Champion & Grand Premier Dushenka Xander

	Pet names:	Xander aka Xinder-Xander, Xandle, Xandi-kooks, Kookie-monster, Senior Snoogle, my big ol' Snoogle-kook...
	Major awards:	● Best in Show Foreign kitten, Edinburgh show 2008 ● Kitten wins: 9 open class wins, 7 Best of Breed wins and 31 x 1st prizes ● 3 Challenge Certificates, 8 Premier Certificates, 3 Grand Premier certificates and 2 Reserve Grands
	Notable offspring:	Champion Dushenka Ysabella, one Grand Challenge and one reserve Grand; Best Foreign Kitten, Chester 2009

Xander's story

I knew pretty much from the moment he was born that I wanted to keep Xander - although common sense told me I shouldn't be keeping him sometimes common sense just goes out the window!  Dad is the beautiful Shoelina Independence - better known as Dippie - and his mother Tasha is, of course, my adorable Crazy Crasher. 

Xander is a poised and elegant boy, with the most amazing green eyes, who bizarrely enough has inherited his mother's habit of sitting with his front paws crossed.  Unfortunately he has inherited a few of her other habits as well, crashing around the house doing rather too good an imitation of a herd of buffalo on occasion!

As a youngster he was definitely my 'Little Boy Star', winning the RACCS annual points competition for best Russian, Top Kitten and Top Adolescent, and the RBBA annual points competition for Top Kitten and Top Adolescent, as well as all the other awards listed above.  He is only too well aware of his own gorgeousness, mostly because I have been daft enough to tell him how wonderful he is too often.  He does sometimes get referred to as King of Smug when he is sitting enjoying his own beauty too much!

Xander did well at shows as a young adult, winning two titles before he was even 18 months old, and going on to win the Grand title too.  Xander clearly considers himself the Man of the House and happily spends his time playing and cuddling up with the all the girls of an evening.«