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Persian cats nowadays

The Presentseveral breeders across the country who
The closing challenge to that previoussaw the promise of great things in the
Almanac article was: "But as more andfoundation cats that were, for the most
more jump onto the bandwagon that beganpart, lacking in competitive type. A
rolling with the determined breedersgood head start had been provided by the
from the '70s and '80s, watch out,Pathfinders bi-colors originally
Solids ... here we come!"imported from Great Britain by Bobara
Our opening statement for this section,Pendergrast. These early breeders
then, must be: "Hello, Solids ... hereintegrated the best of the solid Persian
we are!" The traditional dominance oflines, and Cinderella emerged from her
the solid colored Persians in showhalls,rags in amazingly short order.
in finals and in end-of-year nationalDuring the '90s, some of those earlier
and regional awards is now beingbreeders remained dominant forces and
continually challenged by the bi-colorcontinued to make contributions to the
and calico cats. Some CFA regions havebi-color and calico division. They
heavier activity in this division thaninclude catteries such as Anz, Kitty
others do, with the bi-color and calicoCharm, PaJean, Brannaway and Harwood.
presence often exceeding that of theAll bred a significant number of grands
solids. Sheer numbers and quality arein the '90s and, with the exception of
the hallmarks of bi-colors and calicosAnz cattery, are all still actively
in the '90s.breeding and showing bi-colors as we
Not only has there been a veritablemove toward the 21st century. Other, new
explosion of bi-colors during the '90s,bi-color breeders began to make their
but the breeders have also built uponmark in this division during the '90s.
the type established in the decadesThe Anz cattery has retired from active
previous to produce stunning Persianbreeding, but the dynasty of winning
type. Keeping in mind that there arebi-colors and calicos that they founded
still two more years in this decade tolives on in many of the winning lines,
register even greater numbers, compareboth in the U.S. and abroad. Six of the
the 13 national winning bi-color andnational-winning bi-colors in the '90s
calico cats of the entire decade of thecarried the Anz cattery name, and many
'80s with 38 already accomplished in themore had Anz cats behind them. Their GC
'90s. The first five bi-color and calicoAnz Nicholas Nickleby, DM was CFA's
Distinguished Merit cats proudly tookfirst male DM, and produced 50 grands
their place in history in the '80s, andbefore he was neutered.
29 more have swelled their ranks in theAnother bi-color/calico
'90s; finally, compare the 363 totaldynasty-in-progress is PaJean cattery .
Grand Champions and Grand Premiers fromFour national-winning bi-color cats in
the '80s with the 959 already confirmedthe '90s are from this cattery, as well
in the first eight years of the presentas an impressive 81 grands!
decade. Is there any doubt that 1000Because of the sheer volume of winning
grands will be attained soon?bi-colors and calicos, this brief
The rapidly growing numbers of the "witharticle will be unable to give proper
white" cats necessitated first, in 1991,credit to the dozens of dedicated
the removal of these cats from thebreeders who have made a significant
parti-color division and creation ofmark in bi-colors and calicos. To those
their own division, and later, themany individuals we simply have not had
dividing of the most populous colorsroom to recognize and to name - a tip of
into their own color classes.our hat to your hard work and
In a 1991 Almanac article, we recognizedaccomplishments!
the early breeders of the bi-colors -



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