I researched and read extensively about cat health. At cat shows, several times a year we will invite experts to put on a seminars about current advancements and research into disease or genetics we still don’t know everything about. There is usually a $50 fee to attend these seminars and a certain amount are required for some TICA programs such as judging. Many of the TICA judges are vets and geneticists that are taking part in the research and have up-to-date info that they talk about as they are judging while we’re sitting in the ring.

 

I do a full panel of genetic testing on my cats and as new tests are made available to the public I add them to what we test for. This is one of the reason I test even cats I’ve bred myself.

 

My daughter is in the TICA Junior program that trains kids by basically running them gently through the judge’s training. This means that every show that has junior ring (there isn’t always enough kids at a show to have one), she usually gets an extra speech from a judge about our breed and the cat she is showing in general. She has been the top junior exhibitor in the NW region for two years.