Fédération Internationale Féline
Fédération Internationale Féline is a federation of felidae animals. The federation currently has 42 members from 40 countries. FIFé is one of the nine members of the World Cat Congress.
History
It was founded by "French cat-lover Madame Marguérite Miggy Ravel" in 1949.The federation was unofficially started in 1949 in Paris, France, at a meeting between the italic=unset, the Royal Cat Society of Flanders, and the italic=unset. At the organisation's first general assembly, in Ghent, Belgium, the federation was officially founded. For the occasion, all participants received a cat shaped statuette, in pink sandstone, that Marguerite Ravel had commissioned from the sculptor Jan Martel.
The original name was Fédération Internationale Féline d'Europe. In 1972, the Brazilian Cat Club joined, making it necessary to change the Euro-centric name of the federation. The d'Europe was dropped, and the abbreviation was changed to FIFé.
Members
Citing source from:- Asociación Felina Argentina –
- Klub der Katzenfreunde –
- Österreichischer Verband für die Zucht und Haltung von Edelkatzen –
- Felis Belgica vzw. –
- National Federation of Felinology –
- Federação Felina Brasileira –
- Felinolog –
- Fédération Féline Helvétique –
- China Cat Union –
- Asociación Club Felino Colombiano –
- Český svaz chovatelů – Sdružení chovatelů koček –
- Deutscher Edelkatzenzüchter Verband e.V. –
- Landsforeningen Felis Danica –
- Eesti Kassikasvatajate Liit –
- Asociación Felina Española –
- Suomen Kissaliitto r.y. –
- Fédération Féline Française –
- Felis Britannica –
- Feline Federation of Greece –
- Savez Felinoloških Društava Hrvatske –
- Felis Hungarica - Magyar Macskások Egyesülete –
- Indonesian Cat Association –
- Kynjakettir Kattaræktarfélag Íslands –
- Associazione Nazionale Felina Italiana –
- Verein der Katzenzüchter Liechtensteins –
- Lithuanian Felinology Association BUBASTE–
- Cat Fanciers Clubs Association –
- Lux-Cat-Club –
- Association Feline Felis Moldova –
- Federacion Felina de México A.C. –
- Kelab Kucing Malaysia –
- Felikat –
- Vereniging Mundikat –
- Norske Rasekattklubbers Riksforbund –
- Polska Federacja Felinologiczna - Felis Polonia –
- Clube Português de Felinicultura –
- Felis Romania –
- Felis Russica –
- Zveza Felinoloških Društev Slovenije –
- Federácia Felis Slovakia –
- Sveriges Kattklubbars Riksförbund -
- Ukrainian Felinology Union –