Aristocats
So we took Anubis off to the cat show on Saturday. As a domestic entry you are encouraged to decorate your cage. The theme this time round (drum roll) was: “spring has sprung”. Salomé and Henriëtte did a wonderful job of the cage decorations, and we felt we had a winning combo 🙂
We only got to bed at 03:30 after getting home at about 02:30 (remember the cage decorations) and then having to look for the papers containing the inoculations for Anubis, which we needed for the show. We got up at 05:30 on Saturday to get ready to be at the show at 07:15, which we were stuck at till 4pm. It was an exhausting day!
Anubis came second in his section and won a certificate (there were only two cats in the domestic long hair class :P). So we held thumbs for a first prize for best cage, but the competition looked pretty tough. The judging for the cages was done by the Hill’s pet food representative. The winning cage she picked, was probably the best of the lot (it also happened to be the same cat that beat Anubis), but the shameless Hill’s plug by the owner (a empty packet of Hill’s food acting as a vase) probably clinched the top spot. However her second place pick was exceptionally questionable. The décor consisted of 3 sheets of flower print wrapping paper stuck to the sides of the cage (they did not cover the sides completely, so you could still see the metal) and a pretty average set of potted flowers on top. Ho hum.
So our illusions of grandeur were dashed, but it is obvious that one should not take these things too seriously. On the plus side I caught up on a pile of work (we camped out in the refreshment area) and managed to get some really nice pictures of Anubis on the day which I’ll be posting shortly. I also got some pictures of other cats, with my favourites being the Norwegian Forest Cats and the Maine Coons. Pity they were all stuck behind cages…
From reading up on the link in Wikipedia on Maine Coons. It very much sounds like Anubis has some Maine Coon blood in him somewhere. Befok!