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3-4 December
2005
The Cats' World Club held its first CFA show on 3-4 December 2005 in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.
We are very happy to share that the show was an all-round success. We never could have done it without the support of our many friends; those who bought our T-shirts, mugs, eBay items, all the hard-working club members, our wonderful judges and clerks, the resourceful entry clerk, our generous master clerk, everyone who opted to help set up the sho hall instead of taking the tour of the city, and each and every one of our highly appreciated exhibitors.
What a rush! The media attention began the Sunday before the show with a CFA show demonstration on the country's most popular Sunday TV show, followed with numerous radio interviews, an appearance on Good Morning Slovenia on Friday morning and then never ceased during the weekend with various camera crews and newspaper reporters present most of the time. The pieces on the National TV news and on the news channel as well as the 20 minute piece in the pet show on Saturday afternoon really helped bring in the gate, especially on Sunday. And that, in turn, helped a very good cause, since 25% of every ticket sold was going to be donated to rescue. In addition, we had a big raffle table and the girls from the rescue section of the Cats' World Club were selling Christmas cards, magnets, painted bowls etc. that they'd made themselves.
In a separate hall, three different rescue groups were presenting their activities to the visitors and to the journalists (yeah!) and vaccinated, healthy cats were being offered for adoption (a pharmaceutical company donated the vaccines for this purpose).
The show itself had quite a few extras. We are pleased that the Clerking School held on Friday by Liz Watson went well and several of our dedicated long-time CFA exhibitors will be able to obtain their licences and hopefully consider joining the Judging Program in the future, and the participant who is new to CFA enjoyed the school and did a great job at the show as an assistant clerk.
On Friday evening, a professional guide took our judges and some exhibitors on the Tour of Ljubljana and from what we learned, it was a nice experience for everyone even if the weather could have been ever so slightly better.
On Saturday, the very first Junior Showmanship competition in Europe took place in Jan Rogers' ring with 7 (seven!) children competing for the ribbons and the sponsor's prizes (a free pass to a big water park, a baseball hat and underwater goggles). The children did so well and enjoyed themselves tremendously and the initial shyness was quickly overcome. We cannot wait to see their performance again on TV as the pet show's crew filmed them.
The Devon Rex team did a wonderful job on decorating the rings with posters and cat dolls. By the way, some of those Devon Rex dolls will be auctioned off for rescue and for the Winn Foundation soon on eBay, I will keep you posted on that.
The regular part of the show ran smoothly and the Cats World Club wishes to congratulate the top cats of our first show, GC One-O-One Mascalzone Latino, the black Exotic male who went best across the board, to Kuorii Cinema' of D'Eden Lover, the black Persian boy who was the highest scoring kitten, and GP Re Desiderio Fabiola, the Chartreux spay who was the highest scoring cat in what will probably be one of if not the highest Premiership count of the season in the International Division.
A BIG THANK YOU again to everyone involved in putting on this show, it was a large undertaking that never could have worked without the incredible amount of voluntary work and effort, the media support and the support of all our CFA friends.
Thanks to all of you, the club was able to
* raise over $2.300 for rescue
* place 15 rescue cats at the show
* promote CFA, the cat fancy and pedigreed cats in general in Slovenia and do so with some seed money left in case we are crazy enough to go through all of this again.
We hope all of our exhibitors and judges enjoyed their stay in Ljubljana as much as we all enjoyed having you here.
Alenka Unk
Secretary, Cats' World Club
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