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Egyptian Mau Breed Council

Egyptian Mau Breed Council Meeting

June 27, 2013 6PM

Minutes

Present

Jill Archibald

Becki Bergeron

Karen Bishop

Laurie Coughlan

Tim Fowler

Linda Humpage

Melanie Morgan

Congrats to this year’s winners –

Imports – Can use C.A.T.S. to register f1-3 generations from imports

Egyptian Mau Summit planned for GEMS fourth weekend of July

	Education row with exercises will be monitored by Susan Melia
	Seminar/potluck after the show to go over education cats and excercises.

Update on the 99-lives genetic process – Egyptian Mau representing is GC BW NW Emau’s Diamonds R Forever Of Emauge. Blood has been submitted. No updates yet.

Ammonium Urate project- Leslie Lyons moved and requested blood work in addition to chek swabs – that bloodwork has been sent. We await updates.

Silver search – the search for the inhibitor gene continues and word is they are getting very close.

Breed Council booth updated to include additional banner with latest NWs. Thanks to Rebekka Lokke for design and Emauge for sponsoring

Breed Booth present at World Show, National Capital, GEMS, Crab and Mallet, Freestate Feline Fanciers.

Validity of certified pedigrees from other associations – discussion on whether we should establish a policy as to what we should accept given obvios inaccuracies from some registries.

PK Deficiency – once again we discussed the current testing procedures and need to test our breeding cats. Also discussed lack of information and need to educate ourselves on the problem. Historically we have not seen a lot of symptoms – this was confirmed by all breeders present – none of us had a cat diagnosed with any problems consistent with the deficiency. Discussed the danger of overreacting and limiting the genepool but also the the need to ideally breed for NN cats. All members are urged to forward test results to emau@emaucats.com for inclusion in a database tracking the status of breeding cats.

	Breed Council Secretary meeting with CFA Board – went over the agenda and determined that there were not any “hot” issues
	Member issues - none
	GEMS Show – update from Show manage Tim Fowler. Invitation to attend to all extended.