Jack is the brother of Jeanie Blueyes (named after my dad’s name for my mum). He is also the father of Jomese Jingle Bells – owned and much loved by Julie-Anne Bray and Jomese Jackson owned and loved by the Kitching family.
Jack has had a very successful show career to date: - at the age of 1 year and 10 months he has ..... 4 Imperial Grand certificates and 2 Reserve Imperial Grand Certificates. Just one more to go!!! He gained his Grand Premier title at the age of 13 months, in 3 straight shows. He has since gained a further 6 Grand titles and 4 Reserve Grand titles, finally gaining his Imperial title at the East Sussex Show 2007, aged just 2.
He now holds 10 Imperial certificates.
At the Supreme 2006 Jack won his first UK Grand certificate. Jack gained his Premier title in 3 straight shows at the age of 10 months.and was Best of Variety kitten at the Supreme 2005. He has won 5 Best in show kitten awards. 1 Overall Best in Show as a kitten 6 Best in Show Neuter awards 5 Overall Best in Show awards as a neuter.
Jack has now retired from showing although he may appear on exhibition from time to time. He is enjoying life as a layabout and doesn't seem to miss showing at all!
Eric is an Apricot Point Siamese. Before the colour became recognised at Championship level Eric could only compete for Intermediate certificates and he gained 16 of these before retiring. When Apricot became a Championship colour after 2 years of retirement, Eric came back to the show bench and began his journey to see if he could gain a title. First of all he became the first Apricot Point neuter to gain any title (Premier), then the first Apricot Point to gain his Grand Premier and finally, on Saturday 18th September at the BOB Cats Show he became the first ever Apricot Point Siamese Imperial Grand Premier. Very many and sincere thanks to his judges - Mrs Gregory, Mrs Farnsworth, Mrs Brown, Dr Bennett and Mr Morris.
Eric will now retire from showing and can enjoy being with his fellow layabouts - IGRPR Jomese Jackthelad, GRPR Jomese Just-William (aka IMP GR Master Cat Billy Pinkpaws) and Jomese Jiminy Cricket (Jimmy).
Eric has won numerous Best in Show awards, one of which was as a kitten. Eric also has 1 Premier Certificate awarded in his first adult show when he was originally registered as a cream point!
He was the first Apricot Point Siamese to gain a title and the first Apricot Point Grand Premier. He still loves his showing and shows off for all he is worth!
A cat of enormous character , he is dearly loved by all who know him. He regularly adopts litters of kittens when mum has had enough, and cleans and suckles them until they leave home.
Eric’s favourite food is treacle tart! He is a very clumsy cat who regularly falls off things. Unlike the majority of cats, he doesn’t usually manage to land on his feet.
Billy is the baby on the block! He is Eric’s half brother and was one of 9 kittens. The litter produced an amazing 5 quality show kittens, including Jonny Flybynight, Jenuinely Gorjus, Jock Thescot and Allthatjazz. Jock Thescot eventually went to a lovely home as a pet and Allthatjazz has yet to make her debut.
Billy has had a successful show career as a kitten, having won all but one of his Open classes (and that was at the Supreme).
I had never been a lover of seal points and really don’t know why I fell so in love with Billy. I was very torn between keeping Billy or keeping Jonny Flybynight, his blue brother, who I also adored. I eventually decided that as I already had one very good blue neuter it was silly to keep a second who would be in direct competition.
Billy has done very well on the show bench gaining his Premier and Grand Premier titles. Sadly, just after gaining his Grand Premier title , almost overnight, his paw pads turned pink, which meant that I could no longer show him in pedigree classes.
As Billy is such an extravert and loves being shown so much, I decided to start showing him in the new Pedigree Pet section of the Household Pet classes.
These classes are judged solely on temprament, condition and presentation - quite different from the criteria in the pedigree showing classes.
Billy has done exceptionally well in the HHP classes, going vitually straight through from Master Cat to Grand Master Cat to the first ever Pedigree Pet Imperial Grand Master Cat. Along the way he has won several Best in Show awards and now holds 6 Imperial certificates.
I am very proud of him that he has gained such high awards not only for his looks but also for his temprament - a real all rounder.
He is still the naughtiest cat I own, but he has so much character and is so lovable.
Georgie is my long awaited red point girl. When she was born, I thought she was a boy and didn’t realise until she was 6 weeks old, that I had my girl!
She is from Anna’s very successful 4th litter and is the sister of Just-William, Jonny Flybynight and Allthatjazz.
One of her recent write-ups in CATS said, “ Jomese Jenuinely Gorjus – and she certainly is!”
She has done very well on the show bench as a kitten, being unbeaten in her Open Classes,
and having 2 Best in Show kitten awards and one Overall Best in Show award.
Georgie takes the prize for all my cats as having the loudest purr, which she uses very frequently. She is definitely a girly girl!
"Georgie" gained her Grand title at the Bristol & district Cat Club Show on 16th Feb 08. Thank you to her judges, Mrs Studer, Mrs Reed and Mrs Rolls.
Sadly Georgie miscarried her first litter of kittens after jumping from a height and landing on a stair post. She carried her second litter to full term but became ill just after her due date and had to have an emergency Caesarian. She was carrying just one baby and the rest of her womb was full of pus. By some miracle both she and her baby survived and Georgie is now living a lazy life as a neuter and Anna's companion and my youngest son's study buddy as he revises for his A levels. Her kitten ,Jimmy, won Overall Best in Show Pedigree pet the only time he was ever shown.
Please see Jake's story on his own special page.
Jimmy is Georgie's only ever live kitten and very lucky to be here. He is a huge red boy who, like Billy , is very clumsy and very very naughty. Had I not been ill Jimmy would have been sold as a kitten but he just sort of stayed and now we all love him dearly (except Jack). He is destined for a career as a Household Pet show cat as he has a huge nobble at the end of his tail. He won Best in Show HHP the only time shown to date.