Thanks! It was a little nerve-wracking waiting for it to come out and see if it was a positive article or not. As Kristine says, she'd given a great interview to the journalist from the New Yorker and it just wasn't used in that anti-hybrid anti-breeder piece.
I think this journalist, Susanna Kim, did a fabulous job of presenting the facts and the pictures used just reinforce it. I think her interest/chosen angle was sparked when she contacted TICA and was directed to the Chausie, Savannah and Bengal breed chairs and got a different response than she expected. Both Bobbie (Chausie) and I were "is this related to the New Yorker article because we aren't interested"... when I explained how inaccurate and ill-researched the article was, she asked more questions and it went from there. This journalist is a Business writer, so my suspicion is that their interest was drawn by the huge pricetags quoted for the cats. I'm glad she didn't drop it when we corrected the misapprehension that all Savannahs cost in the five figure range!
I suggested she interview Kristine because she did have an interview with the New Yorker and it was ignored by them...and then suggested Marilyn when she said her editor wanted a feline behavioral therapist opinion. I didn't want her calling random people, better to talk to Marilyn who doesn't have an anti-hybrid agenda!
The Chausie breed group declined to participate, Cristy Bird has pointed out that this refusal to talk may have really helped our case, that maybe the fact that breeders were so upset about the New Yorker article that it was worth looking into...
