Registration of pedigreed cats

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BUYING A PEDIGREED CAT or KITTEN

IN AUSTRALIA

If you want to be certain that the kitten or cat you purchase really is pedigreed, buy only from a registered breeder. It may be cheaper to buy from someone who is not a registered breeder but, without paperwork, and signed and authenticated documents, that beautiful "pedigreed kitten" might be an unpedigreed kitten of uncertain ancestry who just looks like a pedigreed puss. Your pedigreed pet should have a "birth certificate" from a recognised and reputable registering body if you want to be sure of authenticity.
In issuing registration certificates and certified pedigrees, a registering body is attesting that they are confident the kitten is truly bred according to the information supplied by the breeder, and that the parents are truly registered pedigreed cats as stated in the documentation.

In Australia, the registers approved by the major bodies are maintained within the state in which the body is located. After all, it would be very difficult to have any supervision or control over the activities of breeders in Tasmania if they were registering their kittens in the Northern Territory, and you could find it difficult to obtain assistance if problems arose. In the case of developing breeds, through experimental breeding programmes, there are inspection conditions which need to be managed from as near as possible, including health inspections and assessments by judges.

If you intend to show the kitten or cat you purchase, it must be appropriately registered or you will not be able to enter him or her in most shows. For breeding, if not correctly registered, you will not be able to register progeny and they will not be able to be shown.

Unpedigreed felines, "Domestics" or "the ordinary cat" come from uncertain ancestry and do not need registration documents proving their lineage to be eligible for showing.

Make sure that documentation is acceptable within your state, and will permit registration of ownership to be effected in your name with the body or bodies with which you would like to exhibit. For transfer from another body, most registries require a cat or kitten to be registered in name of new ownerwith previous body .

Recognition of bodies in Australia:
From ACF By-laws as amended in 2008:

1.3
Within Australia, ACF Inc and its affiliates recognise the registrations, awards and Judges of Cat Organisations which are affiliated with ACF Inc and those organizations which were affiliated with CCCA as of June 2001.

Any organisations accepted for affiliation by CCCA after June 2001 will be considered for recognition by ACF Inc and its affiliates on a case by case basis

1.3 (a) That ACF member bodies may recognize registrations and pedigrees containing Waratah registered cats which can be verified by the data recorded in their own or other ACF Inc. or CCCA Inc. member body’s registers.

1.3 (b) That the progeny of cats which have been imported into the Waratah register from overseas be accepted on verification to the satisfaction of a member body of the parents export certified pedigrees and that the breeding of such cats is within the ACF Inc. Breeding Rules.

1.3 (c) That cats which comply with subparagraphs (a) and/or (b) above may be shown in member body’s shows.

FOR ENQUIRIES CONTACT THE ACF AFFILIATE IN YOUR STATE

OR E-MAIL THE ACF SECRETARY

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