Blondi made a piece of FIFé history as she was the first Cymric to be Best In Show on the 1st of April 2006 in Helsinki. She was convincing in doing that, by votes 6-1 she won a CRX in the BIS panel.

And to be on the safe side, Blondi repeated the success on the very next day by being again BIS. This time she did not give any votes to competitors (votes 6-0).

We were slightly amazed after the show weekend!

Everybody has been warning about the tortie-kinda-behaviour. Well what it is really?

Oh yes, as being the first cat we really need to "polish" before the shows, so maybe the preparation phase into the shows brings the tortie of Blondi. But she really does nothing.

The colour of Blondi is so nice. The tips of her ears are different colour. The black triangle on her nose really gives her the distinctive look. And like our ocicats, Blondi has spots too scattered around, coloured with red and black. We really love torties as they all are one of the kinds. There just can not be same looking torties. And further, they really are different from the spotted ocicats.

Johanna (breeder) warned us that cymrics like to play with water. True: Blondi does the dishes with us and bathes with us in the sauna, she is almost coming into showers with us. As the picture above shows, she drinks water by putting the paw into water and licking the paw.

The first show for Blondi was on the epiphany January the 6th 2006 in Helsinki. At that show she was present as XLH, because of the rules in Finland. Nevertheless, she was the Best In Variety as XLH and she got a special award of Eva Wieland-Schilla. In this show, the mother of Blondi (Cindy) was approved as cymric and with that appoval, Blondi became a real cymric too.

Cymric was approved as an official breed (sister breed of manx) in FIFé GA on spring 2005. Officially cymrics got the right of registration and certificates in show on January the 1st. Check the story of breed approval from the pages of D'manns-cattery: http://www.dmanns.com/GA2005story.htm