Абиссинские кошки: стандарт породы WCF (Eng)
Body
The cat is medium sized and elegant. The body is of medium length, firm, lithe and muscular.
The legs are sinewy, long and slender. The paws are narrow and oval.
The long tail is strong at the base and ends in a tapering tip.
The neck is slender.
Head
The head shows a moderate wedge shape and gently rounded contours. The nose is of medium length.
The profile is slightly curved.
The chin is firm.
Ears
The ears are large and set wide apart. They are broad at the base and slightly rounded at the tips. Ear tufts and a thumb print are desired.
Eyes
The eyes are large, brilliant and expressive, slightly almond-shaped and set wide apart.
The eye colour is pure and clear, amber to green. In the silver varieties green is preferred.
The eye lids are encircled (eye rims) with the colour of the ticking in all colour varieties.
Coat Short, fine and glossy with slight undercoat, but dense and lying elastically to the body.
Ticking
Double or preferably triple banding on each single hair. The ticking shall be extended evenly and without stripes over the entire body. The line along the spine (eel line), the tail tip and the plantar side of the hind paws are coloured intensely in the colour of the ticking.
The chest, belly and the inner side of the legs are without ticking and of the corresponding base colour.
Colour varieties
Without silver: ruddy, blue, chocolate, sorrel, fawn.
With silver: black silver, blue silver, chocolate silver, sorrel silver, fawn silver.
Faults | Faults, which exclude the CAC |
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stripes on the front legs broken necklace grey or too light undercoat too little ticking ghost markings missing eye rims white extending beyond the chin | white medallion unbroken necklace stripes on all 4 legs large amount of grey undercoat |
Scale of points
Body ………………………….20 points
Head and ears……………15 points
Eyes…………………………..10 points
Coat texture………………..10 points
Colour of body…………….25 points
Ticking……………………….15 points
Condition……………………..5 points