First of all, allow me to take the liberty to explain what is DM title or better known as Distinguished Merit title.

A DM title was given when the following criteria had met:

1. A male cat (known as the Sire) which able to produce 15 Grand Champions (GC) or Grand Premiers (GP) cats or

2. A female cat (known as the Dam) which able to produce 5 GCs or GPs

For the benefit of some of my readers who are very raw about all this titles, allow me to take the liberty again to explain how to achieve GC or GP title.

For a cat to achieve Grand Champion, the cat must first obtain 4 Winner Ribbons to be a Champion (CH) and then as a Champion cat, it must compete with other Champion cats and by defeating them to score a minimum of 75 points. After obtaining 75 points or above, the Champion cat will be crowned as Grand Champion.

This would be the same for achieving the Grand Premier title where the cat also needs 4 Winner Ribbons first to be a Premier (PR) and as a Premier, the cat will have to defeat other Premier cats to score a minimum of only 25 points.

In other words, it is easier to achieve Grand Premier than Grand Champion and it is also easier for a female cat to achieve Distinguished Merit instead of a male.

Let me give you a very good example, a title freak maniac had actively sell off his cats (as neutered of course) and persuaded the owners to show his cats all the way to achieve Grand Premier. Of course, this title freak maniac would never reveal his hidden agenda which is to have the DM title for his own cat. When he successfully manipulate his buyers (being some of these innocent cat lovers buying a cat one after another and sometimes buy 1 get another 1 for special discount or even free!!) and persuaded them to show his cats in every show, his sneaky smile is getting broader and broader.

Now, when he finally achieved his agenda, he would put up a long list of all his cats’ achievements to the whole world and brag about it as being the first person in his country to have the first DM.

So what???

First of all, if he doesn’t have anyone buying and showing his cats, do you think he can achieve the DM title all by himself? And please stop telling people that you don’t need anyone to Grand your cats!!

Second of all, what is so great about having the first DM in the country when he had secretly collaborating with a Chinese national in overseas smuggling cats in and out of her country just for the sake of chasing some points in be in the Divisional Winner (bettern known as DW) list for a season?

Again, allow me to take the liberty (for the 3rd time) again to explain how to achieve the Divisional Winner title.

Every show season, cats from 3 main categories will be running for DW; DW for Kitten class, DW for Championship class and DW for Premiership class.

Basically, the rule or goal is very simple,

a) The cat (whether it is in Kitten, Championship or Premiership class) must be in the Finals

b) Depending on the placing of the cat it achieved in the Finals, the higher the cat’s placing is, the higher the cat’s score in DW list.

Now, how do you calculate the score if you may ask. Let me give you an example, say there were 20 kittens in a Kitten Class.

If Kitten A got Best Kitten (1st Place), it will have 19 points (20 kittens – 1 itself = 19 points).

If Kitten B got 2nd place, it will have 95% of Kitten A’s points, therefore Kitten B will have 18.05 points

If Kitten C got 3rd place, it will have 90% of Kitten A’s points and that will be 17.1 points.

This will continue up to 10th place Kitten and the percentage will reduce in 5% for each placing going down.

This method is applicable the same for Championship and Premiership class.

In other words, if someone shows a cat occasionally and get Top 10 all the time, the points for DW will also be increased gradually. That is why some owners had resorted travel abroad and actively show their cats just to secure a placing in the DW list. And yes, I know it may be a rich man’s game!

So, back to where we left….

If you achieve DW for your cat but by resorting of the action of smuggling your cat in and out from a country by collaborating with someone on the other side, putting your cat’s live in danger (in some country, if the cat was caught without travel documentation, the cat will be put to sleep!!!) and at the same time committing federal crime, do you think your cat deserve the DW title? And you think you can brag about it?? (Spit to the ground!!).

Furthermore, when other cat owners discovered your smuggling tactics and they had done the same, you had over-reacted and condemning their actions and reporting them to local authorities and file a protest to the international board! (Spit to the ground again!!)

When someone show his cat as actively as you are but smarter than you by traveling further in order to have better counts and beat your cat by gaining higher placing than your cat in the DW list, you accused the owner of influencing the judges!

Please look back at what you had been doing!! (Try and spit but no spit able to come out….. dry liow!!)

Now, what is so great of having the first DM in the country when you collaborating with another breeder by providing false information in the registration of kittens?

What is so great of having the first DM in the country when you collaborating with another breeder by manipulating him to breed his cat that was already been registered as NOT FOR BREEDING.

Let me give you an example…

Female cat A was registered as NOT FOR BREEDING, in other words the cat is supposedly spayed but instead the owner / breeder did not spay female cat A and uses female cat A to mate with another male cat. When female cat A is pregnant and gave birth to some kittens, these kittens were registered in a way whereby;

1. The Sire of the kittens was the male cat itself

2. The Dam of the kittens, was registered to female cat B. Obviously female cat A and B belongs to the same colour class.

(Saving my super spit for this…) The irony about this whole thing is that the male cat was not in the home country but at a foreign country and this title freak maniac had again collaborating with the same Chinese national in overseas to meet somewhere in the middle and passed female cat A in order to be smuggled into her destination country and mate with her male cat.

Please again look back at what you had been doing!! (Super spit to the ground!!!)

So, my faithful readers, do you think such person should be proud of the DM title or DW title his cats got? Do you think he deserved for us to be respect when he openly said that he is a responsible breeder? In his home country, he condemned heavily on BYBs but at the back of most of us, he is assisting BYBs outside of his home country? Need I say more?

Please fellow cat owners; the message here is very clear…

Be responsible to your cats. They are not just an animal. They have feelings too just like us. Respect them the same as you wanted to be respected.