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Meet Our Cats: Outstanding Sires and Dams: Hoppy

RW SGC Pinecoon's Hot Patootie ("Hoppy"), Outstanding Dam 

Hoppy was our treasure, and our family's very favorite cat (among many favorites). We lost her suddenly, in December 2005, due to a pyothorax. We miss her desperately -- we still can't believe she's gone.

At left is Hoppy in February 2005, at 8 years of age.

 

 Hoppy : VITAL STATISTICS


Birthdate
: 10/13/1996

Hips: Good at 1 year of age

Heart: Normal and healthy. Screened via doppler ultrasound annually since she was 1 year old; her heart was most recently screened in September 2003, at 7 years of age.

Pedigree: Hoppy is out of QGC Coonmora's Drambuie
and IW SGC Luvpaws A Torrid Affair of Pinecoon.
Click here for a full five-generation pedigree.

Litters: Hoppy has had five litters:

AWARDS & HONORS

Some of the awards & honors Hoppy has earned:

  • Hoppy is a TICA Outstanding Dam because she has produced six Grand Champions (five are required to earn the title of Outstanding Dam). You can find photos of all her "grand" children at right.
  • Hoppy earned her Supreme Grand Championship in just a few shows -- after she'd just finished raising her first litter.
  • Hoppy was the TICA NW Region's 11th Best Longhair Cat and the region's 21st Best Cat.
  • Hoppy was TICA's 2nd Best Brown Classic Torbie & White Maine Coon of the Year for 1997-1998. (The best torbie & white Maine Coon was SGC Croton's Tamra, who was the highest scoring Maine Coon of the year. So in this case, there's certainly no shame in "coming in second"!

Photo (c) 1997 by Chanan Photography. All rights reserved.

Hoppy is a brown classic torbie and white -- a large girl with good boning and a long, heavy, hard body. Hoppy has a beautiful head with a long square muzzle, excellent profile, and deep square chin. She has large ears with large, thick lynx tips.

Hoppy has a terrific personality both at home and in the show hall -- she is relaxed, very outgoing and a real showoff. At home, she's generally in the way: she is friendly and fearless, and likes to be involved in everything. She is also extremely affectionate and gets along well with everyone, human or feline (even small, loud children and crabby "alpha cats"). Hoppy is a cat who gets in the way when we vacuum, even when we use the beater bar. This is not because she lacks intelligence -- she's actually pretty sharp. It's just that Hoppy thinks the world is her oyster, and everything in it (including vacuum cleaners) is hers to enjoy.
 


Some of Hoppy's beautiful children:

Photo (c) 1997 by David Jensen Photography
SGC Pinecoon's Tundra Rose of Denalicoons
Brown Classic Torbie and White Female
Sire: SGC Pinecoon's Flap Happy
Dam: SGC Pinecoon's Hot Patootie, OD
Owner: Richard & Valerie Johnston

Photo (c) 1998 by Laura Cunningham. All rights reserved.
RW SGA Pinecoon's Born Flirt of Coonyham
Brown Classic Torbie and White Female
Sire: SGC Pinecoon's Flap Happy
Dam: SGC Pinecoon's Hot Patootie, OD
Owner: Sharon & Laura Cunningham

Photo (c) 1998 by Pheline Photography (Jim Brown). All rights reserved.
RW SGA Pinecoon's Lord Alexander
Red Classic Tabby and White Neuter
Sire: IW QGC Pinecoon's Lumberjack
Dam: SGC Pinecoon's Hot Patootie, OD
Owner: Diane Green & Philip Akers

Photo (c) 1998 by Pheline Photography (Jim Brown). All rights reserved.
RW QGC Pinecoon's Moxie
Brown Classic Tabby Female
Sire: IW QGC Pinecoon's Lumberjack
Dam: SGC Pinecoon's Hot Patootie, OD
Owner: Elizabeth/David Tinney

Photo (c) 1998 by KKats Photography. All rights reserved.
RW DGC Pinecoon's Caliente
Brown Classic Torbie and White Female
Sire: IW QGC Pinecoon's Lumberjack
Dam: SGC Pinecoon's Hot Patootie, OD
Owner: Sharon & Laura Cunningham

 

CH Pinecoon's Material Girl of Luvpaws
Brown Mackerel Tabby and White Female
Sire: IW QGC Pinecoon's Lumberjack
Dam: SGC Pinecoon's Hot Patootie, OD
Owner: Richelle Godfrey & Rob Goodall

 

Photo (c) 1999 by KKats Photography. All rights reserved.  
IW SGCA Pinecoon's Edward Bearcat
Brown Tabby Neuter
Sire: TGC Pinecoon's Buckskin Harry
Dam: SGC Pinecoon's Hot Patootie, OD
Owner: Diane Green & Philip Akers

Photo (c) 1999 by Betsy Tinney. All rights reserved.
DGC Pinecoon's Bravada of Coonmora
Brown Tabby Female
Sire: TGC Pinecoon's Buckskin Harry
Dam: SGC Pinecoon's Hot Patootie, OD
Owner: Connie Zimmerman