Small update from me

Hi everyone,
Just thought I had better update with how my breeding/showing/judging is going.

I have decided to keep a kitten from my first litter of 2010. The rest all found loving, pet homes. She was born on November 20 2010, and her name is Captivating Dream Big. She's a Blue Cream Tabby Bicolour Persian girl. She's the one from the girl I spayed late last year (Fluffy) so she will be very useful to me. I am going to show her also - and her first show in on April the 2nd.

Here are some photos of "Demon":





I am traditionally not a fan of cats having second litters in a breeding season but since Flutterby lost a few of her kittens the first time round (21st November) I decided to mate her again. She was my mated to my young homegrown stud, Mushroom, and she is pregnant to him. The kittens will be due mid April.

Mushroom is also father to another litter - they are 5 days old today. He mated this girl when he was only just 12 months old. So I am very proud at how forward he is for his age!

Here's a recent photo of Mushroom to show you how he is developing:



I will be also going to show Mushroom this year. I have 6 or 7 judging assignments this year also and my first one is in 2 weeks. In June I will be eligible for Senior status

I guess my next update will be on my next litter of kittens!

Thanks for reading
Sam

Thanks Martice. I enjoy seeing my breeding programme take a step forward.

This is the grandmother (Flutterby) of both Demon & Mushroom and I think you will agree with me that the type has improved in my cats, LOL



My Nana hates the fact I share that photo with people. It was taken of Flutterby just 2 weeks ago, but for me it is important because I can physically see that I'm moving forward! Unfortunately Mushroom & Demon will not be able to be mated together, they are too closely related

It looks like it's just going to be a small show unfortunately. It's our fundraising show and we have cut entry prices by half but we still only have 6 entries for our show and entries close in 9 days! Hopefully she will have lots of competition though. Thank you!

Thanks Ash! Yeah they do take some getting used to. All our flatmates say they find them really weird but then when they see normal cats when they leave the house they are the weird ones. Thank you!

I keep hinting to my Mum & Nana that I want to sell her and they just say "NO" - but I have one more than my limit at the moment. It's hard to decide what to do.

Thank you! She suits her name - but she can be sweet at times!

Thank you!

Yeah cat shows are definitely awesome. I don't know any other way of life! Thank you!


Oh yeah I forgot there will be show updates!!! Brie & Mushroom are going to the show too. Well that's if Brie gets better by then, she has an ear infection. My poor baby.

Just one Flutterby - she is the Grandma and yup she's just been mated with Mushroom. Pretty much like a dream mating for me. She's only ever been mated to out crosses (absolute no relation) so it will be good to see what she produces after a line breeding

Thanks!

I forgot to mention some bad news too - our National show for 2011 has been cancelled, along with 4 other shows. Because they were to be held in Christchurch where the earthquake was. It's disappointing because it's our biggest show of the year.

Definitely!

Thank you hun! I love Mushie too!

An update as promised;

WELL we have had our first two shows.

I took Demon to a show in the South Island with me and there were only 9 kittens there and 2 rings (well there were 3 but I was judging the 3rd) and she placed 6th and 9th out of 9. Slightly disappointing but if I was judging her I would have placed her 6th so I wasn't too disappointed.

Our second show was a lot better. My girl Demon and Mushroom got judged 4 times each.

There were 15 Longhair Entire Cats and 3 of those were exotics.

Mushroom ended up with - 3 x BOB and a 3rd BOB. Also a R/UP BIS, a 4th BIS, 6th BIS & a 7th BIS

Demon was in a class of 5 Persians and 18 Longhair Entire kittens and got 2 BOB, a R/UP BOB, a 3rd BOB. A Best in Show and a Breeders Award of Merit, a 4th BIS, 5th BIS and a NOTHING. When I asked the 4th judge why she didn't place her she said "Oh I thought I had"

SO our next show is on the 16th -- and there are smaller classes there too. 9 Entire Cats and 11 Entire kittens.

I'm also on kitten watch over the next 72 hours waiting for Flutterby & Mushroom's babies.

Here are some photos from the show:

http://www.kcnews.co.nz/page.php?Pets

The kitten on the front of the slide show is one that my Nana bred, Demon's brother. Demon is pictured with a judge at 0.49seconds and I'm pictured with Demon, a Turkish Angora Kitten and another judge at 1.04 seconds. That picture is really cool because it's of the oldest and the youngest judges in NZ

I'll share some photos from the show of my babies too!

Thanks for reading!!

Thank you Martice!

I've been breeding for 15.5 years now but my Mum pulled out of the prefix in 2007 and that's when I started coming ahead. My Mum didn't believe in any line breeding, only out cross breeding so I think my kittens have improved greatly. I'm still waiting on babies from my grandmother/grandson mating. I'm so excited.

Thanks for reminding me Rigel. I'll post some now!

Demon at the show in March





And my baby boy at the April show

Thank you Rigel!

Hi Julie
Mushroom is my kitty I have connected with him in a way I never have with a cat. I can't imagine my life without him but if you were in my country you could have had one of his lovely babie! One of Mushroom's best features is actually his easy care coat. He requires little to no grooming on his coat. He has more of a pelt than a coat. Thank you!

Thank you! I do call Demon my little angel!

Another great show for us this weekend -- but tiny!

Champion Captivating Peek A Blue (Mushroom) was the only Exotic cat and 1 of 9 Longhair Entire Cats and he was only entered in 2 rings because I was judging the third ring.. Soooo..

He got a Best In Show & Breeders Award of Merit in the first ring and a 4th Best in Show in the second ring

Captivating Dream Big (Demon) had a harder road... 4 Persian kittens and 12 Longhair Kittens

She got a BOB and a 3rd BIS in the first ring
A BOB and a 5th BIS in the second ring
A 3rd BOB and a 6th BIS in the third ring

So another good day for us. I think Mushy got 29 points towards his Grand title. But with numbers like this (small shows) it's going to take forever!

Our next show is not until 3 weeks and I estimate there should be around 25 Longhair Cats and 25-30 Longhair Kittens so it will be a great test. The only show in March/April/May/June I'm not judging at too. So a nice break for me.