Saturday, March 14, 2026

Caturday 89: At the Cat Show in 1971

I've recently been digitizing more old slides. It being SatCaturday, I found some that I could post.

Being friendly with a cat lady back in 1971, we were encouraged to enter our household pet in a cat show just for fun. Off we went to London, Ontario with Dusty in tow.

One of the judges liked her and awarded her a ribbon: second place, I believe. She behaved well.

A friend of our friend was showing Persians, and I very much liked this little red classic tabby kitten.

We took Baron home. He grew a bit although he never became a big cat.

Here is a somewhere blurry photo of a very hairy me, holding the pair of them. You can see how calm and happy they were to be held.



21 comments:

  1. Oh, I always love an orange cat - they have the best personalities. Dusty looks sweet as well!

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  2. Wonderful kitties! I never attended a cat show !

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  3. Pretty kitties.

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  4. HA, most cats hate being held and will struggle. Every year I want a photo of me with Mari in my black cat Halloween shirt (I like black cats and I cannot lie) and Mari NEVER cooperates.

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  5. Sounded like a fun experience. That's a great photo of you with yours.

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  6. I can't imagine getting a cat to cooperate at a cat show. You had 2 cuties.
    I loved your comment today.

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  7. What a sweetie. And you are obviously a cat whisperer, hmm? I have a cat show story, and may tell it on the blog some day when all other invention fails me. You are awesome, getting posts up daily, you know.

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    1. I didn't intend to post today, but once I reviewed my latest conversion and realized that it was Caturday . . .

      I honestly tried to take a day off, but I capitulated.

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  8. Interesting….. your photos from 1971….. are very interesting to me in the the last two have the appearance and grain, and “muted” hues of a color photograph from ~50 years ago….. but the others appear more “modern in terms of appearing more like the way film images looked from the 90s to the present. … in terms of sharpness, grain and hues of the color. When you scanned these, may I ask if you may have color/texture adjusted the first few?

    It was just a striking difference to my eyes.

    PipeTobacco

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    1. Some slide scans are pretty rough, so I try to fix them a little, or even a lot.

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  9. OMGosh didn't even know there was a cat show. I love this photo of you. Have a nice evening.

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  10. You look a bit hippie just by looking at the photo

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  11. My gosh, what an adorable kitten! Adorable kittens can get you in trouble.

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  12. Cool pic. I do believe the cat whisperer has a tad more face fur than the felines combined. Linda in Kansas

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  13. Whoa. Now that's the 70s. You look like all my uncles from that time.

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  14. Cat man Do! Cats make incredible pets, we always had one in our household even with two dogs.

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  15. I love that you two have always had cats. I was thinking of Lacey the other day for some unknown reason. I don't think I could ever get Lizzie to a cat show!

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  16. I had a Persian in the 70s and 80s. She was also small. You had great hair!

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