Blue Chocolate Snowshoe Kittens

Gretel, our Snowshoe kitten attended the Humberside Cat Club Show at Lincoln Show ground. Not only was it her first tripto a cat show, but ours too. I was very worried about how she would react but was supprised at how relaxed she was. I followed several tips from show and breed websites and blogs.

We were very lucky to have Gretel's breeder with us, Linzi Lee http://www.sodachicats.com, she looked after us and showed us the ropes. We also met a fellow Snow Shoe breeder Jean Elms http://www.reshmacats.com/ and her lovely kitten, Saffron. Jean has been breeding lovely Norweigan Forest cats for years and had lots of breeding and showing advice for us.

Gretel gained a Merit in her assessment class (the best you can get). Snowshoe cats are an assessment breed with the GCCF (the governing cat organisation) - for  more info go to http://www.gccfcats.org.  She enterered three other classes and gained two 2nds and a 3rd. Four rosettes on her first show- what a star!

I was really proud of her calm, friendly manner. The judges made some lovely comments about her and it's great to know that she's a very good example of the breed. With the exception of a lovely sphinx kitten next to us Gretel and Saffon got the most attention from the public and constantly had a crowd of people around their pens. The best thing about Snowshoes is that they are so unusual and demand attention from even experienced cat people..