It seems that every group has its own way of celebrating the season. Consider the difference in families. Do you light Hanukkah candles, follow an Advent calendar, have an Elf on the Shelf? Does your family open gifts on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? What is served for dinner on December 25th? Do you cook/ eat at home or do you go out for Chinese food? Do you celebrate with extended family, immediate family, with friends, or by yourself?
CFA is its own kind of family, one that borrows ideas from others but creates its own traditions. Some of these flow from the fact that our CFA family-appropriate activity often has scheduling challenges with modern, tightly scheduled family calendars. Our weekends are spent at cat shows, sometimes causing conflicts with family and friends who do not understand the hold our cats and competition have over us. Our friends and relatives are cranking up for holiday celebrations while we are traveling, grooming, competing, and enjoying our cats.
So how do we participate in the holidays when we are often away from home during that season? For some, the answer is to create our own celebration with our cat fancy family. We come up with our own Christmas traditions and take our celebrations to the shows. Over the years a series of holiday themed shows have blossomed on the December show schedule and become traditional.
Christmas Bells in Baltimore
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Checklist For What to Look For in Your Club's Next Show Venue
Show Manager To Ring One, Please
Tonkinese
When You're Well and Truly Tonked
AVOIDING The Kitten Fear Period
Young kittens seem fearless.4 As soon as those eyes open and they can get their legs under them, they are off to see the world if their mama and humans let them.
No Milk For You!
Milk Issues and Kittens
Fostering Kittens
When asked if I would be interested in fostering a queen and her eight newborn kittens, I volunteered without question.
Do You present ? Polish! OR DO YOU
IT’S ALL IN THE DETAILS!
No Kitten! Cats Are Part of the Military!
Felines have graced the decks of boats and ships back nearly to the beginning of time, roaming freely on passenger ships, war vessels, and merchant schooners, keeping vermin at bay.
Feline Summer Movie Fun!
School is almost OUT! Huzzah! But raindrops are plunking against the window, the amusement and water parks haven’t opened yet, camping is out, and roasted hot dogs and S’mores are another month away.
Kittens Are Special...
...and so are some of the show rules for them:
Genetic Pleiotropy and the Risks in Breeding Recessive Mutations
Nearly everyone loves what’s rare and unique. A slight defect in the minting process of a coin can create a demand and a value well beyond the face value of the coin. The coin is functionally no different than its perfectly minted counterpart, but its scarcity and uniqueness alone make it more desirable than the rest.