Visited another cat exhibition in Bangkok š¹š, at Seacon Square Shopping Mall which is on Srinakarin Road. The event wasn't large but there were stunning felines there including a werewolf cat. š»
Some of the cats were in relative peace of containers and cages like these guys:
Sphinxes
British Shorthair, curious and chubby
British Shorthair too, probably
Not the most exciting catwork but, at least, you can sleep off if you are at all able to sleep in the center of a mob of excited apes. š
Other cats were placed into cardboard castles with the paid entrance (150 baht / 4.4$), for children's pleasure.
That is more active catwork but not that hard one because you are away from the crowd and can completely ignore little apes while they will be anyway happy (believing that the cats literally love them š).
Meanwhile, veterans of the cat industry did the hardest part - worked with the crowd.
There were column in the hall on the top of which cats were sitting to delight the visitors.
The owner of that stoic cat was always near and fed the cat with something from a small pack from time to time. I hope he was slightly drugging the cat š
because the pressure of the crowd was tough.
šš Poor... š
This cat did not move at all, despite the fact that the crowd with cameras around him was impressive. I think he has long learned the Teaching and is ready to enter Nirvana at any moment. š But out of sympathy for unenlightened hoomans, he remains in this world to share zen and gift lulz. šŗ
Another hero, charming British person unwilling to be in the focus of strangers' delight:
But the main star of the show, in my opinion, was a werewolf cat, or lykoi. It felt like the beast ran away from a science fiction movie:
This breed, as wiki states, was developed only 10 years ago. They found cats with this rare natural mutation and began to breed them:
Two different sets of domestic short-hairs with the Lykoi gene were adopted from a rescue after being discovered in Virginia in 2010, by Patti Thomas, who co-founded and named the breed, and in 2011, a second pair were located in Tennessee, by Johnny Gobble.
The price of this cat was 250.000 Thai baht which is 7000 US dollars.
More images and stories from Southeast Asia are ahead! Check out the previous ones on my personal Pinmapple map.
I took the images with a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G on a full frame Nikon D750 on September 24, 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand.