Another Grand Day

Well Miss Tonks finally did it. After just a very short 3 months of shows (taking most of October off!) She took her final point needed to attain her CFA GRAND Champion title today at the Phoenix Christmas show. What an awesome accomplishment. Just 2 weeks after turning a year old. In such a male dominated breed, that is quite the feat.

Big sister Bella is all a dither.

But not to be outdone by her dad, Bear. I was told that today as well - Bear made his TICA SUPREME Grand ! That makes him just 1 of 3 Siberians in the country to have attained a CFA Grand AND a TICA Supreme. Wow! Holy Cow ! What a Family!

Christmas Kitties

Well , we are trying to decorate around here for the Christmas Season - but a few of our feline's seem to have ideas all their own about helping and just what it means.

Tonks is Almost There!

Well Miss Tonks turned a year on November 28th - and celebrated with "almost" a bang. She now has officially 199 Grand points in CFA! We are so proud of our young girl and look forward to showing her on to her Grand ! Wish Us Luck !

Double Mint Gum?

Yep - seeing double around here. These 2 boys are too cute, and way too much alike. Born 9/1 so just 5 1/2 weeks old

Points & Other Neat News

Okay so the CFA points are posted and Miss Tonks officially has 149 Grand points! Yeah.

Got a nice surprise today. Got the new copy of CATS USA 2010 Ed. and in it, I was directly quoted 2or 3 times in reference to the Siberian. Its really kind of neat. on pages 10 and 11 there is a short blurb in regards to the Siberian with a nice kitty pictured.

Kender's Cats

I received several nice complements on my cats temperaments this past show. On how they seem to take everything in stride, and yet are still very handle-able and pleasant. Anyone can take them to and from a ring. Kids can be noisy. Cages can drop. Any number of things can happen in a show hall - and my cats seemingly take it all in stride.

What a nice compliment. but conversely it does raise the question of why. So I have included a couple of photos to kind of give you an idea of how my home operates. What you see here is a Halloween spider that jiggles across the floor while making squeeling noises. Looks like loads of fun - what the casual observer doesn't realize is that my 2 boys are in the background yelling and running around. And that earlier we were testing another Halloween "thing" that is a full size broom on wheels that screams, laughs and "chases" people - or in this cases cats around smooth surface floors - it is really quite the decoration. Bill, the big brown tabby kitten on the right, eventually "caught" the spider and tried shaking it like a puppy while the others caught on to the broom of smacking it to make it move and chase their neighboor !

So when a kid cries in a show hall or someone drops something or any number of things that can happen - my cats simply shrug their shoulders and say "hey, you think that's bad? Try living at our house!"

Kender's Don't Call Me Nymphadora Does it AGAIN!

Well I know I have said it before but GIRLS RULE! Miss Tonks was at the one day CFA Harry Potter show today - and while it was a pretty small count - she did manage to pull 5 out of 6 Championship Ribbons out of it! a 3rd Best LH Ch, 3 2nd Best LH CH's, and a Best LH Ch & a 2nd Best AB Ch AND a nice 10th Best LH Specialty final to boot. So I believe if my math is correct (and as always pending CFA posting of the points) she will have acquired 26 Grand points for a total of 145. Again - all by the tender age of 10 months.

And we had 2 judges who singled her out for very very nice comments. 1 comment was "can't wait to see her as a grand in a few months" and the 2nd comment was "when you have something special, you remember it". I was surprised, pleased and touched.