Utrecht 27-1-2007

It was a very nice day at the show. Bernard (with his lovely partner Christiane and our "translator" Didier), Nanna (ofcourse with Aart) and I were sitting next to each other. Marleen, Valentina, Monique, Arnold and Damien, Kirsten, Jan-Willem and Zep did visit. We did have a lunch and a lovely desert with all of us.
The nebelung did not have to complain about attention. Many people did stop to have a look at the Nebelung.

I do not know all the results as only the last minute the reports were given and I forgot to ask Bernard if Karolina or Olrun got the international point. But thats also because the judge liked both of them, and Bernard could not tell by looking at the judge. Sometimes you can see what he writes or you know because he likes one obviously best.
The judge, mr. Vestjens did like all the Nebelung presented. All of them got did welll and got the titels they were after (exept for Olrun or Karolina - they wanted the same titel and that can be only given to one of the contenders).

Palaya Azadeh- of Nanna- got a special price and
Ciastek the Grey - of Bernard- was Best in Variety. Also congratulations to you Urszula!!!
Ladoga's Mischutka - of Nanna- was nominated best in show kittens 6-10 months.
Ciastek was also nominated best in show adult males

It was great to see all the different nebelung. They have many differences and many simelarities, but all of them are pretty.

We realy enjoyed the show and hope to do a show with much more Nebelung next year in Belgium.

CIASTEK


MASCHUTKA



ZEP AND ÖLRÚN


PALAYA


KAROLINA


OZAR



More photos can be found by this link

Sounds like a good show--sometimes it is just as much fun to meet and chat with
the fellow exhibitors as it is to win some points! And it is always nice to see the slight
differences between the breeders lines.

Goodness sakes, Zep is a big boy now, I can remember getting little baby photos of him
from Kirsten, seemed like just last year, and he is now walking, talking and chewing (ie he has his teeth)!
What a cutie and I think I see a future cat show judge

Congrats to all
Vicki B

Congratulations to all!

You must have had a wonderful day

laurence wrote:Congratulations to all!

You must have had a wonderful day

It was a lovely day, and next time, BELGIUM 2009, you can join us with your Nebelung.
That will be great!!!!

Congratulations next time I going to be with you

Dear all,

It was really nice to meet everyone. I'm very curious who got the point.

I will try to be there also in Belgium, with 2 cats. Quda will go than, however she hates it, and the kitten I will get from Ula. Anke you made a very beautiful picture from Zep, I really like the one with the look: What do you want from me?

Regards Kirsten

I followed your link to the other show photos, and I have to say, what a nice group of Nebs were
at that show, and a couple russians too
Very nice, I almost think that I like the quality of the Nebs I see in Europe now better than some I
see in the USA. I see real nice heads, ears, eyes in the Euro Nebs, and here I am seeing weak eyecolor
and rabbit ears....not good IMO.

Glad you all had fun, and what nice portraits of Zep!
Vicki B

I'll make sure to join Belgium 2009 then with my 2 blues

I'm looking forward to the show in 2009 already. Seeing more (and different) Nebelung and meeting Laurence and Urszula. I hope even more will Nebelung owners will be able to come.

It sounds great!!!!! And besides the offical judgement we could have our own competition for most beautifull eyes, best coat, sweetes Nebelung, most beautiful kitten and most beautifull adult. I know that I would love to take a part of this cat and that cat and combine it to a "perfect cat". And those cats are not mine. But what is some one else his opinion?

All the Nebelung owners at the show can give their opinion anonymous on a form. Ofcourse incl. the reason why. ( It would be great to know more about the what we appriciate in our cats.)

At the end of the day the results will be known, and the winners get a price!!!

What do you think of this proposal and are there categories you would like to see.

Regards,

Anke

Yes, It will be great to meet you all

The Grey wrote:Yes, It will be great to meet you all

I hardly dare to ask.......... "will you come with or without cats?"

It would be great if you could bring them, but I could understand totaly if you do not take them on such a long journey. In both cases!!!!!
I will be happy to see you!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anke

Hi Anke,

I will try to come with Quda and my new kitten from Ula, maybe Kira. Enzo the nebelung kitten from this litter will probably go to Tilburg and I will offer them a free show. Maybe Marleen can come with Bink?

Regards Kirsten

Sereb Haze wrote:Hi Anke,

I will try to come with Quda and my new kitten from Ula, maybe Kira. Enzo the nebelung kitten from this litter will probably go to Tilburg and I will offer them a free show. Maybe Marleen can come with Bink?

Regards Kirsten

Great!!! That you will come with so many of your lovely cats and what a great thought "a free show". I will follow your thought and will also offer the buyers of my kittens a free entree for this show/ meeting.

Regards,

Anke

I had a look at Bernard's website.

Ciastek got his CAGCI + BV and Karolina got the CACIB.

Great idea the free show for one's kitten!

Congratulations Ciastek and Karolina with the splendid results.
It was a nice show to visit. (I was there on business too, finding a man for my Turkish Angora.) I am sorry I missed you Kirsten.
I will consider visiting the show next year with Bink but I think is very very shy and would not appreciate being confined in a small cage all day. Being confined in a bench for 15 minutes to visit the vet or something and he goes totally bezerk.
It would be great to have a lot of Nebs together in a show though. It is far away in time and I will seriously think about it.

Marleen

Hi Marleen,

Mine also don't like showing. So I hope you can come, it is only once in his lifetime. Sorry that I missed you, I didn't know you were there.

Regards Kirsten

For your cats who are stressed in a show, I can recommend you to use the Bach Flowers. They really work and are totally "healthy" and cannot harm your cats. Another thing is to put a little bag of lavender in their cage too. Lavender masks the other smells and has a tranquilizing effect for the cats.

- Pour vos chats qui sont stressés en expo, je vous recommande les fleurs de Bach. Cela marche vraiment et c'est totalement inoffensif pour nos chat. Un autre truc est de mettre un sachet de lavande dans la cage. La lavande masque les les autres odeurs et a un effet tranquilisant sur nos chats.

I have used Hornbeam Bach flower for Beau when I took him out for the 1st show of Courtoise.
Considering how stressed Beau had been at his 1st show, I gave him 4 drops of Hornbeam every day 2 weeks prior to the show, directly in his mouth... You can put the drops in their drinking water too. It does not matter if the other cats drink it too.

- J'ai utilisé le Charme en fleur de Bach pour Beau lorsque je l'ai ressorti pour la 1ère expo de Courtoise. Etant donné le stress intense dont il avait souffert lors de sa 1ère expo, je lui ai donné 4 gouttes de Charme par jour directement dans la gueule, 2 semaines avant l'expo. On peut aussi mettre les gouttes dans leur eau de boisson. Cela n'affecte aucunement les autres chats qui la boivent.

Pictures of Beau in December 2006 for this 1st show. What you cannot hear is that Beau growled non stop the whole day! One sees how really stressed he was
- Photo de Beau en Décembre 2006 pour sa 1ère expo. Ce que vous n'entendez pas c'est Beau qui a grondé non stop toute la journée! On voit vraiment à quel point il était stressé

In the morning - Le matin


In the afternoon - L'après-midi



Picture of Beau in September 2007 for his 2nd show after 2 weeks of Hornbeam! Not one single growl either!!
Photo de Beau en septembre 2007 pour sa 2ème expo après 2 semaines de Charme. Pas un seul grondement non plus !

Hi Laurence,

That is a big difference, thank you for the tip. I will implement this the next show.

Regards Kirsten

What a good tip!!!!

Thanks,

Anke

Annie, breeder in Belgium, also told me that she would like to go to the show next year. So there will be many of us and many of our cats!!!!

Le champion et sa Dame

Le plus beau Nebelung de l'exposition devant la gloire

What beautiful the cats!
Regards, vilia