Persian UIF!CSFFET Peterbald ACFA recognizes the following 64 breeds: Pixiebob Longhair Pixiebob Shorthair THE Abyssinian RagaMuffin American Bobtail Longhair Ragdoll American Bobtail Shorthair Russian Blue American Curl Longhair Russian Shorthair American Curl Shorthair Scottish Fold Longhair American Shorthair Scottish Fold Shorthair CAT American Wirehair Selkirk Rex Longhair Australian Mist Selkirk Rex Shorthair Balinese Siamese Bengal Siberian Birman Singapura Bombay SHOW Snowshoe British Longhair Somali British Shorthair Sphynx Burmese Tonkinese Burmilla Longhair Turkish Angora Burmilla Shorthair Turkish Van Chartreux Cornish Rex Cymric Gps!Jogpsnbujpo! Devon Rex on registering your cat, entering your Egyptian Mau European Burmese cat in an ACFA show, finding a Exotic Shorthair breeder of a specific breed or anything Havana Brown else concerning cats or cat shows, Himalayan contact: Japanese Bobtail Longhair Japanese Bobtail Shorthair Khao Manee American Cat Fanciers Association Korat P.O. Box 1949 Kurilian Bobtail Longhair Nixa, MO 65714-1949 Kurilian Bobtail Shorthair La Perm Longhair Phone: 417-725-1530 La Perm Shorthair Email: [email protected] Longhair Exotic Web: Lykoi www.acfacat.com Maine Coon Cat www.tinyurl.com/acfa-fb Manx www.youtube.com/acfacats Nebelung Norwegian Forest Cat www.twitter.com/acfacat Ocicat www.instagram.com/acfacatcrazy Oriental Longhair October 23, 2018 Oriental Shorthair In a Specialty ring, Longhairs compete There are no standards for household pets. Welcome to our cat show. We hope you only against Longhairs and Shorthairs They are judged on health, cleanliness, beauty will enjoy looking at all the cats we have on compete only against Shorthairs for Top and purr-sonality. display. You will find both pedigreed cats and Five or Top Ten finals, depending on household pet cats competing for awards. These the number of competitors. cats are judged by professional judges licensed BBBxbsetBxbsetxbset!!!!boeboeboe!!!!SjccpotSjccpotSjccpot!!!! by the American Cat Fanciers Association The cats are judged in five different classes. Adults and Alters can be Grand Champions, (ACFA). Entry numbers indicate the classes: Champions, or Opens. Champions and Opens compete for WINNERS ribbons (red, white KITTENS (1-89) and blue). Opuft!gps!TqfdubupstOpuft!gps!Tqfdubupst!!!! Pedigreed kittens four to eight months of To earn the title of Champion, a cat must earn A note of caution: Your fingers may spread age. four Winners ribbons. To become a Grand germs. While we understand that it is fun to pet NBC (New Breed or Color) (90-99) Champion a cat must earn 16 Winners ribbons or play with the cats, please ask permission first. Pedigreed cats whose breed or color is not and six finals (from six different judges). A cat show is like a school in that what one “kid” yet accepted for the championship Grand Champions do not compete for gets, they all take home to the “family”. Many of division. Winners ribbons. our exhibitors have tiny kittens at home and feel it necessary to limit outside contact. Just ask! ADULTS (Longhair 100-199; Before competing for finals, each purebred cat competes for breed awards. A cat is first For this reason, you will see the judges washing Shorthair 200-299) judged in its class against other cats of the their hands and the judging tables after judging Unaltered pedigreed cats eight months of same breed, color, sex, and championship each cat. The show employs stewards to wash the age or older. level. (Kittens do not have a championship judging cages between cats. ALTERS (300-399) level.) The judge gives the best cat in that Please remember that cats have the right of way. Pedigreed cats eight months of age or group a blue FIRST place ribbon. SECOND If you see someone approaching you with a cat, older who have been spayed or neutered. place is red, and THIRD place is yellow. please step aside. Exhibitors have just a few After judging all the cats of one breed and minutes to get their cats to the ring. HOUSEHOLD PETS (400-499) color, the judge presents BEST and SECOND Mixed breed cats or pedigreed cats who BEST OF COLOR awards for the best quality are not eligible to be shown in any other !!! cats in that color class (not the cats with the Kvehjoh classes. All household pets eight months best color). Each day there are four to eight rings, either of age or older must be spayed or running concurrently or separated into two neutered. Once the entire breed is judged, the judge sessions. Each judge acts independently of the presents the BEST and SECOND BEST OF others, and every cat will be judged in every ring, BREED awards. so each cat has at least four chances to win each TTTuboebsetTuboebsetuboebset!!!! After judging all the breeds, the judge awards day. Kittens, adult cats, and alters are judged finals to the best cats in each class. There are two types of rings, ALLBREED and according to written standards for their Household Pets compete for the titles of Royal SPECIALTY. breeds. Each standard has a total of 100 points and Supreme. These titles are based on points divided into such categories as head type, In an Allbreed ring, all the breeds in each class earned in competition—250 to become a body, coat, color, etc. Breeders vote on the compete against each other for Top Ten awards Royal, 1000 to become a Supreme. standards for their breed. (called FINALS).