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The International Cat Association ( TICA) is considered the world's largest genetic cat registry. Originally a North American organization, it now has a worldwide presence. The organization has a genetic registry for pedigreed and household pet cats and is one of the world's largest sanctioning bodies for cat shows .
A cat registry or cat breed registry, also known as a cat fancier organization, cattery federation, or cat breeders' association, is an organization that registers domestic cats (usually purebred) of many breeds, for exhibition and for breeding lineage tracking purposes. A cat registry stores the pedigrees (genealogies) of cats, cattery names ...
A cat registry's purpose is to register purebred cats which are recognized by the organization. The first cat registry was the National Cat Club, set up in 1887 in England. The Governing Council of the Cat Fancy was established in 1910. The National Cat Club was also the governing body of the cat fancy. Another registry called the Cat Club was ...
The Cat Fanciers' Association ( CFA) was established in the United States in 1906. The CFA is currently the world's largest registry of pedigreed cats. Originally headquartered in Manasquan, New Jersey, the CFA moved to Alliance, Ohio in 2010. [1] The association's stated mission is preserving and promoting pedigreed breeds of cats while also ...
For example, TICA's Himalayan is considered a colorpoint variety of the Persian by the CFA, while the Javanese (or Colorpoint Longhair) is a color variation of the Balinese in both the TICA and the CFA; both breeds are merged (along with the Colorpoint Shorthair) into a single "mega-breed", the Colourpoint, by the World Cat Federation (WCF ...
TICA. standard. Feline hybrid ( Felis catus × F. chaus) The Chausie ( / ˈtʃaʊsi /) is a domestic breed of cat that was developed by breeding a few individuals from the non-domestic species jungle cat ( Felis chaus) to a far greater number of domestic cats ( Felis catus ). The Chausie was first recognized as a domestic breed by The ...
Ojos Azules ( Spanish: [ˈoxos aˈsules], 'Blue Eyes') was a breed of shorthaired [1] [2] domestic cat with unusual blue or odd eyes [1] caused by a dominant blue eye (DBE) genetic mutation. The breed came in all coat colors; however, only particolors ( bicolors and tricolors ), colorpoints, and intermediate colors with a characteristic white ...
In 2000, TICA's Legal Council stated that breeders were only allowed to use the name Chantilly and were not allowed to use TICA and Chantilly/Tiffany together. Last Chantilly cattery (1990s–2000s) Oraas bred "Chantilly/Tiffany" cats up to the early 2000s, then seems to have faded from the breeding scene.