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Feburary 2006 CFA Region 3 |
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Region 3 News:
REGIONAL AWARDS SHOW AND BANQUET
The Regional Awards Show and Awards Banquet will be in
Look for Show Flyers and Star information at your next show. It will be posted to the list as soon as a
flyer is online.
GSR
Director - James
Watson
GSR
Secretary - Trudie Allen
GSR
Treasurer - Betsy Gaither
GSR
Finance Committee - Chair Betsy Gaither, Bill Coombes, Chris Willingham, Jimmie Hawley
GSR
Legislative News - Lynette Clooney
GSR
Webmaster – George Snell
GSR
Regional Shows Committee - Chair James Watson
GSR
Fund Raising Committee - Chair Grace
Guidry
GSR
Clerking Committee - Chair Dick
Cullen
GSR
Grievance Committee - Chair Michael Barber , Terry Brown, Gene Wright
GSR
2007 Annual Chair - James Watson
GSR
Historical Committee - Chair-Terry Brown,
GSR
Pure Breed Rescue - Chair- Betty Haden.
GSR Junior Showmanship Committee - Chair-Cheryl Peck, Grace Guidry, Brenda Moore
If you are interested in any of the above
committees, contact the Chair to see how you can help.
ANNUAL 2007 COMMITTEE
CHAIRS
As it stands this week, the following
have agreed to Chair the respective committees.
2007
Annual Chair James
Watson
Entertainment
and Hospitality nights Paul
& Toni Huff
Delegate
Services Marsha
Ammons
Banquet
Decorations Betsy
Gaither & Betty White
Publicity Karen
Crooke
Special
Projects Lonnie
& Gloria Hoover
Delegate
Bag contents Karen
Godwin
Vendors Peggy
Schulman
Once again, if you want to help, check with the committee chair and volunteer your services. This is a preliminary list and will expand as the Annual approaches. And it will approach much sooner than you think. Clubs, start thinking about what you are going to donate to the Delegate Bags. You can contact Karen Godwin for ideas and suggestions of where to look for “goodies”.
Fundraisers
for the
We need to be in the “money mode” until the 2007 Annual
in
Election
year:
This
year we will be electing CFA Officers and Regional Directors. Please look for deadlines regarding these
events. I will be posting notices as I
receive them from Central Office.
Do
we need a new
2006 ANNUAL INFORMATION
The 2006 CFA Board
Meeting and Annual Meeting will be held at the
2500
800-648-5080.
Reservation deadline is May 16, 2006.
Rate is $115 for the “Cat Fanciers’ Assn.” Block.
Updates
will be made as additional info becomes available. See:
http://www.cfa.org/exhibitors/annual
REMINDER - Don't miss out on the Gulf Shore Regional Annual Grand Parade
Dennis Allen has offered to do the "Grand Parade" at the
Regional Awards Banquet this year. It
will make his job much easier if you will send those photos as soon as your cat
grands during the season!
I am asking everyone to start sending Dennis their photos as soon as your cat
has granded. This will help spread out the photo collection process a
little and give him a chance to stay on top of assembling the show.
Your photos can be sent via snail mail and he will scan them and send them
back. Please include a self addressed stamped envelope for returning your
photos. Please write the full registered name of the cat on the back of
the photo, including the title. See his address below. You can also
send the photos that you have scanned by email. These need to be scanned
a resolution of at least 300 dpi x 4in x 6in. Dennis will size them for
the slide show after he gets them. You can send photos right from the
camera. They will come out of the camera at 72 dpi x 17in x 13in if
you use at least 1200 dpi resolution on your camera. Again, they will be
sized for the slide show after he gets them. Any photos that are sent by
email need to have the cats name as the file name.
Dennis will be at various shows this year and will notify the list of the shows
that he will be at so you can bring your photos to the show and have him scan
them while you are showing kitties.
Email Grand Photos to:
dennis@trutails.com
Snail mail to:
Dennis Allen
1134 Lin Mar Dr.
Fort Collins, CO 80521-1210
If you have questions call 970.472.4272
***Regional Awards, Breed Awards, Color Awards and DMs need to start
sending photos in also. Send these
photos to James Watson at jwatson@tcworks.net
as soon as possible. The above rules
apply to these photos also. Be sure to
send them in .jpg format and name the file the name of the cat. You can mail pictures and I will scan them
and IF you send a self addressed, stamped envelope, I will return your photo. Send to:
James
Watson
Phone:
501-327-8204
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CFA News: Unofficial Notes from the
Feburary Board Meeting in The February board
meeting is the "Breeds and Standards" meeting. This is where
the Board reviews the Breed Council Ballot results and requests for
advancement or acceptance of new breeds and or color classes to CFA. We
TREASURER’S REPORT: Kathy Calhoun, Chair Report based on May 1,
2005 through December 31, 2005. Bottom line is that we are
currently under budget by about $13,000.
We have four months to recover.
For better news, see the Business Development Committee report. NEW CLUB APPLICATIONS: Jo Ann Cummings, Chair Ruban D’or Chat
Fanciers Cat Fanciers’ Society of Grand Spanish Feline Club
– CLUB ACTIVITY REPORTS: Jo Ann Cummings, Chair 107 clubs completed this
year’s Club Activity Report. These are
extremely important to the Legislative Group and need to be filled out. I will remind the clubs again next year
when they are due. INTERNATIONAL DIVISION: Darrell Newkirk, Chair First one day show held in
First Asia/Latin America
International Division meeting held. Shanghai Cat Love Club
held their first show with 160 entries. First CFA Cat show held in
A lot of activity in CFA IAMS CHAMPIONSHIP
SHOW: Allen Scruggs, Chair (Pam DelaBar
reporting) The 2005 show lost approx.
$69,000. However, the publicity value
of show is estimated to be $1,305,124 reaching over 177 million people. Income from new CFA
programs resulting from this show should offset show cost. The 2006 Show will include
additional recognition and income from NY Mayor and Wall Street. There was a lot of
discussion regarding the 2006 show. It
was decided to go forward with the show as a lot of promotion has already
been set in motion. CFA will “ring the
bell” to open the stock market the week prior to the show. Additional funding has been secured for the
show. See next report. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
COMMITTEE: Kitty Angell, Chair. 28 New Companies were
added to the CFA list of Corporate Sponsors.
This was due to the hard work of our new Director of Corporate
Marketing and Public Relations, Roeann Fulkerson. Roeann is now an employee of CFA and will
continue her aggressive search for new revenue for CFA. JUDGING PROGRAM: Rachel
Anger, Chair The following judges were
advanced;
Dee Dee Cantley – SH Trainee – 1st
Specialty Barbara Jaeger – SH Trainee – 2nd
Specialty Peter Vanwonterghem – SH Apprentice – 2nd
Specialty Carolyn Lyons – LH Approval Pending – 2nd
Specialty Holly Ayers – Approval Pending Allbreed Aki Tamura – Approval Pending Allbreed Yoshiko Sada – Approved Allbreed
Breeds and Standards: SATURDAY EVENING: American Bobtail, Siberian and Ragdolls were presented Saturday evening. They were very well presented and each breed had lots of information for us. The breeders were very knowledgeable regarding their breed and left no question unanswered. They are to be commended for all the setup for a “one hour show”. The
American Bobtail requested advancement from Provisional to Championship. Passed. The
Siberian requested advancement from Provisional to Championship. Passed. The Ragdoll request for AOV Class. To show other color patterns not previously allowed. Passed.
Questionnaires that were received which received a 60% or
greater YES vote by the members of the Breed Council are reviewed for
ratification by the board. Some are
simple and some are very complex. Each
is considered based on content, intent and if it is compliant with the
current rules. If a number is not mentioned, it was
not passed by the breed council and no action was required by the Board.
1. Set forth the AB breed and color pattern descriptions. Failed because many of the colors requested are not possible or wrong description. Returned for clarification. 2. Divide the AB into LH and SH color classes due to the unique differences in coat type. Failed-out of order. LH/SH is not a color class. It’s a division. 3. Divide the AB into two divisions LH and SH. Passed 4. Add the AOV class. In order to show AB’s with incorrect tail length. Failed American Curl (only 1 and 3 passed by 60%, 2 was a tie, the others favorable) 1. Added the word ‘back’. “uniquely curled back ears”. Passed 3. Added the word ‘elegant’ to further define the overall impression of the cat. Passed. Balinese (11 yes to 0 no) 1. Permit registration via 3 generation certified pedigrees of 128# series Balinese. Passed. Birman (48 yes to 23 no) 1. Add separate color class for the Seal Lynx and Blue Lynx Point colors. The remaining Lynx colors will fall into All Other Lynx Point Colors. Passed. 1. Change color descriptions to delete references to “cinnamon-cream”, eliminate the word “cream” and add chocolate and chocolate van calico. Passed. Egyptian Mau (18 yes, 5 no) 1.
Do you accept the following import policy for
importing Passed. European Burmese (1 & 2 passed with 60%) 1. Added “on reds and creams.” To the end of the Penalize section. Passed. 2. Change point allocation regarding eye shape and eye color. Passed. Exotic (1 through 9 passed by 60%) 1. Remove all designations for the “van” pattern. Passed. 2. Replace the current wording for Calico with more specific description. Failed. 3. Replace the current wording for “color” and “white” with more specific description. Failed. 4. Define ‘balance and refinement’. Failed. Redundant wording. 5. Define skull structure and that it needs to be felt to be properly evaluated. Passed. 6. Add to the description of the muzzle. Passed. 7. Remove the color description for the Peke-faced Red and Red Tabby color description from the Exotic standard. Problem with the definition of “dome”. Passed. 8. Clarify the Blue Point color description. Passed. 9. Change the Blue Cream Point to confirm with the Blue Point change. Passed. Japanese Bobtail (16 yes, 3 no) 1. Change/combine color classes. Passed. Javanese (13 yes, 0 no) 1.
Permit registration via 3 generation certified pedigrees of 4000
series Javanese from foreign registries. Passed. Korat (7 yes, 2 no) 1. Clarify the eye colors, kitten vs adults. Passed. Maine Coon (1-3 passed by 60%) 1, 2 & 3 corrected color descriptions from last ballot. Passed. Manx (1,2,3,5 passed by 60%) 1. Add color descriptions for Tortoishell & White and Blue-Cream & White to the Manx standard. Passed. 2. Change the Calico Color Class to include the Tortoishell & White and Blue-Cream & White and rename it to Calico/Tortoishell & White. Change the Color Class numbers. Passed. 3. Add color descriptions for the Blue Silver Tabby and Blue Silver Patched Tabby to the standard. Passed. 5. Correct the eye color description for the
OMC class. Passed. Oriental (1,2 &3 all passed by 60%) 1, 2 & 3 are all “housekeeping” to clarify color description intent. Passed. Persian – General (103 yes, 41 no) 1. Change from 5 to 8 generation certified pedigree from another registering association. Failed. (Note: board vote was 8 yes, 11 no.) Persian – Himalayan Div. (45 yes, 5 no) 1. Remove the Tortie Lynx Point and Blue-Cream Lynx Point from the “other Lynx Points” color class and give each it’s own class. Passed. Ragamuffin (2 & 3 passed by 60%) 2. Added “Short hair on body and/or tail,
giving the impression of a short haired cat” is disqualified. Passed. 3. Change registration requirements from 3 to
5 generation certified pedigree. Passed. Ragdoll (2 & 3 passed by 60%) 2. Change the description of the head. Failed. Did not make the
change in other parts of the standard.
Need to resubmit. 3. Request for AOV Class. To show other color patterns not previously allowed. Passed. Selkirk Rex (1 & 3 passed by 60%) 1. Change Patched Tabby Pattern description. Failed. Failed because additional colors were added as a “housekeeping change.” 3. Change eye color description to allow any
genetically possible eye color
because the cat comes in any genetically possible color. Passed. Siamese (75 yes, 21 no) 1. Vote to end the registration of Albino Siamese. Passed. Siberian (1 & 2 passed by 60%) 1 & 2 covered changes in color/pattern to better define the allowable colors. Passed. (this was 4 pages of color descriptions and patterns.) Singapura (8 yes, 1 no) 1. Added wording to help clarify the description of the Singapura. Failed. The word ‘comparison’ should have been “proportion”. Returned for revision. Sphynx (1-7 passed by 60%) 1. Change in description of Head. Failed. Needs rewording and need to change General Description to match. 2. Change in description of Muzzle and Chin. Failed. See #1. 3. Removed reference to measurement of hair length and added “hairless appearance”. Passed. 4. Housekeeping, revised color description. Passed. 5. Corrected color description. Passed. 6. Added color descriptions. Passed. 7. More color corrections. Passed. Turkish 1.
Add eye color description to color class description. Passed. 2. Word changes in the Penalize section describing color faults that change with age. Failed. This needs to be in the General Description section. 3. Rearrange some color class locations in the standard and add the shaded color descriptions. Passed. Turkish Van (16 yes, 6 no) 1. Delete the AOV Color Class. Passed.
The Management Committee has completed the CFA Board Members' Guidebook including job descriptions and was passed by the board.
CENTRAL OFFICE: Tom Dent Future registration changes. DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED – NOT EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY Change the early bird registration from 3 months to 4 months. Change the breeding indicators back to not for breeding. You will need to check “not for breeding” if that it your intention. Next major project – Online Registration.
CLERKING COMMITTEE: Held an Entry Clerking school at the International Show. Clerking tests will be distributed in April 2006 Both an entry clerking and clerking school will be planned for 2006 International Show
INTERNATIONAL SHOW: Debbie Kusy, Chair Show loss was $10,000 mostly due to “decorating charges”. This was hanging banners, etc. Committee has revised their 2006 plan to prevent these losses. The 2006 and 2007 show location will be Publicity value of this show included USA Today article and promotion on several San Francisco TV and radio programs.
PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE: Donna Brawner, Chair Publications financial position continues to improve with an overall net loss of $9,000 versus $28,000 last year. This committee is VERY ENERGETIC with a lot of ideas on how to continue to move publications into the black. A sample of the proposed Year Book/Coffee Table book was presented. This was packaged with a collectable “cat doll” attached, with the intent of it being a Christmas present combination of the book and doll. A very professional presentation. This committee expects the Year Book to be delivered by November 1st. Talk about ambition. Donna has the drive to get it done. The board approved all her recommendations and approved the committee to move forward with the program.
LEGISLATION COMMITTEE: Joan Miller, Chair PAWS continues to be in forefront of much of CFA legislative activity. This committee continues to partner with many national, veterinarian, and legislative groups to stay on top of ongoing legislative issues. Watch the CFA website for updates.
IT COMMITTEE: Dick Kallmeyer, Chair The CFA website attracted over 1 million first time visitors in the October – December months. Page loads were up to 6.2 million, which is 18% higher than the same time period last year. The website has been updated with our 100 year logo and new color scheme.
ETHICS COMMITTEE: Peg Johnson, Chair CFA Board of Directors Code of Ethics and CFA Judges Code of Ethics were approved. The current Breeder Code of Ethics will be included with each litter registration beginning in near future. All Code of Ethics will be published on the CFA website prior to the June Board meeting. The Board Members’ Code of Ethics will be included in the Board Members' Guidebook.
NATIONAL SCHEDULING COMMITTEE: Gina Lehman Chair, (Peg Johnson reporting) Board approved a national definition for Traditional Dates (WEEKEND). Board approved a procedure for licensing a onetime show.
CFA CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION COMMITTEE: Liz Watson, Chair Over 300 cats have been enrolled in the CFA Centennial Challenge. CFA Centennial jewelry is available on the web site. Special centennial ring signs will be available for the 2006-2007 show season.
2006 ANNUAL IN Reno Hilton is getting ready for us. Party planning is in progress. Make your reservations early. Hotel Info: 2500 800-648-5080. Reservation deadline is May 16, 2006. Rate is $115 for the “Cat Fanciers’ Assn.” Block.
DISASTER PROGRAM GOES REGIONAL. Pam DelaBar suggested that each region set
up a list of equipment and facilities that can be used in the event of a
disaster. This would include spare
rooms or even a garage that can be used by evacuees. Those with generators that can be loaned
would be appreciated. If you are
interested in gathering this information, please let me know. This will develop over the years but just a
list of small boats, campers, motor homes, spare cages, etc. will go a long
way to helping those in need. CLUB ACTIVITY REPORTS Clubs need to get in their Activity Reports. Please do this, as it is very important to
several committees. The information is
used to provide information to various organizations and committees. You can do this on line at http://www.cfa.org/exhibitors/club-activity-report.html. The
CFA On Line Breeder Referral list is on line. $44.95
per year for 1-5 breeds with up to 4 pictures, $9.95 for additional breeds. And
it will include a text box for general info.
Breed Council Members will get a $10.00 discount. To sign up for this service, go to http://secure.cfa.org. and create a User Account. (Online Almanac subscribers already have a User account). Once logged in, click on Purchase Cat Breeder Listing Service. You will be asked to supply the litter number of a CFA litter registered within the past 2 years.
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