I haven´t written anything here for months, but today I will tell you about how our cats have been doing it on the 3 double cat shows we have been participating on. It´s about time....   

In the middle of April we drove to Umeå in Sweden with 3 cats, Læstefar, Mischa and Muffin. The road was awful, and just before we drove into Umeå, we lost the exhaust on the car and our little blue Opel sounded like a sportcar. The cats did not like this sound at all and they all began to shout. We drove to the sportshall were the cat show took place on Saturday and Sunday, and we fixed the cages for our cats. After finishing this we found the camping were we slept that weekend, and finally we was able to go visit Annie & Lars (S*Bergbackens). They have beautiful cats, especially Myran and My´s little daugther. When we came back to the camping and went out of the car, I asked Finn-Ove about our bag with clothes and toiletries. I thougt it was still in the car, but Finn-Ove said it had to be in the cabin. It was neither of these places, it was at home - 650 km away    Luckily Kjell (S*SiMyKeth) drove Finn-Ove to several shops so he was able to buy some of the things we needed. It was a weird way to get new clothes! I hope we do not have to do this too often   

At the cat show everything went ok, and it was really nice to meet some of our swedish friends again. Mischa got her third CAC and became Champion on Saturday. Læstefar got his CAP and became Premier on Saturday. Sunday they both got their certificates. And our Muffin got his third and fourth BIS in Umeå!!    Suddenly we began to think about Muffin and JW.....  

In the beginning of May we went to cat shows further north in Norway, to Gisund cat club. This time we brougth with us the same 5 cats as in Trondheim. The grown ups got their certificates and Joker became Grand International Champion on Saturday!! He was nominated as well and brought home the BIS! Læstefar became International Premier on Saturday, got nominated and took the BIS! He won the nomination over EP/EC S*Tammee´s Wonderboy of Scandinavia JW DSM!    Finn-Ove had to ask Martin Kabina if he was serious about his desicion   He was serious.....    Mischa became International Champion on Saturday and Muffin was nominated on Saturday, but Marriljos El Camino took the BIS. Sunday Muffin lost the nomination to Tammee´s Never Ending Love (Nemo).

Next show was in Harstad and our cat club arranged it. It was 25 Cat. IV cats! That´s a lot here in the north. The grown ups got their certificates, Læstefar and Joker was nominated both days but lost the BIS. And even Mischa got nominated! FINALLY a judge saw her qualities! She won the nomination over one sia girl and one osh girl    But she lost the BIS to (N)Himmeltinden´s Beyoncé. That´s ok, Bibbi is a better cat than Mischa. We were soo happy that also a jugde was able to see Mischa as we see her. Quite refreshing actually!

And Muffin.... our dear beautiful Muffin... He did really well both days! He was nominated both days and met Nemo in the BIS competition, and it was nervewracking to sit and wait for the desicion. If Muffin took the BIS, he would be a Junior Winner! Finally, when I almost got a nervous breakdown, the desicion came. Muffin took the BIS and was a JW! He is the second balinese in Norway with this title and I have not been able to find any balinese JW´s in Sweden, Denmark or Finland. I have found 4 JW´s in Poland, but that´s it. This was even bigger than we dreamed of! And we are soo proud of our beautiful Muffin! In addition to the BIS he also became BIS club cat in cat. IV. Sunday Muffin took the BIS again together with BIS club cat!

This has been a fantastic show season so far, and we cross our fingers for the rest of the season!

In addition to this splendid results, we are expecting a litter at the end of July! Mother is our balinese lady Spitfire and father is our Joker. This is the first litter for both of them and it is so exciting! We cross our fingers that the pregnancy, birth and the upbringing of the kittens will turn out well.