Current titles for Savannah are RW Triple Grand Champion (TCG),
American Curl Cats in Championship
We show in both CFA and TICA. We also have Curl Essence lines in competition in other countries. We haven't included all our Champions on this page... it would just make the page too long, however we are including titles earned for several of our babies the past couple of year and a little about these kids..
DGC Curl Essence A Dream Like This ("Dreamer")...
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2023 Best Chocolate Lynx Point American Curl LH of the Year
2023 2nd Best American Curl Longhair of the Year 2023 3rd Best American Curl Longhair Kitten of the Year 
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Regional Winner Triple Grand Champion Savannah...
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RW TCG Grand Champion (TCG) Curl Essence Savannah
2023 Best Black Silver Marbled Torbie AMerican Curl Longhair of the Year, 2023 3rd Best American Curl Longhair of the Year, Regional Winner (RW) for 2022 Best American Curl Longhair of the Year, Regional Winner (RW) 2022 12th Best Longhair Cat of the Year, and Regional Winner (RW) 2022 Best Black Silver Marbled Torbie American Curl of the Year We took Savannah to both the the July TICA show in Arcadia and the CFA show in CFA. She was awarded enough points at the TICA show to be awarded a Grand Champion title ...all in one show. That's huge. She was Best of Breed in every ring at the CFA show in August. This was a really big show.
Savannah's 12th Best LH Cat of the Year is HUGE! That means that she is the 12th best long hair cat of all the long hair cats shown all the year. That includes all the long hair breeds like the Maine Coon, Norwegian Forest Cat, Ragdoll, Persian, LH Bengal, Siberian, etc.
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Curl Essence Adriana
2021-2022 2nd Best American Curl LH Kitten of the Year
2021-2022 2nd Best American Curl LH Kitten of the Year
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SGC Bellabee of Curl Essence became a three show Supreme Grand Champion in TICA... actually she would have been a two show Supreme but her first show was on the last weekend of the year in April of 2019. She took a break to have her first litter. She was Best of Breed International in TICA with only two months to go in the 2019-2020 show season. Bellabee is a Chocolate Classic Torbie.
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IW SGC Bellabee of Curl Essence
2019-2020 TICA International 2nd Best American Curl LH (Bellabee) 2019-2020 TICA 9th Best Cat (Southwest Region) 2019-2020 CFA Best American Curl (Southwest Region) 
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Grand Premier Curl Essence Honey Bear ("Simba")
2017-2018 CFA 2nd Best American Curl Longhair Premier 2017-2018 CFA Best American Curl Kitten 
Simba received a Grand Premier title in 2017-2018 year in CFA. He also is a
Quadruple Gand Champion in TICA.. Simba is such a sweet boy. We named him after Simba in the Lion King because his face looks like a lion. Simba is a gentle soul. And so, so loving. He comes when we call him, sleeps on the foot of the bed and can't seem to play enough. He gets along with all the cats, except possibly Storm. But Storm picks on him. I think Storm is jealous of the attention Simba got when we started showing Simba and left Storm at home. Simba is a Regional Winner in CFA. His titled name is Curl Essence Honey Bear because of his golden honey colored coat. 
2016-2017 show year updateCongrats to Curl Essence Help in Time of Need ("Timmy")
Timmy ended the 2016-2017 show year as 4th in TICA in the SW Region and 5th internationally, plus 2nd Best of Breed in the SW Region in TICA. Timmy earned the required points to earn the title of Grand Champion in CFA at the Jan2018 show in Del Mar
Timmy is also a Quadruple Grand in TICA, as well as a Grand Champion in CFA (highest title in CFA). We showed Timmy primarily in CFA, but once he got is Grand title in CFA, we started showing him in TICA where he earned his Quadruple Grand title. We may decide to pull him back out of retirement in the future for his Supreme title in TICA. He had a bad experience at the OC Pet Expo (his last show)... He got startled while I was carrying him around the show hall so much so that I couldn't hold him and he ran behind a temporary panel and the wall. Poor boy! He was terrified. You just never know what a cat will interpret as a threat. But to make matters worse, he was stuck behind this panel and the wall and didn't know how to get out. (He had shot under the false wall panel halfway up the wall.) I laid on the floor and talked to him until he decided to try to come down. One bad experience can stick with a cat. After that experience, we decided to let him stay home where he knows he's safe. It would be nice to go for this last title of Supreme Grand Champion, but not if means he has to re-live a scary experience. (It wasn't that big of a deal, but it's all in how the cat perceives it. It's just not worth taking him back out if it's going to scare him.... so he gets to stay home for now.)
RW SGC CURL ESSENCE SIR KINGSLY ("Kingsley"):
RW SGC CURL ESSENCE SIR KINGSLY ("Kingsley"):
In Southwest Region: 2015 TENTH BEST CAT OF THE YEAR 2015 FOURTH BEST LONGHAIR CAT OF THE YEAR 2015 BEST AMERICAN CURL LONGHAIR OF THE YEAR 2015 BEST RED SILVER MACKERAL TABBY AMERICAN CURL LONGHAIR OF THE YEAR. Internationally: 2015 SECOND BEST AMERICAN CURL LONGHAIR OF THE YEAR (This is HUGE! This is competing against ALL the American Curls showing around the world.) SGC (Supreme Grand Champion) Curl Essence Sir Kingsley. Kingsley achieved his Supreme Grand Champion title in TICA at the December 14, 2014 TICA Show in Arcadia, California despite having to be pulled earlier in the year with a serious health issue that caused him to spend 8 days in emergency care. Today he is perfectly healthy and he achieved Supreme Grand Champion in three shows... we are very proud of him. Kingsley held the position of the Best American Curl in the 2014-2015 show year in TICA with his son Elron in 3rd position most of the show year. He ended the show year in 2nd position internationally for the breed... bummer! right? well, he just got tired of showing towards the end of the year and wouldn't show off for the judges in the rings. It cost him the points he needed to hold on to 1st place. (I guess he felt it was time to move on to the position of baby-making.)
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CH Autumn of Curl Essence. Autumn has only shown in 2 shows this year in CFA for her Champion title. At the Glendale show on Aug 25th, she took Best of Breed and Best of Color in 4 of 6 rings.
Autumn received a title of Champion this year also. We never intended to show Autumn much because we try to limit the number of cats we are showing at a time, but we only took her to 1 show for her Champion title where she beat another Curl who had shown much more and had more points. Autumn is a silver patched and white.... or more commonly called calico and white.
Autumn is now retired and living with my sister in Oregon and quickly converting her from a 'dog person' to a 'cat person' after the loss of her BFF named Gypsy. This was a perfect match for both my sister and for Autumn. Autumn needed to be that special cat that would love and be loved, and my sister needed someone with enough love to give to fill the huge whole left from the loss. Autumn was the perfect fit.
Curl Essence Withstanding the Storm
Grand Premier in CFA and Supreme Grand in TICA.TICA 2017 2nd Best American Curl LH of the year
TICA 3rd Best of Breed SW Region TICA 8th Best internationally TICA 24th Best Longhair Cat of the Year (This includes all LH cats shown in TICA for this show year) Storm ended this show season as Best of Breed in Alter class in both TICA and CFA for the SW region, 4th Best of Breed internationally in TICA, and 9th Best Alter of ALL alters shown in TICA (which includes all alters shown of all breeds competing.) The CFA awards have now been posted as well. Storm is 18th Best Alter in the SW Region in CFA. His competition included some outstanding Abbys, Exotics, Siamese, Persians, Bobtails, and Somalis, just to name a few. He is also CFA's Best of Breed for the SW Region for American Curls for the 2016-2017 show year.
RW GRC CURLESSENCE SILVERBELLE
We never took professional photos of Belle. We'll add a picture from the house shortly. Belle is a silver mack tabby.
RW CH Curl Essence Silverbelle
TICA 2016 Second Best American Curl Longhair of the Year Award of Excellence TICA 2016 Best Black Silver Mackerel Tabby American Curl Longhair of the year Award of Excellence TICA 19th Best LH Cat of the Year CFA SW Region 2015 Third Best American Curl Longhair, Regional Winner & Grand Champion in TICA Curl Essence Colette de Curl
RW Curl Essence Colette de Curl
TICA 2017 Best American Curl Longhair Kitten of the Year TICA 2017 20th Best Kitten of the Year Best Kitten in our region and 4th Best American Curl internationally. Curl Essence Mighty Rushing Wind ("Wendy")
TICA 2nd Best American Curl - LH Kitten [below] 
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SGC Curl Essence Son-of-Righteousness, "Sonny" (to the right) earned his Supreme Grand Champion Alter title in the 2014-2015 show year in TICA. This is the highest title he can win in TICA. He is also Best of Breed in the TICA Southwest Region for the 2014-2015 show year. Sonny is out of Cinnamon, who was our first Grand Champion. Cinnamon is now a part of the growing American Curl population in Brazil. The judges love, love, love his long super soft coat!
Sonny found the absolute perfect home with one of our curl friends who also has one of our other cats. We were so pleased when we saw Dan at a cat show and he said he wanted to take Sonny home with him. We had seen Dan at several shows where he had helped take Sonny to rings for us so they had already bonded. We couldn't have asked for a better home for this boy's retirement. Dan treats his cats even better than we do, if that's at all possible. I have several updates from Dan I will be posting on our testimonial page. We love it when our cat families send us updates on our kitties.
Sonny found the absolute perfect home with one of our curl friends who also has one of our other cats. We were so pleased when we saw Dan at a cat show and he said he wanted to take Sonny home with him. We had seen Dan at several shows where he had helped take Sonny to rings for us so they had already bonded. We couldn't have asked for a better home for this boy's retirement. Dan treats his cats even better than we do, if that's at all possible. I have several updates from Dan I will be posting on our testimonial page. We love it when our cat families send us updates on our kitties.
Curl Essence Cinnamon was our very first CFA Grand Champion. "Cinns-a-mon" was a child out of one of our first litters from our first breeding cats. His mom is CH Procurlharem Juliekurl (see photo below left) and CH Procurlharem Sir Curlsalot ("Erskin") (photo below right). Granding Cinns was the hook that converted Mike from the football games on weekends to going to cat shows. Cinns is now in Brazil making pretty little red babies with great ears and the sweet temperament he is known for. Our goal in cat breeding is to produce the perfect American Curl cat.
Sonny and Cinnamon are carbon copies of each other. We frequently get other dark red babies that look just like these two boys did as babies. Our dark red kittens always inherit this same long silky, silky soft coat and dramatic appearance. They also seem to keep that same mellow, affectionate personality we got with both Cinnamon and Sonny.
Sonny and Cinnamon are carbon copies of each other. We frequently get other dark red babies that look just like these two boys did as babies. Our dark red kittens always inherit this same long silky, silky soft coat and dramatic appearance. They also seem to keep that same mellow, affectionate personality we got with both Cinnamon and Sonny.
"Sara" (GC, RW, NW Curl Essence Sarafina') is a long hair brown patched tabby.
The standard for the American Curl was based on a female, the first American Curl was named Shulamith. "Shu's" story is told on the Breed Origins page under Media & Shows. It's also on any number of websites documenting the breed. Sara displays many of these same original characteristics. Grace Ruga, founder of the breed is the primary reason we kept Sara in our breeding program and showed her. We had asked Grace to evaluate Sara's entire litter at about 3-1/2 mo. of age. We hadn't really planned to show her, but Grace saw something in Sara that reminded her of her beloved Shu. Obviously, some of the CFA judges saw it too because she came in 3th in the Nation (which includes international) for the 2010-2011 show year.
The standard for the American Curl was based on a female, the first American Curl was named Shulamith. "Shu's" story is told on the Breed Origins page under Media & Shows. It's also on any number of websites documenting the breed. Sara displays many of these same original characteristics. Grace Ruga, founder of the breed is the primary reason we kept Sara in our breeding program and showed her. We had asked Grace to evaluate Sara's entire litter at about 3-1/2 mo. of age. We hadn't really planned to show her, but Grace saw something in Sara that reminded her of her beloved Shu. Obviously, some of the CFA judges saw it too because she came in 3th in the Nation (which includes international) for the 2010-2011 show year.
Above is Juliekurl, our foundation queen from Procurlharem. She was registered as a silver tabby, but you can see just the slightest bit of color on her chest. It's really, really faint, but she is actually a silver patched tabby which means she carries the red gene.
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Above is Erskin. Erskin is our foundation sire. His registered name is Sir KurlsALot. "Erskin" is a blue tabby. Erskin and Julie produced our first reds. Erskin's parents were a colorpoint and red tabby and white. Obviously, that little bit of red in Julie's bloodline combined with the red from Erskin's dad is what produced the dark reds we still get.
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Below is a slideshow of some of our Champions and Grand Champions in the U.S. and around the world.
Curl Essence Curls around the world..... |
Curl Essence Curls are in 11 countries around the world including Hong Kong, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Spain, France, Belgium, Austria, Mainland China, Malaysia, and of course, the United States .... to mention a few.
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We've only featured a few of our Grands on this page... we didn't want the page to go on forever, so we've added a small slide show below to show you more Grands.
This is our living room wall downstairs. I ran out of room over the fireplace so I started hanging some on the side wall over the front window. These are just the larger ribbons. We have stacks and stacks of smaller ones. It was just too hard to make space for all of them. BTW, the ribbons with little tabs on them is a final for each small tab. TICA uses these tabs instead of individual ribbons because the ribbons are so pricey. A lot of CFA shows don't pay for ribbons anymore to save $. The San Diego Del Mar Show still buys nice ribbons for all their finals.
The condos behind the sofa in the LR are for the cats to watch the birds out the front window. We have a bird feeder hanging under the front walkway that the cats can see from the front window. This year, we added another feeder on a pole in the planter bed right outside the front window. The smaller tube feeder seem to attract the smaller birds. The bigger feeder on the pole attracts the doves. The cats go nuts watching the birds on these condos. And we have as much fun watching the cats watch the birds as the cats do. Tucker is probably the cutest of all of the cats. He gets so excited watching the birds, he actually "chips" in his excitement. It's really too funny to watch. Just for a few chuckles, I'm adding a couple short videos I couldn't help taking one day as I spotted Raphie and Cole watching the birds. These videos have to make you smile. I play them over and over again on my phone just because they are so darned much fun to watch.
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