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To ensure the safety of your own and all the cats, and make sure competition is safe, rules for each show event are strict and should be adhered to at all times. Below is a summary of the overall process.

First of all you need to find the right event. Some shows are only open to a certain breeds within a category, so be careful. All cat shows need to be verified by the GCFC (General Council of the Cat Fancy), so all events and a yearly calander can be found on their web site. The next step (after considering, transportation, overnight stays etc) you need to contact the group or club for a catalogue or entrance form. Fees will depend on how many cats you wish to enter and how many individual competitions within the show you wish to enter them for. For instance, there maybe sections for your cats pedigree, length of hair, overall pedigree category (i.e. foreign, oriental, etc.); colour; age and status (i.e. champion, premier, grand-champion etc.). The overall competition will be divided between neuters and "entires". The latter are cats who have not been neutered. These cats are usually excellent specimens of their breed and are kept for breeding purposes. The other section w ould be for "moggies" or cross-breed cats.

You can enter your cat into as many competitions as you wish (as long as it is appropriate). It costs 3.50 to enter the Open and three other competitions and a further 3.50 for any further competitions on top. The fee costs around 3.50 at the time of writing this article. Ensure all spellings on the form are correct (especially the cats name and date of birth), everything is signed and the appropriate fee is enclosed. Failure to do so could lead to disqualification. There will be no questions asked and worst still you may well find out after the show when your cat has won certain competitions. This happened to us with our red Somali Louie. We entered him for the Kentish cats show and he won one or two competitions. A letter of disqualification came through following the competition. Both Brenda and I own Louie, but only I had signed the form. So that was that. No mitigating circumstances. For that show he was disqualified. So check and double-check.

It is a good idea if you have entered your cat in many sections to keep a record of the number of each competition. These numbers can then be easily checked with the results board during the afternoon.

On the day of the show your cat will have a cage number. On the results board there will be a list of each competition. Under each of these will be the 1st; 2nd 3rd and sometimes 4th placings. For instance if you cat was cage no. 211, came 2nd in competition no. 328, the results board would look like this:

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