October 16, 2006
Curiosity Made the Show Cat Go Missing
Yesterday, someone wrote on Gothamist Contribute, "One of the winners at the cat show today freaked out and took off. By show's end, it still had not been found. Poor thing. Maybe expecting cats to stay put like dogs is just a bad idea."
Ack! Luckily, Russian Blue "Evgeny Pushenko" was found this morning at 9:20AM. Evgeny, who was present for the “best of show” segment, slipped away from a judge and sent everyone into a frenzy. Rescuers from Animal Care & Control were on hand and they set out traps with cat food. The Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals tells us that the 15 month old Evgeny was found "huddled in a corner of Madison Square Garden’s carpenter room."
Aw. Remember Molly, the cat stuck in the wall at Myers of Keswick for days and days that was extracted after a media watch? And for the record, the best of best winner at the 2006 Cat Fanciers' Association- Iams Cat Championship was Cali, a short-hair manx.
This story also reminds us of Vivi, the whippet who had shown at the Westminster Dog Show but then escaped from her kennel at JFK Airport? It's been 33 weeks since she went missing, but volunteers are still looking for her. Newsday's Denise Flaim has been keeping a blog about the search for Vivi.
Top photograph of Evgeney Pushenko by Richard Drew/AP; lower photograph of Cali by Shiho Fukada/AP
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I went to the show on Saturday. It was my first cat or dog show. By the time I left, I was allergic to cats. There's a lot of dander in a room full of cats. Most of the cats were exceptionally beautiful. The best part to me was the "Breed Talk," where one of the Board of Directors of the CFA answered questions regarding cats and showed off different cat breeds. I don't understand, however, buying a cat for $1000, no matter how beautiful or rarefied they are. There were a lot of shelter kitties for adoption in the lower level of MSG. Some really adorable little ones needed good homes. All in all, very interesting, except I still feel as if my head is stuffed up from all the dander... and I even have a cat myself!
Not sure if I would go to another show, but it was an interesting experience.