Sometimes incidents happen in life, and if cat was stained, she can not be treated without washing. It is also desirable to wash cat before an exhibition, only please do not do it on the eve of exhibition!!! Hairs of Burmese cats are very thin, easy and after drying out of cat looks not like a «silk stone», but fluffy cloud.
I’m washing my cats about 10 days before the exhibition, with the use of shampoo Bio-Groom Protein-Lanolin. As my cats are inured to the bath and noise of water from childhood, they like to wash in there. Although some cat owners use deep plastic pelves or buckets for these aims. We wrap in an animal in a large terry towel and try to wipe as dry as possible, neatly wipe a wadding tampon an auricle, collecting sulphuric excretions, if they were amass there.
If it was not done before the bathing, you can cut claws when cat is wrapped. Usually I clip claws on front paws fortnightly (sometimes more frequently, sometimes rarer), and once per a month on the back paws. I know that some owners of Burmese do not clip the back claws, but we had a few cases, when during the playing cats were and made pretty deep scratches, even through clothes.
Thereon, if your cat is a pet class it is possible to finish her or his grooming, if you prepare to the exhibition, in remaining days well comb out a cat with addition of Mink Oil or Anti-Stat and preferably with a natural bristle brush.