This is another interesting cat show photo from a different era. It shows a blue Persian cat of the traditional style (doll-face). His name is Patrick of Allington. Cat fanciers love their fancy names and rightly so. His attractive female owner carries Patrick on her shoulders as if carrying a sack of potatoes from the …
Prize-winning blue Persian cat carried like a sack of potatoes by owner Read More »
This an image from times gone by. It is a photo of Mrs H. Cattermole, a cat show judge, judging Sealeigh Grey Knight. The cat looks like a moggie. She wears a white coat as if she is behind the counter at the local butchers. She has a fag in her mouth. The ash probably …
1950 cat show judge with fag in mouth manhandles cat and looks like a butcher’s wife Read More »
Possibly the first cat show was held during the time of William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) at St. Giles’ Fair in Winchester, England in 1598. I had always believed that the first show was at Crystal Palace, London in 1871 but that apparently is not quite true. Perhaps we have to …
This is a story from the early days of the cat fancy when things were not quite so sophisticated. At the Crystal Palace cat show of 1900 the ‘Madagascar Cat’ was exhibited in the foreign class. I guess the ‘foreign class’ meant domestic cats from countries other than England. It means something different today: slender …
Cat show judge mistakes ring-tailed lemur for domestic cat! Read More »
This is an excellent cat picture by AARON LAVINSKY of the STAR TRIBUNE of Marsha Tjeerdsma, of Springfield, South Dakota, grooming her Himalayan, “Hott Toddy,” before showing him at the 43rd Annual Saintly City Cat Championship Cat Show. The picture caught my eye. It’s a very good photo. Initially I noticed the white powder lying …
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The winner of America’s first cat show was a “brown tabby” cat. That sounds strange today but in those days, cats were described by their coat and almost never by breed. There were almost no cat breeds in 1895. The winning cat was also described as “a native” (of America), which, at the time, some …
Although it could be of better quality, this is a nice cat show picture showing humans walking down lines of cats in cages as if they are specimens in a zoo. It’s all a bit odd and dare I say it wrong to me.
Last weekend my husband Marty and I were so excited about attending the first ever cat show held in Ormand Beach, Florida. I really love the Cat Fanciers’ Association’s (CFA) shows and one of the main reasons I truly prefer attending CFA sanctioned shows is that their registry does not allow declawed cats in any …
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Crufts is the world’s biggest dog show. There are 18,400 UK bred dogs at the show this year. There is the largest ever foreign contingent because the government relaxed quarantine laws in 2001. There are 2,987 overseas dogs. With this increased contingent comes increased competition and it is not the dogs who are competing it …
In cat and dog shows it is the people who need to be watched more Read More »
By Rudolph.A.Furtado (in Mumbai India) Saturday (27-9-2014): Following India’s first cat show in Bangalore on 23rd April 2013, Mumbai has hosted the country’s second. I live in Mumbai close to the air conditioned show venue (Stallion Banquets) and care for two purebred Persian cats but was unable to show them. My boy cat “Matata” is too wild (!) and …
Snickers, a Pixie-bob show cat wanted to stop attending cat shows. She learned to hate it. She made that quite clear to everyone including her owners and the cat show judges as you can see in the video below. Jackson Galaxy, the cat behaviorist was called in to help. His initial assessment, wisely but ultimately …
Are you as surprised as me at this photo from a 1952 cat show? Is it cat cruelty? It is close to it. The person carrying the cats would probably say that he does it all the time and nothing ever happens. He’d probably say his cats like it. It is still wrong. Is it …
This is Curtis, a super tabby cat. He does not belong to a cat breed. You may know that you can show moggies at cat shows. They are rather condescendingly referred to as “household pets” by the cat associations. I don’t like the word “pets. Anyway, Helmi Flick who took the picture says that… The …
Tabby Cat: International Best Household Pet of the Year Read More »
Just a straightforward photograph of a cat show in Texas, USA. It is not a digital photograph. High speed color negative film was used in a old fashioned 35mm camera that I still have. A local laboratory in Dallas, Texas processed the film and then digitalized the negatives. The images are stored on disk. I …
Introduction This is an alternative view on the subject of Maine Coon characteristics, which refers to notable aspects of the cat’s physical appearance and her/his personality. The entire internet is chock-a-block with conventional descriptions of the characteristics of the Maine Coon. One article feeds the other. It is article inbreeding 😉 The way that the …
