Russia - Cat house
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Economic reforms have brought with them hardships in Russia. Many
Muscovites have been forced to improvise to make ends meet.
In the case of Tatyana Bocharova, her passion for cats gave her
the opportunity to make additional revenue, even if she had to
transform her typical three-room Moscow flat into a cat breeding
farm with 23 mewing animals to do it.
The Moscow Cat Show is not only a national but an international
showcase for Russia's cat breeders. It gave Tatyana the chance to
show off her prize moggy which she had shipped in from the Kurile
Islands in the Far East -- the Japanese bobtail cat. The rare
breed is highly sought after by Russia's new upwardly mobile
middle class.
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MOSCOW, RUSSIA 25 AUGUST 1996
VS cats' show;
Exterior Moscow House of Artists where cat show took place;
CU cat show poster;
MS a lady with a loud-speaker inviting visitors to the show;
WS cat show interior;
MS and CU a man displaying his cat;
MS Russian blue cat;
CU and pan Kurile Bobtail cat;
SOT Tatyana Bocharova in Russian: "I have 23 cats, mainly they
are the Kurile Bobtails;"
Pan a Moscow suburb where Tatyana Bocharova lives;
WS apartment block;
WS Tatyana opens the door keeping a cat and invites the visitors
in;
CU a cat sniffs at the camera;
WS Tatyana and her son Slava bring a litter of kittens in the
living room;
SOT Tatyana Bocharova in Russian: "It's very difficult in both
a moral and material way, but I feel obliged to sacrifice in order
to introduce this new Russian cat breed which is just developing
now;"
Pan and CU three cats on a shelf, a kitten falls down;
SOT Bocharova in Russian: "My neighbours complain, of course, but
it mainly happens when I am out for work and my sons, they are
boys, you know, and it happens to the boys often, fail to clean up
after the cats in time;
SOT Slava, 14, Bocharova's youngest son: "I spend all my time with
the cats, I take a walk for some 2 hours, but when I'm back I'm
with them;"
CU a cat urinating on a wall;
WS a bunch of cats
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