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CAT OF THE YEAR

Well!  You could have knocked me down with one of those feather wand things that kittens like to play with.  I was amazed when Lesley told me I’d won the Cat Competition. 

Members who have seen me at shows will know just how seriously I take the whole thing.

We turn up at a show (after a nice nap in my basket as we hurtle up the M5) then endure the indignity of vetting-in.  I do wish those vets would warm their hands first!  Lesley puts me in my pen – she’s always muttering about getting my pattern sorted out after the vets have messed it up looking for (heaven forbid) fleas – and I head straight for my litter tray and lie there all day.  Of course I have to get up occasionally when the judges want to look at me, but that can’t be helped.  Eventually after I’ve slept for as much of the day as possible, I get back in my carrier, back in the car and hurtle back down the M5.

Anyway, I hope Freda Matthias feels that her Presidents Award has gone to a worthy winner.  We were thrilled when she gave me BOV when Lesley took me to my very first show as a kitten.  My career was rounded off in style when Freda placed me first in the Grand class at the Supreme Show in November and I’m now a UK Grand Premier!   To quote a certain comedy character on TV,  “Am I bovvered?”  No!  If you happen to pass my pen at a future show – you’ll find me as usual, slobbed out in my litter tray.  Good luck to all the entrants in this year’s competition.

CH & UK Grand Premier Lovejoy Leporello.

Reprinted from the newsletter of the Southwestern British Shorthair Cat Club, 2008, by courtesy of Tiger’s secretary, Lesley Tricker.