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.

FaultsFaults, which exclude the CAC
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

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