SELF VARIETY
Black aaB_C_D_E_
Description: Rich uniform black color over entire body. Undercoat is dark slate blue. Lionheads may have a slight diffusion of the black color in their wool due to the nature of the wool itself. Newborns will be black on their entire body including belly and insides of the ears. Note: double manes will still have bald flanks.
Comments: Fault animals for having faded color, scattered white hairs, or a light undercolor
Correct Eye Color: Brown
Description: Rich uniform black color over entire body. Undercoat is dark slate blue. Lionheads may have a slight diffusion of the black color in their wool due to the nature of the wool itself. Newborns will be black on their entire body including belly and insides of the ears. Note: double manes will still have bald flanks.
Comments: Fault animals for having faded color, scattered white hairs, or a light undercolor
Correct Eye Color: Brown
SHADED VARIETY
Shaded Variety -Sable Point aaB_chl_D_ee
Description: Newborns will almost look like REWs. Their points take a little bit to develop. Cold weather does affect their points and will make the points darker. Adults - The nose, ears, feet, and tail are to be a rich sepia brown. The color of the points is to fade rapidly to a rich creamy body surface color, which has a creamy white undercolor. Darker shading is permissible around the eyes.HOW can I tell a Sable Point from a Sable Frost or a Frosty
Comments: Fault animals that have streaks, blotches, or smut on the body. Point color that is so light as to lose the contrast with the body color is to be faulted. Scattered white hairs. Disqualify animals having a white underside of tail.
Correct Eye Color: Brown
Description: Newborns will almost look like REWs. Their points take a little bit to develop. Cold weather does affect their points and will make the points darker. Adults - The nose, ears, feet, and tail are to be a rich sepia brown. The color of the points is to fade rapidly to a rich creamy body surface color, which has a creamy white undercolor. Darker shading is permissible around the eyes.HOW can I tell a Sable Point from a Sable Frost or a Frosty
Comments: Fault animals that have streaks, blotches, or smut on the body. Point color that is so light as to lose the contrast with the body color is to be faulted. Scattered white hairs. Disqualify animals having a white underside of tail.
Correct Eye Color: Brown
Shaded variety
Siamese Sable aaB_chl_D_E_
Description: Newborns will NOT be the dark rich color of the adults. They will be a light brown mocha color. Almost a silvery color with a brown tinge. This picture is of a baby siamese sable on the left and a sable point baby on the right. Adult description - The surface color is to be a rich sepia brown on the head, ears, back, outside of legs, and top of the tail. The surface color will fade to a lighter sepia on the sides, chest, belly, inside of legs, and underside of the tail. Dark face color is to fade from the eyes to the jaws and all blending of color is to be gradual and free from blotched or streaks. The undercolor will be slightly lighter than the surface color.
Comments: Fault animals that have streaks, blotched, or poor color blending. Scattered white hairs, or lack of darker color in the loin area is a fault.
Correct Eye Color: Brown
Description: Newborns will NOT be the dark rich color of the adults. They will be a light brown mocha color. Almost a silvery color with a brown tinge. This picture is of a baby siamese sable on the left and a sable point baby on the right. Adult description - The surface color is to be a rich sepia brown on the head, ears, back, outside of legs, and top of the tail. The surface color will fade to a lighter sepia on the sides, chest, belly, inside of legs, and underside of the tail. Dark face color is to fade from the eyes to the jaws and all blending of color is to be gradual and free from blotched or streaks. The undercolor will be slightly lighter than the surface color.
Comments: Fault animals that have streaks, blotched, or poor color blending. Scattered white hairs, or lack of darker color in the loin area is a fault.
Correct Eye Color: Brown
Shaded varietyTortoise aaB_C_D_ee
Description: Newborns will be orange on their back and head with dark flanks and dark insides and outsides of the ears like the picture to the right. With the exception of the dark ears they will look like orange babies. On adults the points (ears and face) will be very visible in a dark brown. The undercoat will be lighter than the surface. HOW can I tell an orange from a fox (torte otter) or a tortoise Comments: Disqualify animals with a white belly or underside of tail. Correct Eye Color: Brown |
AgoutiChinchilla (Silver Agouti) A_B_chd_D_E_
Description: The fur should look silver with black ticking. Blue undercoat. The ears should be black laced. When you blow into the fur you should see prominent rings like those on the left. This is caused by the banded hair shaft of an agouti. The rings should be off white and slate gray. Inside of the ears, feet, ring around eyes and nose should be pearl white. Underside of the tail and belly should be white or silver. HOW can I tell a sable chinchilla (technically not a showable color) from a chinchilla Comments: Disqualify animals with extreme dark or light color, brown patches of color, or extreme brownish tinge in ring color. Animals without black lacing on ears are to be disqualified. Correct Eye Color: gray blue or light brown/gray |
OtherOthersOrange A_B_C_D_ee
Description: Orange coat with cream undercoat. Back of the ears should also be the same color orange. Inside of the ears, ring around the eyes and nose, belly and chest should be cream. Underside of tail and around genitals should be white. Newborns will be orange on their back and head with dark flanks - they will look similar to a tortoise at birth. BUT the insides of the ears will be white and oustides of the ears will be orange - not dark colored.HOW can I tell an orange from a fox (torte otter) or a tortoise Comments: Faults include any smut (darker hairs) in the coat. Correct Eye Color: brown |