Abyssinian
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Update 01.01.2010 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Coat |
Short, fine and glossy with slight undercoat, but dense and
lying elastically to the body. |
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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. |
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Colour varieties |
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With silver |
For the description of the colours see at
Ticked Tabby. |
- ruddy
- blue
- chocolate
- sorrel
- fawn
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- black silver
- blue silver
- chocolate silver
- sorrel silver
- fawn silver
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Faults |
- 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
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Faults, which exclude the CAC |
- white medallion
- unbroken necklace
- stripes on all 4 legs
- large amount of grey undercoat
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Scale of points |
| Body |
20
points |
| Head
and ears |
15
points |
| Eyes |
10
points |
| Coat
texture |
10
points |
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Colour of body |
25
points |
| Ticking |
15
points |
| Condition |
5
points |
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