Facility Inspection Program

Requirements and Instructions

For Facility Inspectors:

• As a Facility Inspector, you must be either a veterinarian or government animal inspector, who is currently licensed by the state in which the inspection is being conducted.
• Facility Inspectors can be active breeders of pedigreed cats or active participants in ACFA.
• ACFA will be relying on your professionalism to ensure only those deserving, high quality catteries and cat havens receive cattery approval ratings.
• In completing the ACFA Facility Inspection Form, please use the "Minimum Standards" to help you score the 19 conditions starting on page 1 of the ACFA Facility Inspection Form.
• It is your responsibility to complete the ACFA Facility Inspection Form during the inspection. You will complete two copies, keeping one.
• Cattery/Cat Haven owners are responsible for any Inspection fees due to you.
• If, for any reason, you feel a cattery or cat haven does not meet the minimum standards specified on the ACFA Facility Inspection Form, please annotate the appropriate area(s) as "unacceptable".
• Please do not pass any cattery or cat haven with cats and/or kittens exhibiting signs of poor condition or contagious disease where they are not already under appropriate veterinary care.
• At the end of the inspection, you sign the ACFA Facility Inspection Form, making sure to include your current identification number.
• The Cattery/Cat Haven owner will give you a copy of the completed the ACFA Cattery/Cat Haven Checklist, a check payable to ACFA and, a stamped enveloped addressed to the ACFA Facility Inspection Program Administrator.
• The ACFA Facility Inspection Program Administrator is NORMA ANDERSON 701 S. SPRUCE
  ARLINGTON, SD 57212 PH: 605 983 7118 EMAIL: DAKOTACATLADY@MCHSI,COM   USA.
• You will mail the check, the Checklist and the Inspection Form in the envelope provided by the owner(s).
• Keep the other copy of the completed ACFA Facility Inspection Form for your own records.

For Cattery/Cat Haven Owners:

• Before the Facility Inspection is conducted, you must have completed the ACFA Cattery/Cat Haven Checklist.
• In completing the ACFA Cattery/Cat Haven Checklist, please use the "Minimum Standards" to help you evaluate the conditions in your cattery/cat haven.
• If you wish to keep a copy of the completed ACFA Cattery/Cat Haven Checklist for your records, make that before the Facility Inspector arrives.
• You will give two (2) copies of the blank Facility Inspection Form and at least one (1) of the "Minimum Standards" sheet to the Facility Inspector on arrival.
• The completed Inspection Form must be signed by a Facility Inspector.
• At the end of the inspection, you will give the Facility Inspector the completed Checklist, a check payable to ACFA for $20.00 for the first certification or $10.00 for the annual renewal fee, and a stamped enveloped addressed to the ACFA Facility Inspection Program Administrator. The ACFA Facility Inspection Program Administrator is NORMA ANDERSON 701 S. SPRUCE ARLINGTON, SD 57212 PH: 605 983 7118  EMAIL: DAKOTACATLADY@MCHSI,COM  USA.
• To be eligible for the renewal fee, the Cattery/Cat Haven re-inspection must be conducted before the expiration date on the current certificate.
• Cattery/Cat Haven owners do not mail these forms in to the Administrator. That is done only by the Facility Inspector.
• Cattery/Cat Haven owners are responsible for any Inspection fees due to Facility Inspectors.

Links to the FACILITIES INSPECTION PROGRAM FORMS / Pages

• Cattery Inspection Program Title Page
• Minimum Standards
• Cattery / Cat Haven Check List
• Inspection Form

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ACFA Facility Inspection Program Administrator - NORMA ANDERSON
701 S. SPRUCE
ARLINGTON, SD 57212
PH:605 983 7118 
EMAIL: DAKOTACATLADY@MCHSI,COM

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