| AUSTRALIAN MIST STANDARD | RELATED PORTIONS OF ABYSSINIAN STANDARD | RELATED PORTIONS OF THE BURMESE STANDARD | COMMENTS (AND THOSE DOMESTICS!) |
| The Australian Mist is a well balanced cat of moderate foreign type, with no tendency to extremes in any characteristic. | The Abyssinian is a cat of foreign type of medium build, ... | The Burmese is an elegant cat of foreign type which is positive and individual to the breed. | All three share the concept of moderate foreign type, and consider it of such defining importance that it forms part of the Breed Standard preamble |
| BODY: Medium in
length, hard and muscular, heavier than it appears; chest broad and round.
The males may be slightly larger than the females with ... musculature
more developed. Muscle development, .... achieve adult expression by 2
years of age
FAULTS: Poor muscle tone
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BODY: Long, lithe, graceful
and well balancedfirm, lithe and muscular, never large or coarse, giving
an appearance of activity.
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BODY: Of medium length and
size, feeling hard and muscular, and heavier than its appearance indicates.
The chest strong and rounded in profile, the back straight from shoulder
to rump.
FAULTS: Cobbiness of British cat. Any suggestion of either Siamese type, or the cobbiness of a British cat must be regarded as a fault |
Great similarity between our
standard and Burmese - a much heavier, denser body required for these two
in comparison with the more lithe, athletic much lighter weight body of
the Aby.
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| LEGS: Proportionately strong, hind legs slightly higher than forelegs.FAULTS: Fine bones | LEGS: Relatively long and fine
boned.
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LEGS: Slender and in proportion to the body, hind legs slightly longer than front. | Legs are fairly similar; the Aby leg is the longest and finest, the Burmese leg is intermediate, and our leg is actually at fault if it doesn’t have some substance |
| PAWS: Neat and oval
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PAWS: Oval and compact.When standing should give the impression of being on tip-toes. | PAWS: Neat and oval.
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Our paws identical with the Burmese - the Abyssinian is truly tiny, and really does look as though it is a tip toe. |
| TAIL: Long, thick, minimal
taper, well furred
FAULTS: Whippy or visibly kinked tail |
TAIL: Thick at base, proportionately
long and tapering. A whip is undesirable, kink not permissible
WITHHOLD FAULTS Kinked tail |
TAIL: Straight and of medium
length, not heavy at the base, and tapering only slightly to a rounded
tip without defect. A visible kink precludes the award of a Challenge Certificate,
but an invisible bone defect at the tip may be overlooked in an otherwise
excellent specimen.
WITHHOLD FAULTS Visible kink |
Each breed has a distinctive
tail requirement; in all cases a visible kink is a fault, though we regard
it as less serious than the Abyssinian and Burmese breeders do. (Visible
kinks are included also under general faults for all breeds)
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