Pixiebob Longhair UIF!CSFFET Pixiebob Shorthair ACFA recognizes the following 62 breeds: RagaMuffin Ragdoll THE Abyssinian Russian Blue American Bobtail Longhair Russian Shorthair American Bobtail Shorthair Scottish Fold Longhair American Curl Longhair Scottish Fold Shorthair American Curl Shorthair Selkirk Rex Longhair American Shorthair Selkirk Rex Shorthair CAT American Wirehair Siamese Australian Mist Siberian Balinese Singapura Bengal Snowshoe Birman Somali Bombay SHOW Sphynx British Longhair Tonkinese British Shorthair Turkish Angora Burmese Turkish Van Burmilla Longhair Burmilla Shorthair Chartreux Gps!Jogpsnbujpo! Cornish Rex on registering your cat, entering your Cymric cat in an ACFA show, finding a Devon Rex Egyptian Mau breeder of a specific breed or anything European Burmese else concerning cats or cat shows, Exotic Shorthair contact: Havana Brown Himalayan Japanese Bobtail Longhair American Cat Fanciers Association Japanese Bobtail Shorthair P.O. Box 1949 Korat Nixa, MO 65714-1949 Kurilian Bobtail Longhair Phone: 417-725-1530 Kurilian Bobtail Shorthair La Perm Longhair Email: [email protected] La Perm Shorthair Longhair Exotic Web: 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 Oriental Shorthair Persian September 19, 2015 Peterbald There are two types of rings, ALLBREED to our cat show. We hope you will Welcome and SPECIALTY. BBBxbsetBxbsetxbset!!!!boeboeboe!!!!SjccpotSjccpotSjccpot!!!! enjoy looking at all the cats we have on display. We Each cat competes in its class against other cats of have pedigreed cats and household pet cats being In an Allbreed ring, all the breeds in each the same sex, color and breed. The cat selected as exhibited. These cats are judged by professional class compete against each other for Top best in the class receives a blue FIRST place judges licensed by the American Cat Fanciers Ten awards (called finals). ribbon. SECOND place is red and THIRD place is Association (ACFA). In a Specialty ring, Longhairs compete yellow. After all of the cats of one color and breed only against Longhairs and Shorthairs are judged, a black BEST OF COLOR award is Opuft!gps!TqfdubupstOpuft!gps!Tqfdubupst!!!! compete only against Shorthairs for finals. presented for the best quality cat in that color class (not the cat with the best color). A white SECOND A note of caution: Your fingers may spread germs. The cats are judged in five different BEST OF COLOR is also awarded. Once the entire While we understand that it is fun to pet or play classes: breed is judged the BEST and SECOND BEST OF with the cats, please ask permission first. A cat BREED awards are presented. show is like a school in that what one “kid” gets, KITTENS they all take home to the “family”. Many of our Pedigreed kittens four to eight Championship and Altered cats compete for exhibitors have tiny kittens at home and feel it months of age. WINNERS ribbons (red, white and blue) and finals necessary to limit outside contact. Just ask! (rosettes). To earn the title of Champion a cat must NBC (New Breed or Color) receive four Winners ribbons. To become a Grand For this reason you will see the judges washing Pedigreed cats whose breed or Champion a cat must receive 16 Winners ribbons their hands and the judging tables after judging color is not yet accepted for the and at least six finals (from six different judges). each cat. The show employs stewards to wash the championship division. judging cages between cats. Household Pets compete for the titles of Royal and Supreme. These are based on points earned in Please remember that cats have the “right of way”. CHAMPIONSHIP competition—250 to become a Royal, 1000 to If you see someone approaching you with a cat, Unaltered pedigreed cats eight become a Supreme. please step aside. Exhibitors have just a few months of age or older. minutes to get their cats to the ring. ALTERS Uif!OvncfstUif!Ovncfst!!!! TTTuboebsetTuboebsetuboebset!!!! Pedigreed cats eight months of age Entry numbers indicate the classes. or older that have been spayed or Cats, kittens and alters are judged according to a neutered. 1 - 89 Kittens written standard for their breeds. The standard has a 90 - 99 NBC (New Breed or Color) total of 100 points divided into such categories as HOUSEHOLD PETS 100 - 199 Longhair Championship Cats head type, body, coat, color, etc. The standards are Mixed breed cats or pedigreed cats 201 - 299 Shorthair Championship Cats voted on by breeders of that particular breed. that are not eligible to be shown in 301 - 399 Alters (Spays and Neuters) any other classes. All household 401 - 499 Household Pets pets eight months of age or older Kvehjoh !!! must be spayed or neutered. These Each day there will be four to six rings, either cats are judged on health, running concurrently or separated into two sessions. cleanliness, beauty and Each judge acts independently of the others and purrsonality . every cat entered will be judged in every ring, so each cat has at least four chances to win each day. .