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Our Society

The Society, first known as the Exotic Shorthair Breeders Society, was established in May 1984 and has worked hard over the years to further the Exotic breed and take them to Championship status, which was achieved in June 1995. It is now a real pleasure for the Society to see our Exotic Shorthairs gaining the titles of Champion and Grand Champion, Premier and Grand Premier, and even United Kingdom Grand Champion and United Kingdom Grand Premier.

History

Early Exotic Shorthairs
The Exotic Shorthair has been a recognised breed in countries such as the U.S.A., Germany, Sweeden, France and Belgium for many years. The first Exotics in this country however, started to emerge in the early 1980's and thus the Exotic Shorthair Cat Society was created in 1984.

Gaining Championship Status
The first aim for the Society was to gain Championship Status for the breed.
Preliminary recognition was granted by the Governing Council of the Cat Fancy (G.C.C.F.) in 1986 and was the first stepping stone. After much hard work by the members of the two Exotic cat clubs collating information (show results, etc.) and breeding to the correct Show Standard, Exotics were granted second stage Provisional Status in 1992.
Finally, it took us a further two and a half years of hard graft to attain full Championship Status for our Exotics.

Extending Show Open Classes
Until recently Open Classes at Championship Shows were only split into Any Colour Male and Any Colour Female Adult, Kitten and Neuter Classes.
They are now split into Self (same colour) and Non-Self (two or more colours), and we are hoping for further splits in the future.

The Status of Our Show
Our most recent accomplishment has concerned the status of our Exotic Shorthair Cat Society Show.
We were able to prove to our governing body (G.C.C.F.) that we could run cat shows in an appropriate manner. We staged six successful shows (three Exemption and three Sanction) and then we were granted our first Championship Show Licence for our 2002 Show. This meant that Exotic adults and neuters winning their Open classes could win certificates (C.C's and P.C's) to count towards becoming Champions or Premiers.

The Future

Our work is certainly not over yet as we now have to strive towards getting the Non-Self Open classes at Championship Shows split further. We have to collate information about all the Exotics entered at the fifty plus Championship Shows around the country during the year to prove to G.C.C.F. that enough Exotics are being shown to warrant this split.