This is mainly for those showing and/or breeding.
As you know, baby Jack should be born in the next week or two (at the most) and hopefully will be an outstanding show cat for us (better then Charlie has been).
Question is would you show against yourself to get points for a grand champion? If we decide to not put Charlie in the January show for one more final to get his CFA grand (local show and before Jack would be here); the next time we could try with Charlie would be next September. By then Jack would be going in the same show as an Open in Premiership. They would and would not be against each other as Jack would be Open, Charlie would be Premier. They would have to compete for Best/2nd Best of Breed in the class.
Would this hurt the chances of either of them being picked in the finals (putting 2 Oci's in the same final - one for breed, one for premier points)? Jack SHOULD be better then Charlie as we are getting show quality and his spotting and ears should be better to start.
Charlie would be 3 yrs old and Jack would be 10-11 months old at the time.
What would you do?
P.S. I mentioned this to Charlie's breeder (who came to the show with an adult and kitten to show - kitten did QUITE well and had outstanding spotting!). She knows I'll be getting another oci and from who. She told me (when we were leaving) that "I would not recommend it". I don't know if she meant it as not showing against yourself, or not showing cause its her cattery cat against another cattery cat and its seems that she has not been in shows where she's shown against another Oci breeder.
There are few Oci breeders in the US and they are far enough apart that they really would not run into each other very often for actual competing. Charlie's breeder never shows more then one of her own cats against each other. They are in different classes.
As you know, baby Jack should be born in the next week or two (at the most) and hopefully will be an outstanding show cat for us (better then Charlie has been).
Question is would you show against yourself to get points for a grand champion? If we decide to not put Charlie in the January show for one more final to get his CFA grand (local show and before Jack would be here); the next time we could try with Charlie would be next September. By then Jack would be going in the same show as an Open in Premiership. They would and would not be against each other as Jack would be Open, Charlie would be Premier. They would have to compete for Best/2nd Best of Breed in the class.
Would this hurt the chances of either of them being picked in the finals (putting 2 Oci's in the same final - one for breed, one for premier points)? Jack SHOULD be better then Charlie as we are getting show quality and his spotting and ears should be better to start.
Charlie would be 3 yrs old and Jack would be 10-11 months old at the time.
What would you do?
P.S. I mentioned this to Charlie's breeder (who came to the show with an adult and kitten to show - kitten did QUITE well and had outstanding spotting!). She knows I'll be getting another oci and from who. She told me (when we were leaving) that "I would not recommend it". I don't know if she meant it as not showing against yourself, or not showing cause its her cattery cat against another cattery cat and its seems that she has not been in shows where she's shown against another Oci breeder.
There are few Oci breeders in the US and they are far enough apart that they really would not run into each other very often for actual competing. Charlie's breeder never shows more then one of her own cats against each other. They are in different classes.