UNITED KINGDOM GRAND CHAMPION
& GRAND PREMIER

CHELANCA PENTLANDITE
(Jem)

Caramel Tortie Silver Oriental Shaded Short Hair
Breed No. 43ps


Date of Birth: 
 16th January 1995

photo  Robert Fox © Best in Show Oriental Cumberland Cat Club Show 13th October 2001

Breeder/Owner:   Barbara Fellows

As a small kitten, Jem was very pretty.  She did not appear to have any particularly outstanding qualities. She followed me everywhere, and made it clear that I was her special person. I would have found it very difficult to part with her  and in any case she was the only silver girl in the litter,  since it was my intention to concentrate on breeding Silver Shadeds.  

By the time she was four months old, she began to look quite promising.  Her Show career began  at The Oriental Cat Association Show in June 1995, when she was five months old, when to my surprise and delight, she went Best Exhibit in Show.

	photo Alan Robinson © Oriental Cat Association Show 1995

After the Oriental Shadeds gained Championship status in June 1997, Jem was the first Shaded cat to become a Champion, Grand Champion and then UK Grand Champion.  She was also Best of Variety Oriental Adult at the GCCF Supreme Show in 1997 and 1999,  you can see pictures of her at these Shows by clicking on the links to both of these Shows in her list of successes below:-

Kitten & Adult Show successes:-    1995 - 1999

            34 Best of breeds

9 Intermediate Certificates

16 Champion Certificates

12 Grand Champion Certificates

2 Reserve Grand Champion Certificates

2 United Kingdom Grand Champion Certificates

Best Exhibit in Show - Oriental Cat Association Show 1995

Best Oriental - Tabby Point Siamese & Progressive Breeders  Show 1996

Best Oriental - Siamese Cat Society of Scotland Show 1997

Best Exhibit in Show - Wyvern Cat Club Show 1997

Best of Variety Oriental Adult  - GCCF Supreme Show 1997

Best Oriental - Wyvern Cat Club Show 1999

Best Exhibit in Show  Tabby Point Siamese & Progressive Breeders Show   1999

Best of Variety Oriental Adult -  GCCF Supreme Show 1999

Neuter Show Successes:-   October 2001 to March 2002

6 Best of Breeds
            8 Premier Certificates
          5 Grand Premier Certificates
            Best Oriental in Show Cumberland Cat Club Show - October 2001
            Best Oriental in Show Cheshire Area Cat Club Show - November 2001
            Best Oriental Neuter in Show  Short-Haired Cat Club Show - January 2002

       WINNER of the Oriental Section
       of the 2001/2002 Grand Final  Proplan Purina/Our Cats Stakes Competition
      held at The Coventry & Leicester Cat Club Championship Show on 23rd February 2002
      

In between going out to Shows, Jem has given birth to six litters of kittens, and as such, was always a perfect Mum.  She has now retired from competition, but may  be seen on exhibition at the occasional Show.

	photo Robert Fox © Cumberland Cat Club Show 13th October 2001 Proplan/Our Cats Grand Finalist (Oriental)
photo Alan Robinson © This photograph was taken on the day Jem became  Champion, at the  Gwynedd Cat Club Show on 19th July 1997