BOWLING GREEN — Kiki yawned, rolled to her side, stretched, and fixed her eyes on a crowd milling around her cage.
After a judge examined her and placed a blue “Number One” ribbon on her cage, there wasn’t much else left for her to do.
“She’s very good at showing — she doesn’t mind judges handling her,” Diane Dodd of Pemberville, Ohio, said of her cat Kiki. “But she’s a character. She is also loving and caring.”
A 4-month-old Maine coon, Kiki was one of 124 cats from at least 31 breeds entered into the Cat Fanciers’ Association Winter Wonderland cat show, which was on its second of two days Sunday at the Wood County Fairgrounds. Along with the purebreds entered by breeders, show cats included 17 household felines that weren’t necessarily purebred, event organizers said.
What helps Kiki win at shows is her compliance with breed standards and not minding the judges handling her, Ms. Dodd said.
“Because this is something cats don’t do, I socialized her — I took her out to pet stores to get her used to the crowd,” she said.