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CoonColourCat-alogue
During my visits to catshows, breeders and "Cat"and "Coon" - internetsites, I grew more and more amazed about all the existing CoonColours. Some colours were reseonably easy to determine. I was fascinated by most, but baffled by others. Take blue silver tortie mackerel white. It took a lot of comparing, advice from much more experienced people and learning about genetics, before I felt more sure about putting a name on a colour. Something you have to be able to do as a breeder...
After a while I made the plan to gather lots of pictures with examples of the many CoonColours. I started with the Fife-regulars. Later I'll try and add different eyecolours.
The name of the cat, breeder and/or owner are placed under the picture. All pictures on this page, are published with the permission of the breeder and/or owner. Many thanks to everyone who spontaneousely helped me gather the pictures.
Additionaly you can find a schedule of the Fifé-coat/color standard.
Click to make your choice:
Fife coat-and colorstandaard *
Alle colourvarieties are allowed, except the (Siamese) Pointed-marking, chocolate, lilac, cinnamon and fawn. Any amount of white is allowed.
Extra addition: The length of the coat and density of the undercoat can vary with the seasons
EMS tabby-patterns and or markings:
11 Shaded 01 Van
12 Chinchilla/shell 02 Harlekin
21 unspecified tabby pattern 03 Bicolor
22 classic 09 non specified white
23 mackerel
24 spotted
25 ticked
Eyecolours:
61 blue 63 odd-eyed
62 golden 64 green
| In shows, this colour-schedule is used: | |
| Colour | EMS Code
|
| Group I | |
| Black/Blue
|
MCO n/a |
| Group II | |
| Black/Blue with white
|
MCO n/a 01/02/03/09 |
| Group III | |
| Black/Blue agouti | MCO n/a 22/23/24/25 |
| Black/Blue golden
|
MCO n/a y 11/12/22/23/24/25 |
| Group IV | |
| Black/Blue agouti with white | MCO n/a 01/02/03/09 21/22/23/24/25 |
| Black/Blue golden with white
|
MCO n/a y 01/02/03/09 11/12/21/22/23/24/25 |
| Group V | |
| Red/Cream/Tortie solid/agouti | MCO d/e/f/g |
| MCO d/e/f/g 22/23/24/25 | |
| Red/Cream/Tortie golden
|
MCO d/e/f/g y 11/12/22/23/24/25 |
| Group VI | |
| Red/Cream/Tortie solid/agouti with white | MCO d/e/f/g 01/02/03/09 |
| MCO d/e/f/g 01/02/03/09 21/22/23/24/25 | |
| Red/Cream/Tortie golden with white
|
MCO d/e/f/g y 01/02/03/09 11/12/21/22/23/24/25 |
| Group VII | |
| Black/Blue/Red/Cream smoke/silver | MCO n/a/d/e s |
| MCO n/a/d/e s 11/12/22/23/24/25 | |
| Tortie smoke | MCO f/g s |
| Tortie silver
|
MCO f/g s 11/12/22/23/24/25 |
| Group VIII | |
| Black/Blue/Red/Cream smoke/silver with white | MCO n/a/d/e s 01/02/03/09 |
| MCO n/a/d/e s 01/02/03/09 11/12/21/22/23/24/25 | |
| Tortie smoke with white | MCO f/g s 01/02/03/09 |
| Tortie silver with white
|
MCO f/g s 01/02/03/09 11/12/21/22/23/24/25 |
| Group IX | |
| White | MCO w |
| with blue eyes | |
| with orange eyes | |
| odd eyed | |
| with green eyes | |
* Sources: Fife + Rasclub Maine Coon
The Maine Coon is judged in one of these colour variety groups, i.e. in each colour variety group a certificate can be awarded