Rasens offisielle FIFe-standard

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Denne versjonen av standarden er hentet fra FIFe's hjemmeside, og godkjent pr 01.01.2018

GENERAL

Size: medium in size

HEAD

Shape: strong bone

Forehead: slightly rounded

Cheeks: full, somewhat rounded

Nose: of medium length without stop, but with a slight indentation

Chin: firm

EARS

Shape: rather small with rounded tips

Placement: set slightly tipped, not too upright on the skull with good width between

EYES

Shape: not quite round, slightly oval, medium size

Colour: deep blue

BODY

Structure: slightly long body. Males must be more massive than females

LEGS

short and strong

Paws: rounded

Gloves: The special feature of the Sacred Birman is the white feet, called "gloves", on both the front and hind feet.

These gloves must be absolutely pure white. They sould stop at the articulation or at the transition of toes to metacarpals, over which they should not extend.

Slightly longer white gloves on the hind feet can be tolerated.

On the back of the hind feet the white gloves end in points. The ideal "gauntlets" end in inverted "V's" and extend 1/2 to 3/4 of the way up the hock.

Lower or higher gauntlets are acceptable but should not go beyond the hock.

It is important that the gloves are equally long and show symmetry of white, on either the two front or the two hind feet, or even better, on alle four feet.

TAIL

Of medium length, forming a plume

COAT

Structure: Long to semi-long, according to the actual parts of the body:

short on the face, gradually growing longer on the cheeks to a full frill, long on the back and the flanks.

Silky texture.

Little undercoat.

Colour: Shows all characteristics known from the Siamese pointed cats, but all four feet are white (gloves).

The points include the face, ears, legs, tail and genitals.

The points shall be even and in good contrast to the body colour.

Body colour: refer to the General Part for Siamese pointed cats.

(even, slight shading on the flanks permissible but there must be a clear contrast between the points and body colour)

Only in adult cats are the colour of the points and the body colour fully developed.

REMARKS: The Sacred Birman shows a special morphology, which is unique for the breed.

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Feil i forhold til standarden:

FAULTS

Coat: pure white or coloured patches on the chest or the belly

FAULTS PRECLUDING THE CERTIFICATE

Nose: incompletely pigmented nose leather

Legs: creeping up of the white on the sides or the reverse sides of the gloves of the font and/or hind feet (known as "runners")

Absence of "gauntlets" on the hind feet

Coat: white patching in the coloured areas or the reverse

A white patch on the genitals

Poengskala:

Total = 100 points

Head: general shape, cheeks, nose, jaws and teeth, forehead, chin. placement and shape of the ears = 20 points

Eyes: shape and colour = 5 points

Body: shape, size, bone structure. legs and shape of paws = 20 points

Tail: length and shape = 10 points

Coat:

body colour and points = 10 points

quality and texture, length = 10 points

Gloves:

on the front feet = 5 points

on the hind feet = 5 points

gauntlets = 5 points

uniformity and symmetry of gauntlets and gloves = 5 points

Condition: 5 points