Doing the Cake Walk

I had a show this weekend and it was a very special one!

It was my first local TICA show since I got my Supreme title, so my human brought along a Supreme cake! The initials at the bottom stand for Regional Winner, Supreme Grand Champion Alter. Isn’t it awesome? Sadly my human did not listen to me, and instead of a chicken liver cake with salmon cream icing, she chose a vanilla strawberry whipped cream cake.

Of course I had to examine it anyway.

And since it is pretty much impossible to carry a whipped cream cake and not mess up the frosting a bit — especially if you are my human — she let me lick some of the whipped cream off the cardboard.

Don’t ask me how this happened! A friend of ours with a Turkish Van boy cat took this photo. She thought it was pretty funny.

I needed some cleaning up for the rings. I don’t think the judges would appreciate whipped cream accessorizing.

My breeder was at this show, with two kittens. You’ve met my half-brother, back from my Visalia show. The other kitty was this five-month-old Abyssinian girl, and she is beautiful! It was her first show, and she did well! The very first time she finaled, she got Best Kitten! I am not related to this girl, but she and my half-brother have the same dad.

I got some finals too!

So we all had a lot to celebrate! My breeder gave me this nip wine bottle toy.

I may have partied a little too much.

So how did I do? Out of 10 rings, I had five finals, which was really good! It was a tough show — because of the lower number of Altered cats entered, there were fewer than the normal 10 slots for finals. In Allbreed, it was six or seven and Specialty (just longhaired Altered cats) only five. That makes it a lot tougher to make a final.

My last ring of the weekend was a Specialty ring where the judge was giving out extra ribbons and a box of candy to the cats in her ring who got Best. My human did not think I was going to get one of those… but I did! So we went home really happy, and tired!
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