Rules for Registration

Breed & Color Advancement Rules

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New Breeds Recognition for Registration Requirements

A. Formal application signed by at least 10 breeders, who state in the application that they are working with the breed or color, together with their cattery names, cattery numbers, and addresses.

B. Classification information

1) Breed or breeds allowed in the pedigree. Breeders must determine into which category the new breed should be registered and what breeds will be allowed in the ancestry of the cat. They must also determine how long those breeds will be allowed to be used in the breed.

2) To be classified as a Natural, Established, Hybrid Breed, or Mutation. If classified as a Natural Breed from another country, import certificate or verification of import and of ancestry, if possible, must be provided.

C. A tentative standard, including a list of colors acceptable for registration

D. Properly completed registration applications (with fees) for at least 50 specimens of the new breed or color. The applications must be by litter registration, except that original stock may be individually registered if from unknown ancestry and unkno wn ancestry is permissible.

The Application must be submitted to the CFA Central Office as a package. After all information is verified by the Central Office, the application will be submitted to the CFA Executive Board for consideration. All applications for new colors within exi sting breeds must have a 60% favorable endorsement from that breed council's membership. Although it is not essential, it is certainly desirable for breeders to form a CFA affiliated breed club and issue a newsletter as a forum for the exchange of ideas for improvement of the new breed. It would seem desirable to include the CFA Central Office and members of the Executive Board on the mailing list for such publications.

Every request for recognition, at whatever level, with all required material must be in the Central Office prior August 1st of each year.

Acceptance for registration of a new breed or color is at the discretion of the CFA Executive Board.

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