TONKINESE REGISTRATION POLICY

Current policy - last amended  22nd February 2006

Copyright GCCF/Tonkinese Breed Advisory Committee

Guide to Understanding the Tonkinese Registration Policy

 

BREEDS PERMITTED IN THE PEDIGREE OF TONKINESE CATS - BREED NUMBER 74

 

1.       Tonkinese: Tonkinese with the typical coat pattern expressed in any of the following colours - Brown, Blue, Chocolate, Lilac, Caramel, these colours in the tortie and tortie tabby, Red, Cream, Apricot and all eight colours in Tabby.

2.       Tonkinese Variant: A cat from the mating of a Tonkinese with a Tonkinese, a Tonkinese Variant, a Burmese or a Siamese but whose coat pattern is either Burmese or Siamese in appearance in any of the colours and/or patterns in 1. above.

3.       Burmese and Siamese: On their respective Full Registers but only in accordance with the requirements of the Tonkinese registration policy given below.

 

Note: All offspring of Tonkinese Variants mated with the similar breed of origin, (i.e. Tonkinese Variants with burmese coat-pattern x Burmese or Tonkinese Variant with siamese coat-pattern x Siamese), will be registered as the appropriate coat-pattern Tonkinese Variants.

 

REGISTRATION POLICY

FULL REGISTER

Tonkinese with Championship or Provisional status which have only Tonkinese and/or Tonkinese Variants in their pedigree within three (3) preceding generations. Any application to register the progeny of Tonkinese Variants on the full Register must be accompanied by a letter requesting this.

 

SUPPLEMENTARY REGISTER

Tonkinese with Championship or Provisional status which have in their pedigree, within three (3) preceding generations, only Tonkinese on the Full, Supplementary or Experimental Registers, or Tonkinese Variants and

1.       The progeny of Tonkinese or Tonkinese Variants mated with either Burmese or Siamese (on their respective Full Registers) born on or before 31st December 1996.

2.       The progeny of Burmese on the Full Register mated to a Siamese on the Full Register born on or before 31st December 1998.

 

EXPERIMENTAL REGISTER

Tonkinese with Preliminary Recognition which have in their pedigree, within three (3) preceding generations, only Tonkinese or Tonkinese Variants and

1.       The progeny of Tonkinese, or Tonkinese Variants, mated with either Burmese or Siamese (on their respective Full Register) born on or before 31st December 1996.

2.       The progeny of Burmese on the Full Register mated with Siamese on the Full Register, born on or before 31st December 1998.

 

REFERENCE REGISTER

All Tonkinese Variants plus

1.           Tonkinese or Tonkinese Variants from the mating of a Tonkinese, or Tonkinese Variant, with a Burmese or Siamese on the Full Register, born on or between 1st January 1997 and 31st December 2006; or progeny from these cats that have in their pedigree, within three (3) preceding generations, Burmese or Siamese on the Full Register.

2.           Tonkinese from the mating of a Burmese on the Full Register with a Siamese on the Full Register, born on or after 1st January 1999, or the progeny from these cats that have in their pedigree, within three (3) preceding generations, Burmese or Siamese on the Full Register.

 

Note 1: Any progeny, born on or after 1st January 2007, from the mating of a Tonkinese, or Tonkinese Variant, with any other breed (including Burmese and Siamese) will be registered as ‘No Recognised Breed’

 

Note 2: All Red, Cream and Apricot Tonkinese with one or more Tabby parents must be registered as Red-, Cream- or Apricot-Tabbies until proved otherwise.

 

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