Naturally TICA Show - Alexandrite Akiro, another super show!

Last weekend was another show for Alexandrite Akiro and yet again he made us very proud. The show was at Elsecar, Barnsley and we went both days. There were 12 rings, 6 per day and on the Saturday Akiro made 4 Finals and on the Sunday 5 Finals, including the very last ring where he received another BEST Alter Final. Way to go Akiro!!!

Saturday's Finals

Monika Dany - 2nd Best Allbreed Alter

Connie Webb - 3rd Best Allbreed Alter 

  Sue Hart-Jones - 3rd Best Longhair Alter

  Kim Tomlin - 9th Best Allbreed Alter

 

 Sunday's Finals

Connie Webb - BEST Allbreed Alter

   Sue Hart-Jones - 2nd Best Longhair Alter

Monika Dany - 3rd Best Longhair Alter

  Heather Roberts - 4th Best Allbreed Alter

Kim Tomlin -  7th Best Allbreed Alter

Akiro receiving his BEST Allbreed Alter Final from Connie

Akiro and his Rosettes, and a little extra friend!!

A big Thank you to all the judges who finalled Akiro and of course mum who came along on the Sunday to help with the show catalogue. After a tiring Saturday I was very glad of the help! Also mum made another great lunch, thanks mum xx

We also had the pleasure of showing Musrafy Yanara for our very good friend Maria, she did brilliantly with many BEST finals and we were very tempted to kidnap her! Well Done Yana!

It was lovely to see Alexandrite River's baby girl too, Midnightstar Rika who also did very well at her first show. Well Done Rika!

Akiro does it again!! Another fantastic Show Result!!

We went off to Newbury yesterday for the CatTICA show. We took along Alexandrite Akiro to hopefully get more points towards his Supreme Alter Title and he couldn't have made us prouder. He finished the show with a total of 5 Finals

Chris Unangst - BEST Longhair Alter

Katherina Krenn - 2nd Best Longhair Alter

  Frencesca Gagern - 3rd Best Allbreed Alter

  Heather Roberts - 5th Best Allbreed Alter

  Jeff Roberts - 5th Best Allbreed Alter

Way to go Akiro!

Again we were asked "Why is he an Alter???" Which just makes us very proud of our Siberians and  for anyone who breeds cats, you can't keep everyone in the breeding program. This the judges understood. But by showing him as an alter it proves that we have picked some fantastic Siberians as our foundation cats and we are keeping those lines going with our own bred Siberians.

Big Thank you to all the Judges who picked Akiro for a Final and special thanks to my mum for all her help and catalogue scoring and for those fantastic sandwiches! xxx

Some photos of him in his finals sorry for quality the hall lighting wasn't great.

Akiro and his BEST Alter final with Chris Unangst

Akiro and his 2nd Best Alter Final with Katherina Krenn

Triple Grand Champion Alter Alexandrite Akiro

Andy took a couple of short videos of Akiro the other weekend doing his favourite thing playing!!

Akiro has such a sweet nature and doesn't seem to have grown up at all. He is now 18 months old and just as playful as when he was a kitten and still hasn't learnt to do as he is told :-) He likes to squeak at us alot and the noise for a boy of his size is very silly. Akiro also loves collecting things including sweetie wrappers, anything plastic, sponges, milk tops, just about anything!! We call him our magpie.

He looks so like his mum Gemini now and he is still his mummy's baby boy. She always greets him with a head butt, it is very sweet to see.

I have also uploaded them to our Flickr Album: Videos - Our Cats

TICA Season 2009-2010 Results

It was a busy and tiring end to the season for us as we were showing the 3 boys but boy was it worth it. We are very proud and very excited to announce the following results:

IW SGC Cooncreole Paavo

EW Region
BEST Siberian Cat
8th Best Allbreed Cat
5th Best Longhair Cat

Internationally
4th Best Siberian Cat (132 shown)

RW Alexandrite Hendrix

EW Region
BEST Siberian Kitten
7th Best Allbreed Kitten

Internationally
4th Best Siberian Kitten (90 shown)

TGCA Alexandrite Akiro

EW Region
2nd Best Siberian Alter

Internationally
13th Best Siberian Kitten (90 shown)
8th Best Siberian Alter (43 shown)

Paavo gained another Regional win, Hendrix is our first Alexandrite Regional Winner and Akiro did brilliantly for a young Siberian competing in the Alter class.

Way to go Boys! You make us all very proud xxx

Also well done to everyone who showed Siberians this year and Good Luck for next year!

TICA Official News! TGCA Alexandrite Akiro

We have had great news from TICA today, it's official our sweet, loveable boy Alexandrite Akiro is

Triple Grand Champion Alter Alexandrite Akiro

He achieved Champion Alter at his first show and then at the last show of the Season he gained his Triple Grand Champion Alter title. With 10 finals and 3040 points, he is a Superstar and all at only 10 months of age.

Well Done Akiro, you make us all very proud :-)

Last TICA show of the season

Last weekend Andy and I, and the boys went off to Swanley, Kent for the last UK TICA Show of the Season. It was a tiring weekend, after arriving at the hotel at midnight on the Friday and then two days of showing, 8 rings per day but it was well worth it the boys made us very proud!

Hendrix was a star the entire weekend, and Akiro was such a sweetie but he has this habit of turning into a dead weight and on the Sunday he was so tired he couldn't possibly help by standing up for you to get him out of the show rings. And at 5.7kg of weight he is no feather! It was a great workout for me!

The show was really exciting and if I have worked it out right Akiro should have enough points to have achieved at only 10 months of age TICA Triple Grand Champion Alter, way to go Akiro!

Paavo of course is heavier at 7.4kg so he is Andy's responsibility at the show, we only showed him for a few rings as he was sniffing for girls in every pen! And he had done what he needed to do to secure his Regional Win for this year.

So here is quick rundown of the results:-

Alexandrite Hendrix

Saturday
1st BEST Allbreed Kitten
2nd Best Allbreed Kitten
2nd Best Allbreed Kitten
2nd Best Longhair Kitten
4th Best Allbreed Kitten

Sunday
1st BEST Allbreed Kitten
1st BEST Longhair Kitten
2nd Best Allbreed Kitten
3rd Best Allbreed Kitten
4th Best Allbreed Kitten
5th Best Allbreed Kitten

TICA Champion Alexandrite Akiro

Saturday
3rd Best Allbreed Alter
8th Best Allbreed Alter
9th Best Allbreed Alter

Sunday
4th Best Longhair Alter
5th Best Allbreed Alter
5th Best Allbreed Alter
8th Best Allbreed Alter
9th Best Allbreed Alter
9th Best Allbreed Alter

TICA IW Supreme Grand Champion Cooncreole Paavo

Saturday
3rd Best Allbreed Cat
7th Best Allbreed Cat
9th Best Allbreed Cat

Thank you to all the Judges who finalled our handsome boys, and to our mum's and dad's who with out them babysitting for us we couldn't have gone. So a big thank you to our mum's and dad's for looking after the family.

Also not forgetting this week has seen our handsome Fudge have his Tenth birthday.

Happy 10th Birthday Fudge,
from mum and dad, and the furry bunch xxx

TICA Champion Alexandrite Phoenix Mishka

We have been really busy here with the kittens and decorating (and of course work!!) but we did manage to take the boys along to the TICA show at Brigg last weekend. Akiro went on the Saturday with Hendrix, where he got one Best in Breed but no finals we completely understand as he is young boy, he did receive some lovely comments though from the Judges. Hendrix got two finals on the Saturday a 6th and 7th Allbreed Kitten Final and he behaved really well.

The best news of the show was that on the Sunday in the very last ring and the very last final, Alexandrite Phoenix Mishka received a 10th Best Allbreed Cat Final from Adriana Kajon. We were so thrilled and this was extra special as even though Phoenix is a stunning and very handsome chap he isn't very confident at the shows but he is now a TICA Champion, way to go Phoenix!!

I was so happy, I had a couple of tears and smiled all the way home :-) A big Thank you to Adriana for the lovely comments about him and for finalling him. We are so very proud of our boy

TICA Champion Alexandrite Phoenix Mishka

We have also had confirmation this week of Akiro's TICA Champion Alter Title, way to go boys!!

Top Show News

We went to a two day TICA show at the weekend and we had a great time. We took the 3 boys again and they were fantastic. Paavo was his usual Mr Laidback, Hendrix again didn't need any catnip and was jumping around like a crazy monkey, and Akiro was a star at his first adult show.

Paavo had 6 finals, including 2 Best Longhair Cat and 9 Best of Breeds, please see our website for full details (link below):

TICA IW SGC Cooncreole Paavo

Super cute Horror Hendrix had 8 finals, including 1 Best Allbreed Kitten, 2 Best Longhair Kitten and 6 Best of Breeds, please see our website for full details (link below):

Alexandrite Hendrix

Also it was Chunk's first show Paavo's son Mentobe Arctic Monkey and he got 2 finals, including a Best Allbreed Kitten. Congratulations to Susie and Mark.

Way to go Boys!!

It was a great result for Siberians especially the kittens as 3 out of 4 Allbreed Kitten finals on the Saturday, Siberians were picked as BEST Kitten, they were Alexandrite Hendrix, Mentobe Arctic Monkey and Musrafy Anfisa. Well done to the babies!

Some Photos of the day, taken by Andy

Fantastic Shows News!

This weekend we went to a CatTICA show in Milton Keynes and decided for once to go both days. Yes we really are mad enough to spend all Valentine's day in a Leisure Centre Hall in Milton Keynes, you have to love those Sibies to do that! To soften the blow Andy bought me a lovely graphite Pandora bracelet and valentine's charm, and a cute teddy bear carrying a rose.

There had been two Judge changes and as with every show you never know how it is going to go. There are some lovely Siberians being shown at TICA so competition is hard within the breed group and then you are competing against all the other breeds for finals. So when we do final we know it is something to be very proud. And did our boys make both Andy and I very proud this weekend. We took the big Teddy Bear Paavo who competes in the Championship Cats, and mischievous Akiro (who to my horror managed to escape from his carry case while we were going down the motorway!!) and little horror Hendrix who are still both kittens. This was Akiro's last show as a kitten and at the next show he will be competing as an Alter which is a bit scary as he is still going through various growing stages! But he is still very cute, well I think so!

So here are the results, first up with have 

IW SGC Cooncreole Paavo

Saturday 13th February 2010

• Best (1st) Allbreed Cat (count 50) Judge: Kurt Vlach
• Best (1st) Longhair Cat (count 14) Judge: Tomoko Tanaka
• 5th Best Allbreed Cat (count 50) Judge: Hisako Yamada
• 9th Best Allbreed Cat (count 50) Judge: Kay de Vilbiss
• 4 Best of Breeds

Sunday 14th February 2010

• Best (1st) Allbreed Cat (count 49) Judge: Tomoko Tanaka
• Best (1st) Longhair Cat (count 16) Judge: Kurt Vlach
• 3rd Best Allbreed Cat (count 49) Judge: Hisako Yamada
• 4th Best Longhair Cat (count 16) Judge: Phillipa Holmes
• 3 Best of Breeds

Alexandrite Akiro (7 months)

Saturday 13th February 2010

• Best (1st) Longhair Kitten (count 17) Judge: Tomoko Tanaka
• 2nd Best Allbreed Kitten (count 31) Judge: Kay de Vilbliss
• 5th Best Allbreed Kitten (count 31) Judge: Kurt Vlach
• 7th Best Allbreed Kitten (count 31) Judge: Hisako Yamada
• 2 Best of Breeds

Sunday 14th February 2010

• 2nd Best Allbreed Kitten (count 30) Judge: Tomoko Tanaka
• 2nd Best Longhair Kitten (count 10) Judge: Kurt Vlach
• 1 Best of Breeds

Alexandrite Hendrix (5 months)

Saturday 13th February 2010

• Best (1st) Longhair Kitten (count 17) Judge: Phillipa Holmes
• 4th Best Longhair Kitten (count 17) Judge: Tomoko Tanaka
• 5th Best Allbreed Kitten (count 31) Judge: Bobbie Tullo
• 2 Best of Breeds

Sunday 14th February 2010

• Best (1st) Longhair Kitten (count 10) Judge: Phillipa Holmes
• 5th Best Longhair Kitten (count 10) Judge: Kurt Vlach 
  
• 7th Best Allbreed Kitten (count 30) Judge: Bobbie Tullo
• 2 Best of Breeds

So as you can see an absolutely brilliant weekend for all 3 boys. We had some lovely comments about the boys and all the Judges said what a fantastic class of Siberian Cats and Kittens there were at the show. Hendrix was very entertaining with his scamping about in the show ring and he really enjoyed knocking his cards off his pen. Akiro was a lot more relaxed at the show and his face was so funny when the judges were waving the feather sticks around to get his attention.

We also got to see little Argentia at the show, who all though she didn't final this time. She looked so very pretty and seemed quite confident in the show ring. So it was lovely to see her and Maisie. Maisie made sure Argentia had a full face and body wash while at the show which was very sweet to see them so settled together. Thank you to Erica and Darren for taking her to the show for us to see her again.

After such an amazing and exciting weekend and the travelling to the show both days. We didn't stay in the show hotel because of Gemini with her kittens and Pantera is due this week so both Andy and I, and not forgetting the boys are today enjoying a well earned rest...

Show News

After another busy week here Andy and I went off to the Ragitime TICA show at Godmanchester on the Saturday only, two days just seemed too much!

So with a 4:30am start, not just the Sibs have to do their hair, Andy does too, only kidding it is me who takes forever to get ready in the morning. Since a child I have been allergic to them and the slowest person ever to get ready! We got there just before 9am after a warp speed drive down in the Scoob, and after a tour around the car park we went through to the show where we met up with friends and got the boys ready.

We took Paavo, Akiro and little Hendrix, and they all did really well. Here are there finals:

IW SGC Cooncreole Paavo

• 2nd Best Allbreed Cat (count 51) Judge: Connie Webb
• 3rd Best Allbreed Cat (count 54) Judge: Thomas Andersen

Alexandrite Akiro (6 months)

• Best (1st) Longhair Kitten (count 17) Judge: Brigette Berthelon
  
• 7th Best Allbreed Kitten (count 34) Judge: Connie Webb
• 8th Best Allbreed Kitten (count 36) Judge: Don Caruthers
• 8th Best Allbreed Kitten (count 36) Judge: Thomas Andersen

Alexandrite Hendrix (4 months)

• 5th Best Allbreed Kitten (count 36) Judge: Martine Caillard

So it was a brilliant day for us and we had some great comments about the boys. They make us very proud.

We also saw little Alexandrite Argentia who now lives with Erica and Darren and Maisie, her big Sis. Even though Argentia didn't final this time she behaved and looked like a princess. It was lovely seeing her again and her new family, who spoil her rotten :-)

So we got home about 9pm at night, all very tired, and ready for a well earned curry and film!

Show News - Here come the boys!!!

I have been feeling pretty poorly lately so it was at one point an unknown whether we would go to the Spoticat TICA show last Saturday in Coventry but we did in the end and even though it was a really long day for us all we are very happy we did. We took Paavo, Phoenix and baby Akiro and this is how well they did:

Alexandrite Akiro

• 6th Best Allbreed Kitten Final (65 kitten count) - Toni Jones
  
• 7th Best Longhair Kitten Final (27 longhair kitten count) - Vlada Benynia
  
• 3rd Best Kitten Final - Vicki-Jo Harrison (Training ring)
• 6 out of 7 Best of Breeds - 3 Siberian Kittens shown including Akiro
  

We were so pleased for Akiro he is a sweet boy and after going through a lanky stage, he is really filling out now and still growing like a weed! He is 5 months old and 4.2kg now! No wonder my foot hurt the other week when he decided to jump down from my arms and drop on it!

IW SGC Cooncreole Paavo

• 2nd Best Allbreed Cat Final (75 cat count) - Monika Dany
• 9th Best Allbreed Cat Final (77 cat count) - Lynn Judge
• 3rd Best Longhair Cat Final (34 longhair count) - Vlada Benynia
  
• 3 out of 6 Best of Breeds - 5 Siberian Cats shown including Paavo and Phoenix

Paavo was a star again and he had so much fun on the scratchy posts, but what a chunk to carry around, thank goodness Andy was there!

Alexandrite Phoenix Mishka

• 3 out of 6 3rd Best of Breeds

No finals for handsome Phoenix but he behaved like a true gentlemen and looked after his baby boy Akiro all day.

Unfortunately we couldn't make the Regional Awards show dinner to collect Paavo's awards but our friend Maria very kindly picked his Regional Award and International Award up for us. Very excited to see what he got :-) Big thanks to Maria for collecting them for us.

At the Naturally TICA Show held in Elsecar in November Paavo got a Best Cat Final (49 cat count) in Robin Sessler's Ring and 2 Best of Breeds. Well done Paavo! Baby Akiro got 2 Best of Breeds.

The boys make us very proud and we are just so happy that they want to go to the shows. Well done boys!

What a week! Show News & Kittens Video

Well it has been quite a stressful week for us this week. It all started with a rather unpleasant email on the Monday, my Dad was rushed into hospital on the Wednesday, but thankfully he is home now and on the mend. On the Thursday morning I ended up with a rather nasty visual migraine, which I get when stressed and they affect me for a couple of days afterwards. Friday at work was quite a challenge and seemed to last an eternity. So as a result of such a difficult week I am running behind on emails, so please bear with me if you have sent me an email and I haven't replied, I will get to them.

We had paid for the Cattica Newbury TICA show on the Saturday but this was in doubt as I was worrying about my Dad and didn't feel very well at all, and we hadn't even got ready for the show. So Andy got everything ready for the show, he gave Paavo a quick shower and I helped dry him. So on the Friday night I set the alarm for just before 5am and we had decided if I didn't feel well in the morning then we wouldn't go. After a rather bad night we did get up and go off to the show, but after the week we had had I really wasn't expecting it to go well.

We arrived a bit late, and got everything setup, we had taken Paavo the gentle giant and little Akiro at just 4 months he was going to be one of the babies of the show, and he was going along for a chance to see how he coped with it. There were 2 other Siberian males, 1 Siberian male alter and 3 other Siberian kittens at the show, so a good turn out.

After both boys got a couple of second Best of Breeds, the weekend seemed to be going how I predicted but then it improved with Paavo gaining an Allbreed final, in which Maria's new boy from Siberia achieved a fabulous Best Cat. Paavo received an 8th Best Cat. Then baby Akiro got Best of Breed and a final where he achieved 2nd Best Longhair Kitten from Monika Dany, and some lovely comments. Way to go Little Akiro! Something exciting to tell his mum Gemini about when he got home. Then Monika went on to give Paavo Best of Breed and a Best Longhair Cat award! Top Man Paavo!

Overall the day turned out well, with the final results being:

IW SGC Cooncreole Paavo

• Best Longhair Cat - Judge: Monika Dany
• 6th Best Allbreed Cat - Judge: Jeff Roberts
  
• 8th Best Allbreed Cat - Judge: Rob Seliskar
  
• 8th Best Allbreed Cat - Judge: Genevieve Basquine
• 3 Best of Breeds
• 3 Second Best of Breeds
  

Alexandrite Akiro

• 2nd Best Longhair Kitten - Judge: Monika Dany
• 1 Best of Breed
• 5 Second Best of Breeds
  

We are so very proud of the boys and they both behaved like gentlemen.





While we were at the show we got some a couple more Catrix Cat trees, which our little family think are fabulous. They definitely get loads of fun out of them. Andy took the videos today of Galina and Ariana's little ones having fun!

New Arrivals & Gemini Babies

We are proud to announce the arrival of our first end of Summer babies. Sweet Ariana gave birth to 6 beautiful Siberian babies on Wednesday. We think we have 4 boys and 2 girls, and a mixture of browns, silvers and possibly a blue silver. We have some gorgeous Classic patterns with and without white. One of the kittens has white blaze on their nose just like their Dad Phoenix and the two girls have white tips to their tails just like their Mum Ariana. I love the white tail tips they look so very cute when they are all fluffy and held high in true Siberian fashion.

Phoenix is the proud Dad again, well done to both Ariana and Phoenix you make us very proud. This makes Anuta and Willow Great Grandmothers! You wouldn't think it the way the two of them charge about playing!

Gemini's babies are at that we can run around like crazy kittens forever and never tire out stage!!! Everything and anything can be used for playing with or playing in. It is a pleasure to watch and much better than TV. We tried to get some photos the other night but after 45mins of the 3 of them just messing about we abandoned it and Andy has some ideas on how we can take some over the weekend!

At the moment Akiro has been adopted but his two gorgeous siblings are looking for their forever homes, both are available as pet. And they will make a wonderful addition to any home. I am going to be very sad when they fly the nest...

Gemini, Akiro, Apollo and Georgina playing

A couple of new movies of the little ones and Gemini playing tonight. We even have Apollo tonight when we took the movies last time Apollo was fast asleep.

The bubbas seem to be growing everytime I see them now!





(movies @ 9 weeks old)

Alexandrite Akiro & Alexandrite Georgina & Feather Toy!

Another one of Alexandrite Akiro playing with the feather stick, this time his sister Georgina is trying to play too, but he isn't sharing. The feather toy is his! Then he does let her have a little bit of a go and then it is all his again. As you can see near the end there is no way he is going to let go!

Georgina looks so cute waiting patiently for a turn. Georgina reminds me so much of Gemini and Boo Boo as kittens, you can really see the family resemblance. I love her little white front feet, they are so cute.

You can hear Gemini purring in the background and Andy was trying to keep the camera still because she kept nudging him!



(Video @ 7 weeks old)

Alexandrite Akiro and Feather Toy!

Alexandrite Akiro playing with the feather toy, he was definitely not letting go! Gemini came into see what he was doing, but he didn't let his mum distract him from the task in hand even though she was talking away to him. The feather toy now looks very sorry for itself!

You can also hear Alexandrite Georgina in the background shouting for her mum, she likes to do that and Gemini always finds her to see if she is okay. Georgina then gets a wash!



(Video @ 7 weeks old)