I still can't quite believe Pinball's first show results and have to keep pinching myself! The main reason I took him was because I thought that being handled lots by different people would do him the world of good (which it has) and I thought if he maybe got a few points when he was judged that would be quite nice as a bonus.
About 2 weeks ago I was having a major panic about the show expecting Pinball to be a nightmare and the weekend to be a disaster, how wrong could I have been!
He wasn't too happy in his main pen as he was penned on the other side of the hall from all the other NFCs and spent the weekend in with the Benglies and it seems he doesn't like the racket that Benglies make so he spent most of his time hunched up in the corner being stroppy bless him but out in the rings he was fine and got more confident with each ring.
I couldn't believe how well he did as other than him and a 9 month old NFC the others were all all 16 months - 4 1/2 years old so competition was very stiff as they were all at such different stages of development and they were all stunning cats. There was great fun in a few of the rings though as a few NFCs had to have their colours/ coat patterns changed which caused us all to be scribbling away in our catalogues lol!
Pinball gained first in colour in every ring, quite a few 2nd and 3rd in divisions and quite a few 2nd and 3rd Best in Breeds!
He was called back for 4 finals and was 4th Best Cat in an All Breed Final, 3rd Best Cat in an All Breed Final, 2nd Best Cat in a Speciality Final and 9th Best Cat in a Speciality final

He did so well that he achieved his
Champion title, then his
Grand Champion title and just before the show finished he gained his
Double Grand Champion title!!!!!!

Honestly you could have knocked me over with a feather, I almost cried I was so proud of my baby boy.
When the show was over I took Pinball to one of the judges who was doing in depth critiques of people's cats and after discussing his technical points with me she said to describe him in short he is 'fantastic and massive' especially considering he has only just turned 10 months old
He had some professional pics done so I will post those once I get them through as the close up of his face is just to die for!
I am so proud of my baby boy who took the show totally in his stride and enjoyed flirting with the girls in the pens either side of him in the rings (he was distracting an Abysinnian girl something chronic in one of the All Breed Finals

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