Even before I attended my first cat show as a spectator when I was 13 years old, my dream was to breed and show pedigreed cats.  I entered my first show in December of 2007 with my household pet Feather who was a 7 year old fluffy calico.  Feather was definitely not pleased - she had never done much traveling and wasn't accustomed to being around lots of cats and people in a strange place.  She and I made it to the rings, but she was definitely grumpy about it.  That was her one and only show.  But I caught the show bug and have been showing throughout the years ever since.  This page is a place for me to share all of our wins over the years, starting in the beginning of my show career in 2007.  I registered my cattery name Sakura in 2008, the same year I purchased my first Bengal kitten and started showing.  So cat shows (specifically TICA cat shows) have been part of our cattery experience since the very beginning.  That was before cell phone cameras.  I think the photos of my first couple of shows were taken with my first digital camera!  So the photos of the early days are few and poor quality.  I didn't create my first facebook profile until 2009.  And I'm currently missing some photos including my first Bengal stud's kitten photos, all the photos of my first Bengal queen, and all the photos of my first litter.  I hope I am able to find them.

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- Lori Denley, Sakura Bengals