Grand Premier Tobysden Balou
Best in Show Neuter - Bengal Cat Club Show - 26/7/08
Grand Premier Tobysden Balou
Best in Show Neuter - Bengal Cat Club Show - 26/7/08
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have been breeding pedigree Bengals in North Shropshire for seven years. I aim to produce kittens of the highest quality who are healthy, happy and love human company. All my kittens are reared indoors with lots of love and affection. All are GCCF registered. I show my cats regularly and am dedicated to improving the breed. We are members of the Bengal Cat, Club, the Ocicat and Bengal Cat Club and the Bengal Cat Club of Great Britain. My prefix was chosen in honour of my ten year old non-pedigree tabby, Toby - a top show cat in his own right - and friend and mentor to many generations of Tobysden kittens.
We occasionally have friendly well socialised kittens available to loving permanent homes.
KITTENS AVAILABLE 28/7/08 Tobysden Chiquitita gave birth to her first litter on 4/6/08 - she has
2 brown spotted females, 1 brown spotted male and 1 brown marble male.
Chiqui, like most Bengals, is rapidly proving to be a devoted mother and is
immensely proud of her beautiful family - she hasn't stopped purring since they
arrived. Sabu is the father of these babies and they already look as if
they will have his clear golden coat.
Tobysden Chiquitita with her
first litter by Gr. Ch. Llandar Sabu aged just 5 days More photos and
availability details are up on the kitten page now. Other recent matings: Starwinds Noir
Diamond x Tobysden Snowdrop - 1 brown and 2 snow spotted kittens just arrived
(13/7/08) - see kitten page If you would like more details or just for a chat about our Bengal cats and kittens please
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GCCF Grand Champion and T.I.C.A. Double Grand Champion Llandar Sabu
Best of Breed and Best in Show Foreign Adult
Short Hair Cat Society Shows, 7/1/06 and 6/1/07
Best Bengal Adult, Bengal CC of GB TICA Shows, 11/3/06 and 14/10/06
Photograph by kind permission of Robert Fox
Tobysden Tabari aka. "Baz"
Best Brown (Black) Spotted Bengal Neuter - Bengal Cat Club of
Great Britain Show 2002
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BENGAL CAT CLUB SHOW - 26/7/08
We had a wonderful day highlighted by Grand Premier Tobysden Balou winning BIS Neuter and along with brother Premier Tobysden Hullaballoo the Prefix Brace competition for the Vrechva Trophy. In addition our cats won four certificates as follows;
Imperial Grand Premier - Gr Pr Tobysden Balou
Grand Premier - Tobysden Hullaballoo
Premier - Llandar Avalon
Intermediate (Premier) - Tobysden Daisymae
Dear old Toby also did his bit in the household pet section and won his Open class and the heat of the Royal Canin Western Challenge
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Starwinds Noir-Diamond tested negative for HCM (Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy) under the FAB/VCVS Heart Screening Scheme on 16/6/08.
Sabu was awarded his third Grand Challenge Certificate at Merseyside CC Show on 7/6/08 so is now a GCCF Grand Champion
Pr. Tobysden Balou has become the first Tobysden Grand Premier having won his 2nd and 3rd Grand Premier Certificates at Manchester&District on 3/5/08 and Midland Counties CC on 18/5/08. He was also BOB on both occasions. He has actually gained this title in just three shows since becoming a Premier which is quite an achievement for a young boy of just 18months. We are all very proud of him - especially Alex and Richard his devoted slaves!!
Pr. Tobysden Balou now has his own website with lots of gorgeous photos - do click on the link and pay it a visit.
Tobysden Zhivago - a beautiful blue eyed snow spotted son of Sabu made his show debut at Midland Counties and was awarded BOB and his first Intermediate Certificate. Congratulations to David and family for showing him so well.
Tobysden Zhivago proudly shows off his first rosettes to brother Indy who looks as if he wishes he had some too!
Ch. Llandar Sabu also did extremely well at Manchester winning his second Grand Challenge Certificate and Best of Breed.
Young Harley (Starwinds Noir Diamond) continues to do well too winning his Open Class and challenge certificates at his first two adult shows ie Preston and Blackpool CC on 29/3/08 and Midland Counties CC on 18/5/08
Tobysden Stargazer is now a GCCF Premier. Basil won his third certificate at the Scottish CC show on 9/2/08 to become the third Tobysden Premier.
Congratulations to Rosemary and Brian for showing him so well.
Premier Tobysden Stargazer
Sabu is now a GCCF Champion and TICA Double Grand Champion - see show news below.
Sabu tested negative for HCM (Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy) under the FAB/VCVSHeart Screening Scheme on 8/8/07
SHOW NEWS
BENGAL CAT CLUB OF GREAT BRITAIN (TICA) MARCH MAD CATTER,S BALL - 8/3/08
This was a truly mad day for us as all three of our cats (Harley, Hully and Boo Boo) finalled and gained their first TICA titles. It was such a fun day so have done a separate page with all the news and photos.
COVENTRY AND LEICESTER CC 23/2/08
This was just one of those amazing days you normally only dream about!! Harley, Balou and Rosie Posie all had red card days. Harley and Balou were both Best of Breed and Balou also won his first Grand Challenge Certificate. Rosie Posie won her Ultimate Mastercat class and proudly collected her Mastercat certificate and medal for achieving the title in 2007. She was also the overall Royal Canin heat winner. Not to be outdone by his sister, Toby also won his UMC class - he also won this in 2007 so has now achieved the title held by only two other cats of "Ultimate Mastercat".
SHROPSHIRE CC - 2/2/08
Harley (Starwinds Noir Diamond) really excelled himself this time - after winning Best of Breed and Best Foreign Kitten he went on to be Best of Variety Foreign Exhibit. He amused himself during the final Best in Show judging by "killing" a piece of plastic tie wrap he found under his cushion - he did not win BIS but at least he made the audience laugh!!
Starwinds Noir Diamond aka Harley
Best of Variety Foreign Exhibit - Shropshire CC 2/2/2008
SHORT HAIRED CAT SOCIETY - 5/1/08
We had a great start to the year with darling Harley (Starwinds Noir Diamond) winning Best of Breed and going on to be Best in Show Foreign Kitten. He also won 4 miscellaneous classes. Tobysden Fantasia and Tobysden Balou also did well winning their Opens and several other classes.
Harley enjoying his success at SHCS 5/1/08
NATIONAL CC - 8/12/07
Tobysden Balou with fur growing back nicely fully made up for missing his class at the Supreme by winning his 3rd Premier Certificate and Best of Breed. He is the second Tobysden GCCF premier having just been beaten to it by brother Hully at the Supreme! Congratulations to Richard and Alex.
SUPREME 2007- 17/11/07
Congratulations to Tobysden Hullaballoo and Tobysden Affectionate Anya who both won their classes. Hully won his third premier certificate to become the first Tobysden GCCF premier.
Congratulations also to Tobysden Balou and his dad Richard Crutchley who won the judges choice class in the decorated pen competition with a very impressive impersonation of Top Cat. This was a great consolation to us as Balou could not compete against his brother Hully due to breaking his leg 5 weeks ago and still having rather a shaved leg!
Our sweet little T. Chiquitita did well to be 2nd and dear old Toby put on his usual impeccable performance to be 3rd in a strong class of top tabby household pets. Many congratulations to his old rival Charlie Symonds who won the class and went on to be Supreme Household Pet
The Tobysden Contingent safely behind bars at the Supreme - Balou posing as TC, Hullaballoo and Chiquitita
(Many thanks to Richard Crutchley for taking the photographs)
Sabu's kittens are now doing extremely well on the show bench -
Open, Best of Breed and Certificate winners from his first crop of kittens are:
Tobysden Affectionate Anya
Premier Tobysden Balou
Tobysden Bluebell
Tobysden Fantasia
Premier Tobysden Hullaballoo (Bengal CC of GB Kitten
Congress Winner)
Tobysden Snowdrop(1 Intermediate Certificate)
Tobysden Vrechvaeidelweiss
Tobysden Zhivago
Tobysden Chiquitita is a lovely brown spotted daughter of Excalibur and Evita who we are keeping as a future breeding queen.
She made a great start to her show career at the Bengal CC show in July - see below.
OCICAT & BENGAL CC - 27/10/07
Sabu had one of his best days winning his first Grand, Best of Breed and a red card day in all his other classes. Tobysden Fantasia had an excellent show debut with 2nd in a strong Open class and top 3 placings in 3 other classes. She is a beautiful golden girl who takes after her dad.
Tobysden Fantasia
(Llandar Sabu x Wildside Manasa DoB 4/6/07)
TEESSIDE CC - 25/8/07
Tobysden Passionflower was awarded her 3rd Challenge Certificate and to our great joy becomes the first Tobysden GCCF Champion - she will now have a break from showing and go back to live with Excalibur who she loves and hopefully in time will give us some more kittens.
CHESTER AND N WALES CC - 11/8/07
Congratulations to Tobysden Vrechvaeidelweiss - Best of Breed Snow Spotted kitten and 1st in AV Foreign Non-Breeders kitten. Heidi is a beautiful daughter of Sabu and Daisymae who now lives with Peter and Carol Smart and the Vrechva Bengals in Yorkshire.
Congratulations also to Balou who won his Open class and 2nd Premier Certificate
BENGAL CC - 28/7/07
We had an excellent day - Tobysden Chiquitita won her Open class as did Tobysden Balou and Tobysden Daisymae. Tobysden Affectionate Anya was 2nd in her Open Class. Daisymae was also BOB and Tobysden Balou had a red card day and won his 1st Premier Certificate. Chiquitita won a large class for debutante female kitten.
LINCOLNSHIRE CC - 14/7/07
Tobysden Affectionte Anya was Best of Breed snow spotted kitten. Anya now lives in Lincolnshire with Caterina Ziccardi and Affectionate Bengals.
Tobysden Hullaballoo
Winner of Four Finals including Bengal Kitten Congress at Bengal CC of GB TICA Show on 10/3/07
TOBYSDEN DAISYMAE - our lovely snow marble show girl, Best of Breed Snow Marble Adult, Bengal Cat Club Show - 28/7/07 and winner of six Merit awards
For more information on future Bengal kitten litters and pictures of Bengal kittens from current and previous litters see our recently updated Bengal kitten page.
RECENT SHOW NEWS - Click on the link to find out how our Bengal cats and Bengal kittens have been doing at the shows lately!
Tobysden Phantom a.k.a "Casper" with his loving "mum", Rosemary Lenette.
Best of Breed Snow Spotted Bengal Kitten - National Cat Club Show,Olympia 4/12/2004 and
BOB Snow Spotted Bengal Neuter - SH Cat Club of Scotland, Scotia and Teesside CC Shows, 2005
TOBYSDEN CAT GARDEN We have created a delightful enclosed cat garden to give our Bengals as much space as possible. Click on the link to see more about this project.
Updated 31/10/07
since 1/7/03CONTACT DETAILS
For more information about our Bengal cats, please contact Sue - Tel No: 01630 638345(N. Shropshire, UK) or Email via the link below
Tobysden Links More Pictures of the Cats at Tobysden
Links about Bengals The Bengal Cat Club of Great Britain
Zawadi Bengals
Links about Non-Pedigree Cats and Showing Household Pets
Click on the banner to visit Raffle's World
Other Links
Click on Toby to find out how you too can have a superb professional portrait of your cat.
Petplan providing a voucher for 6 weeks free insurance on all Tobysden kittens.
The Bengal Cat Magazine - information on Bengal cat history, breeding, colours and patterns, showing and Bengal cats as pets
The South Ribble Pet Cat Club -
a MUST for anyone interested in showing their non-pedigree cat.
