() () is a globally operating federation of animals (mainly domestic cats). In 2026, the federation had 42 members from 40 countries. is one of the nine members of the World Cat Congress, making it one of the major cat registries for pedigree registration of cat breeds.
It was founded by "French cat-lover " in 1949.
The federation was unofficially started in 1949 in Paris, France, at a meeting between the (French Cat Federation, the Royal Cat Society of Flanders, and the (Italian National Feline Association). At the organisation's first general assembly, in Ghent, Belgium, the federation was officially founded. For the occasion, all participants received a cat shaped statuette, in pink sandstone, that Marguerite Ravel had commissioned from the sculptor Jan Martel.
The original name was (). In 1972, the Brazilian Cat Club () joined, making it necessary to change the Euro-centric name of the federation. The () was dropped, and the abbreviation was changed to FIFe.
FIFe currently recognises 48 official breeds of cat for championship competitions. All breeds are divided into four categories and identified with a three-letter code, according to the Easy Mind System (EMS), used by FIFe and all its members to easily identify cats by alphanumeric codes.