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Admission
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Please remember your non-perishable food donation.
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Admission to the 2009 Mad Catter’s Tea Party & Cake Purrade Show is only $4 with a donation of non-perishable food (12 and up).
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Kids 6-12 are $3
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Kids 6 and under are free with
paid adult, and adult admission without a canned
food donation is $5 per person.
Hours
Cat Show Etiquette
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Ask questions if you have any!
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If you want to pet a cat, ASK
FIRST! Every owner is a little different with their
rules, please respect their wishes!
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If you are looking at a kitty in
its cage (benching area) - PLEASE DO NOT STICK YOUR
FINGERS THROUGH THE CAGES!
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If you would like to play with a
kitty in its benching area, and see a toy, please do
not jab the toy through the cage at the cat - you
might accidentally hurt them!
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Never touch a cat that you do not
have permission to touch, no matter how sweet they
look! ;)
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While watching the Judging,
please be respectful of the Judge.
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This means:
Do not walk past the
seating area; the area around and behind the Judge
is reserved ONLY for the judge and the people
bringing/removing their cats.
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If you have a question, please
quietly ask one of the exhibitors who will surely be
seated, watching the Judging.
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Please do not interrupt the
Judge. If you have a question for them, wait until
they are between cats.
The Show Hall at a
Glance
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When you enter the show hall,
you will see all the exhibitors individual cages
lined up on tables.
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Exhibitors (the people there with
their cats) usually will not arranged by breed, so
you will get to walk around the show hall to see
where everyone is.
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When you pay your admission, you
should receive a spectator's guide, with some basic
information about the show, and about the breeds
that will be in the show hall.
Judging
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Each Judge will handle each cat
that is in the Show Hall to be judged.
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The kitties are broken into
classes ~ Kittens, Cats (unaltered, adult = 8 months
and up), Alters, and Household Pets.
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Usually a judge will work through
one class at a time, beginning with the Long Hair
breeds.
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Each class is moved through
alphabetically, so, as an example, the Long Haired
kittens will be moved through, beginning with the
Birman (if there are any entered in the show) and
moving through to end with the Turkish Van.
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Then we move to the Short Hair
Kittens, beginning with the Abyssinian, and moving
on in a similar fashion.
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By paying attention to the breeds
being judged at any point in time, you can have an
idea whether a breed you were interested in seeing
will be up soon, or whether you might have missed
them with that judge and might want to look for them
in the show hall, or by watching another judge.
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What about all those ribbons? And
who won?
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Judging happens in phases:
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First, all the cats in one
class are handled by the judge.
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Each judge looks at each cat,
and ranks them by breed.
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The cats will get points for
color
(which is to say that, in breeds that can be
more than one color, the black cats are judged
against the black cats, and the brown against
the brown...and so on)
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Then they are judged by
division (basically this means pattern: solid,
tabby, etc),
and then the judge will give them an overall
rank, typically from 3rd, then 2nd, and Best of
Breed.
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After this, the owners come
and take their cats away.
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After the Judge has seen all
the cats in that class, they will call in a
selection of the best 10 cats or kittens called
a Final.
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They will then rank those 10
"Best of the Best" from 10th on up to Best.
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You have as many
opportunities to win "Best in Show" as there are
Judges in a TICA Cat show.
Please Remember
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Some exhibitors will be in a
hurry at times, as they may need to move quickly
from one Judge, or "Ring", to another. Please give
them plenty of space to pass you and do not reach
out and touch their cats please.
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Above all - have fun...we are!!!
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