Thread: How to Choose???

Originally Posted by jckkerrison

Doesn't always go that way,my friends girl had no end of wins against the boys for best cat in catagory 2 & she has also won overall best cat in the show more than once,that is under the FB banner.There does have to be a lot more than size!

Sure, it is not just size, but the point the breeders have made is that if you take two equally good MC specimens and one is a 22 lbs male and the other a 14 lbs female, the male will invariably score better. I just had a quick look at TICA site to see if there is any data to corroborate this belief. On the Best of International page I see three MCs from 2005--2010, two kittens and one adult. All three are males. If we look at the current MC standings, the top three are males. Number four, Chemicoons Firefox, is the daughter of the cat whose link I gave above. She was a very large female kitten, the largest out of 10 kittens in two different litters, and weighing more than the one male from each litter (one of those being our male Zephyr and the other being her brother who is ranked 6th, Chemicoons Wild Fire of Woodpile). While sex isn't given, a little googling seems to indicate that only two of the current top ten MCs are female. So, sure, while sex/size isn't the only issue, the fact that 80% of the top ten are male shows you that breeders are probably not wrong about it being a real factor in MC judging.