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The Gatos Locos Club

Training session with one of the top riders of this club can be won through a lottery, hosted and promoted by El Clasico shedu cats food company.

Prize includes transportation to the facility located in Spain of you and your shedu cat of choice, 5 days staying at the place, with an apartment for you and boarding place for your cat; excursion around facility; one free day, where you are free to do what you want; six training sessions - 3 days. One in the morning, one in the evening; good bye dinner with Gatos Locos team and departure.

This trip will bring your cat ;

If you decide to just accept a trip and do no art or literature about it :

If you decide to do art or literature:

 Training art of your cat in hands of one of Gatos Locos riders by noting ; Templado



 Each art or literature piece you submit depicting your cat and rider taking lessons at the facility gets ;

For each picture of your character and their cat visiting Barcelona, it`s countryside or hanging around the facility`s territory ;

Additional Information

Gatos Locos do not call themselves a cattery or cat yard. They acknowledge only their status as a Club.  They find it inappropriate to call themselves a cattery or cat yard. That is principal question, furthermore, referring to themselves in meaning not a "riding club" but a Sports club.

Gatos are the four time winners of the Shedu Team Games Tournament on International level. The Four Stars above their logo refers exactly to this, currently unmatched, achievement.

Gatos Locos club has its own museum and trophy room that is open for excursions and visitors.

Gatos Locos are known for not selling their old cats. Each cat that had a career with this club gets to retire on the facilities' territory.

Some of old cats are "owned" by fans. On the club’s page you can "adopt" one of the old cats, by donating a sum of money. In return, you`ll get several souvenirs (depending on sum spent) and access to online webcams in cat’s enclosure and to a diary of that said cat, that is kept by his caretaker.

Old cats and current fluffy stars of the club are all open for public visits, if they are not busy with their training.

Gatos Locos are "guilty" for spreading among Shedu society the trend for simply, naturalistic designs and solutions in tack and equipment.

Gatos Locos are against long time bareback riding as they find it uncomfortable and not generally good for the cat. For other people... It`s their business if they find bareback riding REALLY more comfortable then riding with any sort of pad just don't be surprised if they look at you funny for it. 

Current Cat Stars

Bela Lugosid

Chewbacca

All That Jazz

Lilu

Club History

Head: Xabier Seguer
SGatos Locos, or Mad Cats if you`d like, is a shedu cattery and yard with a home range in Spain.

As of now, Gatos is one of the most well-known and successful catteries out there. They can compete even with Elseviers in regards to shaping the shedu cat species and development.

They do not breed cats often, but they put their own 50 cents in the deal of popularization of these large animals. They are known as true sportsmen and top trainers. They do not breed cats of their own because catteries from around the world are ready to pay them money for them to train their cats. Most importantly, they train not only cats, but also people.  For them it is not a mandatory, but unwanted, pesting addition to process, but a core thing. People - riders, handlers and even grooms are considered all equal elements.

In spite of their equality to Elseviers in regards to a strong strong passion for shedus, they and Elsevier catteries are on opposite ends of the shedu spectrum. More to say, Elseviers and Gatos are rivals, and this rivalry even got tad of bloody taste. Elsevier considers Gatos as arrogant "mutts" who make their way up by using basic shedu work that any adequate catman ought to know, but wrapping it in new, shiney "user-friendly" package, and calling it a “Whole New” approach in shedu training. And... Elseviers has some ground under their considerations. More flame is added to the fire by the fact that Gatos are, in fact, just a very sneaky street racing gang.

And that’s a true to life background that not a lot of people are aware of. Gatos Locos actually are a lucky splinter of gangs from the 80s. They were midrange backyard cat breeders and street racers striving for survival and (if lucky) dominance in that street racing "primeval" soup, in comparison to which, nowadays, street racers are a bunch of polite English gentlemen. 

Back then there were way more street gangs, and the biggest titans among those were Mendoza and, back then, Seven Moons. Gatos Locos were smashed into dust under the feet of those clashing giants. When the reformation began and shedu police units were established, the shedu world began to take shape and regulations were established. Then the former leader of Gatos took one ambitious, but very iffy, decision. Instead of staying in Rockport on rights of small private shedu yard and waiting for his destiny to be solved,  like the Wolfheads, he decided to venture out of Rockport and even out of the country with just two cats. He sold all his moggy cats in order to pay debts and transportation fees.

So, leader of Gatos became first person to settle with classic shedus out of Rockport and USA respectively. Of course, by the late 90s no one remembered any Mad Cats along with Vipers, Blue Stingrays, and other puny little gangs that were bankrupt, destroyed, or sent to jail with all their team mates or annihilated by any other means. It was 1998 when Gatos Locos Club made their appearance on shedu racing tracks of USA. By now, shedu cats had spread through the world like a furry, purring plague. And there was no worry about some small Spanish cattery finally making their appearance on racetrack. 

Little did the public know then, but the team that presented Gatos Locos had won several races in a row. The cat that created all the rumble was All That Jazz, a 16 year old cat. The sole age of a cat made a sensation and the fact that this senior cat was still capable of winning put All That Jazz as a most discussed topic in a shedu racing world. That’s how the triumphant come back of Gatos Locos began, and they came back in a totally different light.

Today Gatos Locos are not only one of the most successful racing catteries and training facilities around the world, but they also gave rise to the Shedu Team Games Spanish Tournament. This is a set of non-classic shedu disciplines that are bound in one "game". Teams, who made the qualifications, could then attend those games. In the beginning, this tournament was only in Spain and was nothing more than a local show for enthusiasts.

But today some experts call these Games no less than the Olympics of shedus. It is an international tournament, in which Elsevier facility does not take part principally. There aren’t huge prizes, world fame, or significant trophies to lure them to take part in so called "games".

Another important focus of Gatos is the popularization of shedu cats among people of any social classes. They have a great education program in their Club, and it’s not as expensive as  Elseviers. Also they have youth days, during which they can pick the most talented kids or teens and offer them a free education at their Club. If that was not enough, they managed to transform jockeys and riders into stars and individuals into heroes.

 In Gatos club it is common that a cat and rider form a team that does not change over time (except some extreme circumstances). They manage to put the human figure on the same level as the performing cat. Both the rider and their cat are stars and idols in Spain. It is their great achievement that puts Gatos apart from most of the shedu world, where jockeys are mostly "faceless" tradesmen, who know their business and that’s it. They manage to stay in the saddle - good for them. Here it is all different. The Shedu Team Games helps a lot in changing public attitude towards riders.

Also, Gatos are strongly against systems where shedus are ridden at three years old already. In their conception, the cat must not be ridden any earlier than four and a half - five years. As they say, breeders ruin their cats with their own hands. If they wait at least one year more, cats racing at 15 and even 18 years would not be such a wonder and sensation. Gatos have whole pockets of arguments on their side, yet their opinion seems to go unheard.

 Gatos specialize in training and showing. They almost do no breedings, and for sure not on their facilities’ territory. They have great lands, granted by various sponsors, yet their club is not suited for breeding. Their training grounds however are considered to be the best in Europe, if not in the whole world.  Their education programs are of highest standards, yet they do not have veterinary or strong management programs. On the other side they train and "produce" the best jockeys and riders. Above all those are taught how to handle extreme and dangerous situations and a big chunk of their program is  dedicated both to a cat`s psychology and physical needs, abilities etc.