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We visit catshows with our cats once in a while, please see where you will be able to meet us below:
Showagenda Cattery Elvëa Mëoi Organizer
Date
Place
Cat
Results NLKV 24-02-2008 Sliedrecht Herenya Exc.1 ECF 16-03-2008 Rotterdam Herenya & Chablis H: Exc.1 + nom BIS, C: CAC NKU SARA 13-04-2008 Bergen op Zoom Herenya Exc.1 + BIS Belgium Cat Lovers (TICA) 31-05-2008 Montenaken (Belgium) Herenya 1x Best PNB
February 2008 At last there are some more shows to look forward to in the next couple of months. I now have time, there is no moving or wedding that will take up my spare time anymore. I am planning to take little Herenya to some shows.
May 2006 After a showless year where I only visited a couple of shows as a visitor, I am finally taking cats to a show. I wanted to go to the NVvK show in the beginning of April, but this show was cancelled unfortunately. The show in Bergen op Zoom will be the last show this season. I'm taking Eärwen and Elwen Elvëa Mëoi, two sweet Siamese sisters, in seal point and chocolate point. Elwen is staying in the cattery, but Eärwen still has to move out. She will stay with me until early July and then we will be going on a trip together. A very far trip.... her new home will be in the nortwest of Florida, USA, with my good friend Amy Adolph and her family of Cattery Evinea.
Saint pro Cat, Woerden
Yelin won BIV Thai in Woerden, more photos Neocat show, Utrecht
Hopefully soon more about this show, but first some photos:
Pikatchu at the Neocat show Gennaro at the Neocat show NLKV show on 31st October in De Wetering in Houten This morning I got up at 5.30, left about 45 minutes later to go to my mother's house, which is not that far from here. There I picked up Yelin, my mother's seal point girl, almost a year old and Adsila, my brother's Burmese (European type of course) girl, who's 10,5 months old.
The three of us left for Houten, where the show was held. Because The Netherlands is a small country, with many people, it is not hard to go to a show that is in reasonable distance from your house, this one was a 45 min drive away (here shows are only on the Sunday, in Germany they are often both the Saturday and the Sunday, but not all will go both days). I arrived there at 7.30, had to wait in line for the health check, and it was already 8 o'clock before I got there. Of course everything was just fine with the girls, so I could find the cages. Unfortunately very small cages, just 50x50x50 (all cm), they often are this size, or slightly bigger, 65x50x50 cm. Well, I arranged the cages, just with a simple grey fleece blanket on the bottom and yellow show curtains (and a yellow litter pan filled with the free litter available at most independent shows). My friend Dinie was sitting next to me, with her chocolate point Siamese neuter boy (very slender, but no yoda ears) and her lilac oriental girl (not extreme at all). We always amuse ourselves. There was a Russian woman next to me, well she spoke Dutch too, she lives here, but she had some Siberians, imported from Russia with her. Those are nice cats also, semi-longhair, more like a Norwegian Forest Cat in build I think, but their nose is shorter than a Norwegian. She had a nice blue tortie (no white) with her and a black smoke. The poor things were very warm, it was very hot in the hall. In the afternoon I felt my cheeks burn the entire time, like they were very red. So most cats just slept, it was too warm to do anything else.
Anyway, the Dutch judge Siska de Boer was going to judge both Yelin (who entered as a Thai, only one there btw) and Adsila (also only Burmese, this show was organised by a longhair cat club, so mostly long and semilong haired cats were there, six Siamese in total, same amount of Orientals too, very few). A steward tells you when your cat is going to be judged, then you go to the judges room, this time it was in a separate room, often it is in the same hall, but divided from the rest by tables or whatever. In the judges room there are judges behind their tables on two sides, they all have their own steward who helps them. All tables are desinfected before each new cat, the room smelled (stank) like Dettol, brrr, guess most cats do not like this smell, it smells just like the vet's. Yelin was first, she did not like it much and tried to hide inside me for comfort, hahaha. But she did not hiss or anything. This judge did not need to look at her over and over, she took a long look and then already knew what she was going to write in her report. Yelin's tail could be more pointed and her eyes deeper blue. Then I had to get Adsila, she like Adsila's fur, very shiny and soft, liked her tail very much, Adsila was a bit small and her profile could be less straight (it is not straight of course, otherwise she would not be a good Burmese, but there should be a bigger angle). Adsila did try to escape though, slippery little girl she is.
Both girls got their CAC (Championship certificate, they need 3 to become a Champion), it was Yelin's second CAC, and Adsila's first. The judges always get to nominate one cat from each category (so female & male kitten 3-6 months, female & male kitten 6-10 months, female, male, female neuter and male neuter, if they had any on their table). Siska de Boer chose Adsila the Burmese to nominate for Best In Show (BIS). In the late afternoon it was time for her to stand in line for the BIS election, three nominated female cats and all judges chose their own nominee. In these instances a fourth judge (who did not judge those cats) has to choose, and he chose for Adsila! So she was elected Best In Show female shorthair (and they did not distinguish between slender and round type shorthair, they do normally have a BIS slender shorthair and a BIS round shorthair, esp because there are so many British SH here). Then we had to wait for the other BIS elections to take place, and Adsila had 7 other cats as competitors for the overall BIS shorthair. She did not win that one, but that is okay, I did not even expect for her to win a BIS anyway!
It was very nice, I got to take Adsila on stage too, she got a nice trophy. I have never been to a show where one of my cats won anything besides championship certifcates or an occasional nomination for BIS. So it was very nice for a change.
The show was over around 18.00, both girls got a nice CAC ribbon at the end. Not all did, I think they were out of ribbons at the end, because the top certificates that were in the box for the square that I was in did not have any ribbons, instead they attached mice from textile on it as replacements (and not with all ribbons, but only for the lower titles). But since my certificates were in the bottom of that box they still had ribbons instead of those cute mice. A mouse would have been fine too, hahaha, the girls would have liked that better I think.Felikat on 12th September 2004 in de Margriethal in Schiedam las joyas Thai Gloriana, 6-10 months, Blue Point Siamese, female
Judge: Alexey Shchukin
Body, legs: very nice developed muscular and elegant body
Head: Triangle, long muzzle, excellent straight profile
Eyes: oval
Ears: could be bigger and lower set
Coat: "baby coat"
Tail: Loooooong!
Comments: very sweet, lovely babyQualifications: Excellent 1
Neocat "Katten Kijken" on 26th January 2003 in the Veemarkthal in Utrecht
This show was my first as an exhibitor and of course it was Arwen's first show as well. My mother and my brother Mark went along too, they wanted to experience int as well. We got up very early to be on time in Utrecht. We had to wait in line for the vet. I can't remember how long we had to wait, it wasn't that bad, there were many vets at work, there had 1000-1100 cats to be checked up! The hall was filled with cages, but ours was quickly found. Since Arwen's mother doesn't have a registrationnumber Arwen had to be inspected in the "determination" class to determine her breed. Arwen was determined as a Siamese, hence she is inspected as a Siamese. What a fuss it was too, the inspector who had to inspect Arwen as a Siamese thought she wasn;t good enough to be a perfect Siamese, she tried to get Arwen inspected with the other Thai cats, but that wasn't allowed. That shows on her inspectionreport, she got a Very Good, or no showquality and only suited for breeding with an excellent partner. There were lots of stalls with catstuff for sale, a lottery (I won two refridgeratormagnets) and lots of cats to look at.
European Cat Fanciers Eastershow on 20th April 2003 in the Zadkinehal in Rotterdam
Mark, myself and Arwen at the ECF show, 20th April 2003
A much smaller show, but because this one was in Rotterdam and therefore traveltime almost zip (about 10 minutes by car) I went anyway. One big difference with the Neocat sho, here 'only' 300 cats entered. Almost immediately someone spoke to me who knew Arwen's father, Sinope Capricorn. I took my brother Mark as company and had a good time. There we less stalls with catstuff, but we sat across the inspectors and I saw almost everything, which was very amusing. Especially the way cats are presented in a BIV or BIS inspection. I won lots of cat food in the lottery (three times, poor Mark didn't win a thing, so I gave him some cat food I won). This time I entered Arwen as a Thai (she was the only one there) and she was inspected as a Thai. Everything went smoothly and we got the inspection report just five minutes after closing time!
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