The description of a breed

Abyssinians - medium-sized, but incredibly graceful and graceful breed. An elegant structure of a body, a dense short wool, slightly slanting eyes, large as at serval cat, ears, reddish colouring - all this reminds images of an ancient dun cat on bas-reliefs of ancient Egypt.

Hair - short, thin, well adjoining to a skin. Color various, but meets red - brown with black or dark brown tips, dark red, blue, beige-yellow more often. It is preferable, that separate hairs were two or even three-coloured. A underfur of golden-apricot tones (at silver color - white). Precise strips, rings and white marks on the case are not supposed (except for a chin).

Head - small, wedge-shaped forms, with a strong chin. A nose of a straight line, average length. Transition from a forehead to a nose is designated (without "stop").

Ears - rather large, vertically put, with the wide basis and the rounded ends. Sometimes on the ends of ears there are "brushes". Eyebrowes dark.

Eyes - big, expressive, almond-shaped, usually green, yellow or colors of a wood nut. Selectors assert, that the shade of eyes at these animals varies on a physical and nervous condition.

Body - strong, brawny, flexible, picked up.

Neck - rather long, graceful, elegantly bent.

Back - powerful, advanced, a breast wide and deep enough.

Legs - sinewy, strong, average or long.

Paws - small, oval. The animal stands as though "on tiptoe".

Tail - rather long, narrowed from the basis by the end.

Lacks - a white medallion, the white breast, closed "necklace" on a neck, grey or clarified, " not gold " a underfur, striped finitenesses and - or a tail, uncertain color of eyes or shadowy rings, presence spoted nontickered areas (the bottom part of a body, an internal part of legs)

One more legend which reliability can be confirmed or denied only realization of serious work with family trees, which enormous collection (more than 35 thousand family trees), collected by the French factory owner Jacques Le Renard is connected to Abyssinian breed, the Internet in " the Electronic Register of the Somali breed " (about Somalis hardly is kept in a network below).

According to this legend, use in becoming breed of the British short-haired animals has resulted to that the type of animals began to grow heavy, and the temperament began more phlegmatic. And to return ease and cheerfulness to breed, to it(her) began to flow Siamese-oriental blood.

In result there was a situation, when de-facto there are two lines (or even two standards) breeds: European and American.

Animals American origin are more "over-oriental" - that is have easier skeleton, larger, but are lower and ears, appreciablly weaker chin are wider put. But animals European origin have kept smoothness of lines and proportions the most similar to the Egyptian figurines. And, certainly, remarkable feature of these lines is the "smile" kept from the British ancestors.

Abyssinian Cat