grand Certificate
    in the mail yesterday, so she called CFA.  Seems the count for a
    show she attended a few weeks ago was listed incorrectly, and it
    took them until now to correct it.  So, this was a very nice suprise
    for all of us.
    
    Also, Manny became a daddy yesterday too.  His first litter was
    born in Patsy's bed sometime during the day!  :^)
    
    Jo

    Congratulations Jo on having so much success this year.  Things are
    really hopping for you.  There is alot to look forward to next year for
    sure.
    
    Nancy

    I knew if I waited long enough I would have something to brag about and
    indeed I do have something exciting to announce (drum rolls please!!!)
    
    			CHATANGE BIRMANS WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE
    
    			OUR FIRST LITTER OF BIRMAN KITTENS HAVE
    
    			ARRIVED
    
    Mom and babies are doing fine.  We have four little white furfaces and
    since I am no expert at determining sexes on kittens we believe we
    have two boys and two girls but I wouldn't swear to it.  Mom is a
    champion and the proud Papa is a grand champion.
    
    As I have not as yet begun a waiting list on kittens I would like to
    start one by giving the DEC feliners an opportunity at not having to
    wait a substantial amount of time to acquire a kitten.  I do however
    warn you in that Mom can be tough when it comes to approving homes
    for her babies :^)  Since Dad is a bluepoint and Mom is a sealpoint we
    do have a chance of getting both colors in the litter.
    
    I would also like to announce the acquisition of a bluepoint birman
    female kitten from Charlene May, in Maryland.  She just turned four
    months old and her registered name will be 
    
    		ASHI'S MYSTIC MAIDEN OF CHATANGE (Maddy)
    
    Soo.... I will be seeing some of you at the shows this summer as Maddy
    and I will be hitting the road making our big debut.
    
    And.... for those of you that love dogs as well.... we have four week
    old sheltie puppies as well.  Sable and white puppies, male and female. 
    Inquiries invited.
    
    Nancy Jenkins
    Sandown, NH
    603-887-2653
    dtn 264-4843
    
      

    Does Klem carry blue?
    
    Jo

    Well Jo, since you asked we believe she does since her maternal
    grandmother and grandfather have produced blues before.  
    
    Thanks for the congratulations.
    
    Nancy

    Cattyshack's Dirty White Boy made his debut in CFF this weekend, at the
    Northeast Feline Fanciers show in RI.  We only went on Sunday, and
    since this was the last show of the 1989/90 show season, didn't really
    expect too much.
    
    But....much to our surprise, DWeeBs made 4 out of 6 finals, including 2
    Best Kittens speciality, a 2nd Best Kitten Allbreed, and a 4th
    Speciality.  
    
    I was really proud of him.  He's such a pretty boy!
    
    cin
    

    Congrats to both Nancy and Cin!!
    
    Can't wait to see those babies, Nanc!  And also can't wait to meet
    Maddy, Murdock's sister.  I hear she is the best bluepoint kitten
    Charlene ever bred!  Her pictures sure are adorable.
    
    Any Feliners going to the CFA Westfield, NJ show?  Nancy and I will
    be there with our brother/sister team.
    
    
    --Roberta
    

    Congratulations Cin,
    
    He sure is a heart stealer.  I hope you are taking him to Westfield, NJ
    so we can party hardy that weekend to celebrate the spring happenings
    that are so wonderful.
    
    Also, congrats on your new Stripees litter.  Well, I must say that
    anytime you want to let that silver tabby mom go is okay with me
    (as long as she comes to me that is). :^)  I think she outdid herself
    this time.
    
    Nancy

    She certainly did!  
    
    No, I'm not going to Westfield, but you can look for my friend Jay,
    he's entered there.
    
    cin
    

    Congratulations to Nancy, Momcat, Dadcat, and the BABIES!
    
    Wait until they open their eyes (next week) and LOOK AT YOU!
    
    ohhhhhhhhhhhhh...CUTE!
    
    	Pennie

    Congrats to both of you..!! Cin I will have to tell
    Precious about DWeeB,,,
    Kate

	
    Just had to let you all know that it looks like Moody may have done
    well enough in the last two shows of the season to end up being
    Best Blue Point Birman in our region this year!!  He had just granded
    on the 15th of April, so that didn't leave him much time.  He will
    also be Best Birman Kitten in the region this year.  
    
    To start the show season off right, Ken took Moody to the Fresno
    show while I was out of town, and he made all 8 finals.  His lowest
    being a 6th BAB, the rest all in the top 5, both specialty and
    allbreed.  Ann Kimball gave us a thrill by making him Best Cat in
    her Longhair ring.  He came away from the show with 499 points!
    This is the most points that Ken and I have ever gotten in one show
    with one of our Birmans.  I hope that this is an indication of what
    is to come for Moody.
    
    Jo

    Congrats Jo, Looks like this was a HOT year for Mysinhs!
    
    cin
    

    That's really wonderful, Jo.  Congratulations!  
    
    A wish for an even better season this!
    
    E.T.

    
    a big congrats to the moody blue boy!
    
    i'm glad to hear he is good for something other than chasing all the
    ladies around.   ;-)
    
    stella, stanley, & diane
    

    Well, we had another show last weekend.  I took Moody Blue and a
    new kitten, Mysinhs Major Aftershock, a seal point male.  They both
    did very well.  Moody was Best of Breed in all 8 rings, and made
    6 finals, including a 2nd Best Allbreed Cat.  He came home with
    over 300 points for the show.  From his first two shows of the 90-91
    show season, he has over 800 points!  I am hoping that his pleasant
    attitude will hold up now that he is breeding (officially this time).
    ;^)
    
    The real fun of the show was Major.  He is a really typey boy, but
    has a slight gloving fault.  I was curious about how the judges
    would react to it.  Well, it didn't seem to bother most of the judges,
    he made four out of the eight finals, and got a BEST Kitten from
    Bob Molino in the longhair ring!  His other finals were a 2nd Best
    Allbreed, a 6th BAB, and a 4th BLH.  Major had a wonderful time
    at the show, loved all the attention, and just purred away all day.
    Other than him picking up a slight cold (I let people pet him, when
    am I going to learn?) the show was a big success for him.  I can't
    wait to show him again.
    
    Jo

    
    And an exciting show it was, Jo!  I don't know how everyone who
    shows can stand it.  It is so intense!!!
    
    Moody Blue was his wonderful self, but Major is quite a kitten!!!
    What a personality!  He LOVED the attention he got.  At one point
    I left Jo and Ken because there were so many people surrounding
    them and the kids!!!
    
    Congratulations Jo, you have some BEAUTIFUL babies!
    
    

    Well, we just returned from the Northwest region's awards banquet
    and finally know how we ended up for the year.  It was a very good
    year for our Birmans.
    
    GRC Mysinhs Moody Blues walked off with Best Blue Point Birman in
    the region, and 25th Best Longhair Cat in the region.
    
    GRC Mysinhs Latisse of Birgatos came home with 2nd Best Seal Point
    Birman, 2nd Best Birman, and 16th Best Longhair Cat in the region.
    
    GRC Pleasantview Limoges of Mysinhs made us very proud by coming
    in as Best Seal Point Birman, Best Birman, 10th Best Longhair Cat
    and 25th Best Cat in the region!!
    
    We will have to wait until after the CFA annual before we will know
    if Limoges has a national color win as well.  It has been quite
    a year for us...much as I love to show, I could use a vacation!
    
    Jo

    Well, this isn't quite as impressive, BUT,
    
     Cattyshack's Tiger Lily of EmacX is 
    
               Best Brown Patched Tabby Northeast Region
    
    Not much, but I'll take it !!!
    
    Congrats to Grandma Cindy !!
    
    E.T._a_very_proud_Mom
    
    

    Here goes...
    
    Meowsky's Make Mine Moxie 
    
    	received Best Russian Blue Kitten, North Atlantic Region
    	from the Russian Blue Fanciers
    
    Meowsky's Baryshnikov of Satineque
    
    	received 2nd Best Russian Blue Premier, North Atlantic Region
    
    Meowsky's Blue Hope
    
    	missed a Regional Premiership win by ~90 points (of ~1000)
        because I stopped showing him because I didn't realize how
    	many points he had!  He only got to about 60-70 rings.
    
    Happy_and_Proud_in_Arlington

    Pennie, congratulations.  I stopped showing Westie too soon too!
    Oh well, live and learn...
    
    Here's to next year. :^)
    
    Jo

    Gee, Pennie, I didn't know that Barynish...oh, how ever the hell you
    spell his name....was neutered!!!!!!   
    
    Did you make a mistake on his award???  Wasn't it Championship class?
    
    

    OH DEAR!
    
    I guess I made a mistake.  Did I say Baryshnikov got a premier win?
    HE WAS SECOND BEST IN *CHAMPIONSHIP*.
    
    I must have HopeyCat-on-the-brain.
    
    	Pennie

    Ok, time to announce this.
    
    ANNOUNCING:
    
    Tu-tone's Sweet Sixteen
    
    CFF Best Cornish Rex Kitten Nationally.  
    
    AND 
    
    
    
    CFF 14th BEST KITTEN NATIONALLY!!!  
    
    Just got the confirmation last week. Needless to say, all family members 
    are excited!  Sweetie on the other hand can't be bothered.  He just
    wants to know when he can eat again. (-:
    
    Proud in Fitchburg,
    
    Holly

    Cin,
    
    When are we going to hear your Bailey brag???
    
    
    --Roberta (who is getting antsy waiting!!)
    

    Ooops!  Holly, I also meant to congratulate you in that last entry.
    Sweetie must be some kinda cat!
    
    It is way too early for me to be noting!!
    
    
    --Roberta
    

    Well, things have been real busy at work....sometimes they make me do
    that here!  ;-)
    
    Anyway, I am very proud to announce that
    
    CATTYSHACK'S BAILEYS IRISH CREAM (gee, I hope I spelled that right!)
    
    Was CFF's BEST EXOTIC SHORTHAIR ALTER, Eastern Region, and National!
    
    Congratulations to Bailey, and his kitty parents Karen and Bob Berger. 
    He really is a beautiful cat, and Karen and Bob deserve lots of credit
    for keeping him looking great and presenting him in such beautiful 
    condition.
    
    I sure am proud of my Cattyshack Kids!
    
    cin
    
    

    I second the busy at work syndrome - how dare they make us work !!
    
    Cin should be very very proud, cauze,
    
    
    Cattyshack's Tiger Lily
    
              is
    
    CFF National 2nd Best Exotic Shorthair
    
    CFF Regional 2nd Best Exotic Shorthair
    
                     and
    
    Best Brown Patched Tabby
    
    Congratulations Cindy Gerry !!!!  Watch those Cattyshack kids go !!
    
    E.T._a_VERY_proud_mom!

    Many congrats to both Cindy & Holly.  I think I'm going to bring a
    bottle of Champagne just in case Dundee pulls off a Master Grand
    this weekend.  And if he doesn't then we'll just celebrate our
    celebrity kitties!!
      Nancy DC
    

    Aww, Cin, you left out the best part!  Mind if I complete your brag
    :^)?
    
    Bailey was only shown *twice* in CFF, both for 1 day only, and he still
    managed to take the regional and national breed win!!  Karen, my
    neighbor, owns Bailey and she took him to those 2 shows for the fun of
    it!!!  There was at least one other Exotic alter that was shown in
    SEVERAL shows so it wasn't as if Mr. Bailey didn't have any
    competition!  How's that for a Cattyshack cat!!!
    
    Congratulations to Karen, Cin, and Bailey too!!!
    
    
    --Roberta (one proud Auntie!!)
    
    

    Congratulations to you, too, Elaine, and your gorgeous girl Lil !!  May
    there be many more EmacX regional and national winners!
    
    
    --Roberta
    

    Meowsky's Blue Hope received National and Regional
    
    	Best Russian Blue alter.
    
    And he *wasn't* the only RB alter shown.  I think there
    was one other one!

    Wow guys, you really did well this year, all of you! :^)
    Here's to more regional and national winners next year...
    
    Jo

    I have to second that WOW.. congrats!!!!!
    Kate

    Ok, time to brag about the weekend.
    
    Silver did pretty well.  Saturday she got a 7th best shorthair and a
    6th best shorthair.  Sunday she finaled in two of the allbreed rings. 
    Second best shorthaired champion and 10th best cat in both rings.
    
    Sweetie did FANTASTIC (well, not as good some other DEC cats.  RIGHT
    BERNICE?????)  He finaled in 8 out of 10 rings and got best of breed in
    those 8 rings (out of three rexes).  He got a 9th, 8th, two 5ths, two
    4ths, a 3rd, and a 
    
    
    
    A BEST CAT!!  It was thrilling!!  He is now a very proud Master Grand
    Champion.  And to celebrate, he got TURKEY meet that night for dinner!
    he was QUITE proud.
    
    
    Ok people, now it's time for everyone else to brag!  How about it
    Bernice!  Tell everyone! (Or I WILL! (-:)
    
    Holly
    

Since Holly has already started harrassing me, I guess I'd better get busy 
and put in my brag.  Ferlie did very well in the Salem show.  On Saturday, 
she finaled in four out five rings.  She started off with a Fourth Best 
House Hold Pet, went on to get a Ninth Best, then as I held my breath, she 
took a BEST HOUSE HOLD PET, and she finished the day with a Sixth Best House 
Hold Pet!!  Now I was just thrilled at this, and figured that that would be 
all she would do.  After all, you don't expect everything in your first 
show.  

Sunday was WONDERFUL!!!!  In her first ring, Ferlie was awarded the Second 
Best House Hold Pet AND an Ambassador award from a club in England (the 
judge was from England).  The second ring was even better!!  The judge 
asked if she was a straight-eared fold, but I didn't want to prejudice him, 
so I didn't want to admit it.  I finally had to when he folded her ears.  
When the finals came around, he made a big production over some of the 
cats.  Of course, I'm sitting there holding my breath as he goes from tenth 
best up.  When he got to BEST HOUSE HOLD PET, he told everyone that I 
didn't want to admit something, and told me to stand up and take a bow!  
The next ring she took Fifth Best and also another special award (best 
kitten award [small handkerchief with kitten picture on it]).  The fourth 
ring she took Fourth Best House Hold, and in her final ring she again took 
BEST HOUSE HOLD PET and another special from the Netherlands.  

It didn't stop there.  E.T. and Nancy DC both told me to stick around and 
see if she placed in Best of the Best House Hold Pets.  When they annouced 
the finals, I didn't even make it over to see if her number was up.  Nancy and 
Holly Taylor were saying "go get her, she's up".  To make a long story 
short, Ferlie was awarded (drum roll please)...

BEST OF BEST HOUSE HOLD PET FOR SUNDAY!!!!!!!

She was also awarded BEST OF BICOLOR (even tho she is a tri-color)

Also, the Princess Award (cape and crown)

And also the IAMS best kitten award

Also, Holly told me that Ferlie was the highest scoring house hold pet!!

Needless to say, I am *VERY PLEASED* with my baby.  Ferlie was heavily 
praised all the way home, and given treats when we got there.  Of course 
she doesn't understand what all the fuss is about, but didn't complain 
about the "extra" treats.  

Now when is that next show? :-)


Bernice
Proud_Mother_of_Ferlie
    

    Again and again and again, congratualtions!!!    And Ferlie is a
    BEAUTIFUL baby!  GOD I wish I had some big pockets on Sunday!!! (-:
    
    Keep showing!!  PLEASE!!!
    
    Holly
    

    Well, looks like another Feliner has gotten hooked!!  :^)
    
    Congratulations Ferlie and Bernice!
    
    Jo

    Congrats and pass the kleanex!!  Bernice was a basket case :-DDDDD
    
    Holly, that's wonderful about Sweetie!!!!  Now if Dundee can just
    follow suit.  He picked up about 10 more masterpoints this weekend -
    9 more than he needed, but is still awaiting that elusive Best cat.
    
    Bonnie gave it a good try this weekend, but the competition is just
    a bit too stiff.  Bonnie is still VERY little and the bigger folds
    look much better next to her.  But I still love her and think she's
    hiding some great things in her genes.  All the judges say they're
    going to take the "Bonster" (as Holly calls her) home with them!!
    Time to start researching that purrfect British shorthair, I think.
    
    HEY PAT!  Where's your brag!!!!!!!!
       Nancy DC
    
    p.s. And congrats to the others who's brag notes are sure to
    follow. I won't spoil the fun,............

    I was so proud of Ferlie, I forgot...Congrats to Holly and Nancy DC. 
    
    Bernice

    I am very proud of Bernice - she really was a PRO at her FIRST
    show - she did us Feliners proud - of course, Ferlie is something
    else!  Hang in there Ferlie, you may never be home for another
    weekend !!!
    
    E.T.

    Way to go Holly !!!!!!!  You done VERY GOOD!!  
    
    Congratulations to Nancy & D.D.et al !!! p.s. how are the 
    beanie weanies ?  
    
    You all made us proud !!

    Congrats!!!!!!!!.. I also had a great time on Sunday.. it was soooo
    nice to see everyone..
         Holly you are not the only one who wishes she had brought her
    BIG BAG,, WORN  HER OTHER PAIR OF JEANS THE ONES WITH ALL THE POCKETS..
    (they are just big enough for kittynapping....:*)))..
        and special thanks to Stripees and DweeBER  who put up with
    Auntie's  ongoing attacks of the "Mushies.."..(KISS. HUGGY, KISS,
    HUGGY)..Poor DweeBeR..  the times Cin let me take him up to  the ring
    and bring him back.. it was Mushie time..:*)).. he was COOL.. like
    Gee where is  my Mom. old Musshy Auntie Kate is here again.. Be cool
    Auntie.. PULEASE..oh no.. She is kissing me again.. .. geesch..
    heh-heh.. Yes I did get  to SHOP..HRH and company got
    everything on  their  lists..and then some..!!!!
       . and thanks to Cin for letting me  cuddle and play with
    the Cattyshack kids to my heart's content..!!!!! 
       Congrats to all..
    Kate
                                                                     

    I can't wait anotherl minute !!!
    
    Cattyshack's Tiger Lily of EmacX also had a VERY exciting weekend!
    Her mother is still in shock!
    
    Lil received:  2  BEST CATS,SP  
                   1  2nd BEST CAT,SP   
                   1  5th BEST CAT,AB
                   1  7th BEST CAT,SP
                   3  BEST GRANDS
                   2  2nd BEST GRANDS
    
    The judge from England, Alan Edwards, who presented Lil with her first
    CFF BEST CAT, also awarded her with a special rosette:
    
                 Award of Excellence
    
    from the Tabby Cat Club of England.  Alan Edwards is past president
    of this cat club, and he seemed to take a liking to Lil.  It kind of
    made me wonder a little, when he was hugging and kissing Lil, if I
    was going to take her home with me or if he was going to tuck her
    in his Teddy Bear bag !!  It really was a thrilling weekend!
    
    I had a short opportunity to exchange information with Alan Edwards
    on Sunday, after he judged my cat on Saturday.  There are so many
    differences in judging between here and there.  It really was
    fasinating to listen to him explaining the differences.  
    I only have one beanie weanie left - my little cream fluff puff
    has a new home!  Whew, it sure was a busy weekend for EVERYONE.
    
    Congratulations to EVERYONE !!!
    
    E.T.
    

    Hey E.T... er um.. I did "hear " Lil say that she should have  brought
    her "tea cup".. then they could have shared a "cuppa" together..
     I also heard her say.. that now she wants the whole set..
    as a "pressie".. and she also wants a  teddy bear bag like his..
    and I think you should buy them for her, cuz she did so well..
    (How am  I  doing Lil?.. Trust  me, once Momreads this.. she
    will go right down and buy the stuff for you..) heh. heh
      Kate

    A combined congratulations to all of the Feliners and their furfaces on
    their wins!  Way to go cats!!
    
    So Bernice, will we see you and Ferlie in Framingham in September? :^)
    
    --Roberta (who will always do the September CFF Framingham Show!)
    

    Roberta,
    
    I think Holly is working on me to go there (right Holly).  I was/am
    thinking of showing Velcro in TICA (because he is declawed) and the
    Nashua show is the same weekend.  Sigh, decisions, decisions.  :-)    
    
    I won't make a commitment yet, but I am leaning toward doing the 
    Framingham show.  Who knows Roberta, you might.
    
    Bernice

    There is one thing that might tempt you into going to the Framingham
    show.  There will be a special class for HHP kittens.  That's Ferlie!
    (-:  And I'm sure that she'll clean up!  She's SO precious!
    
    so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take Ferlie to Framingham!!! (-:
    
    Holly
    

Well, Nancy, I guess I'd better put mine in for Jamie.

Jamie likewise did very well at his very first show this past weekend.  He 
finaled in 5 of the HHP rings placing 10th, 9th, 5th, and 3rd (twice) plus
he received one of the international award ribbons.

Jamie hasn't had much handling by anyone but myself (and the vet when given
shots), and never saw children until the show so he was a little shy at these
new things.  He is a wonderful little baby and I am so pleased with him.
I was so thrilled that Tony and his wife made it to the show Saturday to see
both Jamie and Ferlie too.

Bernice, haven't you come down off that cloud yet?  ;-)  Did you call Tony?

Had a great time showing with you folks (Nancy & Bernice) this past weekend.


Pat

   <<< Note 420.394 by WMOIS::H_TAYLOR "Cats can't compete with CATillacs" >>>

    There is one thing that might tempt you into going to the Framingham
    show.  There will be a special class for HHP kittens.  That's Ferlie!
    (-:  And I'm sure that she'll clean up!  She's SO precious!
    
    so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take Ferlie to Framingham!!! (-:
    
    Holly
    

    Ok Pat, now WHY didn't I see you??  I had a Korat with me!!!!!
    
    
    Holly
    

    Holly,
    
    You didn't see Pat because you were too busy trying to steal Ferlie :-) 
    
    Actually, Pat, it was a good thing she didn't see Jamie or she would
    have tried to steal him too.  I almost did.  He is gorgous!!!
    
    Congratulations,
    
    Bernice

    "You didn't see Pat because you were too busy trying to steal Ferlie
    :-) "
    
    Ya, and the "Bonster" was just crushed.  She thought she was your
    only Love (besides your own, of course).  She's so upset that she's
    been chewing my watch strap to pieces ever since!  Before, even!!
    
    
    HEY - did I remember to tell you folks that Tony and Maria are 
    expecting their first around March 1991???!!!!   They've been
    trying for a while with no luck, until now!  No wonder he decided
    to cut down the feline population  :-)
    
    I think he still loves it tho - except now he has to come visit me
    for a kitten fix.  
      Nancy DC
    
    

    RE: Bonster,
    
    Aw Bonnie, you know you'll always be my "Bonster".  Nobody will ever
    replace you! (-:
    
    But you looked so cute and content in your little bed there, I
    didn't want to disturb you!
    
    Aw, don't be jealous of Ferlie my little Bonster.  There's plenty of
    room in this heart of mine for both of you! (-:
    
    Auntie Holly
    

    re: .399 - To Auntie Holly,
      I'll forgive you if you promise to bring me lots of catnip and
    kitty toys at the next cat show.  Or better yet, if you come to
    visit those horrible little kittens my human has upstairs.  I'll
    especially forgive you if you take a few of them home.  But don't
    tell mommy.  For some unknown reason she's "gaagaa" over them.
    Geez, Humans!!!!!
      Bonster, aka Bonnie Brat

Well, you did see me, Holly.  I ran into you several times when I had to
bring Jamie to the ring and you were clerking in it.  Remember when the
announcer announced the FINALS #'s when he shouldn't have and I came
over and asked you about it from next ring as Bernice's Ferlie was still
being judged when # was called?  ;-)

Sorry I didn't get to see your Korat but maybe at the Framingham show in
September.

  <<< Note 420.396 by WMOIS::H_TAYLOR "Cats can't compete with CATillacs." >>>

    Ok Pat, now WHY didn't I see you??  I had a Korat with me!!!!!
    
    
    Holly
    

    RE: Pat
    
    Barely!!  I was so confused and so upset at that time!!  I was ready to
    kill the steward, but it really wasn't her fault.  At leas the
    announcer didn't announce that it WAS a final!!!
    
    I won't have a Korat at the Framingham show.  Not one of the judges
    from that show likes Korats, so I'm not going to bother.  Hope to see
    you, though!!!
    
    Holly
    

    RE:  My little Bonster
    
    I'll tell you what I'll do!!  I'll come over to your house and pretend
    to be "gaagaa" over the kittens, ok??  Then what I'll do is steal all
    of them from your mommy!!!  That way YOU won't have to deal with them!
    (-:  And I'll make sure that I bring you some catnip, ok????  DEAL!!!
    
    Holly
    

    Holly,
    
    How do the judges at Framingham this year feel about Birmans?
    
    
    --Roberta (who would like to enter Murdock as an altered novice)

Well, that's THEIR loss in not liking Korats.  I can't believe that not one of
those judges likes this breed.  Have you had your Korat judged by them before?
What's not to like?

By the way, did you happen to read July's issue of Cat Fancy yet?  There's an
article on a breeder's cattery who raises both the "outgoing Korats" and the
"shy domestic shorthairs" (picture shows two Korat kittens with a classic
silver tabby shorthair). ;-)

Pat

  <<< Note 420.402 by WMOIS::H_TAYLOR "Cats can't compete with CATillacs." >>>

    RE: Pat
    
    Barely!!  I was so confused and so upset at that time!!  I was ready to
    kill the steward, but it really wasn't her fault.  At leas the
    announcer didn't announce that it WAS a final!!!
    
    I won't have a Korat at the Framingham show.  Not one of the judges
    from that show likes Korats, so I'm not going to bother.  Hope to see
    you, though!!!
    
    Holly
    

    re: .403   well you're welcome to visit anytime Holly!  But I check
    all pockets at the door.  Actually the kittens are just starting
    to climb out of the box so by the time you visit I may be happy to
    have them stolen.  ;^)

    Hmmm Holly.. she is into "Catcheck " as well.. hmmmmm I have an idea..
    since she is checking pockets at the door.  You will hasve to use the 
    "window".. Now.. let me see..Where did I put that Ladder.. .. Heh.. heh
    Kate

    Kate,
    
    Your being bad today!  ;-)
    
    cin
    

    Just got my notification from CFA.  Limoges made a national color
    win!  She was 2nd Best Seal Point Birman in the CFA!!  That put
    her as 4th Best Birman in CFA.  I had hoped to break the top 5 Birmans
    this year, but the color win is icing on the cake.  Now we just
    have to keep our fingers crossed that she gives us a gorgeous, healthy
    litter with the Moo-Man.
    
    :^) :^) :^)
    
    Jo

    Cin. it must be the "moon".. ;*)))

    
    CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!  You must be soooo proud!  She is SUCH an elegant
    lady.  Now Jo, how could Limoges and the Moo-Man have anything BUT
    gorgeous babies???  :-) :-) :-)
    
    

    RE: the judges at the framingham show
    
    All of them have seen my Korat babies.  Only ONE of them has ever
    finaled Silver and only two of them have ever finaled PITA.  I believe
    that the rest are waiting for something "better" to come along, but I
    don't know what it is.  Oh well, every judge has his/her opinion.
    
    but the ALL like sweetie! (-:
    
    As for Birmans, I really wouldn't know.  You really can't tell because
    there are not a lot of birmans shown in CFF. )-:  I do hope to see you
    there, though.
    
    Holly
    

    I just had to brag about my baby...Tamba!  This kitty is about 1
    1/2 years old and he is the smartest kitty I have ever had with
    a wonderful personality.
    
    Tamba was taught at a very young age how to retrieve tin foil balls.
    You can throw this ball in the next room...and within seconds he
    will bring it back to you in his mouth and drop it at your feet.
    He also understands me...When I go to bed..I say "come on Tamba" 
    and he jumps right up next to me.  In the morning all you need to
     say is "want to go out" and he stands at the door waiting.  He
    also comes when you call him..
    
    He also comes running when he hears the top of the cat food pop
    off or when he hears the electric can opener.  It never fails...
    any time I am cooking chicken soup...no matter where he is inside
    or out...he shows up!
    
    He is very street smart...he won't go near other people, but yet
    he gets along with all the other animals in the neighborhood. (Even
    the bully cats)  He is so bright eyed and always seems real happy!
    
    He's just wonderful...Not that my other two aren't but he just
    seems like a very special smart kitty...almost human!  Are there
    other smart kitties out there....
    
    Sandy (Tamba, Poco and Barkley)

    Well, I had one BIG surprize at the Framingham show yesterday and 
    I want to send a special Thank you to the "Littleton Dundee Fan Club"!
    Dundee won the FIFTH FAVORITE CAT IN SHOW yesterday and now has the
    biggest ribbon he's ever won.  Its a beautiful red, white and blue
    ribbon with a white rose in the middle and white lace around the
    outside.  That ribbon means more to me than any of his other ribbons!
    
    And the nicest thing about it is he got it for being such a special
    kitty and because so many other nice folks thought so too!
      Thanks
       Nancy DC

    
    
    Nancy,
    
    GREAT BIG HUGE CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
    
    Was he under his kitty bed when he heard the news?  :-)  I met Dundee
    last spring, and I got to play with the Scotie Fold kittens on Friday
    in Nashua.  (Unfortunately, none of them stayed in my pockets.  Mom
    Nancy has sharp eyes!! :-)
    
    Give Auntie Dundee a big hug from Me!!
    
    Feline Proud for a "feliners family mamber",
    
    Sue & Panther & Spot
    

    Hey, Way to go Dundee!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    Congrats Nancy!
    
    Pam

    Well, as long as Nancy started off the brags I am going to put mine in
    too!!
    
    From now on, I am going to start attending these shows without any
    expectations of finaling!  Murdock sure surprised me yesterday, and did
    me very proud!!
    
    First of all, he was only a novice, and did attain his championship. 
    But, as a novice, he made THREE top 10 cat wins, two of them Allbreed!
    
    - David Volpe gave him 10th Best Allbreed Alter
    
    - Don LeClaire gave him 6th Best Specialty Alter
    
    - Rem Goldman gave him 2nd Best Allbreed Altered Novice and 5th Best
      Alter!!!  He also had me step forward and take Murdock from his
      holding cage and stand with him during the presentation.  It was
      quite a thrill!!
    
      
    Okay, so it's not CFA, but it was FUN!!
    
    
    --Roberta (who is still flying, though bone tired today)
    
    

    
    PR Cattyshack's Bailey's Scotch Kiss has started his journey to
    Grand Premiershipdom this past weekend at a CFA show in Roseville,
    CA. He got 2nd Best Longhair Premier in three AB rings and Best
    Premier in the LH Speciality ring!  Auntie Jo was on hand to cheer
    us on and write everything down (i PROMISE i'll start doing it!).
    While mum was thrilled with the rosettes, Auntie Jo was busy
    calculating the 21 points.  You certainly can tell the novice in
    this group! :-)  Meanwhile, the Bales took it all in stride, hanging
    out being the good little boy that he is!
    
    

    Congrats to all.. It was fun!!!!!!!..
       
    Kate, Happy, and Preschie..

    A very proud Mom reports:
    
                          EmacX Hello Dolly
    
    At the advanced age of 6 months, went to her first CFF show.
    She took Best of Breed in 3 out of 5 rings, A BEST KITTEN,
    a 4th Best Kitten, a 6th Best Kitten, and an 8th Best Kitten.  
    
    Needless to say, this mother was VERY PROUD!  It sure is fun when you
    show one of your own first baby !!  She really is a cutie!
    
    As Roberta neatly said, it's not CFA, but it's still fun to see your
    own on the table !!

    As all of you know this month has been a time of changes in my home
    with the Passing of HRH.. But this weekend was an exciting one for me.
    Before I speak of it.. I would like to thank Cin Gerry, for without
    her this weekend would never have been possible. I would like to
    thank her for being an all around "good friend" and that includes
    her "encouragement and her support" in Preschies Debut, and for putting
    the 2 right cats together. PLease understand that these are not 2
    separate entities or issues... they are one..!!!!!!! Thank you
     Cin from me.. and as Preschie would say .. MAMA-CIN, MAMA-CIN,
    TA-TA(thanks in kitty talk) .. PURP.. is it recess it..?..
    .. Well Cin and I went to the TICA SHOW..we did Friday and Sat..
    Preschie was shown in a Persian class as an Alter.(Cin, jump
    in anytime if I screw up.. I also was not  "doing  the scoring..
    right Marlene.. heh-- heh , Cin and I figure that she did
    about 2000 points in tica.. but I did not know I was supposed
    to figure in the best of class, breed etc,, I thought that
    was part of the rosette numbers.. heh.heh...)
     Anyway..   onFriday Preschie did (1) Best (2) 3RD BEST ALTER,
     in  LH SPEC. and in  AB.. it was  (1) 3RD BEST ALTER, AND
    (1) 4TH BEST ALTER..
      On Sat  she did: (2) 2ND BEST ALTER, AND (1) BEST ALTER,
    in the LH SPEC. In the AB she did (1) 5th BEST ALTER,
    and (1) BEST.
         On Sunday, Preschie made her CFF DEBUT..... she was shown
    as an AOV. She did 2 BEST shorthair SPECIALTY AOV, 2 BEST  AB
    AOV'S,and (1) 2nd best AB AOV.There were 2 of us in that class..
    Preschie "really enjoyed herself".. she was very well adjusted.
    as a matter of fact.. she was er um better well adjusted than
    Moi,, Right Cin.. :*).. Yes I did cry in her fur..  and I am
    sure that  HRH was "looking down.." taking a rest from her redecorating
    chores in Heaven,, and  was quite pleased.. she did a good
    job "teaching Preschie " the Ropes" so to speak.. and I am sure
    when she saw me "cry in Preschies Fur. she probably.. MOTHER
    do you mind.. no  mussing up Preschies Fur..!!! (insert grin
    here). HEH-HEH..It was fun....
    Kate

    
    
    
    Ms. Preschie, you done us proud!!!!!   :-)
    
    
    

    Congrats to ALL who did great things over the weekend.
    
    I attended Nashua on Saturday and was so glad to see so many
    DECies there. Showing and looking.  It wasn't hard to find the
    DEC group as they were all benched together and had the most 
    people standing around and weren't exactly quiet. Those "little"
    fur faces were so adorable. Cin, and Nancy sure had some real
    cuties for sale. Thanks for letting the little people that were
    with me hold and kiss them. Amanda (blonde/blue eyed human child)
    went to nappy nap saying, Meow, meow. Courtney (child with large
    dark eyes and a vocabulary of a dictionary) insisted she come
    to Auntie Baba's house so she could love Mocha and Ming, and maybe
    catch sight of Mr Miyagi. Courtney went to the same show last year
    and everytime we pass St. Stans hall she say's that's where  the
    kitty show was.  (She lives maybe 10 houses away so you can 
    imagine how many times we have heard it.)
    
    Fun, fun. I encourage any who have not attended a show to catch
    one when it's in your area.
    
    Barbara  
    

    Well, looks like we all had a very good weekend!!  Congrats to Kate,
    Nancy, E.T., and Marlene and all your lovely furfaces!  I was just
    telling Dana last night that we have got to build a place to house all
    of the rosettes!  Can't keep them in hangers in the closet now that
    they are beginning to accumulate.
    
    [Geez, I can just imagine Jo and Cin needing a trailer for all the
    rosettes their cats have won over the years, Cin especially, since
    she's been doing this the longest!]
    
    

    Yup, what I did was recycle them (don't tell anyone) - I sent 400
    to ohio for shows out there !!
    
    E.T.

    I recycle them too.  I send them to the SCBF secretary and he reuses
    them.  The ones I keep are the ones in the top five spots.  Those
    I hang up on the wall.  We buy mini blinds in the largest size
    available, and then hang the blinds on the wall and insert the rosette
    tabs through the slats.  Works great.
    
    I like to have them on display when pet buyers come over. :^)
    
    Jo

    
    Kate,
    
    WHEW!!!  (That's me letting go the breath I've been holding, waiting
    for you to post how Prechie did!!!!)  I'm proud of both of you!!!!
    
    It was Great to meet Cin and her little babies.  (I got kitty hugs and
    kitty kisses Giggle, I love those!!)
    
    I'm so proud of all our little show kitties......
                    ^^^
    
    Feline like a Proud Kitty Auntie!
    
    Sue & Panther & Spot (We won't attend the show mummie, just bring us
    home our treats!)

    hmm.. my babies did pretty well too.  Michaela got a 7th best alter in
    a specialty ring and a 5th best cat in a specialty ring.  Not TOO bad
    for her alter Debute!
    
    Now, as far as SWEETIE goes, he did FANTASTIC!  One 7th best cat in an
    all breed ring, one 5th best cat in an all breed ring, one 3rd best cat
    in a specialty ring, and TWO BEST cats!  One in a specialty ring and
    one in an all breed.
    
    And wait, there's more!  Sweetie was SECOND BEST OF THE BEST ALTERS!!! 
    Needless to say, I was QUITE thrilled!!  And of course he just looked
    at me and said, "so, it's a rosette!  Is it eatable???" and he tried to
    eat the rosette.
    
    congratulations to ALL of our winners!  Cindi and Nancy, your babies
    are absolutely beautiful.  Still wanted to bring home CC Rider and
    Dweeb, but moms just wouldn't let me!!!  sheesh!  selfish moms! (-:
    heehee!
    
    ALL of the babies I met were absolutely beautiful!
    
    hmm.. we don't seem to have heard from Bernice yet!  She's got quite
    the story as well!!
    
    Holly
    

    Marlene.. I heard tell that Bailey invited Preschie out to celebrate
    their weekend fun... something about Dinner at Fishermans Wharf..
    a tour of  all the MALLS and pet stores for toys.. .. hmm..
    I wonder if in that FED EXP  Enevolpe  that arrived yesterday..
    if there were  frequent flyer certificates... hmmm
    Kate

    Well Holly, if you like you can help me show CC in November when she
    makes her debut.  And speaking of "debut" I'm trying to keep her away
    from the influences of Bonnie and Isis.  Dundee is teaching her to be
    a well behaved little girl - one that HRH would be proud of, I might
    add - while Bonnie and Isis are discussing whether she'd look better
    in Brown leather or Black and whether she should have a Harley or a
    Honda Hurricane!  Dundee baps them both and says she looks best in 
    Lace.
      Nancy DC

    Oh, well if you're getting tired of little Bonnie, I'd be MORE than
    happy to take HER off of your hands!  No problem what so ever! (-:  If
    she's causing too much trouble, I'll take her! (-: heehee!!!
    
    As for little CC, well I think she'd be cute in her little black
    leather.  She's look MUCH better in black than in Brown.  Oh Dundee,
    she can wear lace at the shows, ok???
    
    
    Holly
    

    Hmm.. Nancy.. this is very interesting.. because I heard tell.. that
    Happy and one Spotted Spingler have  decided to embark on a  "new
    business venture so to speak.. They  have decided that They
    should be Preschie's "AGENT". and that they were going to
    be recruiting new clients..HMM.. maybe that explains the AAA
    TRIP TIK marking the  best route to Braintree,  HMMM..
    and other places.. I also saw names like Murdock, Bailey, MICHAELA,
    Dolly, Dweebs,and a whole host of other. and  now come
    to think of it my show catalog is missing!!!!!!.. hmmm..
    not to mention.. there was UPS PACKAGE delivered that looked
    like. oh no SHARKSKIN SUITS!!!!!!..
    Kate. HAPPY ( YO SHOW BIZ!!!) Preschie(HEY where is my new 3 wheeler
    with the Turbo..)

I managed to stop by the Nashua show Saturday and see some of the other 
DECies with their cats/kittens too.  I had the wonderful privilege of 
meeting "Preschie" for the first time too.  "Mr. Ho-Hum of the show 
world!" ;-)

Those babies of Nancy's and Cin's are soooo adorable; I don't dare ask 
to hold them.  I know my weaknesses.

Took both Holly and Jamie to Framingham Sunday.  Holly was mainly there 
to support Jamie; he's still very shy with strangers.  Holly did final 
in 2 of her 3 rings entered and got 9th Best HHP in both.  Jamie's high 
point of the day was when he was pronounced "Prince of Household Pets" 
in ring 6 and presented with a lovely rosette and gift award.  I held 
him while the "little" robe and hat were placed on him and his picture 
was taken.  There were similar awards presented to the "Princess of 
HHP's", "King of HHP's", and "Queen of HHP's".

Oh, ahem.  I received 2nd Best Decorated Cage rosette with show theme of 
"Country Fair".

The best part of going to these shows is meeting everyone and their 
"kids", and also meeting new friends.

Congratulations to everyone!

Nancy, forgot to tell you Jamie did his "Dundee under the bed" thing 
again at the show!  :-)

Pat, Holly, Buffy, D.P., Jamie, Thai, Midnight (& Cookie)

                     <<< Note 420.432 by AIMHI::MCCURDY >>>
                  -< ..there is no business like show biz.. >-

    Hmm.. Nancy.. this is very interesting.. because I heard tell.. that
    Happy and one Spotted Spingler have  decided to embark on a  "new
    business venture so to speak.. They  have decided that They
    should be Preschie's "AGENT". and that they were going to
    be recruiting new clients..HMM.. maybe that explains the AAA
    TRIP TIK marking the  best route to Braintree,  HMMM..
    and other places.. I also saw names like Murdock, Bailey, MICHAELA,
    Dolly, Dweebs,and a whole host of other. and  now come
    to think of it my show catalog is missing!!!!!!.. hmmm..
    not to mention.. there was UPS PACKAGE delivered that looked
    like. oh no SHARKSKIN SUITS!!!!!!..
    Kate. HAPPY ( YO SHOW BIZ!!!) Preschie(HEY where is my new 3 wheeler
    with the Turbo..)

    Pat.. congrats.. !!!!.... 
      Yes Preschie was very laidback about  the whole weekend.. she
    even started to ham it up abit in Nashua.. Right Mama Cin..?.
    Of course she gets that over all calmness from ME...smirk giggle,
    giggle..  It was fun.. except it finally dawned on me that  I
    forgot to pack something in the show bag.. The IMFAMOUS BAG
    with all my pockets.... heh-heh..
    Kate

    > It was fun.. except it finally dawned on me that  I
    > forgot to pack something in the show bag.. The IMFAMOUS BAG
    > with all my pockets.... heh-heh..
    
    Well, I wasn't too worried Kate.  I Knew you'd have your hands full
    with the show ;-)
    

I know, I know, I'm late again. :-)  For her second show Ferlie did very well.  
She was in the kitten class of household pet and they were doing the top 
five (less than 10 in the category).  For her first two rings she came away 
with a third best, then she had second best for the other three rings.  She 
finished up with a second Best of Best for the day.  If I figured the points 
correctly, she missed Best of Best by one point.  Not bad for a novice show-er 
and show-ee.  I just hope she continues to do as well.  

Bernice
    

    Congrats. Bernice...
    Kate

Last weekend at the Ocean State Shorthair Show we were very proud of
Alex.  Of the eight rings he made 6 finals and got an 8th and 4th Best
Kitten in the Allbreed Rings, and a 4th, 2nd and 2 BEST Kittens in the
Specialty Rings.  Not bad for a beginner and in a group of 30 kittens. He
was also awarded 8 best of breed ribbons.

Alison was thrilled!  Thanks Holly for being there to share in our
excitement!

- Diane

    Congrats to Alex...
    Kate, Happy, Preschie

    Yeah Alex!!  Way to go!
    
    Jo

    
    
    Yeayyyyy Alex!!!  I love it when Feliners Felines (try saying that 3
    times fast :-)  do good!!!
    
    Feline Proud of a "family member"!
    
    Sue & Panther & Spot
    

    Yayayayayayay Alex!!

    Well, we had a great show this weekend.  I took Night Moves and
    Night on the Town, and Marlene took Bailey to the San Francisco
    show this weekend.  The kitten count was high, but we did still
    manage to pull down some finals.  Night Moves took a 8th Best Longhair
    kitten in Vicki Dickerson's ring, and Towncat took a 7th Best Allbreed
    kitten in Betty O'brien's ring.  No Minor Dude, a Kalliste son owned
    by a friend, made two finals, a 5th BLH from Jean Grimm and a 6th
    Best AB from Kim Wheelwright.  With 95 kittens present, it was really
    great to see so many Birman kittens final.
    
    Marlene asked me to let you all know how great the Bales did too.
    He finaled in all 8 rings!!!  The highlight of the weekend was when
    Donna Fuller gave him Best AB Premier and 5th Best Cat in Premiership!
    The judges had nothing but wonderful things to say about him, and
    he picked up another 16 points towards his grand, bringing his current
    point count to 37, halfway there!!
    
    Yeah Bailey!
    
    Jo

    Wow.. that is great news.. Congrats..
    Kate, Happy, Preschie..

    
    Congratulations to Jo and Pleasantview's Limoges of Mysinhs!!!
    For those of you that have not read the November issue of CATS
    Magazine, Limoges was named 4th Best Birman by the NBFA.  She
    is truly a beautiful cat, Jo. You both certainly deserve the 
    recognition, and we are so very proud of you!!!!!
    
    M & B
    
    

    ANOTHER CELEBRITY!!  Limoges, my kitties would like your autograph.
      Nancy

	Yay!! Congratulations to Jo and Limoges!  Looks like I'll have to
	grab a copy of _Cats_ now :^}

	Sandy

    Hi Everyone,
    
    Congratulations to Kai!!!!!  Yes, I am going to BRAG alot about my Kai.
    He did just fantastic this week-end at the Salem Show.
    
    He finaled in all six rings and has 18 points towards his Grand
    Premiereship.  Not bad for his first round in getting his Grand.
    He also came home with 9 rosettes.
    
    Both his Mom, Dad and bro, Teddy are very, very happy and proud.
    
    Diane and Michael
    

	Congratulations to Diane, Michael and Kai!  It was nice meeting
	you at the show, too, even though we didn't get to talk - so many
	cats, so little time! :^}

	Sandy, who had a great time, and brought home toys for:
	
	Smudge, Tas, Jenn, C.C. and Beau

     Congrats to Kai... he is indeed  a handsome  guy....!!!!
    Kate, Happy(Hey I got new toys) and Preschie( Hey I got news toys,
    treats too.. )
    

Alex did GREAT at the show this past Sunday! We are so proud!!
He made 4 of 5 finals and got a 7th Best Kitten and a 2nd Best 
Kitten in the Allbreed rings and 2 BEST Kittens in the Specialty 
rings.  He also took Best of Breed in all 5 rings!  He ended
up second Best of the Best Kittens for the day!  What a thrilling
weekend!  Thanks to Holly, Nancy and Jack for being there to share 
it with us!  Thanks to Marlene and Cin for all your encouragement!
And thanks to Kate, Jo, Sue, and Nancy (notes .439-.442) for the good 
wishes and words of encouragement....they worked!

Diane, Alison and Alex ;-)

    Murdock and Kai were splitting ring points in Salem this past weekend! 
    Congrats to you Diane, your boy is just gorgeous!
    
    Murdock earned another 17 points toward his grand, finaled in every
    ring, and also came home with 9 rosettes.  He now has a total of 25
    grand points -- only 50 more to go!!  Let's hope he can earn even more
    in Danvers next month.
    
    Congratulations to all who showed this past weekend, either CFA or CFF.
    
    
    --Roberta
    

    Congrats to ALEX.. 
    Kate, Happy(YO..!!! ALEX) Preschie(Congrats Alex)

    Congrats Murdock..
    Kate, Happy (Yo Murdock), Preschie(Congrats Murdock..)

    
     Wow... Congrats to Kai,Alex & Murdock !!!!! Deb and I had the distinct
     pleasure of meeting Roberta and Murdock on Saturday but didn't get to
     meet any other FELINERS. I guess most of you didn't wear your FELINER
     badges (Deb wore ours) because I didn't see any. This was the first
     show we attended and what fun it was.... We were just spectators and
     spent a good 4+ hours at the show... After looking at everyone's kids
     and checking out the vendors, we went from ring to ring watching the
     judging. I'm still confused but understand a great deal more than I
     did before I went. Deb was drooling over a Birman kitten (even though
     she has vowed not to have 3 cats at one time) that was for sale. A
     seal point I beleive. Thanks Roberta !! 8^)
    
       I've got a question. Are guys allowed to get caught up in cat
     fancy ??? This is fun stuff !!!! Lot's of goodies to be had for the
     kids too !!! It's a good thing I brought the van because I ended up
     purchasing one of those 5 tier Arubacat tree's... We don't have room
     for a couch in the living room now but the kids are happy. 
    
       I look forward to February when I can enter Bijou in his first show.
     His pop, Mighty Mouse (Blue Aby) was at the Salem show but didn't do
     to well. It's gonna take time for the Blue's to get some comp of their
     own and be able to compete head to head against other aby's. I hope to
     meet more of you in Marlboro this Saturday. Can't get enough of this
     stuff !!!!!!
    
    George     

    What a fun show! It was great to see so many of you Feliners again.
    I was a proud aunt watching all your kids doing so well in the show
    rings.
    
    Murdock's cage had so many rosettes hanging on it I could hardly
    find him! ..and Nancy (Jenkins) Nikki (from her very first litter)
    was doing well too. Nice to see those Birmans winning! :^)
    
    I had to look twice. ..that really was Stripees up there in the
    final. Nice to see him out at the shows again Cin ..and showing
    off so nicely! He's more handsome than ever.
    
    ...Speaking of showing off ..Preschie seemed to take it for granted
    that everyone had show up just to see her. Can't say as I blame
    her though. She really is something special!
    
    I enjoyed seeing Kai and Alex doing so well too. Congratulations
    to all of you.
    
    Keep up the good work!
    
    Linda  :^) 
              

    Cattyshacks Precious Gem and I would like take this opportunity to
    thank MAMA CIN Gerry for her  help and encouragement this weekend.
    Preschie and I had a great time. Preschie was entered in the
    show this weekend as AOV(All Other Varieties), and we recieved
    a very nice welcome and some" very good " feedback from the Judges.
    She did recieve  her first  place and best of color ribbons from all
    the Judges. And she had her "pictures done by the photographer
    there.. and sge thought that was   great.. and of course
     Happy got new toys, and Preschie got new toys..
    It was a lot of fun.. Who is going to Marlboro this weekend..?
    Kate..

    Time for me to brag again.  I don't get into here very often anymore,
    but I try!!
    
    My dear Sweet sixteen did FANTASTIC at the show on Sunday in Plymouth!
    he got two firsts, a second, a 4th, and a 5th.
    
    AND!!
    
    drumroll please .....
    
    
    
    
    
    He was BEST OF THE BEST ALTERS!!  I was SO excited!!  He sat up there
    SO proudly!  And needless to say, mom was QUITE proud too!  Doris Hook
    gave out the awards and said what a BEAUTIFUL cornish rex he is and she
    described all of his beautiful features.  Meanwhile, I'm sitting there
    just BEAMING because it's MY cat!  WOW!!!
    
    Holly
    

    George,
    
    Yes, Guys ARE allowed to get caught up in the cat fancy!!  My husband
    lasted about 2 shows but at least he tried :^) !
    
    It was nice to see you there.  Glad the kids enjoyed their new tree. 
    They will begin to expect much more once they know where you and Deb
    are headed for the weekend!
    
    Welcome to Feline and cat-showing.
    
    
    --Roberta
    

    George,
    
    My husband is totally caught up in the cat fancy too.  It took him
    a couple of years to get into it, but once he did, look out.  He
    actually goes to out of town shows by himself now, when I can't
    go.  He loves the cats, but he really likes collecting rosettes!!
    ;^)
    
    Glad to hear that you are getting excited about showing your Aby.
    Showing can be a lot of fun, and very rewarding.  You meet tons
    of people who don't think that you are out of your mind for loving
    your cats so much, or for getting up at 5:00am on a weekend to drive
    to a show.
    
    Jo

    We just want to thank you all for the nice things everyone says.
    A special thanks to Mommy Cin and Auntie Kate.
    
    I have to put my two cents in for Precious, she is just absoutely
    beautiful and as far as Stripes goes we just can't say enough for
    that boy.  He is the most beautiful, striking, handsome, fellow
    around.  After all that is where Kai gets his good looks.
    
    Thanks again.
    
    Diane, Michael and Kai
    

    Oh, where are my manners?  I forgot to congratulate all the weekend
    winners. CONGRATULATIONS!! to everyone that did well this weekend.
                              
    Hope we see lots of new grands being announced here soon.
    
    Jo

    
    Congratulations to everyone on their wins this weekend!!! Seeing that
    I'm 3000 miles away, I sent my cousin (it was her first visit to a
    show). She enjoyed it immensely, to say nothing of the Cattyshack kids
    and My Main Man...A special congrats to Ms. Preschie on her CFA
    debut!...Diane, do you think Teddy would like to come visit Bailey and 
    keep him company at a show? ;') Bravo to Kai for the high point count
    towards his Grand Premiership...and lil bro' Alex, you're doin' us
    proud :')!!!!
    
    

    George,
    
    
    ANOTHER Aby in this file - GREAT!!!!!! Keep us informed when you show
    him! I have a male sorrel aby and plan to show him next year!
    
    Lisa plus Pookie, Rolf (my aby) and Florence.
    

    First Major congratulations to all the Feliners kitties for the 
    excellent showing they made last weekend!  And special congrats
    to Holly on Sweetie's win.  And thanks for forgiving us for
    not staying to find out the results of that last final.  We were 
    all Soooooo tired (it was around 7:30 by that time).  
    
    It was great fun to cheer Alex on his wins too!
    
    Now for the update on the Putiput folds.  Dundee finalled once but
    we didn't really know it because of some mistakes by the judge.  The
    entire final finished without Dundee getting his ribbons.  His number
    had been up, but he was never awarded anything.  Turned out the judge
    had goofed and he was actually second best grand champion and 9th best
    cat.  He did get his rosette later.  He still needs that elusive 
    Best Cat.
    
    CC Rider made a respectible showing by making two finals in the SH
    specialty rings.  I believe she got an 8th and 9th best kitten.
    
    Shadow finalled in four out of five rings with his best being a 4th
    best kitten in a specialty ring.  Wait til he fills out some.  I think
    he's going to be dynamite!  Too bad I didn't get him into Marlboro -
    but he'll be there in Haverhill on Dec 1st & second.  Too bad it
    conflicts with Black Tie and Tails, I was going to enter him in that
    show.  However, The Haverhill show has 4 special awards for the 
    highest scoring Scottish folds so I couldn't pass that up.
    
    Also, it looks like Baby Bat, now known as Putiput's MacKensie, will
    be making his show debut in Haverhill  :-)
    
    BTW - Ch'Dich's new name is Putiput's Flyer MacDougall,  He earned that
    name by making a 6 foot leap and catching a bird mid-air!  The bird
    had come in through the sliding doors to the deck and was released,
    unharmed, shortly thereafter.
      Nancy DC

    
    Lordy, all those babies did GREAT!  A VERY BIG CONGRATS to
    All of them!  I was only there for an hour, but it was so
    nice to see all those rosettes on everyone's cages.  Stripees
    was his usual handsome winsome self, doing his usual in his
    cage!!  Handsome baby boy, he is!  Kai, what a doll baby.
    He's too pretty to be a boy with that pink nose!
    Ah Precie, what can I say - it's in her eyes.  It's a look
    that I know only tooooo well! 
    Murdock, welll, his mom knows what I think of him(and I didn't get 
    a hug or a kiss either, boo hoo).
    
    I had to stay home and have a chimney installed for my wood stove.
    Gotta keep those furfaces warm this winter - boring, but necessary!
    
    I don't get into feline very often any more either - gotta keep
    workin'.  Silly folks here think I oughta work for my pay check!
    
    Well, it sounds like every one did really great!
    
    E.t.

    WOW.. Nancy.. you had quite a weekend.. please give the  kids
    for me..  Congrats.. to all..!!!
     Linda, yes it is amazing about Preschie... she "really enjoys"
    all the "attention".. Right  MAMA CIN.. it was real hoot
    at one point,, I came back to  find her with  MAMA CIN..
    being "on display" as MAMA CIN was  doing this wonderful
    Question and answer session for this very nice lady..
    and Preschie was sitting up proudly .. looking around
    and enjoying all the attention..  Right Cin?.. I think
    enjoy might be an understatement?.. Cin went with me to
    all the rings.. and when we would get out of the cage..
     she was waiting for the "kissies and huggies.." it was real
    hoot.. and  she made her self right at home.. heh-heh..
    Kate, Happy, Preschie..( where are my "star sunglasses")
    

    Okay, one more brag....
    
    Cattyshack's Dirty White Boy, now owned by Kris Minichello on the Cape
    also went to the Plymouth CFF show this weekend.  This was the first
    time he's been shown without me....boo hoo!  
    
    Anyway, DWeeBS placed 7th, 4th, and 3 Best Cats....He was Best Champion
    in every ring, scoring 115 points towards his Grand Championship in his
    first show as a champion.  
    
    I'm very pleased with his wins, as was his new owner.  DWeeBs will be
    campaigned this year in CFF, so this was definitely a good start.  
    
    Boy, I miss that little white guy!
    
    cin...who will be showing DWeeBs herself in Brooklyn, and will at least
    get to play huggy face with him next weekend in Marlboro!
    
    

    FOOEY!  I MISSED HIM!  You didn't tell me that DWB's was going to 
    be there!  Of course I was only paying attention to kitten and
    alter classes.  Well, I'll forgive you this time....  ;-)
    
    Congrats to DWB's....DWeeBer, DWeeBer, DWeeBer, DWeeBer, DWeeBer, 
    DWeeBer, DWeeBer, DWeeBer, DWeeBer, DWeeBer!

    Cin.. That is great news..  I think if this was a newspaper..
    it would read CATTYSHACK KIDS HIT THE BIG TIME!!! 
    Kate, Happy( YO DWeeBs!! ) Preschie( Congrats DweeBs,, MAMA CIN
    save some kissy/huggy faces for me.. purrpurr.)

    Hi Everyone,
    
    Thanks to Roberta who gave me the number to call to find out exactly
    how many points Kai received in the Salem show we found out that he
    received 21 points towards his Grand.
    
    Michael and I don't know too much about points since this is our first
    time Kai has to earn points but I think thats pretty good for his first
    round.
    
    Hope that all of you did well who was at the Marlboro show this
    week-end.
    
    Are any of you going to be at the Haverhill show on December 1 & 2?
    
    Thanks again Roberta for your help.
    
    Diane & Michael
    

    
    With some tough competition, Bailey picked up 9 more points towards his
    grand!  There are some gorgeous cats in Premiership out here, so it 
    certainly does keep it exciting!  Betty Denny, Don Williams and Walter
    Hutzler used him in their finals, Mum and Auntie Jo were thrilled! 
    Bailey managed to keep up an ongoing conversation with Joan Benson in
    the LH Speciality ring and responded appropriately when she told him
    that he was a mumma's boy... ;')
    
    

    Congrats to all!!!!!!
         I would also like to let everyone know.. that I really
    enjyed the Marlboro show.. It was so much to fun
    to see/visit with everyone. Thank you again to MAMA CIN..
     Caatyshacks Precious Gem  recieved BEST AOV in all
    five rings this weekend. Boy,, and she is "really enjoying
     being in "SHOWBIZ"..Translated that  means she is
    a real little ham.. We recieved the same consistant
    types of feedback that we did in Framingham in September
    and we are very "pleased".
     Kate, Happy, (yay more toys!!!)Preschie( where are mysunglasses, limo
    service, gold pen..)

    Boy, showing has become alot more fun since Cin and I convinced Marlene
    to show Bailey!  We had a great time this weekend.  Marlene took good
    care of me since I seemed to have left home without my brain this
    weekend.  Or maybe I lost it at the Burger King from Hell in Fairfield,
    who knows!  Anyway, Night Moves and Night On The Town did very well. 
    Moves was in season (for the third time!) and was a bit on the touchy
    side all weekend.  I was pleased that she managed to get through all
    the rings without being too much of a wicked b*tch. :^)  Towncat was
    his usual purring self.  He charmed finals out of two of the judges,
    Betty O'Brien gave him a 9th BAB, and Joan Benson gave him a 7th BLH.
    With an allbreed kitten count of 89, I was very happy with the finals.
    Towncat is only 6 months old, and he can only get better.
    
    Jo

    Yea Bailey and Preshie!!  Marlene, only 28 more points to go??  Boy,
    are you ever lucky!  He is such a pretty boy that I'm sure he'll grand
    in no time.
    
    And Preshie... I'm not surprised she took Best AOV all day on Saturday. 
    Not only did she deserve it, she also expected it -- right Kate?!  I
    saw her sending telepathic messages to the judges with a look that
    could kill!  Anyone who has never met Preshie will know why she is so
    smug once they do.  She is a gorgeous, colorful cat, with eyes that
    will just melt your heart!!
    
    Murdock did well on Saturday, if I may get in my brag :^).  He had
    another Birman champion for competition, a bluepoint who was 3 months
    older, and Murdock took Best of Breed in all five rings!!  He also made
    two finals -- a Best Champ and 5th Best Alter in a Specialty ring, and
    10th Best Alter in an allbreed ring.  I know the SP ring netted him 12
    grand points; not sure about the allbreed ring.  At least he got the
    5th Best Alter win which is required for granding in addition to the 75
    points.
    
    I also had the pleasure of watching my good friend and neighbor's
    Scottish Fold take 3 best of breeds and one second best of breed as a
    novice!  Buckwheat also placed in 3 finals:  received 2 best novice wins
    in an allbreed ring and 1 best novice in a specialty ring.  He also got
    2nd best shorthair novice and 6th best alter in one of the allbreed
    rings and a 4th best alter in the specialty ring.  Way to go
    Buckwheat!!!
    
    
    --Roberta (who didn't get out of the show hall until 8:30 Sat. evening
               and is glad Buckwheat made that last final -- for the
               judge's sake!!)
    
    
    

    
    CONGRATULATIONS to Ms. Preschie on yet another stellar performance!!!
    I don't know Kate, she may just become TOO much to live with.  After
    reading your note, I was surprised that I didn't hear the phone early
    this morning...;')
    
    About Towncat.  He is such a love!  What a purr ball, he's non-stop.
    You look at him, and you melt. He almost makes me want to jump ship 
    (just kiddin' cin)!!!!  Night Moves had a tough weekend, but even 
    through it all, Walter recognized her for the pretty little girl that
    she is. :')  
    

    
    Re: .475  Roberta, for some reason I have the feeling that getting
    those last few points for a grand is alot like losing weight. Those
    are the ones that kill you!! :')
    
    m
    

     Roberta, She was a "little put out".. she saw the parade of
    perfection rosettes.. and there was not one for her.... and
    she was asking all sorts of questions as to who made
    the "error". so I explained everything to her.. I
    know she understood, smirk,, smirk , giggle..
    She is something else.. Mama Cin saw her again yesterday..
    and she was  er um..  into her "inappropriate behavior.."..
    and  she was very surprised when "Mama Cin er um
    "pulled rank".. Right Mama Cin?... . tee-hee..
      
    Kate, Happy, Preschie( HEY my contract says.... I can have it all..!!!)

    Well, I very much enjoyed watching little Buckwheat taking so many
    honors this weekend.  And I know of at least one exhibitor (not a 
    deccie) who was rather put out at the performance of this novice! ;-)
    
    We only made one ring this weekend - Dundee got a second best grand
    for an additional 4 points (He's now 6 over what he needs) and a
    4th best alter in a SH ring.   And its not those last few point for
    the grand that's tough, its that elusive 'BEST CAT' for the Master
    grand that's the toughie.  
    
    Well, there's 12 rings in Haverhill, he he he....and I'll also have
    Shadow this time! So LOOK OUT YOU FOLDS!!
      Nancy Dc
    

    
    OK here it is.....
    
    I was sooo proud of my two big boys!  For their first show Pinecone
    got an 8th and a 10th and Scarecrow got a 10th!  Looks like we'll
    be showing in earnest starting the first of the year.  Can't wait
    to get Effiecat out and about and my sister has graciously offered
    her Peanut Butter to travel the show scene!
    
    MaryAnne

    WOW!!  Looks like there were a LOT of winners!!  Congratulations
    everyone!!!
    
    Kate, I don't blame Preshie a bit!  Neither does Sweetie!  he thought
    she was a pretty good looking cat!  He was even quite interested in
    her.  Especially with all of that hair of hers.  Preshie, Sweetie was 
    QUITE interested in you and would like to know if you'd like to go 
    out on a date some time.  he has this thing for cats with lots of hair.
    Especially considering that he doesn't have much hair himself.
    
    I did find one kitty that I absolutely loved.  She even sat in my ring
    and "supervised" the alter final at the end of the day.  She told Jane
    afterward that she'd done quite well and would have done the same. 
    Except that she would have put sweetie up a bit higher as well as
    Roberta's Birman.  Oh yes, and she said that Dundee should have been
    best cat.  hmm... maybe we should let HER judge next time! (-:
    
    Again, congratulation to all of the winners.
    
    Holly
    

    Holly.. Preschie says thank you  for all the compliments, as you can
    tell she "loves" every minute of it.. I suspect that Preschie
    will "accept Sweeties offer. tee-hee..
    And I agree with that certain white cat's purspectives..
    so to speak.. heh-eh..
    Kate

    Well Kate, I shall tell Sweetie about Preshie's acceptance of his
    offer.  He'll be THRILLED!!
    
    Holly
    

    Hi Everyone,
    
    To all you CATTYSHACK kids out there, especially to Mama Cin and Auntie
    Kate, below is Kai's winnings as of this week-end at the Haverhill
    show.
    
    Saturday:  Altered Novice
    
    Kai finaled in two speciality rings and received 2nd Best Novice in
    both rings and got 4th Best Novice in one ring. He won all his winner's
    ribbons in all 6 rings which made him a Champion for Sunday's show.
    
    Sunday:  Altered Champion
    
    He finaled in 4 Speciality rings and 1 Allbreed.  He got Best Altered
    Champion in 4 rings and 2nd Best in 1 ring. He also won in the Allbreed
    ring Best Champion of the Show.  In 3 rings he came in 5th, 6th and 7th
    Best Cat.
    
    Brother Teddy was also there both days but we only entered Kai this
    time.  Sunday when Kai won the 3 ribbons in the Allbreed ring and went
    back to his cage with Teddy, Teddy was so proud of his brother he
    layed beside him and gave him a few kisses.
    
    Needless to say Mom, Dad and Teddy are very, very proud of our Kai. He
    now has 17 points towards his Grand Championship in CFF.
    
    
    			:-)   :-)   :-)   :-)   :-)
    
    

    Congratulations, Diane and Mike!  That is great!!
    
    Did you figure out Kai's points?  Looks like he will grand for you in
    no time!
    
    --Roberta (who missed going to Haverill with all of the Feliners)
    

    	If we did our math right, Kai got 17 points Sunday. But Teddy could
    care less as he got most of the Gerber chicken food while Kai was
    showing off.
    
    Mike

    Great!!  I think Kai will give Murdock a run for the money in CFF! 
    Good thing Exotics are shorthairs in CFF and not longhairs!!  At least
    I have the specialty rings to my advantage :^).
               
    Murdock did well in Danvers.  Picked up 12 more grand points and placed
    in 1 allbreed ring:  Best LH Premier, 2nd Best AB Premier, and 7th Best
    Cat.  In the two specialty rings he took 2nd Best LH Premier and 3rd
    Best Cat.  Then he took 2nd Best LH Premier in the other 4 rings. 
    There were only 2 LH premiers in this show:  Murdock and a gorgeous red
    Persian spay.  He sucked up to the allbreed judge (George Summervile)
    to get that 2nd Best Premier win and the 7 points!!
    
    Only 37 more points to go until he grands!  When Cin and Jo said
    premiership classes are small, they weren't kidding!  It's slow going,
    but we're gonna get there sooner or later!!
    
    So, who's going to be showing at the Copley???
    
    
    --Roberta
    
    

    Oops, I meant to say, "Then he took 2nd Best LH Premier in the other 3
    rings, not 4.
    
    BTW Diane, did you know that in CFF, if a cat makes Best Champion it
    takes all the points?  You don't have to minus one for yourself.
    

    Roberta thats great.  Give Murdock a kiss and hug for us.
    
    No we did not know that about CFF.  Thats great, I hope he does as well
    at Coply as he did in Haverhill.
    
    Kai is getting better and better looking every day.  A lot of people
    keep mistaking him for DWEEBS.  You can definetly tell that them two
    are litter mates.
    
    You are going to Boston aren't you Roberta?  If so, we will see you
    there it should be very interesting.
    
    Bye for now.
    
    Diane
    

    Yes, I will be in Boston.  Maybe we will be the only 2 LH premiers
    again, like in Salem!  No such luck, huh?!  At least we'd each be
    guaranteed 8 points, since it's an 8 ring show.
    
    The woman I travelled to Danvers with also has a sealpoint Birman male
    who just made his championship at Danvers.  She might enter the Boston
    show.  Groan!  Now it's gonna take Murdock even longer to grand!
    
    Give Kai a hug for me.  He certainly is a pretty boy.
    
    
    --Roberta
    
    P.S.  Diane -- call CFF early next week and see how many points Kai
    made on Sunday.  You might be surprised.  I'll bet he earned more than
    you think!
    

    Hello everyone! Took KC, my Tortie Point Himalayan to the Haverhill show 
    last weekend.  This was her first and my first show ever.  Needless to say
    she was as calm as a cuke But Mom was a nervous reck.
    
    She really did well.  She was up against some stiff competition.  On
    Saturday as an open she took 3 out of 6 rings, and 2 best of breeds in 
    ring 4 under Jane Perkins and ring 5 under Liz Bickford, over the Master
    Grand. 
    **********************************************************************
    What I'm about to tell you next is a warning and good advice to 
    all you  show novices. Don't make the same mistake I did!!!!
    **********************************************************************
    
    After KC went through the 6 rings on Saturday.  I assumed it was all
    over for her for the day.  She had split the winners ribbons and would
    have to come back on Sunday for her Championship.  So I packed up for
    the day and went home.  On Sunday Jane Perkins who was the judge in
    ring 4 on Saturday came over to me and asked if I was the owner of cat
    #59?  Yes I said.  Then she proceeded to ask me where I was for finals
    in her ring yesterday afternoon when she awarded KC first best Novice
    and 4th Best Cat Allbreed??  Need I go on to tell you I nearly dropped
    to the floor.  She explained to me that whenever you receive a Best of
    Breed Ribbon there is always a chance of being called into a final, and 
    NEVER, NEVER NEVER leave...  As a result she marked KC absent for the
    final and I forefitted my Rosette.  Although as an open KC would not
    have recieved any points for the win, I still could kick myself in the
    head for not being there.
    
    On the Brighter side KC received her championship on Sunday and took 2
    Best novice and 3 second best Novice awards.  It was a wonderful
    experience had a great time.  And one thing is for sure I'll NEVER make
    that mistake again.
    
    Can't wait till the next show.  How about TICA Cin The end of DEC?
    
    Valerie 
      

    Congrats to Kai, Murdock, and KC....
      I had a great time visiting on Saturday.. I did my"kittymas
    shopping".. and I got to chat with everyone.
    MAMACIN, let me play with the Cattyshack babies.(grin, smirk, giggle)
    Valerie.. we will be at the TICA SHOW at the end of the month..
    Kate, Happy(where did she hid our  kittymas pressies) Preschie( I want
    it all for kittymas !!!)

    Hi everyone,
    
    Do any of you know the phone number of the CFF office in Ohio?
    
    Thanks in advance.
    
    Diane
    
    P.S.  Would just like to call and make sure that Kai did not receive
    any more points then Michael and I counted on Sunday.
    
    
    
    

    Hi Diane,
    
    513-984-1841.  CFF scores their shows manually so the results probably
    aren't tabulated yet.  Best to call at the beginning of next week.
    
    Herman (CFA), on the other hand, had the Danvers show scores in this
    morning!  Murdock received 11 pts., not 12, and I realized my error was
    in scoring his allbreed final.  He got six points there, not 7.  So,
    only 38 more points to go until he is a grand premier!
    
    Diane, I'll bet Kai received more points in Haverill than you think!!
    
    
    --Roberta
    

    Congrats...!!!! Go Bailey.. Go...!!!!!!! to coin a phrase..
    YA DONE US PROUD!!!!
    Kate,  Happy, Preschie

    Marlene, I love it!!  Only us show folks will know what your title
    meant!  (Or those of us who follow this note string).
    
    Congrats!!  I hope I can get Murdock granded soon too.  We are halfway
    there, from 3 shows, and have 3 more in February.  I can't wait that
    long!!!!!!
    
    Has Walter Hutzler been good to Bailey?  He seems to like Exotics, from
    watching his judging (here that, Diane!  Walter will be judging in
    Boston).
    
    
    --Roberta
    

    Roberta, Walter had better be good to Bailey.. or Preschie won't
    tell him where she hid his ponytail..!!!!! Right Marlene...
    smirk, grin, giggle..
    Kate, Happy, Preschie(NA-NA--.. I've got a secret stash..)

    Kate,
    
    Walter was in San Francisco this weekend sans ponytail!!
    
    Jo

    
    Roberta, Walter has been consistent with the Bales, although not
    placing him as high as mum would like ;'). Jo, I believe that Ms.
    Preschie has something to do with the lack of a tale on Walter. 
    Seems that Bailey contracted her to do his dirty work at her debut
    to get back at him for the Tracy show...
    
    

    Hmm.. Jo, Ms Preschie had the opportunity to meet Walter in
    "purrson" in Salem in Nov..(or should that be the other way around)..
    (we were entered in the AOV class.. we were also the only AOV..grin,
    smirk, giggle..)and although Walter said some very nice things
    about  Preschie,, he did have his ponytail at that show,, but 
    I heard tell, at the next one... it was missing,,!!  So
    Marlene, MAMACIN,and I suspect, that MS .Preschie
    fulfilled her end of the contract  with Bales..!!!!
    I can just see that now. MS Preschie does this 
    WHO ME, MUMMY.. I am always a good girl,, I would never
    do anything like that.. hmmmm..
    Kate

    Marlene, I know that the Bales will grand for you in the next show.  He
    won't let you down!!  Congratulations again on the almost attained
    title of Grand Premier.
    
    --R.
    

    Being the very superstitious person that I am, I have forbidden Marlene
    to even mention the G word in combination with the next show.  Please,
    all gentle feliners, don't mention the G word again until I say it is
    safe.  :^) :^) :^)  I had a friend once that needed 1 point to grand
    her cat so she bought a cooler full of champagne and brought it to the
    show.  It took her months to get that one point.  The laws of Neaner
    had finally caught up with her.  We mustn't challenge the kitty Gods. 
    :^)
    
    [By the way, the next show is Tails and No Tales which is my club!]
    
     /\
     ||
     ||
    
    Notice I didn't mention the G word? ;^)
    
    Anyway, the Towncat had a good show too.  So did Manny and No Minor
    Dude.  All three of them had competition in their classes.  Towncat
    made all of the Best of Colors except for one.  He also finaled in two
    AB rings, getting a 7th BAB from Ann Kimball and a 5th BAB from Will
    Thompson.  Minor Dude split the rings and the winner's ribbons with
    another blue point male that was very nice.  Both cats took home four
    winners ribbons.  The Dudester will go to TNT as an open and finish his
    championship there.  Manny split the rings with his half brother
    Mommesso.  Each took one final, Manny got a 6th BAB from Bob Everett
    and Mommesso got a 10th BAB from Wain Harding.  I was a very proud mom
    since all of these cats were sired by my Kalliste.  :^)
    
    Jo

    Congrats.. to the West Contignent ..!!! 
    Kate, Happy(YO) Preschie( well done..)
    

    Hey, Marlene,
    
    Stripeees needed 12 points to "G" going into his last show....he
    got 16!
    
    Congrats to both you and Jo....
    cin
    

     Hi all... I thought I would share  the great news with  all  of you..
    Ms Preschie attended the TICA SHOW in Dorchester this weekend.
    She scored 1350 points, she is now.... A Triple Grand Champion...
    she finaled in 6 of the 12 rings in the LH speciality category.
    she recieved  (3) 4th Best, (1) 3rd Best. (1) 5th Best.....
    and 1 BEST CAT..Thank you again to MAMACIN GERRY..
    We will be entering the TICA Show in March in Peabody,, and then
    the CFF show in March in Concord.. It was a grat show last weekend..
    there were some very beautiful cats there..
    It was also very nice to see Nancy and Cindy there..!!!!
    Regards
    Kate( YES I was calmer this time..  Right Cin?.. grin smirk, giggle)
    Happy..( anyone want a "grooming table"..)
    Preschie(PURRPURRR MAMACIN... hmm.. my "adoring public"")
    

    Kate, that is wonderful news!!  Congrats to you and the debonair Ms.
    Preschie!  Thrilling stuff!!!
    
    I just checked the Cats Magazine show calendar and didn't see a CFF
    show in Concord for March.  Could somebody please provide details?  I
    saw a show in Hamden, CT, for March but would much rather travel to NH
    than CT.
    
    Thanks, and congrats to you again, Kate.
    
    --Roberta
    

    
    Our little starlet!!!!!  CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!  Please give Ms. Preschie
    a H - U - G - E hug and kiss for us.  I was wondering why she hadn't
    called the Bales.  I guess all this grandeur may have gone to her
    head???
    
    

    Marlene,, I heard tell from a certain Blue creme,, that Ms Preschie
    and Bales were keeping a low profile..er um due to a "certain
    ponytail  being er um still among the missing.." :*)...
     Thank you all... Our "little starlet" had me a up at 5AM
    on Monday morning.. I thought she was hungry(yeah right)..
    so I  got beakies ready, only to find that she went
    scampering down the hall to my "quiet room".. sat on
    top of her carrier.. and was ready to go" see her adoring
    public.. !!! Smirk, grin giggle,"... and she was miffed
    when I explained that her "adoring public" had gone home..
    Note: that Happy in the meantime had eaten both of
    their beakies.
    Kate, Happy,(yummy!!! 2 dishes..!!!) Preschie(Get my sunglasses, call
    the Limo..,tell Daddy Stripees I will right along.. MAMACIN,, can you
    fix my makeup..)

    Just a quick note here to do some bragging after a long absence
    from the file.  
    
    I brought Amelia Earhart (brown tabby and white HHP) out of retirement 
    from showing so that I would be able to enter someone in Jo Ann's
    club's show January 5-6.  I didn't expect much out of her since she is 
    not quite in show form (she's carrying her 12 lbs in such a way that
    it makes her look somewhat preggers) and Bailey has been chewing her 
    whiskers off at every opportunity.  I just wanted to be back in the show
    hall socializing with everyone.  Well...
                         
    After enduring "I haven't missed a meal" jokes in every ring, my 
    wonderful baby Amelia came home with an 8TH BEST HHP, 5TH BEST
    HHP, two 3RD BEST HHP and TWO *BEST HOUSEHOLD PET* rosettes.  She
    missed highest scoring Household Pet in show by only 2 points (we'll
    get them next time!).  And yes, the show bug has bitten again. 
    Looks like we'll be testing the show waters with Miss Amelia again
    very soon.
    
    Jan
                                                      

    
    ***CONGRATULATIONS*** to Jo and Ken Brown for putting on a fantastic
    show!  It was a class act from the show hall set-up to the rosettes
    (which were absolutely beautiful) to the ring trophies.  You guys
    really know how to do it, Jo!!!!
    
    And of course, congrats to Amelia Earhart!  Don't let those "chubby"
    jokes get to you, kiddo. I still say Ms. Vicki scored you too low...
    
    Unfortunately, Bailey & I could not partake in the special extra of 
    "free champagne for any cat that grands".  Competition was tough
    and a beautiful black persian Premier took Best Cat in Premiership
    in 2 rings.  That is saying alot, as we have gorgeous Grands out here.
    As disappointing as it was, you cannot feel bad losing to a cat of that
    caliber. We picked up 4 points, with 8 points to go.  Looks like its going
    to be up to Mr. Hutzler next Sunday to "bring us home".
    

    Congrats to Amelia!!!!!....
    Marlene,, Best wishes....!!!! and to Bailey... go for it you
    Handsome guy!!!!!!! Also Ms Preschie  says to tell Bailey
    she will call him later on today..
    Kate

    Marlene, I know what it's like to lose to those Persians :^) !!  4
    points is better than no points and I have a feeling that Murdock's
    last 38 points will be tough to obtain as well.  But, just think of all
    the extra rosettes you will collect in each additional show it takes to
    grand him!  They are the best part of showing!!  I mean, after all, the
    cats in the top 10 only get one rosette but the premiers get several if
    they make a premier win(s) in addition to the top 10!!
    
    Congrats to Bailey and to Amelia!!
    
    
    --Roberta (who really enjoys collecting rosettes more than scoring
               points)
    

    Marlene,
    
    Having finally met your Bailey, I'd have to say that those judges
    just don't know what they're doing.  I can't imagine what they were
    thinking.  He's such a beautiful baby (whines and all).  Auntie
    Jan has grown very attached to him in the last couple of days and
    wishes she could be at the Turlock show to see what happens with
    Walter.  
    
    Gee, if Miss Vickie had just placed Amelia a wee bit higher.  We
    might have taken home that Best of the Best Rosette.  Well, maybe
    next time.
    
    Jan

    
    Jan, thanks for taking the time with him this weekend.  He was looking 
    mighty comfortable with you by the time Sunday afternoon rolled around!
    He hasn't spent that much time with anyone else at a show. Maybe he
    isn't a "mama's boy" after all...(squeak, whine, squeak)  ;')
    
    

    Thanks for the compliments on the show guys.  It was fun, but I am glad
    that it is now over for another year.  I don't think that folks that
    haven't worked on a show have any idea how much is involved.  Ken is
    still limping around from being on his feet so much this weekend, and I
    don't think I will ever catch up on my sleep.
    
    The show was a big success.  We got lots of positive feedback from the
    exhibitors.  I was so busy that I barely had time to socialize at all,
    my favorite part of showing.  The club provided ring trophies in each
    ring, in addition to rosettes.  We usually give some kind of a food
    item.  This year we had everything from Martinelli's sparkling cider,
    to herbal teas, to homemade cookies and cakes.  One ring also had
    little catnip mice made out of a suede-like fabric.  One of our judge's
    mother makes them and so we bought them for that ring.  Those were a
    big hit with the cats, who could care less about sparkling cider and
    chocolate cookies.  We also offered a bottle of champagne to any cat
    that granded at our show, and a rosette and champagne to the highest
    scoring cats in each class, kitten, adult, premiership, and household
    pet.
    
    I brought out a new kitten for this show, Mysinhs No Surrender, AKA
    Surrey, and she did very well for her first time.  She just turned 5
    months old and was quite a bit smaller than her 7.5 month old
    competition.  But, she was able to take the color class in two rings
    and made finals in both.  Stan Barnaby gave her a 10th Best Allbreed
    and Vicki Dickerson gave her a 7th Best Longhair.  Townie, Night
    Dreams, and No Minor Dude! were all opens at this show.  There were 9
    cats in the adult Birman class and these opens took most of the best of
    breeds, with the Dude-ster finaling 7th Best Longhair in Vicki
    Dickerson's ring.
    
    But, the highpoint of the day for me was when Night Dreams, a perfectly
    adorable blue point breeder girl of mine, took best of color in the
    blue point class and then went on to be 2nd Best of Breed behind her
    brother Townie in Stan's ring.  To me she is the perfect Birman, but
    she has this little problem, she has very little white on one front
    paw.  For some reason this bothers the judges [;^)] and most just hang
    the winners ribbon and bury her in the class.  But not Stan, he was
    really taken with her.  It was fun to watch the judge's expressions when
    they judged her though.  She is so darn cute that she just melts your
    heart.  She got an extra cuddle from all of them on her way back to the
    judging cage.  :^)
    
    It was a great show, but I am glad that I have another 7 or 8 months
    before I have to start planning next year's show!
    
    Jo
    

               
                            ANNOUNCING
    
                  GRC Cattyshack's Tiger Stripes'
    
                       ***FIRST*** CFA GRAND
                  
                GRP Cattyshack's Bailey's Scotch Kiss
    
    
    Bailey went out in style, Best Premier and 5th Best Cat in Premiership!!!!!
    Thanks to all of the Feliners that have been so supportive. D, tell
    Candy that her little boy Granded! Kate, he wanted to call Ms. Preschie
    last night, but I told him it was to late  ;').  Jo, thank you for
    being there for us show after show. We could not have done it without
    you!  Most importantly, thank you for sending me to Cattyshack, and
    Mama Cin, thank you for letting me in. You saw the potential in Bailey
    and had faith in him from the beginning.  I am so proud that he carries
    the CATTYSHACK name. You both have taught me so much, and for that, I
    am truly greatful. I will never be able to repay you. I can only hope that 
    when I begin my breeding program, I reach the level of professionalism 
    you both have attained and exercise the ethics that you have put forth as
    my example to follow.
                         
    

    Congratulations Marlene, Cin, and Bailey!!  Wish I could have been
    there to see it happen, but alas, duty called and I had to be with
    Joui.  But, we will have a big celebration at Coronado in two weeks 
    in honor of this new grand premier.
    
    Marlene, I think I ate too much last night!!  That banana split was the
    last straw!!  Thank you for coming by for dinner, it was alot of fun.
    :^)
    
    Jo

Marlene,

Congrats to Bailey on his accomplishment!  Candy will be thrilled with
her boy!  And little brother Alex will be excited too!  Hopefully his
show career will be as successful!  We're very proud of you, Bailey!!

Kisses and hugs to both of you!
Diane, Andy and Alison

P.S.  Purrs from us.......Mummy Candy, Uncle Scottie and Little 
Bro' Alex

    Well, Marlene, What can I say....Congrats....you and the Bales really
    deserve it.  He's a beautiful boy, with a mommy who knows how to
    show him off.
    
    I told Stripees (after our conversation yesterday) that his son
    had granded....He just said "more girls Mom"!  ;-)  No champagne
    for this guy!
    
    I wish I could have been there with you....
    
    Big Hugs to both Bales and his mom...
    mama cin
    

    Big congratulations to Bailey from all the Putiput kids.
    

    Well, Ms. Balzer, and you were worried??????
    
    I am so happy for you and the boy and I can't wait to see the latest
    and greatest photos of the boy.  Don't forget to send Dr. Scott a
    picture (oh remind me to tell you the latest about what happend to him
    and his collection of photos on the wall - you will appreciate this
    one - one of your favorite people seems to have backed into a tack) HA
    HA HA!!!
    
    
    LOVE AND KISSES
     
          &
    
    CONGRATULATIONS
    
    Giudi, Pippin, Gino & STITCH

    CONGRATULATIONS TO MARLENE AND BAILEY!!
    
    Just wish I could have been there when it happened.  Give Bailey
    a big kiss on the nose..er..I mean face for me and tell him how
    proud his Auntie Jan is of him.
    
    Jan

    Now its my turn!!!  :-)
    
    I was at the Mansfield show this past weekend with Shadow.  He was
    competing against 4 other fold kittens (2 of Beverly's, one of
    Nancie's and one of Sue Ross's) on Saturday and 3 On Sunday (Nancie
    was judging so couldn't show that day).  It was 5 rings each day,
    3 allbreed and 2 specialty.  Dick Marsh had very generously donated
    BEAUTIFUL breed ribbons for each ring for the best Scottish fold
    kitten, cat and alter.
    
    
    
    Putiput's Silver Shadow took 9 out of 10 Best Scottish Fold
     Ribbons!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    He also finalled in 9 out of 10 rings.  
    
    Specialty: Second Best, 2 Third best and one 4th best
    
    Allbreed: SECOND BEST (!), Fourth best, Fifth best, eighth best (In Nancie
              Belser's Ring) and 10th Best.
    
    Needless to say, Shadow will not be becoming an alter anytime soon.
    
    Thanks to all the feliner's who cheered Shadow on :-)
      Nancy DC
    

    
    Congratulations!  Sounds like Shadow was one busy little guy!  I'm
    sure that he is pleased that "he won't be an alter any time soon". ;')
    
    M
    

    Way to go Shadow!!!!!!!!  Congratulations Nancy!!!!!  What a wonderful
    way to start a new week!  Give Shadow a hug for me!
    
    
    Heather + Muff,Oscar,Pandora + Cocoa
    (The NH Heather!)
    

    Way to go Nancy!  Keep it up!
    
    Jo

     Nancy, that is great news!!!! Congrats ...
    
     Marlene, I know we spoke last week,, and again Congrats to both
    Bailey and you. I can tell you that Ms Preschie and Bailey
    have er um chatting on the phone all week.!!! Also I heard
    MS Preschie tell Bailey  it is time to " review their "
    contracts.. HMMM.. apparently Daddy Stripees thought it would
    be a great idea.. smirk, grin giggle..
    Kate Happy.( YO WAY TO GO.. LETS PARTY) Preschie(purrr purr who me?)

    Murdock had a good show over the weekend too!  He received 21 more
    points, and finaled in 6 out of the 10 rings.  His best was an allbreed
    ring where he received 2nd Best LH Champion, 2nd Best Champion, 2nd Best
    Longhair, and 3rd Best Alter in show.  His other finals were (2) 10th
    best specialty alters, an 8th best specialty alter and a 6th best
    specialty alter.  He also got 2nd Best LH Champ and 2nd Best Champ in
    another allbreed ring.
    
    So, we are halfway granded in CFF now, in addition to CFA.
    
    BTW, You guys just HAVE to see Putiput's Silver Shadow!  He is really
    something else!!  Deserved every single one of those Best Scottish Fold
    rosettes!
    
    
    --Roberta
     

     Congrats to both Murdock and you..
    Kate, Happy, Preschie

    
    
    Way to go Murdock!  Roberta, don't you just LOVE those AB wins??? :')
    
    M
    
    

    Wow!  Soon Murdock will be granded in multiple associations. I bet it
    makes battling the snow on a show weekend worth the trouble. ;^)
    
    Jo

    Yes, Murdock is one "grand" kitty!!!  
    
    And I happen to know of a certain Cattyshack kitty who Master Granded
    at the show  (burp! - champagne bubbles don't you know :-))))))
    
    Nancy

    Congrats to all our super show kitties.....Michele & Nippa
    

    Roberta knows how proud I am of my "nephew" and it takes a
    wonderful Moms to put up with all the show preperations, running
    a house and working too, and still be able to smile all day
    at the show.
    
    My hat is off to all of you. Keep it up.
    
    I can just see it now, Dana will have to turn the garage into
    a room for all the rosettes.
    
    Barbara & her 3M's

    
     Congrats to Murdock, Shadow, & DWeeB's !!!! This was Bijou's (blue aby
    kitten) and my first show as entrant and exhibitor. I have to tell you
    that the little guy wasn't to comfortable in the judging rings and gave
    most of the 10 judges over the weekend some fun resistance. That aside
    he didn't do to badly for his first time out. He finaled in 3 of the 4
    specialty rings and got a 7th,9th, and 10th best kitten. He did get an
    honorable mention from one of the allbreed judges but didn't make an
    allbreed final which I was hoping for... The little guy slept most of
    the day yesterday and deservedly so. He was some tired little guy....
    
    Thanks from both Bij and myself for the help given by fellow Feliners
    at the show. It was greatly appreciated.
    
    George

    Nancy DC and I had the pleasure of seeing Bijou earn his final awards! 
    He is a very unique kitty with the largest most expressive eyes I have
    seen on a cat.  And he attracted lots of attention from spectators too. 
    Everyone just loved him.
    
    That's it, all you need is one rosette and you're hooked, nevermind 3!!
    
    Congrats to Bijou, and Deb and George!  You done good for the first
    time out!!
    

    Yes, Bijou was a real little trouper.  And a beauty to boot!
    He was very good for his first show and got lots of appreciation
    from the spectators.
    
    A friend of a friend of mine brought her little Burmese kitten
    on Saturday and did pretty well.  I think she made both specialty
    rings and an allbreed.  
    
    Also, I saw my first Singapura who was benched right next to me
    and Singapura went to the top of my "Cats I want someday" list.
    What a beautiful, elegant, exquisite cat.  One of those who just
    reaches out and pulls your heart strings.  She was so sweet.

    
    Re: .540
    
      Right you are about the Singapura Nanc.. I had the pleasure of talking
      with her owner for a bit when he was over looking at Bijou. She was 
      quite the looker ....
    
    George
     

    Nancy,
    
    Now you've got my curiosity going...... can you describe what
    a Singapura cat looks like?  
    
    Inquiring minds need to know!!!
    
    Thanks,
    Judie

    I'm going to brag a little about Cattyshack's Dirty White Boy of
    Kiwi, aka DWeeBs.  
    
    DWeeBs Master Granded at the CFF Show in Mansfield this weekend,
    which makes him a Master Grand in just 3 shows.  
    
    Everytime I see him he's geting more and more beautiful.  I miss
    him terribly, but I know he's loved and very happy where he is.
    Can't keep all them boys, ya know!  
    
    
    Anyway, I'm very proud of him, even though I no longer own him,
    I'll always be his Mama Cin...
    
    cin
    

    re: Singapura - A very delicate and graceful cat.  Finely boned and
    small (about 5 lbs).  She had beautiful golden eyes that looked
    deep brown because of the lighting - like doe eyes.  Her coloring
    was a fawn with brown ticking.  She looked very sweet and loving
    and I'm told that she is.
    
    Singapuras come from Singapore and are feral rat catchers.  One
    woman coaxed some of them into her home and got them accepted 
    as a breed.  They had a affectionate temperment naturally - she
    didn't have to breed it in.
    
    Singapuras come in only one color and according to my "wonderful
    world of cats" poster can have hazel, green or yellow eyes.
    
      Nancy

    Nancy,
    
    I met the woman that got the Singapura accepted as a breed, many
    years ago at a cat show in Ohio.  I can't for the life of me remember
    her last name, but her first name was Ann, and she was from CA.
    She brought about 5 or 6 Singapuras to that particular show, and
    they were just so beautiful.  One of the distinctive things about
    a singapura is the bracelets on the front ankles (I don't remember
    if they have them on the back ankles too!), they are a darker fawn
    color, and absolutely should not meet.  i.e. should not form rings
    Ann was very particular to point out the bracelets as being one
    of the more important characteristics of the breed at that time.
    
    The singapura reminds me of the Egyption Mau in size, head shape
    and structure.
    
    cin
    

    Cin,, WOW ... A Master Grand!!!! that is good news..!!!!
    Go Dweebs, Go..
    Kate, Happy, Preschie( I  will order his "sunglasses et al.)

    I took Rolf to his first show on Saturday after lots of heart searching
    and discussion. The set up there was much better than the only other
    show that I've been to. Here's what happened .....
    
    We went to the show with Rolfs breeder, Ann. She had Rolfs mum with
    her, but they didn't seem to know each other! Ann was a steward for one
    of the judges.
    
    We arrived at the show hall at Picketts Lock, North London at about
    8.30am. Rolf was examined CLOSELY by a vet who was convinced that he
    had fleas! Fortunately, she didn't find any! We took him to his show
    pen and settled him in. At 10am everyone leaves the show hall - except
    the cats and the judges! We were let back in at 12 after all the open
    classes has been judged. In the open class, Rolf was judged against the
    breed standard along with all the other cats of the same type.
    
    Before I had a chance to look at the results, I was called to the
    judges table at the end of the hall. All sorts of things were
    going through my mind - had they found a flea, was there something wrong
    with Rolf .... The reason I had been called was nothing to do with
    Rolf, Ann had been bitten by a whole male Burmese and needed someone to
    go with her to the hospital! The wounds on her hand and wrist were deep
    and obviously very painful. She had two deep puncture wounds to the
    chubby bit of her hand just above the wrist and loads of deep scratches
    to the back of her hand and wrist. It had taken two people to get the
    cat off of her!
    
    It took about 1.5 hours at the hospital. When we got back Rolf had a
    second place rosette on his cage for the open class!! During the afternoon 
    he got a first in the "Any Variety Maiden" class, second in the Aby cat 
    club class and third in the Aby cat association class. Not bad for a first
    time out! According to those who know, Rolf has perfect markings and a very
    good colour. His only fault is that he is a bit on the porky side! All but
    one of the judges that looked at him like their cats to be thin, so
    that's why he was marked down. The comments are published in a magazine
    in about 2 months time, so I'll have to wait until then before I know
    for sure.
    
    I think we'll be taking him to another show soon, I'd like to get a
    best of breed rosette!
    
    
    Lisa.
    
    PS Sorry, I seem to have rambled on a bit :-}
    

    Congratulations Lisa and Rolf!

    Yay Lisa and Rolf!!  That's terrific!  And don't worry a bit about
    rambling on.  It's a mother's privilege to brag about her baby!!
    
    --Roberta
    

    Ahhh, another one's hooked!!!  ;-)
    
    Congratulations Lisa!!!
    
    purrs
    cin
    

    Congrats Lisa and Rolf..
    Kate, Happy, Preschie..

    Way to go ROLF!!!!!   And the nicest thing about his "fault" is that
    you can do something about it fairly easily.  If a fold has a stiff
    tail or legs that are too long or something like that, there's not a
    thing you can do about it to make them any better, but a little
    portly....that's easy!!
    
    And you didn't ramble.  It was very interesting.  I don't know how
    many US exhibitors realize how different showing is in the UK.
      Nanccy

    Oh - and I hope Ann is ok.  I know from experience that cat bites
    are VERY VERY painful.
    

    All right Rolf and Lisa... keep it going.
    
    Found you note to be very interesting and informative. How
    different shows are between the US and the UK.
    
    Keep us up on the news of the show circuit over there.
    
    Barbara & her 3M's

    Congratulations, Lisa and Rolf. 
    
    I found your description of the show in the UK very interesting.  It's
    so different here.
    
    Sounds like you're getting hooked on the shows and the rosettes.  It nice
    when strangers tell you that your cat is as wonderful as you know he
    is.
    
    Steffi and 3Ms and a L

     
    Congratulations!!!  I too, found your description of your UK show
    extremely interesting!
    
    It certainly doesn't take alot to get hooked on the shows, does it? :')
    
    Great job, Rolf!!!!!
    
    Marlene
    

    
    I received my cattery registration form in the mail last night!  It's
    a good thing that it went through, because I had a great sign made at
    the show last weekend-- C A L Y X -- (pronounced kay-licks).
                             Exotics
    

    Congratulations Lisa and Rolf!!
    
    All our best wishes,
    
    Karen (and Georgie)

    Marlene,, that is great news.. I just love that name..!!!
    Kate, Happy.(YO a new kittyhaven..) Preschie(PURRRPURR,, neato!!!)

    Hey, Marlene, didn't you forget something???  hint, hint, hint...
    

    Yes, Marlene,,..  I also think you forgot something........!!Er um
    does this make Bailey <insert title here> Cattyshacks Bailey
    Scotch Kiss of Calyx..??..
     .. Hey Marlene.. that means that the next Cattyshack Baby
    is Cattyshacks<insert name here> of Calyx.. and  then 
    we will  er um ,.. Californian Cattyshack babys..Wow
    Marlene/Cin .. Cattyshack babies are already so Laid back..
    and easy going,, imagine adding the "Cailifornia laid back gene" to
    that.. not mention the other "cattyshack traits.."..
    sweet open expression,et al....
    Kate, Happy, Preschie   

    So, now she just needs that special kitten to get her started.  I can't
    believe that Marlene is taking the plunge.  Who would've guessed it. 
    And after all that she has seen me go through this year... ah well, at
    least we know that she is aware of the down side of breeding. :^)  She
    isn't jumping into this without knowing the downfalls.
    
    Jo
    
    PS - love that cattery name!  Now, tell me, who was the brilliant
    person that suggested it??? ;^)
    
    

    
    O.K. you two, I didn't forget I was waiting for Jo to tell everyone
    how Surrey did at the show!!! She is such a doll-face. :')
    
    Bailey held his own in his first show as a Grand.  He was 5th Best Cat in
    Premiership in Kitty Angell's LH Speciality Ring, and was 8th Best Cat
    in Premiership in Craig Rothermel's AB Ring. You gotta love those AB
    wins!  ;')
    
    
    
    

    I have another brag to add:
    
    Murdock earned another 22 points toward his grand premiership at the
    CFA North Haven, CT show this past weekend.  He made 7 out of 8 finals,
    and was Best LH premier in six of them!!  I am so proud of him, and he
    breezed through the weekend with his usual calm and loving demeaner.
    
    Any chance I can change his registered name to "Ashi's Mellow Murdock?" 
    :^).  He is such a joy to show.
    
    Now here this you fellow show-ers:  If Murdock grands in Boston this
    coming weekend the champagne is on me!!  (Don't worry, Jo, I'm not
    bringing it but will send someone out with money to buy it!!).
    
    --Roberta
    
    

    Go for it Murdock...!!!!
    Kate, Happy(YO.. P-a-r-t-y) Preschie(I'll send the rootbeer!!!)

    Roberta,
    
    That is great news about Murdock! I know that he will grand for you
    soon.  I remember telling you way back when that that boy had
    potential.  It is such fun to show a cat that likes being shown.
    
    Speaking of cats that like being shown, Mysinhs No Surrender, AKA
    Surrey, is having a great time at the shows.  That mellow personality
    that did her mother Limoges so well at the shows must have rubbed off
    on her.  She loves the attention and just hams it up on the judging
    table.  Never stops purring for a moment all weekend.
    
    Anyway, at the Coronado CC show that was held in San Francisco two
    weekends ago, Surrey made us proud by making six out of the eight
    kitten finals.  The kitten count was 54, and she brought home 193
    regional points.  All but one of her finals were allbreed, including a
    final from Craig Rothermel in an allbreed ring, (I nearly dropped my
    teeth!)  I wish I could remember the placements that she got, but my
    mind is a blank.  I know that there were two 10th BABs, and I think
    that the other finals were a 4th BLH, two 6th BABs, and the other may
    have been an 8th BAB.
    
    I wish I had more money to show this little one with since she is doing so
    well.  I am saving it up for when she turns adult.  You never know, we
    may have to "go for it" when she hits the adult class in April. :^) 
    
    Jo

    All right Murdock!!!!!!!!   I won't be in Boston this weekend but
    If Murdock grands I expect I'll hear Roberta all the way in Bristol
    Ct where I'll be with Shadow.
      Nancy

    You got that right, Nancy!!  And Charlene, his breeder, will hear me
    all the way in Maryland!
    
    :^)
    

    
    Re: Roberta
    
      Thats right. Nanc, Deb and myself will be chanting, "Murdock!,
    Murdock!, Murdock!, etc from Bristol. We all know how well he'll
    do don't we !! 
    
    George