Date: Tue Sep 14, 2004 1:43 pm
Subject: Salt Lake City show
ICATers,
First I received a cryptic email with the subject Salt Lake City Show containing only two words, "15 seconds," then today I received on from Taty Kalani, one of our ICAT Junior Handlers:
-----Original Message-----
From: SharonKalani
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 9:17 PM
Subject: Hi VickieIt's Taty. . .did you hear about the new record set in the
ICAT ring? I ran Rhonda Hauffe's bengal kitten Bengalxpress
Ciniron and we timed in at 15 seconds! It was sooooo fun!
Thanks!Taty
15 seconds! That is a new Kitten record for a clean run! Trained
and handled by Taty, Ciniron, who is 7 months old, must have been
really focused and zooming, to have gone faster than the Gunner the
Singapura who did 22 seconds in Edmonton.
Congratulations to Ciniron, the new world record Kitten clean run
holder. And to Taty Kalani, the record hold for fastest run by a
Junior Handler!
Vickie
From: Vickie Shields
Date: Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:42 pm
Subject: Salt Lake City results
Congratulations to Ciniron! The 15 second new world Kitten record holder, and to Taty Kalani who handled him!
KITTENS:
1st - Bengalxpress Ciniron, "Cinders", Bengal, .7, M, Rhonda Hauffe, Handler: Tatyana Kalani, :21 & :15, Both Clean
2nd - Rockymeoutain's Athos, Bengal, .6, M, Pam Knowles, :43, 1 Fault (no second run)
Tatyana Kalani received the 1st Place Junior Handler Award.
Notice that both of Cinder's clean runs were record setting, and they were done without rest between (maybe 10 seconds between the runs). Additionally, Cinders ran late on Sunday after already being judged probably 9-11 times. He was not tired, and of course, Taty is special.
No adults were timed.
Vickie
From: Constance Carroll
Date: Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:43 pm
Subject: Re: [ICAT] Salt Lake City results
ICAT is providing one of the first "real world" studies of measurable domestic cat athletic ability. These times and the rapid succession of performance runs by Cinders leads me to wonder if we have underestimated what our cats are capable of.
I have done some home agility and endurance training with my cats. I was very surprised at how much my guys' endurance capacity increased with regular training sessions. I was trying to develop lean muscle on a male Egyptian Mau. Maus will run after a toy until they have to lay down and pant for awhile. The sessions started out at about 10 minutes and capped out at about 30 minutes of toy chasing, and he became a lean, mean show cat machine by mid season last year.
It was interesting to watch his endurance develop and see his body change.
I believe that ICAT is going to give us a whole new realm of knowledge about cats, from their athletic ability to their general "trainability" to how we interact, feline and human.
May ICAT endure and continue to grow.
Thank you Victoria and Shirley.
Constance Carroll
Consuelo Egyptian Maus
Boulder County, Colorado
From: Andrea Dorn
Date: Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:57 pm
Subject: physical rewards
Constance,
This is exactly why I started working with Mewdy Blue even before cat agility came to be. He started out as an overactive kitten who kept chasing other cats and trying to get outside. I took him for walks on his leash to wear him out. In the winter months we had play sessions and tricks to keep him busy. Finally he tried a dog agility course just because it was there and I moved on to find out about ICAT.
Cat agility is definitely going to be great for both cats and their people. And I agree, it is only the beginning!
Andrea
aka Cheshire Cat
