Head | Shape | wedge shaped, of medium proportions, wide at the top; the contours are soft and graceful |
Nose | medium long. In profile the head shows a soft curve, with neither a stop nor a straight nose | |
Chin | girm and well developed | |
Muzzle | not sharply pointed a shallow indentation forming the muzzle is desirable, but a pinch is a fault |
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Ears | Shape | relatively large, broad at the base; slightly rounded at the tips with a thumb print and tufts of hair at the tips are desirable |
Placement | set well apart and pricked | |
Eyes | Shape | large, almond in shape and set well apart |
Colour | brilliant and expressive; amber, green or yellow; pure, clear and intense colour; outlined with the colour of the ticking | |
Neck | graceful | |
Tail | fairly long and tapering; broad at the base the tail should be well furnished |
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Body | Structure | medium built, medium long; firm, lithe and muscular, having a firm feeling. |
Coat | Structure | extremely fine and very dense; the denser the better; texture very soft to touch of medium length, except on the shoulders, where it can be a little shorter preference is given to those cats with well-developed frill and breeches. |
Colour | the development of the ticking is slow; the true coat is not developed until the age of 2 years; allowance for this should be made in kittens and young adults | |
Remarks | White is tolerated on the chin and the nostrils | |
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Coat colour | body colour: as described in the General Part, with darker ticking according to the corresponding colour varieties ground colour: as described in the General Part underside of the body, chest and innersides of the legs uniformly coloured with the ground colour, harmonizing with the upper parts of the body, without any ticking, bars, necklaces or markings on stomach or belly darker shading along the spine white or off-white is only permitted above the lips, beside the nostrils and down the chin as long as it does not extend to the chest the tips of the ears are in the same colour as the ticking the back of the hind feet is dark, hairtufts between the toes are in the same colour as the ticking the colour of the tail is an extension of the darker shading along the spine and ends in a solid dark tip, coloured with the colour of the ticking, without any rings. |
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Remarks | all remarks and faults described in the General Part also apply | |
Colour | EMS Code | *Remarks |
Ruddy/Blue/Sorrel/Beige-fawn | SOM n/a/o/p | |
Ruddy/Blue/Sorrel/Beige-fawn silver | SOM n/a/o/p s | A |
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Eye colour | A | Ground colour should be without brown or yellow tinge or patches. |
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Ruddy | n | body colour: warm ruddy brown/red brown with black ticking ground colour: deep apricot/orange |
Blue | a | body colour: warm blue-grey with dark steel blue-grey ticking ground colour: pale fawn/cream |
Sorrel | o | body colour: bright warm copper red with chocolate-brown ticking ground colour: deep apricot |
Beige-fawn | p | body colour: dull beige with deep warm cream ticking ground colour: pale cream |
Black silver | ns | body colour: pure silver-white with black ticking ground colour: pure silver-white |
Blue silver | as | body colour: pure silver-white with dark steel blue-grey ticking ground colour: pure silver-white |
Sorrel silver | os | body colour: pure silver-white with red-brown ticking ground colour: pure silver-white |
Beige fawn silver | ps | body colour: pure silver-white with deep warm cream ticking ground colour: pure silver-white |
Remarks | A | ground colour should be without brown or yellow tinge or patches |
Scale of Points | Points | |
Total | 100 | |
Head | general shape, nose, jaws and teeth, forehead, placement and shape of the ears | 15 |
Eyes | shape and colour | 10 |
Body | shape, size, bone structure, height of the legs, shape of the paws, shape and length of tail | 20 |
Coat | body colour | 25 |
ticking | 15 | |
texture | 10 | |
Condition | 5 |