ABYSSINIAN BREED GROUP (AB/SO) translucent effect. speckling in unticked areas (underside of TABBY DIVISION: The colors of the body, chest and inside legs), tabby stripes or HEAD ...................35 points Muzzle: The muzzle shall follow gentle Abyssinian/Somali in the Tabby Division bars. Slick coat or excessive plushness. contours in conformity with the head as Shape ..............10 Wrong color or patching in pads. viewed from the front and in profile. Chin should reflect warmth of color, giving the Ears.................5 Ticking and Pattern Faults: Uneven- shall be full and neither projecting nor impression of a colorful cat. The more Eyes............... 10 ness of ticking over body, lack of desired receding, having a rounded appearance. rufousing and depth of color the better. Muzzle...............5 Deeper shades/tones preferred. Darker markings on head and tail. Profile ...............5 Allowance to be made for jowls in adult males. The muzzle shall not be sharply shading along spine allowed. White or off- Condition: Flabbiness of body, lack of BODY ...................35 points pointed and there shall be no evidence of white to be confined only to the upper throat coat luster, eye color, evidence of illness, Torso...............10 snippiness, foxy appearance or whisker area, lips and around nostrils. Preference to emaciation and lack of muscle tone are Legs and Feet ........10 pinch. be given to a good, even ticking. faults and points shall be deducted. SILVER/SMOKE DIVISION WITHHOLD ALL AWARDS (WW) Tail .................5 Profile: Without flat planes, showing : In the Silver : Boning...............5 gently curved transition between brow, nose Division, only the undercoat color will be Unbroken necklace. Reversed ticking different from the Tabby Division, with the six Musculature...........5 and muzzle. (outermost tip of hair light instead of dark). COAT/COLOR/PATTERN . 30 points BODY: colors of ticking being the same in both In the Tabby division, white locket or white divisions. In all Silver varieties, the desirable anywhere on the body other than around Texture .............10 Torso: Medium long, lithe and graceful, Pattern (Ticking) ......10 undercoat color is to be icy white, with ticking nostril, chin and upper throat areas. showing well developed muscular strength appropriate to the particular color, giving an Color...............10 without coarseness and is solid to the feel. overall sparkling silver effect. The orange- CATEGORY: Traditional. The rib cage is rounded with no evidence of DIVISIONS: brown/sorrel/cream bands within the ticking Tabby and Silver/Smoke. flat sides. The back is slightly arched giving of the Traditional Tabby Division colors are COLORS: Limited to eumelanistic colors the appearance of a cat about to spring. The replaced with white, with the band adjacent and agouti pattern only. flank shall be reasonably level without tuck- to the skin being the lightest. Yellow or PERMISSIBLE OUTCROSSES: None. up. Proportion and general balance to be brown pigmentation on the chest, belly, HEAD: desired more than mere size. under tail, or inside of legs is not desirable, Shape: Modified wedge with rounded Legs: Proportionately slim, long and although minor patches of rufousing are not contours as viewed from the front. A rise well-muscled. The Abyssinian/Somali to be considered a fault if the overall stands well off the ground. from the bridge of the nose to the forehead impression is of silver. Some rufousing may without evidence of a sharp break. The Feet: Oval and compact. When be present in the areas of ticking, especially standing, giving the impression of being on Temperament must be unchallenging; any sign head should be of ample length in general along the spine, and the rufous polygenes of definite challenge shall disqualify. The cat tip toe. balance with the rest of the cat and gently may have a small effect on the silver may exhibit fear, seek to flee, or generally curved from the forehead over the skull Tail: Long and tapering. undercolor as well, although lack of complain aloud but may not threaten to harm. flowing into an arched neck. Musculature: Well-developed muscular rufousing is more desirable. In accordance with Show Rules, ARTICLE Ears: Large, alert, and moderately strength without coarseness and solid to the GENERAL: The overall impression of the SIXTEEN, the following shall be considered pointed, broad and cupped at base and feel. ideal Abyssinian/Somali is a medium cat, mandatory disqualifications: a cat that bites arched forward, set as though listening. Hair COAT/COLOR/PATTERN: regal in appearance. The Abyssinian/Somali (216.9), a cat showing evidence of intent to on ears short and close-lying, preferably Length (AB): Coat resilient to the touch is foreign in type. Males proportionately deceive (216.10), adult whole male cats not tipped in conformity with the color with a lustrous sheen, fine in texture. larger than females, the female being finer having two descended testicles (216.11), cats requirements. A “thumb print” marking is Medium length, long enough to boned and usually more active than the with all or part of the tail missing , except as desirable on the back of the ear. accommodate four to six alternating light and male. The Abyssinian/Somali shows firm authorized by a board approved standard dark colored bands. The coat lies fairly muscular development and is lithe and (216.12.1), cats with more than five toes on Eyes: Almond shaped, large, brilliant each front foot and four toes on each back foot, close to the body; however, the undercoat panther-like in activity, showing a lively and expressive. Skull aperture follows unless proved the result of an injury or as should be adequate enough to avoid any almond shape of eyes being neither round interest in all surroundings. The coat of the authorized by a board approved standard nor oriental. Eyes accentuated by darker lid evidence of slickness. Woolliness Abyssinian/Somali has an iridescent quality. (216.12.2), visible or invisible tail faults if skin, encircled by a light colored area. undesirable. Coat is longest at the spine, Coat pattern is genetically a form of agouti Board approved standard requires Above each eye appears a short vertical gradually shortening over the saddle, flank, ticking with even, dark-colored ticking disqualification (216.12.4), crossed eyes if darker pencil stroke amidst the light area. At legs and head. contrasted with lighter bands giving a Board approved standard requires the sides of each eye appears a curved Length (SO): The coat, very soft to the translucent effect. The Abyssinian/Somali is disqualification (216.12.5), total blindness darker pencil line as if a continuation of the touch, is extremely fine-textured and double- of sound health and vigor, well-balanced (216.12.6), markedly smaller size, not in upper eyelid. Eye Color to be gold, copper, coated. Semi-long length, except over physically and temperamentally gentle and keeping with the breed (216.12.9), and green or hazel, the more richness and depth shoulders where a slightly shorter length is amenable to handling. depression of the sternum or unusually small of color the better. There is no relationship permitted. The more dense the coat the PENALIZE: diameter of the rib cage itself (216.12.11.1). between coat and eye color. Points shall be better. Preference is to be given to a cat Color Faults: Cold, gray or sandy tone See Show Rules, ARTICLE SIXTEEN for more divided equally between shape and color. with ruff and breeches. to coat color in ruddies, chocolates, or comprehensive rules governing penalties and Pattern: Coat pattern is genetically a cinnamons or gray hair next to skin with disqualifications. form of agouti ticking with even, dark-colored absence of correct undercoat color. Distinct ticking contrasted with lighter bands giving a broken necklaces, leg bars, mottling or Revised 06/18/08 Abyssinian Breed Group Standard, 05/01/2008 Revised 06/18/08 Abyssinian Breed Group Standard, 05/01/2008 AMERICAN BOBTAIL BREED GROUP (ABT/ABS) (ABS) Medium-short, stands PENALIZE: Tail overly long, past The American Bobtail (ABT) is a medium to large, naturally occurring short-tailed slightly away from the body. Hair the hock. Eyes round. cat. The American Bobtail Shorthair (ABS)is a shorthair version of the American may be slightly longer on belly. Bobtail Breed. Color/Pattern: Ghost markings DISQUALIFY (DQ): No tail, full- HEAD ............... 40 points ocelli markings are desirable. Ears desirable in lynx points. Tarnishing length tail, or docked tail. Tail with Shape .............. 6 may appear pointed when lynx on silvers not penalized. less than 1 inch of bone or fused and Ears ............... 4 tipping is present. not flexible at base. Eyes ............... 8 Eyes: Large, almost almond in GENERAL DESCRIPTION: The Chin ............... 7 shape. Set at a slight bias to the ear. American Bobtail, native to North Muzzle ............. 7 Eye color has no relationship to coat America, is a medium to large, Profile.............. 5 color, except in pointed, minks, and naturally occurring short-tailed cat Nose............... 3 sepias. which is a product of natural Chin: Full in width and depth, selection. It is a hearty breed that BODY ............... 40 points aligns with nose. has all the intelligence and skill that nature demands of her creatures. Torso ............. 10 Muzzle: Slightly wider than long, Temperament must be unchallenging; any Legs ............... 5 muzzle break at well-defined cheeks. The American Bobtail displays the sign of definite challenge shall disqualify. The Feet ............... 2 Prominent whisker pads. look of an athletic animal, well- cat may exhibit fear, seek to flee, or generally Tail............... 10 Profile: Gentle concave curve muscled and solid, with the complain aloud but may not threaten to harm. appearance of power. The breed In accordance with Show Rules, ARTICLE Boning ............. 8 between nose and brow SIXTEEN, the following shall be considered Musculature ........