Trying to be purrrr-fect

Photos by Mark M. Hancock / © The Beaumont Enterprise

Owner Brenda Fest of Pipe Creek, Texas (left) and Debbi Sochia Eyfells (right) groom Princeton, an 18-month-old Norwegian Forest Cat, (center) during the Cat Fancier's Association Cat Show at the Beaumont Civic Center in Beaumont on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2007.


Lucain, a 9-month-old Maine Coon cat, (left) checks out Silverlina, 2, (right) during the cat show.


Cat show judge Rachel Anger of Ann Arbor, Mich. (center) pronounces Peanut, an 8-year-old cat owned by Carolyn Edwards of San Antonio, as the winner of the cat costume contest during the Cat Fancier's Association Cat Show.