Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Very early on Saturday morning, we drove an hour in the snow to get here:to take these two lazy, yet adorable creatures:
to compete in this cat show held by the Cat Club of Lyon in the city of Aix-les-Bains.
The two green cages belong to our cat breeder pal who took us to our first show last September. The one on the end is ours, lovingly decorated with frilly curtains sewn by yours truly...

It's not well known, but even the fancy cat clubs allow common house cats to compete in a special category... and it's lots of fun.

Our friend, of course, has no common gutter cats. She shows skinny little naked expensive cats... I had to show this one to the judges for her, as she was busy with another cat being judged at a different table...
Here's our Dexter being checked out by the judge. Dex was a good boy and the judge really liked him... "Nice, big, quiet boy" was the final verdict.
Daisy did well, too....sort of.
She was extremely well-groomed, as my girls have been working on her for weeks. And she was nice to the judge....didn't do her strange growling thing that she does when she gets crabby.
The judge's final verdict was "lovely but bizarre".
But he was Polish.
Maybe "bizarre" means "adorable" in Polish?

But despite her bizarreness, our Daisy won, big time!



As did our handsome boy
Here's Mal standing beside our award-bedecked display cage:
Our happiness was only slightly marred by the fact that there were NO other competitors in the class. At all.
This actually kind of ticked Mallory off.
"It would be much better if other people were competing. I'm sure our cats could beat any other ones! I know it!"
She was really ready to bring it, cat-wise.

Her only consolation was that, even in a class with only one entrant, the cat won't be nominated for the prize if it is not up to standard. It needs to be healthy, good-looking, well-groomed and have a good temper. Competing cats have to be handled by judges and their assistants, so difficult, shy or mean cats need not apply.

That made our Mal feel a bit better. ...but she'd still rather see some seriously cut-throat house-cat competition the next time around...

6 comments:

Teacher Mommy said...

Giggling. Really. Because I totally get being excited by the award but bummed because it's an award won against....no one!

But still. Lovely cats.

Ours likes to eat toes. Do they have a category for that?

oreneta said...

Congrats! They do look lovely, and it sounds like you had a wonderful time.

Joy said...

Laughing, here. Congratulations to Daisy and Dexter!! The competition sounds like such fun, and so much more manageable and cuddly than showing steers for 4H. ;)

The Pliers said...

High five that! Your cats are soooo cool! And so is your lovely gamine hairdo, ma chère. You look so chic!

AnneC. said...

haha! ;D

Heidi said...

SO CUTE!

I miss having a cat (that isn't my sister's ultra-bizarre cat, if any cat ever deserved the name...)