Things we can do to help get the Maine Coon Poly recognized as part of the Maine Coon breed in TICA

• Enter your Poly litters including non poly offspring into the Polytrak.net data base. 

• Use Q-tip swabs cut in half swirl in mouths of kittens and there parents including 

• the non-poly littermates and parent and submit them to Dr. Lyons at UC Davis  put 

• the swab in an envelope and label along with the parent and offspring info you can include your 

• kitten numbers that correspond with the cats for detailed litter information to the lab. It is easy 

• and costs only postage and a little time to do! Lyons Den  

• Send swabs to:   Cat DNA Projects: Leslie Lyons, Ph.D.
  		VM:PHR 1114 Tupper Hall
  		University of California , Davis 
  		One Shields Avenue 
  		Davis , CA 95616	Phone	(530) 754-CATS 

• Become a Member - So you can vote TICA   (you do need to register a cattery or cat to be a member.)

• Register Cattery with TICA 

• Register your Cats especially Polys - to show the number of Polys registered in TICA please remember to put a P or PP in there name.

• Show Polys in TICA New Traits - which do not get points just rosettes but will help Poly exposure and increase our chances of Polys 
  being accepted into the Maine Coon breed standards.

• Educate Maine Coon breeders, and TICA members so when voted on we get more votes.

• TICA issues registration papers for Polys besure and put the P or PP in the name of the cat as it will be easier to designate Polys. 
  

• Join the Maine Coon Polydactyl International (link below) http://www.mcpi.org
  

• Post pictures of Maine Coon Polys on your webpage’s and any photo list you belong to. 
  

• Add http://www.mcpi.org to your email tag lines.
  

• Put the MCPI logo on your web page and link it to http://www.mcpi.org (logos lacated in the MCPI file)
  

• Show your Polys at shows TICA new traits and HHP in other organizations.
  

• Before you go to shows make up some of the fact flyers to hand out, located in the MCPI database. 
  

• When showing a small foot Maine Coon if it has Poly heritage let people know.
  

• Educate Judges, Members of Registries, the General Public, prospective cat owners, and other Maine Coon breeders hand out

   some of the informational sheets located in the MCPI data base.
  

• Take DNA samples of Poly litters and send them into Dr. Lyons for the Poly study. 
  

• Put your Poly litter information into the PolyTrak data base, http://www.polytrak.net .This will help when the application is filled out 

  and documents are submitted to TICA. 
  

• Talk about Polys on Maine Coon cat lists/groups so people know this is not a fad or it isn't something that is brought up every 6 Months.