Volume 60 November 2014 edition Proudly affiliated with CATS NSW P A G E 2 FELIS A GIANT THANK YOU TO OUR PROUD SPONSORS FOR THE YEAR Thank you to Jeanette for donating Oz-Pet Litter and Littertrays as prizes. Thank you to Jenny for generously providing your dried cat kibble for prizes. Thank you for your contribution of your popular tasty cat treats. Thank you for providing packs of your easy to digest lactose free milk for prizes. Thank you to Russell and Bev, from Oz-Pet Pet Transport, for your great cat carriers. Thank you to Lyn for providing quality selection of surface disinfectant. Thank you for your fabulous donation of your Black Hawk Cat Food for prizes. Thank you to Jenny for your generosity. Thank you to Joan for your fabulous sponsorship of the Rescue Cats. & Proudly sponsoring the Award for the ‘Best Pure One Breed Siamese’ exhibit in addition to publication and postage costs of the FELIS magazine. P A G E 3 COMMITTEE 2014 A year of BIG changes for SCS ACTING PRESIDENT Grant Richardson Letter from the Editor…. Peter Gunczy (things should few long serving committee SECRETARY Welcome to our New Look get there in the end). Fingers members. Penny Richardson FELIS, of which has some new crossed!! CHRISTINE WISEMAN, who TREASURER things to look forward to, hope- has served for many years on Sharryn Hilton fully. SCS committee and as Treas- You will soon see proposed new urer, retired earlier this year. WEBMASTER Peter Gunczy features such as ‘Top 5 from MARY PIPER, who has been Past and Present’, ‘A member’s our faithful editor, retiring as EDITOR story’, (this very first one is from well. Sharryn Hilton Tony Hurry *retired President), Sadly the most recent loss to ‘Around the Shows ‘ with some ASSISTANT EDITORS our committee is TONY HURRY, favourite photos of kittens and Peter Gunczy who has served as a fabulous cats from our members. So Sharon Black President and ensured our send me a photo of your cat or This year has brought about focus was kept on track and kitten and we can show our some massive changes for our SHOW MANAGER aided in some great changes Grant Richardson members some serious or even humble little group. Every- and improvements to SCS. He hilarious photos to enjoy. thing from changes to com- SHOW SECRETARY mittee, to the bigger picture of will be sadly missed and we Penny Richardson I have been very recently elect- can only wish him all the very the new CatsNSW governing ed to the role as Editor, so hope Committee Members body, who have already be- best in the future. you will forgive an error or Christine Gunczy come known as a really friend- We welcome to two NEW omission until I can get into the Sharon Black ly and professional group to be COMMITTEE MEMBERS. swing of it all. I will strike along John Ferguson envied by others. with this new ‘first edition’ but Welcome to Sharon Black and ~ ~ ~ ~~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ with the aid of Sharon Black and A big THANK YOU must go to a John Ferguson FELIS For article placement, In this edition…... interesting anecdotes, poetry, short stories Cover photo: Allure & Dejavu Page 9: Breeders Advice on a Kitten contact Sharryn Hilton on 0414 567 895 Page 2: Thank you Sponsors Page 10-11: Membership Forms & Prices or email submission to Page 3: Editors Letter Page 12: CFA Calendar sharrynhilton @me.com Page 4: Cat of the Year Awards Page 13: Cats NSW Calendar ~~~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Page 5: Cat of the Year Awards Photos Page 14: Members Pictures Page 6: Member Contribution Page 15: Layman’s Guide to Pure Siamese Look for us on Page 7: Heat Stroke in Cats Page 15: Member Contribution FACEBOOK Page 8: Halloween Cat Show Page 15: One Cat or Two Siamese Cat Page 9: Legends of the Siamese Page 16: Stud List Society of Page 9: Is Temperament Still Important Page 17-20: Classifieds NSW Inc P A G E 4 CAT OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2014 Cats New South Wales Inc. GROUP 2 CAT OF THE YEAR DB GD CH PURESWEET PACIFIC WOLFENITE (IMP JPN). M. Siamese (30pts) O. Grant and Penny Richardson GROUP 2 KITTENS 1ST. CHRISTERNE TRUE LOVE. F. Siamese (25pts) O/B. PETER & CHRISTINE GUNCZY (pictured top left. Pres. Brad Curtis and Renee Gunczy cr.) 2ND. CHRISTERNE LIL INCA. F. Siamese (24pts) O. JOHN FERGUSON & SHARRYN HILTON (pictured bottom left) 3RD. BAJAMBI CINNAMON JAZZ. M. Siamese (17pts) O. A & HELENA SUGAR (not pictured) 4TH. TRILIAN GM ELLE. F. Siamese (10pts) O. SHARON BLACK (pictured left below) GROUP 2 ENTIRE CATS 1ST. DB GD CG PURESWEET PACIFIC WULFENITE (Imp. JPN). M. Siamese (30pts) O. PENNY & GRANT RICHARDSON (pictured with Sharon Black ctr.) 2ND. CH TFA CH PURESWEET ALICANTE (Imp JPN). F. Siamese (23pts) O. PENNY & GRANT RICHARDSON 3RD. FULLCIRCLE ALYSHA TUIKI. F. Siamese (17pts) O/B. JOHN FERGUSON & SHARRYN HILTON EQUAL 4TH. TRILIAN GM ELLE. F. Siamese (10pts) O. SHARON BLACK GROUP 2 DESEXED CATS 1ST. KALINYA OM JEMMA. F. Siamese 2ND. KALINYA LEO. M. Siamese (10pts) O/B. TONY & BEV HURRY (no photo available (8pts) O. O/B. TONY & BEV HURRY P A G E 5 P A G E 6 THE GLORY GLORY SIAMESE LITTER by Tony Hurry As a South Sydney Rabbitohs tragic for over 50 years, October 2014 has been a long awaited month for celebration!!! Yes my beloved National Rugby League team won the pinnacle of their sport by winning the Grand Final defeating the Canterbury- Bankstown Bulldogs 30 – 6. It’s their first title since 1971 and ended 43 years of heartbreak which in 2000 found them excluded from the NRL competition then after litigation and high-profile public campaigns, saw the club readmitted into the competi- tion for the 2002 season. The 2014 NRL Grand Final was the most-watched club game in the history of rugby league. The crowd of 83,833 was the largest attendance at a sporting event at Stadium Australia since its 2001 reconfiguration. SO WHY AM I TELLING YOU ALL THIS………..BECAUSE I HOLD THE PEN To continue the week of Glory Glory, my 11th October birthday was celebrated with the birth of our Oriemme’s litter. She waited until 12.02am to have kitten one, three more in the hour then a five hours break before provid- ing two more in the seventh hour. Our USA import has not been the best of Mums and this was always to be her last litter prior to us having her desexed. Losing two (1 x stillborn and 1 x euthanased) this confirmed our deci- sion. Glory Glory again as one of the surviving babies is a female who will remain with us at Kalinya Siamese to contin- ue our journey of breeding these wonderful creatures. So the tragic that I am found no better way to celebrate the significance of the Rabbitohs historic and memora- ble victory than to name the litter in honour of some of its players. I therefore introduce to you : BURGESS — in honour of the brothers Sam, George, Tom and Luke who were invincible (blue point male) SUTTON —Team Captain and as a Souths Junior, holds all time first grade games record (seal point male) for South Sydney INGLIS — “G.I.” Greg Inglis is one of the genuine superstars of the NRL, An inspiration to (blue point male) so many both on and off the field MADGE GLORY GLORY — to celebrate this remarkable achievement of Rabbitoh’s Coach, (seal point female) Michael Maguire bringing Glory Glory back to Redfern in three short years since joining the club in 2012 . And so ends my week of celebration……but after five decades of giving support to the Red and Green, my passion will live on long and hard to remind all those who will listen and even those who will not, that perseverance, dedication, loyalty and hard work in so many facts of our life will be reward- ed……… JUST ASK THE 2014 NRL PREMIERS, THE SOUTH SYDNEY RABBITOHS!!!!!!!! Pic Left to right: Auntie Milla, babies Madge, Sutton, Inglis Burgess and Mum Oriemme P A G E 7 FELIS Heat Strokes in cats Also known as “hyperthermia”, if the outside temperature is coma, -dizziness, salivating heat stroke is a life threatening warmer than the cats internal (drooling), coma, muscle medical condition in which the temperature HEAT STROKE tremors, lethargy, vomiting body’s internal organs (liver, is a very real possibility. Heat (possibly with blood), diar- kidneys, lungs, brain and heart) stroke is very real and breed- rhea (possibly with blood), begin to shut down. This is a ers who have to keep their bleeding from the nose (which result of elevated body temper- studs and other animals in the could be that the blood clot- ature, which can be caused by outdoors, which may be sub- ting system has failed. How high temperatures and yes even ject to extremes of heat, need to avoid heat stroke in cats: humidity. Cats can overheat to be made aware that the never leave in un-cooled Pregnant cats are very easily and try to protect cats could suffer organ dys- shedding, nor a parked car, if very vulnerable to themselves by panting and lick- function, coma and even death you are travelling provide ing themselves, but they can still and must be treated urgently adequate ventilation. Must heat stroke overheat very easily. Even more and checked often in our ex- have access to shaded area than humans, because panting is tremes we suffer here is Aus- and cool water.