3 Intermediate Certificates Awarded (GCCF)

16 Merits Certificates Awarded (GCCF)

3455 Points accumulated (TICA)

December 2007
Awarded TICA Award of Excellence for 2ns Best
Selkirk Rex of the Year
Plus
Best Blue Selkirk Rex of the Year

Chester & North Wales Show
11th August 2007
1st Selkirk Entire to win 3
Intermdiate Certificate
s

CaTICA Show 3rd & 4th February 2007
1st UK Selkirk Entire to be awarded
Supreme Grand Champion with TICA

CoonTICA Show 5th & 6th August 2007
Awarded Triple Grand Champion

Rex Cat Association 2nd April 2005
Best in Show Selkirk Rex

Rex Cat Club Show 2004
Best in Show Assesment Cat

1st Selkirk Entire to win 4 Merit Certificates
Daring...
Daring on Exhibition
at the Shropshire Cat
Show in February
2005, in his usual
relaxed & curious pose.
aka Daring

79s 16
Selkirk Rex Short-Haired Blue Self
Born 12th June 2003

Sire:
Trueblu Anns Owinglyndwr (79s 17)

Dam:
Positively Don (15)

Breeder: Mrs Lisa Peterson
And can it be
That in a World so full and busy
the loss of one creature
makes a void in any heart
so wide and deep that nothing
but the width and depth of eternity
can fill it up!

Author Unkown
I can remember the first day I set eyes on Daring. It was October 2003 and I was
attending the Kensington Kitten & Neuter Show held at Bracknall. I was  just walking
past the Exhibition pens when I saw this gorgeous curly blue boy, Daring. I'd read
about the breed in a very recent Cat World article so was thrilled to see one in the
fur. I knew then that I had to have him. After long conversations with his breeder,
Lisa Peterson and with some final pursuasion he came home with me in the
November.
I soon started taking Daring on Exhibition only to the GCCF shows and his gorgeous
looks and purrsonality won over many judges and cat fanciers.
Daring in his exhibition pen
at the KK&N Show 2003 @
6 months old.
Once the Selkirk Rex breed gained recognition from the GCCF I started showing
Daring in earnest so he could gain his Merits. We needed 15 Selkirks to each gain 4
Merits before we could apply to have the breed elevated to Intermediate status.
Daring became the first to gain his 4 and over the next 2 years Daring was awarded
16 Merits in total, more than any other Selkirk Rex.

Over this period the American TICA shows were starting up in the UK and as the
Selkirk Rex breed had already gained Championship status with them I though it
would be nice to show Daring and see how he faired in a different format. I shouldn't
have worried. On his very first show he gained Grand Champion status, the
following show Double Grand, the following after that Triple Grand. In February
2007 we took him to our local TICA based show which was two days, he gained
Quadruple Grand on the Staurday and earned enough points for his Supreme title,
he just needed that elusive placing of Best Cat in a final.
Daring didn't dissapoint us, on the Sunday on his 3rd Ring our lovely boy won Best
Cat out of 41 Adults in show making him the first Adult Selkirk Rex to be awarded
Supreme Grand Champion in the UK.
This is one of my favorite
photos of Daring, he was
enjoying a photo shoot
with Robert Fox, I swear
he was laughing!!
American TICA Judge
Lynne Sherer who awarded
Daring his Best Cat award
at the CATICA Show in
February 2007
Daring returned to the GCCF shows in the Summer of 2007 with the
introduction of the Intermediate status. We now needed 20 Selkirk Rex with
3 Intermediate certificates before we could apply for the final Championship
status.
Daring was awarded his 3 Certificates in three consecutive shows, again
making him the first Selkirk Rex to do so in the UK. Our lad was a bit of trend
setter.

Darings final public appearance was at the Supreme Cat Show in November
2007. We placed him on exhibition on the Club Stand, with his gorgeous
looks and wonderful personality he made a great ambassador for the breed
and thoroughly enjoyed all the attention with out getting fazed by the crowds
or the noise of a busy Cat Show. The photo below
is the last one I ever took of him. He sat on the club
stall all day or in the arms of  Norman upside down
with this curly tummy in the air happily allowing
complete strangers to stoke his belly.

We lost Daring on Valentines day this year, all
very suddenly. After a weeks fight with liver
failure and intensive care treatment with the
vets (who were wonderful) he passed away in
our arms very peacefully. Our hearts are broken
by his loss.

I have to thank his breeder and good friend Lisa
Peterson for the time we had with Daring and
entrusting him to us in the first place.  
                                          Lisa, I'm forever in  your debt.
Daring at the
Supreme Cat Show
November 2007
TICA Supreme GRCH
Trueblu DaringPositively
TICA Supreme GRCH
Trueblu DaringPositively
12-06-2003  -  14-02-2008
Daring @ 6 weeks old
Darings final tally of show wins
Darings final tally of show wins