A SUPREME DAY OUT

Well what a day! The annual blitz known as the Supreme cat show took place on Saturday and it was over no sooner than it began....the day seems to fly by! But what a day for our principal winners and congratulations to them all...full details in the results panel below.

The day did not get off to a great start as bad weather and the perennial car and traffic problems caused the organisers to understandably delay judging.....in fact it did feel strangely empty up to about 10am when the general public were allowed in.


However things soon hotted up and the team on the Our Cats stand were certainly kept busy for the day, as were our near neighbours Royal Canin and Mad about Cats......as for many of the others, I'm not so sure as it was difficult for us all to leave the stand.

In fact I don't think I really managed a proper look around the corner into Hall 3a from where we were in Hall 4. This year was of course a first for the organisers in these halls and it inevitably takes time to get used to the nuances of a different set up...not so difficult for me personally as Our Dogs has had stands in these same halls for Crufts for many years.

The key organisers could be seen busy throughout the day, Julia May, Hall Manager Kit Game assisted by Malcolm Beasley and GCCF Chairman Betty Shingleton and you always know you are at the Supreme when you hear the dulcet tones of the two PA men on the microphones!

It was also a big day for the winners of the Royal Canin / Our Cats competitions and they all gathered around the stage area of the large Royal Canin stand where Christian Romeril seemed to be in overdrive for the day!

Well done to all the winners and we look forward to hosting the same again next year....get those entries in now!

The usual big crowd gathered around the main stage in the afternoon for the judging of the 4 principal awards before we all drifted off into the dark Birmingham night with shouts of see you at the National or Happy Christmas ringing in our ears....Happy Christmas? .....................there's a few more cat shows to do before then!

writes Vince Hogan

Results from the Supreme 2006:


Best of Variety Foreign Adult, Supreme Adult & Supreme Exhibit SUPREME, UK & IMPERIAL GR CH GRIZABELLA OHBLADI OHBLADA Black Smoke Devon Rex, Female owners: Mr & Mrs J A Boucher, breeder: Mrs I Challis

Best of Variety Burmese Neuter & Supreme Neuter SUPREME IMPERIAL GR PR CHIARO CIOCCOLATA Chocolate Burmese, Female Neuter owner/breeder: Mrs P A Akehurst

Best of Variety Siamese Kitten & Supreme Kitten DRESTOTHRIL DANCELOT Seal Tortie Point Siamese, Female owner/breeder: Ms C C L Knowlson

Best Non-Pedigree Longhair & Supreme Non-Pedigree Exhibit BILLY BEAN Black Male Neuter owner: Mrs P Potter

Winner of Most Original Best Decorated Pen was Miss G. A. Hall’s rendition of Sorrento, near the Bay of Naples, where her Lilac Burmese boy, IMPERIAL GR CH TALIPAW SORRENTOMOON relaxes in his villa.

On the horizon is the volcano Vesuvius, which is still active from time to time. Over Vesuvius hangs the golden moon from which the fine feline is named. Note the urn of Sorrento scrolls at the side of his couch - a fine and careful detail!

* Our Cats thanks all the many readers and customers who visited the stand on Saturday. We hope we managed to serve you well in the busy atmosphere... if there is anything else to need, we will be at the National Cat Show on December 9th.

* For people South of Watford... December 9th is clearly a great event for all who like to bait Vince on the Our Cats stand for his alleged Northern bias. He will be travelling due south for a couple of days and looks forward to a pint of London pride in the hand and Flower opposite Olympia!

* Show Manager Julia May has a message for those who left certificates at the Supreme. Please call her on 0208 366 4406 or email her through her web site, or the Supreme web site.

* Well done to all hardy cat people who fought their way in through traffic and heavy rain on Saturday morning... remember you do it for fun!

* Our Cats held a competition on the stand for a very big bag of IamsÖthat was claimed along with some of the runners up prizesÖbut one or two were not. Watch for the announcement in the next issue to see if you were one of the winners.

* The Our Cats/Royal Canin Top Breeder and Top Exhibit award went down very well again this year with a big presentation taking place on the fantastic Royal Canin stand... which seemed to do great trade all day long. A full photo review will appear in our December 15th issue alongside many of the Supreme winners adverts.

* If you won at the Supreme make sure you tell the world with an advert in our feature!

* FINALLY, not withstanding the weather, what did YOU think of the SUPREME this year...
Better or worse or just the same?


Liked the new halls or preferred the others, or
didn’t matter?

Nice and airy or too much space?

Anything you liked, disliked, would like to see
changed?

Email me... vince@ourdogs.co.uk - keeping your comment to the point (50 words) and ok for us to print in the next issue and on our web site.

Helen Davis asst brand manager Mr & Mrs Toogood  prize winners	Shelia Collins with Scott from OurCats & her new book Truffles Diary