CFA - What is a Standard?
CFA article describing the usage of standards in judging cat breeds in shows.
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CFA: Cat Fanciers Association. - to the Cat Fanciers' Association, the world's largest registry of pedigreed cats!
CFF: Cat Fanciers' Federation.
Champagne: Rich soft beige color found in the Burmese breed.
CFA - Cat Fanciers Association.
CHA - Chartreuse.
Champion - The title of a cat that wins at a number of shows.
CFA has grown tremendously during the last century and is celebrating its centennial in 2006. Over 300 CFA club sponsored shows are planned worldwide for the 2006-2007 show season.
CFA, FIFe, TICA, GCCF
Colours & Types
GCCF: Tawny (the foundation color), Cinnamon (Sorel), Blue (dilute Tawny), Fawn (dilute Cinnamon - dark, cream and copper) and Silver. Nonchampionship: chocolate, lilac, red, cream and tortoiseshell ...
CFA Havana Brown Breed Council
Havana and Oriental Lilac Cat Club (GCCF)
Havana Brown Fanciers (CFA)
International Havana Brown Society (CFA, IHBS) ...
CFA has recognized the Manx as a breed for many years. The oldest stud book on hand, Vol. #19, list Manx as one of the breeds that CFA recognized back in the 1920s.
The CFA accepted the Burmese in 1936. In 1947 CFA withdrew the recognition as many hybrid Burmese/Siamese cats were being sold as purebred Burmese. The CFA reinstated the Burmese for recognition in 1953, and for Championship in 1957.
The CFA?s reasoning behind the separate designations is that Colorpoint Shorthairs and Javanese are hybrids, which they are, since these colors were created by crossing the Siamese with other breeds.
The CFA accepts four colors - seal, chocolate, blue and lilac for registration - and three patterns: color point, mitted and bi-color. Only bi-color may be shown.
The CFA settled on the matter by stating that since Abbysinians and Burmese lived side by side on the streets of Singapore, it would not have been unexpected to find a breed that was based on the two breeds.
The CFA accepted the Burmese in 1936. Other breeders imported a few more cats from Burma to increase the gene pool, but outcrossing to Siamese continued in the 1930s and 1940s.
In 1967 CFA gave formal recognition to the Exotic Shorthair as a breed. By the late 1960's, the Exotic was recognised by most cat associations. Today the only acceptable outcross is to the Persian.
Founded in 1908, CFA began Registering "Maine Cats", which required a signed statement saying the sire and dam were "of the same breed, long hair and that neither is a shorthaired".
There are other documents that tell of when England's CFA was burned in World War II all records were lost. So, they had to start with the Feral Cats they could capture and document them as an Abyssinian to start a new to this day.
The Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA) profile for the Ocicat recognizes that 'never before was there such an effort to develop an entirely domestic cat which can offer the spotted beauty of the wild cats, while maintaining the lovely, ...
This includes recognition in the major cat registries, such as TICA and CFA. In fact, their recognition for champion status in CFA came relatively recently, on February 5th, 2006.
The Ocicat is the most commonly used pedigree outcross within CFA. Ticked, solid or classic tabby variants were mainly used. Spotted LaPerms only have fuzzy spots because of the texture of the coat.
The Longhair Scottish Fold is known as the Highland Fold in Europe and the same held true in the United States when requests were made to CFA (Cat Fanciers Association, the world's largest registry of pedigreed cats) for the acceptance of the ...
Virginia Daly, noted CFA breeder living in Michigan, knew the possibility of getting the sought after Aby-point and was willing to invest the time she knew it would take to breed the two generations that were necessary.
The Japanese Bobtail is a natural breed and does indeed come from Japan; all CFA registered cats can be traced back to the original imports.
Himalayan Colors Recognized by CFA
Himalayan Point Pattern: Chocolate Point; Seal Point; Lilac Point; Blue Point; Flame (red) Point; Cream Point; Tortie Point; Blue-Cream Point; Chocolate-Tortie Point; Lilac-Cream Point; ...
In 1993, the American Curl set a precedent in the Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA) by being the first breed to be admitted to the Championship Class as one breed with two coat lengths.
The Turkish Angora is now generally available in a full range of colours, having been accepted by CFA in any shade and pattern, except those that denote hybridization such as lavender, chocolate or the pointed pattern.
The Cat Fancier's Association (CFA), the main cat association in the United States, only recognizes the more wild looking color variations: Ruddy, Red, Blue, and Fawn.
Si-D-Di's Firewalker, a Red Tabby Persian. He was a CFA ch, and
ACFA's number 3 InterAmerican Kitten in 1996. Also a ACFA GR. Ch. grand champion
Courtesy of Anne Dampier The Si-D-Di collection
Tabby Persian ...
The Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA), currently recognizes 37 pedigreed cat breeds for showing in the Championship Class, and four breeds in the Miscellaneous Class.
Breeds in the Championship Class are: ...
STANDARD - The established standard or "perfect" example of what a cat of each breed should look like. CFA, TICA, and ACFA, all have established written standards for each breed that each cat is measured against in the Show Hall.
Be aware that the CFA (Cat Fanciers' Association) has a comprehensive listing of all the long-haired cat breeds including those mentioned here.
The result of a cross between a black American Shorthair and a sable (brown) Burmese, the Bombay breed was first accepted by the CFA in the late '70's.
In 1979, a new colorpoint offshoot of the Balinese breed was recognized by the CFA as a new breed: the Javanese. Other cat groups treated the colorpoint cats as Balinese.
In 1979 they were turned down by the CFA but were told that they would accept registration under a new breed name. The name of Javanese was created because of the closeness of the island of Java next to Bali.
The American Shorthair was originally called the "Domestic Shorthair" and was one of the first five breeds recognized by the Cat Fanciers Association (CFA)
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Breeding programs in the United States and the Netherlands were based on this original line but have also continued to include hairless cats that appeared spontaneously among domestic cats. The Cat Fanciers Association (CFA) accepted this unusual ...
A cat association is a group that registers cats and kittens, chooses cat-show judges, and schedules cat shows. The largest of these groups is the Cat Fanciers Association (CFA), which registers more than 80,000 cats and kittens each year.
Abyssinians are a special type of tabby cat by their beautiful ticked coat that makes them so unique. There are four colors of abyssinian breed wich recognized for championship by CFA: Ruddy, Red (Sorrel), Blue and Fawn.
Breed name inspired by the black leopard of India
Efforts to breed this cat began in 1953 with a black American Shorthair male and a Grand Champion Sable Burmese female
The Bombay received CFA championship status in 1976 ...
You may see cats of basically the same type, but with different markings - these are known as Javanese, and are not recognised by the Governing Council of the Cat Fancy (GCCF), though they are by the Cat Fancy Association (CFA).
This breed is slowly gaining recognition with different breed associations, although one of the largest, the Cat Fanciers Association (CFA), still does not recognize it. The Bengal cat must be at least four generations away from wild leopard cats.
The Shorthair has become one of America's favorite cat types, while the Longhair is one of the newest "official" cat breeds (though not all registries recognize it), having been adopted by the CFA in 1988.
Lighter coloured kittens were occasionally produced and eventually the American breeders requested cognition from CFA for these "dilute" colours; first, as another breed named Malayan, then later as a dilute division of Burmese.
an option, especually used by human societies and shelters to ensure that the cats they adopt out will not produce any more kittens. Studies have shown that there are no adverse effects to neutering kittens at 7 weeks of age. See the CFA's position ...
 See also: Champion, TICA, Cat Fancy, Championship status, Cat Association
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