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"Gailande Perfect" - Perfect Ragdoll Cat Food Star
"Gailande Perfect", blue bicolor,
DOB: May 20th, 1999
Dam: "Naomi de Gailande", blue bicolor
Sire: " Givhatol Hades", seal mitted
Breeder/Owner: Noëlle Vialatte, France
is the star of a nation wide advertising campaign for cat foods for the "Intermarché" supermarket chain in France.
oëlle wrote me: "Perfect was chosen as the pet food company was looking for a cat which looked nothing like any of the existing cats featured by Whiskas etc. and needed not only an adult but also kittens for the kitten food packs. Perfect and our kittens were chosen from photos, somewhat like a casting for models.
n February 2000 I took Perfect and the kittens to Paris for a four day photo session. (the week before us they had seals in the studio, no not seal Ragdolls, real seals! The following week they were looking for dogs for Disney's 102 Dalmations).
What impressed and surprised me the most was that when we went into the studio there was already a story board as in a film with all the poses that they wanted. We thought this would be impossible to do as some of the shots had to be with the eyes half closed, others with the cat lying on his side, with the exact position of the paws and tail, all the shots had been planned in advance and it was amazing to see how Perfect co-operated. About 90 percent of the shots were done on the first day. This of course was made easy by Perfects laid back character, he just flopped about the place doing exactly what was asked of him."
Gailande Perfect, and the Ragdoll kittens Piffette and Papyrus
