GC, NW Earendil Fire Power of Rice Hope
CFA’s Twentieth Best Kitten 2003-2004

My name is GC, NW Earendil Fire Power of Rice Hope but they call me “Bugs”. I am a blue, male British Shorthair and CFA’s Twentieth Best Kitten. Thora Hart bred me in California but now I live in Florida with my new owners Emily and Douglas Turner.

My kitten career was a wild ride! Emily and I (sometimes I call her Mrs. Turner because she’s so much older then me) traveled all over the country. We rode in cars, vans, taxis and airplanes and I enjoyed every minute of it. I love to travel! We met some great people. The people in the airports, the hotels and even the taxis cab drivers were nice to us. I think they really liked me.

One time in the Baltimore airport I had my own room for the security inspection. Lots of people kept coming in to inspect me. At first, I was afraid I had done something wrong.  But, I think they just wanted to see what I looked like and to give me a little pat so they could see what my coat feels like.

We went to some great places where Emily said I did really well. One of those places was the National Capitol Cat Show. I didn’t get to meet the President but Emily was excited that I made all the finals. I’m not sure what that means but the stuff she hung on my cage was very pretty. By Sunday afternoon, I could barely see out my show cage.

The best trip of all was to the Cats! Show New York in New York City. We went to a place called Madison Square Garden. I was the “Big British Shorthair in the Big Apple” when I took Best of Breed as a seven-month-old kitten. I even got to be on TV. OK, it wasn’t just me. There were some other great looking cats on TV with me. We all went down to the TV station, sat in the Green Room and then looked great when they put us on the evening news.

You have to know British Shorthair kittens are slow maturing. In other words, we aren’t known for being “shot out of cannons” when it comes to getting big awards. I’m only the second British Shorthair kitten to get a CFA National Kitten Award. It took all the support we received to get us here and we are very grateful.

Emily and I want to thank a lot of nice people who made this year so exciting and wonderful. We want to thank Linda Acomb, Elaine King, Diane Beottcher and Gayle and Karl Bowman for their very special support and encouragement, the people who were benched beside us in the show hall and helped make the weekends more fun and of course, the judges who liked me! We also want to thank all the nice people who paid to come and see me and all the other beautiful cats. Emily says that we would not be able to have a cat show without them. Well, I don’t know about cat show money things, but I sure did like all the nice things they said about me.

Emily told me that sometimes life provides you with the perfect opportunity. This is one of them. Thank you, Thora.