Imperial Grand Champion & Imperial Grand Premier Dushenka Belucia, 1 OGCC
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Pet name: |
Lucy aka Lucy-Lou; Luce, Lou-Belle, Purr-pot; 'Wow you look like your daddy'!; Lou-Lou; Snoogle-poogle; my Baby Blue; Perfect Lucy
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Major awards: |
● as a kitten 26 x 1st prizes, including ten open class wins, nine Best of Breed, plus Best of Variety Foreign Kitten and Best in Show Foreign Exhibit, Lakeland show 2011; Best of Variety Foreign Kitten Northern Counties show 2011; Best of Variety Foreign Kitten, Best in Show Foreign Exhibit and Overall Best in Show Exhibit Ulster 2011
● a Champion at 10½ months in
her first three adult shows; five Imperial Grands, one reserve
Imperial; three Grand Challenges and four reserve Grand Challenges;
Best Foreign Adult West of Scotland show 2015 and Lancashire show
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| Notable offspring: |
● UK & Olympian Gold Imperial Grand Champion Dushenka Rafael: seven Best of Breed wins as a kitten, Best Foreign Kitten, Gwynedd show 2016, Best Foreign Exhibit and reserve best in show, Cheshire 2016; Best Foreign Adult, Bristol show 2018; Best in Show Section 4 Exhibit, Herts & Middlesex 2019; Best in Show Section 4 Exhibit and Overall Best in Show, Wiltshire show 2019; Best Section 4 Adult, Somerset show 2019; Best Section 4 Adult, Best in Show Section 4 Exhibit, and reserve Overall Best in Show, National show 2019; Best Section 4 Adult LH, SLH & ABCC 2020; Best Section 4 Adult, NICC 2020; Best Section 4 Adult, Wyvern 2022; Best in Show Russian Blue Adult, RBBA 2022; Best Section 4 Adult, Erin 2023; Best Section 4 Adult, Best in Show Section 4 Exhibit, and reserve Overall Best in Show, SHABCC show 2023 |
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| Kitten pages: | 2012 2014 |
Lucy's story
Lucy is from an especially precious litter of kittens, the only babies from the very lovely UK & Olympian Gold Imperial Grand Premier Dushenka Zerachiel. I was so lucky that Zach's owners were willing to let him come here for a 'little visit', with the result that Zach became a daddy the day before his 1st birthday! Thank you again Karen and Darren for making this very special little Russian Blue lady possible.
Lucy is a gorgeous girl, very purrful and kissy too, just like her siblings. Then again, not only is their dad Zach, their mum is my adorable 'crazy Crasher', Gr Ch & IGr Pr Dushenka Tashabella, aka Snoogle-mom. All three Zach/Tash babies were crazily adorable just like their parents, and it was hard for me to accept that I couldn't just keep all three of them... But I knew Lucy had to be the one to stay - she started following me around at a very young age, giving adorable little 'bunny-hops' of happiness every time I spoke to her. As a result I have rather foolishly indulged her, and like her much-loved, and much-missed great-great grandmother Stella she is quite capable of talking back at me! Lucy is also the most physically dextrous of my cats, preferring to walk up the banisters, rather than using the stairs like any normal cat, and perching on the top banister to sunbathe.
Lucy enjoyed an amazing show debut at the age of 14 weeks at the Lakeland show - following in her daddy's pawprints as he too made his show debut at the Lakeland show the previous year, also just 14 weeks old. Zach won Best of Variety foreign kitten in 2010, as did Lucy in 2011, but Lucy then had to go one better and win Best in Show Foreign exhibit, thus giving herself an awful lot to live up to. She has done pretty well in that, winning Overall Best in Show at the Ulster show in November 2011, even beating her own daddy!
Her pedigree name Belucia is a combination of 'Bella' (beautiful) and 'Lucia' (bright light), as that is what she is to me, a beautiful bright light in my life. Lucy was also a great mum, with very clear ideas on where and how her kittens should be reared, and it was always a real wrench to part with any of her darling babies. Lucy is now retired from breeding, but has taken on the role of Chief Etiquette Coach for my kittens.