by Michael
(London, UK)
It is time for an Indian National Cat Club. Or the National Cat Club of India. It’s time because there is a well established Indian National Kennel Club and a Dog Show Club (is this the same? – not sure). India has purebred cats. But there is neither a cat association to register these cats in India nor a cat club to promote and manage a cat fancy in India.
They can be registered through the International Cat Association (TICA) right now but these purebred cats would probably not meet the requirements for registration of a certain cat breed because they don’t have a registered pedigree (a documented history of parentage going back several generations). Purebred cats in India such as the Persian, perhaps the most common in India, would have to be registered as “household pets” through TICA it seems. Household pets are random bred show cats.
There needs to be a start though. Eventually there will be purebred Persians in India that have a pedigree. I guess someone could import two TICA registered Persians from America and breed from them and register the offspring. That would kick start the process.
In the meantime keepers of purebred cats in India should get together through the internet to form a club.
There is no reason why the club cannot be formed immediately. There are no legal requirements to the formation of a club as far as I am aware. If there are two people that should constitute a club. They can write the rules in basic form and that would start things.
Invitations can then be invited through the internet on social networking sites and standard websites.
The person to contact at present is Rudolph. A. Furtado in Mumbai. He has a website that discusses starting a cat club in India. Rudolph keeps purebred Persians and has shown a purebred dog.
Please leave a comment on his site or this page. This is the right moment for starting the Indian National Cat Club, which would be a much needed sister site to the existing Indian National Kennel Club.
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| Tabby cat in North East India that could be a household pet show cat Photo Sukanto Debnath |
Hi Mohammed.There was a “Cat Show” held in Bangalore in 2013 under the “Indian cat Federation” affiliated to the “World Cat Federation” based in Germany.Hope they organize “Cat Shows” in other city’s like Mumbai, Chennai, Calcutta and Delhi to name our Country’s largest metropolitan city’s.So India has had its first cat show and also its first cat club and only hope it continues every year like “Dog Shows” which is common in every Indian city.
Kindly inform me the next cat shows in 2014
Hi Indhu. Please give me a few hours to answer your question! Thanks for asking.
Dear Mr. Rudholph i am Mohamed living in Tamil nadu, india if u are opening a cat club in india inform me sir lets form a group and join together to make our indians to be proud!!!
Hi Mohamed. Thanks for visiting. I’ll tell Rudolph you commented. India recently had its first cat show but it was organised by the World Cat Federation – a European cat association. India needs a cat club of its own and the best way to do it is through The International Cat Association (TICA) which is based in America. I hope Rudolph will make contact with you.
Promise u all de supports frm me