No, you don't have to register with FIFe unless you want to claim your cats titles. If you're interested and want any help, then PM me and I will do what I can to help you I'm already doing that with another newbie at an up & coming show

Selkcah Nowergian Forest Cats

Thanks, I'm gonna have a look at their site and see what shows they have coming up. Doing my first tica show soon too.

We have Lincoln next weekend, too late to enter obviously, but depends how close you are to visit & see what goes on. Or there is one July 6th in Wigan, if you want to jump in a the deep end, like I did several years ago, lol.


Selkcah Norwegian Forest Cats

Thanks, i'm in the midlands. Got a few tica/gccf shows coming up so prehaps later in the year, but may visit sooner. Just going to research it first, look at the website etc..

Okie Dokie, just shout if you need any help


Selkcah Norwegian Forest Cats

Think it's an expense you allow for if you decide to show and one you don't mind forking out for when with some shows it clearly goes straight back into the shows it is annoying Jo also when you have spent a small fortune on entering your cat/cats into a show and your results can't be posted on time or your Rosette gets given to the wrong pen,or a judge can't be bothered to give you 2mins to give you a run down on any critique-whether your cat does well or not,so exhibitors sometimes are quick to critisise but sometimes are given all too often the ammunition to do so with valid and good reason,and yes personally i appreciate the time and effort that must go into organising a show,venue etc,but as slave to cats who go to shows i also appreciate the time,effort and expense that we as slaves put into getting our cats to these shows-and let me say this side of things isn't always appreciated by the very people who do organise these events

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Burnthwaites Siamese

Yes, things do go wrong sometimes and we obviously can't answer for the judges(!) but as for late results and rosettes etc that is purely down to the fact that there are never enough volunteers on the day to help and probably a small number of people on the day are trying to do too many tasks and getting very stressed.

Last year we noticed we had a problem with some of the more inexperienced stewards not bringing the results slips to the table regularly which in turn had the knock on effect of delaying results going up on the boards - so this year we have allocated someone (well....me!) to go around and collect the slips on a regular basis to ensure there is no backlog.

We do try to take peoples comments and suggestions on board to improve things for exhibitors and are always open to new ideas.

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Kaz

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