American Cat Fanciers Association

The American Cat Fanciers Association (ACFA) is an American non-profit organization formed with the intent of allowing greater flexibility in the development of pedigreed cats. The ACFA is a cat registry for purebred, pedigreed cats, experimental breeds of cats, and household pet cats.[1]

Not to be confused with Cat Fanciers' Association.
American Cat Fanciers Association
Formation1955 (1955)
Region served
United States
Official language
English

ACFA sanctioned cat shows include classes for championship adult cats, championship altered cats, registered kittens from the age of four to eight months, and household pet cats. Wins from licensed shows can be used to claim titles including championships and multiple championships, grand championships and multiple grand championships, and the household pet titles of Royal Household Pet and Supreme Household Pet.

ACFA is directly affiliated with the Cat Aficionado Association of China, who use the ACFA breed standards.

Founding

ACFA was founded in 1955 by a group of cat fanciers desiring to show their cats in a democratic association, that is, one where individual members had voting rights on election of officers, acceptance of new show rules, by-laws and breed standards and acceptance of new breeds of cats.

Notes
  1. "Encyberpedia".
gollark: Or a watch which conveniently tells you the temp/humidity.
gollark: Er... a small weather-station type thing?
gollark: I mean, technically, I can reinterpret this image as Lua bytecode now...
gollark: Piet.
gollark: I made a simple thing to encode text as the weird format ComputerCraft's paint program uses.

References
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.