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I was invited again by Trubus, a popular Indonesia local agriculture magazine to be a guest judge in their cat show. This time, it was held at Museum Purna Bakti Pertiwi, Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (Beautiful Indonesia Miniature Park) or better known as TMII.

TMII is a fantastic place where it offers both local and foreign visitors who wish to get a comprehensive picture of the entire Indonesian archipelago but do not have time to travel around to see them. If you happens to be in Jakarta, TMII should not be missed. TMII is located in East Jakarta approximately 15-20 minutes drive from Jakarta main city. It is an extensive 300-hectare park presenting replicas of traditional houses, cultural artifacts, a park/lake which maps the Indonesian archipelago, and many museums. There are also an orchid garden, a huge bird park, an IMAX theatre, and also cable car and monorail rides to delight the younger visitors.

There were 76 cats competing in this round in 3 main categories; Imported Pedigrees, Local Bred Pedigrees and Non-Pedigrees. Each main categories were divided into sub-categories such as Adult Males, Adult Females, Kittens 3-6 months and Kittens 6-10 months. Here are some pictures taken during the show.

The Winners

This would be my 3 invitation as guest judge in Jakarta, Indonesia and I must say that the quality of Indonesian cats had improved in terms of grooming, health and even the cat breeds’ profile. This is due to the fact that the cat fancy in Indonesia had spread it’s wings to the international level whereby they just had a CFA International show hosted 3 weeks before this show. I hoped that the quality of cats will be continually improved and I am very sure Indonesia would able to produce top quality cats to compete in Asia.

I would like to thank to Trubus for inviting me again, Ibu Eva who had attended to me during my stay in Jakarta, my stewards, Pristi, Permana, Rico and Tonto whom assisted me during the course of the event.

I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate Cat Fanciers of Society of Indonesia (CFSI) on their very first CFA show, an international level recognized show that all Indonesians and to those whom had involved (which includes me!!) helping CFSI to make this show a reality and a success.

I’d flew to Jakarta, a 2 hours plane ride and another 1 hour car ride to a beautiful town called Bogor. I played my role as both CFA Ambassador as well as Ring Clerk. CFSI had organized a session ‘Meet the CFA Ambassador‘ a day before the show and it is certainly exhilarating experience for me to be the only ambassador. CFSI had even prepared some breeds during this session for Breed Presentation. Many exhibitors came and keen to learn about CFA show mechanics such as what do the ribbons represents, what it takes for a cat to be a Champion and Grand Champion (Premier and Grand Premier) and some (to my surprise) even asked how to make it to the Divisional Winner (DW) list. I will not be surprised that if we may see Indonesian cats in the DW.

The crowd on show day is certainly enormous and they were amazed with the beautiful cats that Indonesian CFA exhibitors had to offer. Having 97 cats in their very first international show is certainly something that fellow Indonesians can be proud of. This shows that there were many CFA registered cats in Indonesia.

I am certainly proud to be part of in assisting CFSI preparing them for their show. From 0% knowledge to their journey of successful 1st CFA show. This shows that we need to help and being supportive to one another for the success not just for any show but for the club as well.

Some pictures that I managed to snapped during my 2 days stay at Bogor, Jakarta.

Above: A day before the show

Above: Show Poster

Above: ProPlan, the main sponsor booth

Above: Another vendor’s booth

Above: Vitakraft booth

Above: The crowd watching the show

Above: Mr. Bob Zenda’s ring

Above: Some of the contestants

Above: Winners for the Household Pet category in Yaeko Takano’s ring

Above: Best Cat (right) and 3rd Best Cat (left) for the Championship class in Yaeko Takano’s ring

Above: 2nd Best Cat for the Championship class in Yaeko Takano’s ring

Above: Here am I acting as translator when Yaeko Takano commenting on the Best Cat in her Championship class, a white Persian

First of all, sorry guys for being silent this few months. Had been really busy with both work and personal life. Anyway, I did found some time to prepare myself for this show. I was both an exhibitor as well as a CFA Ambassador. There were 121 cats registered in this 4 ring show.

The show was held in an exhibition hall at Summit, USJ approximately 30 minutes from Kuala Lumpur town. Rumours had it that this show was held in a very short notice, minimum fundings and even threats that this show will not took place. I was certainly impressed that the show not just materialized and manage to kick off smoothly, the show did went on without any obstacles or incidents.

There were exhibitors from Hong Kong and Thailand who came all the way campaigning their cats for the Top 15 Divisional Winners in the Asia-Latin America region. It was certainly exhilirating for me to see some beautiful and outstanding cats. The CFA judges were Carolyn Lyons from US, Yaeko Takano and Wakako Nagayama, both from Japan and Allan Raymond from Australia whom was the guest judge for this show.

For this round, I had entered my black Maine Coon, Molly in the Premiership Class and Akechi who will be competing under the Household Pet Class. There were 26 and 18 cats in the Premiership and Household Pet Class respectively. I knew both Molly and Akechi would have 38.5% and 55.6% chances to be the Top 10 Finalists but I did hope for the best in both of them.

Finally, Molly able to get into the finals twice, clinching 9th and 10th place as well as being awarded as 2nd Best Premier and 2nd Best Longhair Premier in the Premiership Class in the 2 finals. Akechi did even better where he went into 3 finals, a 4th placing and twice 5th placing.

Here are some of the pictures I were able to snap during the show.

Yaeko Takano judging an Abyssinian and an European Burmese

Carolyn Lyon judging a black Oriental and a domestic cat (Akechi was at the back of her; Cage 107)

Here is Wakako Nagayama judging an American Shorthair

Allan Raymond doing his finals for Household Pet Class

Here are some pictures of Molly being judged.

Here are some pictures of Akechi being judged

Akechi’s winnings…

and of course, Molly’s winnings…

Again, I must say a job well done by the organizer of this show for able to materialize this show for the benefit of the cat fancy and also for the fellowship of CFA exhibitors knowing there were threats that this show will not happen.

Kudos…..

Feline Society of Malaysia (FSM) is proud to host the biggest cat show in Malaysia history, the Malaysia International Cat Show (MyCats) comprising 8 CFA All-Breed Rings, 2 CFA Specialty Rings (Longhair & Shorthair Specialty), CFA Junior Showmanship Competition and for the first time, Malaysia will host the very first CFA Feline Agility Contest (more info on Feline Agility, click here) in the Asia-Latin America region.

The show was held from November 23rd to 25th, 2007 at Matrade Exhibition and Convention Centre, Jalan Duta, Kuala Lumpur. This is certainly 1 big show I ever involved and also would be my last time involvement. The crowd was certainly enormous throughout the 3 days show.

The queue was extremely long till outside of the show venue!!

Bees of cars outside the show venue…

The crowd inside the show hall where all 8 rings were held

Here is Pheobe Low (HKCLS) came all the way from Hong Kong to help us on the CFA Ambassador Program. Basically she will advise the walk-in spectators on CFA shows. Thanks a lot Pheobe for your help!!!

Contestants trying out the Feline Agility Course

Video captured during the Agility Course

My Molly in the show…

BSD Junction with collaboration with Cat Fanciers Society of Indonesia (CFSI) had organized a cat show on July 28th, 2007 at BSD Junction Mall approximately 30 minutes from Jakarta town. I was invited again to Jakarta to be their guest judge for the event. There are 74 cats mainly consisting Persians and Exotics inclusive of 3 Maine Coons. They had 3 main categories; Imported Pedigree, Local Bred Pedigree and Non-Pedigree.

Here, I would like to take the oppurtunity to thank Ibu Eva for inviting me to the show and she and her crew had showed great hospitality during my brief stay in Jakarta. To Pristi and Permana for assisting me during the show; my 3 lovely Ring Stewards whom had assisted me for cleaning up the cages and guide the exhibitors to their respective judging cages.

This show is very important to CFSI since they had associated with one of the largest cat association in the world, The Cat Fanciers’ Association (CFA). Ibu Eva had invited me to share my knowledge and experience with them on how to run a CFA show. I sat with the CFSI club committee and discuss with them on preparations, registrations, show formats etc over dinner, a day before the show.

On show day, I’d spent a brief moment to explain to the exhibitors on CFA show formats as well as their responsibilities as CFA exhibitors.

Here are some of the pictures taken during the show.

Above: Backdrop of the show
Below: A bird eye-view on the judging floor

Some pictures taken when I’m judging

Here am I giving out explanation on the cat I judged to the exhibitors and public.

Above: Winners for the Cat Fancy Dress Competition

Here are the winners with their cats for the competition.

The winner for Judge Preference of Non-Pedigree, a very fluffy white Persian mix. The tail was totally awesome and it has the bushiest tail in this cat show.

The winner for Judge Preference of Local Bred Pedigree, a solid black Exotic

The winner for Judge Preference of Pedigree Import, a solid black Persian

The winners for the Judge Preference

My Best in Show was awarded to the solid black Persian

A souvenier by the organizer.

Malaysian Cat Club (MCC) is proud to organize a 2-ring Matrade International Cat Show; their first show in the year of 2007 on 12th August 2007 at the Matrade Exhibition and Convention Centre, Jalan Duta, Kuala Lumpur.

Competition Categories
Group 1 - Persian / Exotic
Group 2 - Semi Longhair
Group 3 - Shorthair
Group 4 - Siamese / Oriental
Group 5 - Non-FIFe Breed
Kucing Malaysia (Malaysian Cat)
Domestic Longhair
Domestic Shorthair

Each category will be divided to the following classes:
1. Male Open
2. Female Open
3. Neuter
4. K10 Kittens (kittens between 6-10 months old)
5. K6 Kittens (kittens between 3-6 months old)

Of course, their usual events on that day would be cat fancy dress and cage decoration.

For more information on entries or other enquiries, please contact Madam Uji at +60136081090 (8.00pm - 10.00pm ONLY). No email contacts were given.

For the first time in the history, starting from this show, MCC had allowed non-members to join their show

Above: Divisional Winners (DWs) from Malaysia; from the left, Catizzadi Khawarizmi Elhurair owned Encik Suwardi Yaacob/Dr. Moonyza Akmal (owner of Catizzadi cattery), Felis Wonder Fullmetal Firefox owned by Mr. Ken Wee Kwong How, Felis Wonder Toby Solomon owned by Mr. Freddy Fatey and Felis Wonder Lee Simon owned by Mr. Jimmy Lee Chee Meng(owner of Felis Wonder cattery)

I was proud to be elected as Show Manager for this 4-ring show which was known as the CFA-Asia Award Cat Championship held last 7th July 2007 (Saturday) at Berjaya Times Square Exhibition Hall (6th Floor), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was certainly a great experience and exposure to me personally and I would like to take this oppurtunity to thank to the volunteers whom had help us on show day, Izad Syah, Norhana and a bunch of school children; to the Ring Clerks, Melissa Tham, Chloe Li, Vera Chan and Olivia Ling whom volunteered to clerk for our show; to the Master Clerk, Nadia Jaffar; Puan Zamina Ariffin, our club’s honourable advisor; Phebe Low and Rateo Lo, our CFA Ambassadors came all the way from Hong Kong to promote and explain CFA show standards to the public; our sponsors, Royal Canin Malaysia, Anvision and Katty.

Here are some of the pictures taken during the show:
Ring 1 - Ms. Pam Delabar (President of CFA International)

Ring 2 - Ms. Lesley Morgan-Blythe (Guest judge from Australia)

Ring 3 - Mr. Darrell Newkirk (Chairman of CFA International Division)

Ring 4 - Mr. Bob Zenda (CFA International Division Liaison for Asia except Japan)

For this round, I’d shown my Maine Coon, Molly and she is now a Premier, after obtaining 4 Winner Ribbons from all 4 judges. Molly managed to be in the final in Darrell Newkirk’s ring where she got 8th Best Cat in Premiership Class. Some photos of Molly taken when the judges judging her. Well done, Molly!!

Below: Molly with Pam Delabar

Below: Molly with Lesley Morgan

Below: Me, Molly and Darrell Newkirk with Molly’s 8th placing win

My proud Molly!!

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The Hong Kong Cat Lovers’ Society (HKCLS) had hold a CFA cat show at the Hong Kong International Trade & Exhibition Centre (HITEC) on April 14th & 15th, 2007. It is their 11th Championship show and for this time, there were 6 All Breed Judges came from USA & Japan. The judges were:-

Ring 1 - Judge Kenji Takano
Ring 2 - Judge Charles Gradowski
Ring 3 - Judge Jan Rogers
Ring 4 - Judge Yaeko Takano
Ring 5 - Judge Midori Shimada
Ring 6 - Judge Richard Hoskinson

I always looking forward to visit Hong Kong and since CFA show calendar ends at the end of April, this is 1 show that I would not want to miss since many cats that had been competiting for 1 whole show calendar year to accumulate points to acheive various titles such as Division Winner (DW), Regional Winner (RW) or even National Winner (NW)

There were approximately 400 cats competing in this show and I was lucky to have the oppurtunity to see some cat breeds that was not available in Malaysia such as American Wirehair, Silkirk Rex (Longhair & Shorthair), Chartreux, Russian Blue, Silver Tabby Maine Coon and also a good quality Somali.

I arrived at Hong Kong International Aitport via Malaysia Airlines couple of days before the show and have the oppurtunity to see how cats from abroad being handled and rabies shot were given as per standard requirement by Hong Kong Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD)

HITEC was located approximately 15minutes from the hotel we stayed at Nathan Road, Kowloon

Above: The venue

Some cats featured in the competition

British Shorthair

Silkirk Rex

American Shorthair

Russian Blue

American Curls

Somali

Brown Tabby Brown Tabby Maine Coons

Silver Maine Coon

Above: Some random judging clips that I took (approx 60MB file!!)

Ring 1 All Breed Judge Kenji Takano


Below: Kenji Takano doing his Championship Final

Ring 2 All Breed Judge Charles Gradowski

Below: Charles Gradowski doing his Championship Final

Ring 3 All Breed Judge Jan Rogers


Below: Jan Rogers doing her Kitten Final

Ring 4 All Breed Judge Yaeko Takano

Ring 5 All Breed Judge Midori Shimada

Below: Midori Shimada doing her Kitten Final

Ring 6 All Breed Judge Richard Hoskinson


Below: Richard Hoskinson doing his Kitten Final

Above: Highest accumlated points for Longhair cat in Championship Class won by a solid white male Persian, Melositos White Owl of E’Den Lover

Above: Highest accumlated points for Longhair cat in Premiership Class won by a Brown Tabby & White Exotic, Dega Bulu’s Toula

Above: Highest accumlated points for Longhair cat in Kitten Class won by a Brown Tabby & White Exotic, Bigi’s Kiss of Cupid

Above: Group photo for highest accumlated points in Longhair cats category

Above: Highest accumlated points for Shorthair cats in Championship Class won by a British Shorthair, Autumnleaf Amadeaus

Above: Highest accumlated points for Shorthair cats in Premiership Class won by a Russian Blue, Tsar Blu’s Tsar Trekker

Above: Highest accumlated points for Shorthair cats in Kitten Class won by a American Wirehair, YatFung’s Wanna Be A Queen!!

Above: Group photo for highest accumlated points in Shorthair cats category

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Trubus, a reputable Indonesia based argriculture magazine had organized a cat show on February 4th but the show had to be postponed to February 25th due to unexpected flooding in Jakarta during that time. The cat show was held in conjuction with their Trubus Agro Expo WTC M2 2007 which was held at WTC Manggadua shopping complex, located approximately 35 minutes from the heart of Jakarta. I was honoured when the show organizer of the cat show had contacted and invited me to be their judge.

Therefore, first and foremost, I would like to thank Trubus for inviting me to be the judge for their cat show. Secondly to Ibu Eva for making my stay in Jakarta a comfortable and memorable one. Finally, to the stewards for the show; Pristi, Bima, Rico and others whom had assisted me and had taught me a few useful Indonesian language.

I must compliment the exhibitors for grooming their cats very well and keeping them healthy and in shape. There were 3 categories; Imported Pedegrees, Local Bred Pedigrees and Non-Pedigree, each category were divided to Male Open, Female Open and Kitten Open classes.

Above: Royal Canin Indonesia booth and below are some candid shots during my judging

Below: Some of the cats presented at the show

Above: Trophies and rossettes for the winners

Above: The winner for the Judge’s Choice cat

Above: The Best In Show winner for the Non-Pedigree category with it’s owner

Above: The Best In Show winner for the Local Bred Pedigree category with it’s owner

Above: The Best In Show winner for the Imported Pedigree category with it’s owner