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Grand Champions
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Grand Premiers
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Champions and AOV's
Champions are those cats that have met the requirements for championship but have not become grand champions.Some males get tired of showing and let the owner and sometimes judges know it from certain behavior. Some females may do the same. It is a little more difficult to show whole females. Periodic heat cycles make it difficult to keep them in show condition because of weight loss, coat texture, etc.
AOV's (meaning any other variety) cannot be shown in championship because they differ from the cats for which the show standards are written. In Ocicats they may be ticked tabbies like their Abyssinian ancestors, classic tabbies instead of spotted tabbies, or solid in color. Yet they may be used in breeding programs and may produce excellent show cats. Since Abyssinians may be used as outcrosses for Ocicats until 2015 to enlarge the Ocicat gene pool, various ticked tabbies occur. The first generation of an Abyssinian and Ocicat cross will have a ticked tabby pattern like the Aby parent. Only in the second generation may a cat be produced that fits the show standards. The second generation is referred to as an F2. Two of the Ocicountry grand champions are F2's, GC Ocicountry Senga and GC Ocicountry Rukwa of Pikespeak. Of course, other types of AOV's like classic tabbies and solids may produce excellent show cats. Ocicountry Cinnamon Zande, a classic tabby, produced five grands and became a Distinguished Merit cat with CFA. Cinnful Dixie Lou of Ocicountry, a solid chocolate female, produced a number of excellent Ocicat show cats, among them GC Ocicountry Spotasaurus of Keeleykats, a tawny spotted Ocicat male that led a show in Schenectady, New York. |
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