Upcoming Northern California Cat Shows In 2008! Anyone Interested In Attending?

**krazyaboutkatz** · 12-29-2007, 05:16 PM

I plan on going to the San Mateo Cat Show on Sat. Jan.5th unless the weather is very bad or I'm sick. I have a sore throat today and it started late yesterday so I'm probably coming down with a cold.

If it's mild enough I'll still go. I'm not sure if I'll bring my camera with me or not. I'm sure I'll fun. I always do.

**AmberLee** · 12-30-2007, 12:36 AM

Have a WONDERFUL time. I think cat shows are a blast.

I can't attend this first one, after all, but look forward to attending others later in the year.

**ilovemypup** · 01-03-2008, 07:25 PM

Hi!

Cool! Your right..i'd love to attend! But I can't...very busy this time of year, trying to get back into the groove of things at school and stuff .

Have a blast!!!

-Ali

**Don Juan's mom** · 01-04-2008, 12:15 PM

I got a little red postcard coupon from Tails and No Tales! I'd want to go on Saturday, too. (Sunday I have my church job and a rehearsal for "Candide.")

Hope you're feeling better, KAK. The two girls I work with are BOTH sick, and I'm praying to every deity I can think of that my flu shot is protecting me.

Liz

**krazyaboutkatz** · 01-04-2008, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by Don Juan's mom

I got a little red postcard coupon from Tails and No Tales! I'd want to go on Saturday, too. (Sunday I have my church job and a rehearsal for "Candide.")

Hope you're feeling better, KAK. The two girls I work with are BOTH sick, and I'm praying to every deity I can think of that my flu shot is protecting me.

Liz

Great!!!

I'm feeling much better now. I'm still a bit stuffy at times but that's about it. I just need to be sure to carry plenty of kleenex and also some cough drops with me.

Would you like to carpool? I also received an e-mail reminder that will save me $2 off of the admission price. If we carpool then we can also save on parking. On Sat. it opens at 10am and is open until 5pm. If I drive I'd want to leave by 4pm so we could get home before it gets too dark. I sure hope that the weather will be much better tomorrow. I know it's still supposed to rain but hopefully the winds will have died down and the rain won't be as heavy.

I'm home all day today so I'll pm you with my phone number so you can call me and we can talk about it.

**krazyaboutkatz** · 01-05-2008, 08:31 PM

Hi, Don Juan's Mom and I went to the San Mateo cat Show today. She drove which was just as well because I'm still not too familiar with the area and it started raining again and was a bit windy. We got there at around 10:30am or so and had to walk around to find the hall where it was located.

There were very few people there at first which I thought was great so we could easily walk around and look at all of the gorgeous cats.

Now I wish that I had brought my camera with me. I saw a new breed of cat that wasn't supposed to happen. It was an Abbysinian kitten with flat ears like a Scottish Fold. Yes, it was a mix of the two purebred cats and there were 2 kittens that looked like this in the litter. They were the one of the cutest kittens that I've ever seen.

The other 3 or 4 other kittens had normal ears and had more white on them and more tabby markings than the other 2. They were all up for adoption and the cost was only $200. They've already been spayed and neutered and they would also come with a health guarantee. That's not bad considering that our local Humane Society has increased it's adoption fees to at least $150 per cat. They may even be more by now. I paid $125 for Sky from them and this was about 4 1/2 years ago.

The lady said that her daughter was watching her cats for her and her male Scottish Fold got loose and must have gotten together with her female Abbysinian. She said that these kittens act more like Abys than Scottish Folds and that her other Abys keep her Scottish Folds more active than they would normally be. I sure wish that I had room for another kitty because I would have adopted the reddish looking Aby/Scottish Fold Mix with the flattened ears in a heart beat.

I ended up buying some Laurel Burch items. I bought a cloth handbag which the lady told me would be the last of it's kind in this style. It's from the Sun'N'Sand collection. I also bought a new larger wallet in black with the colorful cat faces on it. I also bought a leather cat key chain. I'll use my old one as just a coin purse because it was a key chain/coin purse combo. I also bought a sweatshirt that has pawprints on the front of it and it says "My Cat Walks All Over Me". It should say "My Cats Walk All Over Me".

Don Juan's Mom also bought a Laurel Burch cloth handbag which is very nice and quite a bit larger than the one that I bought. She also bought a mouse pad that has a cute little kitten sitting in a cat dish and it says "Killer Cat". She also bought 3 peacock feathers for her cat Don Juan. I think that's about it.

We had to leave by 2pm because Don Juan's Mom had an audition to get to. I hope that she did well. I also forgot to mention that the power went out 2 times while we were there

and it was thundering outside. Luckily they were able to restore the power fairly quickly. One lady said that she heard that it had been hailing. When we left, part of the parking lot had become flooded. Unfortunately it was in the area where we had parked.

Don Juan's Mom had to wade through the water to her car while I waited in another much drier area of the parking lot. Now we know not to park in this area during a rainy season. All in all I had a great time and I look forward to getting together with other PT'ers at more cat shows in the future.

**RedHedd** · 01-06-2008, 12:07 PM

Aw KAK! I thought of you yesterday when it was storming so bad. I was very glad I hadn't gone driving in that weather although that Scottish fold-Abby mix sounds darling! Too bad you didn't even get a cell phone pic - oh well. Perhaps next time?

**krazyaboutkatz** · 01-06-2008, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by RedHedd

Aw KAK! I thought of you yesterday when it was storming so bad. I was very glad I hadn't gone driving in that weather although that Scottish fold-Abby mix sounds darling! Too bad you didn't even get a cell phone pic - oh well. Perhaps next time?

Well I'm one of the few remaining people that still don't have a cell phone yet.

Don Juan's Mom has one but I don't know if it takes pictures or not. Some day I'll end up buying one but until then I'll just continue to use my landline.