Sandy was our first great success. When she was born we knew that she was something special so we specified to all prospective humans that she must be shown. Unfortunately, nobody wanted to show her so we kept her.
We began he show career in March of 2008 to great success and she managed to achieve Supreme championship at the World of Dogs and Cats show in June 2008. She didn’t have the greatest showing personality in that she didn’t like strangers, but her beauty still managed to shine through and she is definitely improving at every show. Interestingly enough, a she got older she got over her fear of strangers and became the first cat to welcome visitors at our home.
In 2016, I decided to enter her at World of Dogs and Cats again and she got a clean sweep of Supreme cerficates.
Her coat and tail was her crowning glory, however she did carry a little bit of tarnishing in places…the joys of breeding silvers! The tarnishing did disappear as she got older though.
She was the first Somali lap cat that I had ever encountered at that time, however she still had her list of things to do every day. Like all Valinor cats, she had the hairdresser gene as well as the indecisive gene (she could never make up her mind whether she wanted to be on top or under the blankets!)
She produced a few litter of kittens, but none of them were every shown.
Sandy left us in July of 2018, after a long battle with illness. There was a big hole left when she was gone.