Registration Policies for
Cat Breeds Recognised by GCCF
In order for a cat to be registered as a particular breed, its pedigree
must conform to the registration policy for that breed: it is not enough
that it just looks like the breed in question - "look-alikes"
can sometimes produce undesirable surprises in future generations.
Registration policies are drawn up by the Breed Advisory Committees
and must be approved by the GCCF Executive Committee before being placed
on a GCCF Council agenda for final approval.
If you intend buying a kitten to breed from, please check the registration
policy for that breed, or for the particular colour and/or pattern of
that breed, as well as checking the registration policies for the colours
and/or patterns which you wish to breed from it. In some breeds (Rexes,
Maine Coons etc) all of the recognised colours and patterns may be mated
together, but in other breeds (Persians, British Shorthairs) doing so
may produce kittens which cannot be shown and which are not suitable
for breeding from.
If you do not understand the registration policy, please ask the GCCF
how you can contact the Secretary of the relevant Breed Advisory Committee.
The following are the official registration policies, in pdf format,
for the breeds of cat which are recognised by the GCCF:
- Persian
- Self -
all colours
- Tortie, Chocolate
Tortie, Blue-Cream & Lilac-Cream
- Bi-Colour and
Tortie & White - all colours excluding Tabby Bi/Tri-Colours
- Tabby Bi- and
Tri-colours
Blue
and Odd-Eyed Bi- and Tri-Colour
- Shaded
& Tipped Cameo Bi and Tri-Colour
- Smoke
Smoke Bi-
and Tri-colours
- Silver
Tabby Bi- and Tri-Colour
- Tabby -
all colours including Tortie Tabbies
- Colourpoint
- all colours
- Cameo &
Pewter
- Chinchilla, Shaded
Silver & Golden Persian
- Exotic
- Semi-longhair
- Birman -
all colours
- Maine Coon
- all colours/patterns
- Norwegian Forest
Cat - all colours/patterns
- Ragdoll - all
colours/patterns
- Siberian - all
colours/patterns
- Somali -
all colours Somali
Breeding Policy
- Turkish Van
- all colours
- Turkish Vankedisi
- British
- British Shorthair
- all colours/patterns
- Manx - all
colours/patterns
- Selkirk Rex
- all colours/patterns
- Foreign
- Abyssinian -
all colours
- Asian - all
colours/patterns including Bombay, Burmilla & Tiffanie
- Bengal -
all colours/patterns
- Cornish Rex
- all colours/patterns
- Devon Rex -
all colours/patterns
- Egyptian Mau
- all colours/patterns
- Korat, Thai Lilac
& Thai Blue Point
- LaPerm -
all colours/patterns
- Ocicat
Ocicat Classic
- Russian Blue,
Russian Black & Russian White
- Singapura
- Snowshoe -
all colours
- Sphynx -
all colours/patterns
- Tonkinese -
all colours
- Burmese
- Burmese
- all colours
- Oriental
- Foreign White
- Oriental Bicolours
- all colours/patterns
- Oriental Shorthairs
- all colours/patterns except Foreign White
- Oriental Longhairs
- all colours/patterns
- Siamese
- Siamese
- all colours
- Balinese -
all colours
Only cats which are registered on the Full Register (its registration
number will begin CS...), Supplementary Register (CSSR...) or Experimental
Register (CSEXP...) may be shown.
When a breed is granted Preliminary Recognition, cats registered on
the Reference Register (CSREF...) will be treated as if they were registered
on the Experimental Register and may be shown, provided that they conform
to the Registration Policy for the breed and have registered parents,
grand-parents and great-grand-parents.