Northern California Angora Guild: 3/3/24

Blown Away Angora Club Specialty Show in WA

Tammy's Blown Away Angora Rabbit Club held a specialty show at Stevenson, WA on Friday night, March 1, 2024. At the specialty show, the BOB Giant is Tammy Vaughn's chestnut Giant Angora, BOB French belongs to Deidre McKimmie, and Satin Angora BOB and specialty BIS goes to Sarah Kester.
Specialty show judge is Jennifer Schimpf of Texas.

Sara's Satin Angora is the specialty BIS.

Tammy's Giant is the RIS specialty.

Cat Show at Woodland

When we were attending the Cloverdale show on Sunday, Febraury 18, 2024, there was a cat show held at Woodland at the same time. Carolyn Sawaii went to the cat show and took these pictures to share with us.

Havana? Mini Satin? The two Reserve In Show Winners at Cloverdale

This is a "fun" photo. Uno on the left is the show A BIS judge, awarded the RIS to Griffin's chocolate Havana. Cathy in the middle is the show B BIS judge, awarded the RIS to Uno's chocolate Mini Satin.

Mini Satin and Havana are well known for being the look-a-like of each other. Here are two of these with the same color chocolate. Uno and Griffin want to put them together to have a comparison.

Several years ago in a huge show a "Mini Satin" was awarded Best In Show. The owner of the rabbit said it was the Havana BOB. After a lengthy discussion at the table of which none of us could hear what was being said, the Best In Show judge changed his mind and awarded the Best In Show to the original Reserve In Show winner, a Netherland Dwarf. This is how notorious it has been about the Mini Satin and Havana breeds resembling each other.

What do you think? Can you tell them apart?

This post concludes the photos and reports of the Cloverdale double shows.

Show B Best In Show Judging at Cloverdale

Show B Best In Show judge is Cathy Szychulda who is taking the BOB French Angora out of the carrier.

The BOB French Angora being examined on the judging table.

The BOB English Angora on the judging table.

Judge Cathy awards the Best In Show to Betty's English Angora.

Reserve In Show goes to Uno's Mini Satin.

Show A Best In Show Judging at Cloverdale

Show A Best In Show judge is Uno Kivi.

French Angora and English Angora are on the table behind the coops.

American Fuzzy Lop hunkers down on the Best In Show table.

Judge Uno awards the Best In Show to Betty's English Angora.

The Reserve In Show goes to Griffin's Havana.

Show B English Angora Judging at Cloverdale

English Angora is the last breed of Angoras being judged. Most of the Angora exhibitors are packing up getting ready to leave in the pouring rain. Stephany Brundage is helping to clerk, she has a white English Angora doe on the table. Stephany has just received her judge's license, she has an invitation to judge the following week at the Lake County show. Our wool group is not planning on going to the Lake County show, we hope to see Stephany judging in one of the future shows.

The two senior does, white and colored, are the BOV winners. They are competing for the BOB.

The English Angora BOB goes to the colored senior doe.

For a list of winners, go to:

NCAG Show Results: February 18, 2024 Angora Showing at Cloverdale (angorashowresults.blogspot.com)

Show B French Angora Judging at Cloverdale

The French Angoras follow the Satin Angoras onto the table waiting to be judged. Lillian has her white senior buck on the table.

Judge Cathy comments.

Left is a blue tort French Angora and the right is an opal. They are both dilutes. Genetically, the opal is the agouti version of the blue and blue tort is the non-extension version of the blue. If we want to use symmetrical names, blue tort is a good name while the opal would have been better to be called blue agouti.