Attending a Cat Show can be a Fun and Educational Experience

Cat show judge and oriental SH

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 …

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What are the popular cat breeds?

Although cat association registration numbers don’t automatically equate to public popularity, they are an indicator, hence the title, which was selected for SEO reasons. This page applies to the UK. Michele informed me that: Overall, pedigree cat numbers are going down in the UK. In 1997 there was a total of 32,696 pedigree cats …

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In cat and dog shows it is the people who need to be watched more

Dodgy people at cat and dog shows

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 …

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Russian Cat Breeds

There are twelve Russian cat breeds on my calculation — one is, in fact, an alternative coat type (pointed) of the Siberian cat (a sort of sub-breed, the Neva Masquerade), and one is a miniature cat, the Toy Bob (open the miniature cat link for a brief reference to it – it looks like …

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2nd International Cat Show of India

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 (!) …

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A1 Savannahs Breeding Queen with her Kittens

This is a straightforward short video which may interest some visitors. As described it shows a female breeding cat with an interesting tabby coat which appears to be more ticked tabby than the classic spotted tabby pattern which is the pattern of the Savannah cat, with her offspring in one of the areas of …

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The Truth About Cat Breeds (irreverent)

People might hate me for writing this. It is deliberately irreverent. Purebred cats are riddled with genetic disease; the longer established they are the greater the number of diseases. They aren’t even the real thing – we made them up. Many people talk about purebred cats (and dogs for that matter) as if nature …

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