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Adding your cats
There are two easy ways to get your cats into Perfect Pedigrees, and there’s no wrong one. Type the names in yourself, or just upload the pedigrees and let us do the typing for you.
Option 1: Type them in yourself
A simple step-by-step wizard walks you through it. The clever part: as you start typing a cat’s name, autocomplete searches the shared pool of around 90,000 cats and offers matches. Pick the right one and its known ancestry comes in automatically — so you rarely type more than a name or two before the pedigree starts filling itself in.
- Choose “Add a cat” from your dashboard.
- Start typing the cat’s registered name — pick it from the suggestions if it appears.
- Fill in the details that aren’t already known (breed, colour, sex, dates).
- Save. Known parents and grandparents are pulled in for you where they exist in the pool.
Option 2: Upload the pedigrees — no typing
If typing isn’t for you, just send us pictures. Upload — or email — a photo or PDF of the sire’s and dam’s pedigrees plus the litter registration document, from any device. The system reads them and builds the pedigree for you.
- Take a clear photo of each pedigree (or use a PDF if you have one).
- Upload the images, or email them in — phone, tablet or computer, whatever’s easiest.
- We read the details off the documents automatically.
- You get a side-by-side review screen — your original image next to the details we read, with anything we’re unsure about highlighted so you can check and correct it before it’s saved.
That review step matters: nothing is saved until you’ve confirmed it’s right. It’s the same tool that lets us migrate breeders across from their old software without the hours of retyping.
Which should I use?
Use whichever suits you. Many breeders upload the parents’ pedigrees once to get the ancestry in fast, then type in new kittens by hand as litters arrive. Everything you add is saved in your private database, so you only ever enter a cat once.
