13 Facts About Cat registries

Cat registries each have their own rules and usually organize or license cat shows.

Some registries only serve breeders, while others are oriented toward pet owners and provide individual as well as cattery memberships, while yet others are federations only deal with breed clubs or even other registries as intermediaries between the organization and breeders.

In 1906, the Beresford Cat registries Club renamed itself the American Cat registries Association and rapidly became the dominant North American registry for a short time.

The World Cat registries Federation, has a strong presence in Latin America, throughout Western Europe, and in countries of the former USSR.

The World Cat Congress is an international coordinating organization of the largest cat registries.

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Some independent cat registries specialize in particular types of cats that are ineligible for registration with a major registry due to breed restrictions or certain genetic traits.

For example, The Dwarf Cat Association recognizes breeds derived from the short-legged Munchkin which are banned by FIFe and some other registries.

Cat registries registry is at liberty to refuse to accept breeds if it feels the breed is not genetically sound; does not breed true to the standard put forward by the developer of the breed ; is not represented in sufficient numbers or is not sufficiently distinct from breeds already recognized by the registry.

The International Cat registries Association is a relatively progressive registry that will recognize breeds derived from crossing existing breeds; mutations of an existing breed; naturally occurring breeds indigenous to a geographical location; a breed already recognized by a different registry; and experimental breeds that do not yet have a TICA-approved breed name.

FIFe will register some new breeds imported from other Cat registries but have set procedures for these breeds to gain full recognition.

Some "permissive" organisations recognise as separate breeds what most "conservative" Cat registries would consider several coat variants of the same breed.

Similarly, the Cymric is recognized as a breed in some Cat registries, considered under that name as a sub-breed of the Manx in some, called simply the Manx Longhair or Longhair Manx in others, and not recognized at all by a few.

Various Cat registries includes breeds not recognized by any others, either due to differences in relative progressiveness toward breed introduction and establishment, or due to geographical proximity to breeds unknown in other parts of the world.