Burmese Bulletin June 1982

Greetings once again.  Here we are in the throes of another Show Season.  Each year as we strugggle out of be in the middle of a freezing cold night, and remove protesting cats from their warm beds and place them in their travelIing cages and set off bleary eyed and grumpy, to to drive to heaven knows where,  we ask ourselves— why in the name of sanity do we do this???   Of course we know the answer— we must be stark raving bonkers!   Then when we arrive,  we are greeted “by other cheerful beaming enthusiasts with their wide eyed felines, and it all starts  again.  I’ve come to the conclusion that no matter vvhat we say at that awful hour when the alarm goes off, we really must enjoy it or we wouldn’t do it —  show cats I mean —  really!   The thing that saddens me is the attitude of thankfully onlv a handful of exhibitors who get really bad tempered and spiteful when their cat is beaten at a show. They tend to forget that ·whatever cat wins,all the rest have to lose.  Every exhibitor has to learn to accept defeat…………….