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How to fill out your kitten application

FILLING OUT THE KITTEN REGISTRATION APPLICATION FORM

When a litter is registered with TCA, Inc. the breeder is provided a Kitten Registration Application for each kitten born in the litter.  This is sent to the breeder to be filled in with all the pertinent information prior to registration. Once the kitten is purchased, the Kitten Registration Application is filled out by both the Breeder and the New Owner. 

The breeder fills out the left side of the form with the specific description of the kitten.  This includes the Coat color of the cat as allowed by the Breed Standard, the Coat length, the Eye Color as allowed by the Breed Standard, whether the cat is being sold as a breeding cat (Male or Female) or as a non-breedable cat (Neuter or Spay), followed by the Date of the Sale. 

The New Owner is responsible for filling out the right side of the form with their name as it will appear on the Registration Form (especially important for breeders), the owners mailing address where the for will be returned to, the TCA Registered Cattery Name (important for breeders), a contact phone number to call and an email address to write to if there is anything missing, unreadable, or in question. 

The next area is the first and second choice for the name of the cat. If a Cattery Name appears on the certificate after First choice or Second choice, then that is automatically part of the name, according to the registration rules.  Do not attempt to scratch it out, as the Head Registrar must add it back in.  The breeders cattery name (example above is “Applecat Acres”) becomes the prefix of the name that is chosen by the new owner. So that if the name selected was Mr. C, then his registered name would become Applecat Acres Mr. C.

If the new owner had a TCA, Inc. registered cattery name, it would appear under the new owner section “TCA Cattery”, and could be added after the name selected.  If the new owner cattery name was for example “Tullycrine”, then the complete name would be “Applecat Acres Mr. C of Tullycrine”. This is only one character short of the maximum number of letters (35 characters).

The last activity to complete the registration is to have the Breeder and the new owner sign the Kitten Registration Application form. This then becomes a document of the actual transaction, but does not include what the cost of the animal was to the new owner.  This is not required to get your cat registered.

Finally, include your payment for the registration, or use Paypal to prepay the registration prior to or at the same time that you send the documents to the Head Registrar. It usually takes less than three weeks to send register, and receive the new registration form for your cat or kitten.

Questions can be sent to the head registrar at any time regarding the current status, and response time is typically the same day.  Hopefully, this information will eliminate any possible misunderstanding of the Kitten Registration Application,