ON SAFARI 2008 BENGAL CONGRESSES AND SYMPOSIUM
Join Bengal breeders from all over the country (and out of it!), and see some of the best Bengals in the world, at the 13th Annual “On Safari” Bengal Congresses & Symposium on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 3, 4, and
5 October 2008. We are being generously hosted by LA Cats in Longview, Texas. The show hotel is La Quinta Inn & Suites, 3416 Martin Luther King Blvd, Longview, TX 75605, (903) 238-9965, www.lq.com.

SATURDAY EVENING SYMPOSIUM AND BANQUET on 4 October 2008.
Dinner and Symposium start promptly at 7:00 pm. The Symposium presentation will be on the History of the Bengal Cat and Celebration of Jean Mill, our originator. For those of you who weren’t able to attend Jean’s retirement party, Anthony Hutcherson gave a wonderful celebration of Jean’s vision that started our Bengal breed, and the pathways that our breed has traveled. And now Anthony has generously agreed to present a much expanded presentation on the “History of the Bengal Cat” for On Safari 2008. If you want to know where our beloved breed came from, how it was developed, and the ups and downs along the way, join us as Anthony takes us for a walk back in time to the beginnings of the Bengal breed. Tickets for the banquet are $35 and can be purchased on the show entry form. Please enter early!!

RAFFLE
The LA Cats has generously offered us the show raffle on Saturday this year, which will seriously boost On Safari revenue. Please, please offer your raffle items so that there will be an On Safari 2009! Pat Harbert will be our raffle coordinator this year and can be contacted at ohmycats@… if you would like to send donations for the raffle ahead of time.

BENGAL CONGRESSES
3 RING BENGAL CONGRESSES on Friday, 3 October. And this year we welcome our judges; Pam Barrett, Bobbie Tullo, and Steven Savant! We are planning Kitten, Adult and Alter rings (each one judged by all three
judges) and will start judging at 3pm. This year we also have room for CONGRESS ONLY CATS, ALTERS AND KITTENS, so if you have cats that you would like to show only in the congresses and not in the show, they will be allowed. Registration and information for these congresses will be on the Show Flyer (which will be coming out very soon. We’ll announce it, but will also post it on the On Safari website (www.onsafari.org). We also have an incredible lineup of judges for the rest of the show!
Numerous awards will be presented, including awards for All Around Best Male and Female Congress Winners in all 3 classes, and an astonishing variety of Breeder’s Choice awards (which we will be posting shortly).
We welcome donations and extra category awards. Show Photographer is Helmi.

For information about the Show, go to: La Cats - October 3-5, 2008

For information about ON SAFARI, check out the show flyer listed above, the website at http://onsafari.org/