Head

Shape:
Modified wedge, medium in width from frontal view .High angular cheekbones create a change of direction at the muzzle.The long muzzle balances the cheekbones and inds in smooth, full contours, full chin and puffy nose leather..

Jungle Cat

Chausie

Ears:
Tall, large ears are set at a slight outward angle on top of the head, about two fingers apart between the inside edges.The ears are fairly wide all the way up with rounded ear tips. Ear tufts preferred, lack of tufts not a penalty

Eyes:
Medium to slightly small in size. Bottom is a half ova that slants toward the outer base of the ear. Top is markedly flattened, horizontal half oval. Gold or yellow eye color preferred, hazel to light green allowed.

Muzzle:
Long to balance the cheekbones, ending in full slightly rounded contours, full chin and puffy nose leather.

Nose:
Medium to wide, slightly broader between the eyes. Nose leather is convex and full.

Chin:
Full, both in profile and frontal view and of medium depth.

Profile:
Long sloping forehead ends in a gradual, slight convex bend over the eyebrows. Just above the eyes, the profile descends in a gentle concave curve to below the eyes. The nose rises near it's end to form a slight bump above the convex nose leather..

Jungle Cat	Chausie

Neck:
The muscular neck is of medium length and thickness

Body

Torso:
Long, lean, flat sided and deep chested.The large rectangular body is firm, but not broad or bulky.

Legs:
Long with medium boning.

Feet:
The feet are medium in size and oval in shape.

Chausie	Jungle Cat

Musculature:
Long and lean rather than bulky.

Boning:

Long legs with medium boning that compliment a deep chested torso of medium width.

Tail:
Slightly short, medium width, with slight taper and fully articulated.

Jungle Cat

Coat/Color/Pattern

Length:
Short to medium, with enough length to accommodate at least two bands of ticking.
Not open

Texture:
A dense softer undercoat with a somewhat coarser outer coat. Solid black may feel softer. Black grizzled cats may feel coarser in proportion to the amount of grizzling present.

Color/Pattern:

Jungle Cat	Chausie

Brown Ticked Tabby:
A mouse-gray color next to the skin with sandy-gray to reddish-gold base coat. The coat will have two or three bands of dark ticking. Tabby barring is preferred on the tail, upper inside front legs and to the hotck on teh back legs. The neck may or may not have necklaces. The backs of the ears will have thumbprint markings of a lighter color. Off white color should outline the eyes and muzzle. The underside will range in color from off-white to sandy-gold. Some flecking or speckling may occur on the stomach. The nose leather is brick with a dark outline. Paw pads may be black, black with rosy tones, pink or any combination of these. Allow for faint tabby markings on the body of kittens up to one year old.

Black: Solid black.

Black Grizzled Ticked Tabby:

A pattern acquired from the breed's Jungle Cat (Felis chaus) ancestors. The pattern is a dominant trait that may possibly be caused by a mutation oat the agouti locus or extension locas. The hair shaft is banded with lighter coloration at the skin (akin to mouse coat) alternating dark and lighter bands of ticking and ending in a dark tip. Nose leather is always solid black. Paw pads may be black, black with rosy tones, pink or nay combination of these. Allow for minimal grizzling in kittens.

The Jungle Cat ancestor (black) exhibiting the grizzled effect has solid black nose leather and pink paw pads.

Allowance: The tail length may range from 3/4 to full-length with slightly shorter than normal tail being the preference. Larger size and slightly heavier boning on males. Jowls on males that pull the ears a little lower than otherwise desirable.

Penalty:

In tabbies, a lack of tabby markings on the legs and tail..

Withhold:

Tail too short, resulting from a mutated gene (MX/PB/ABT/ABS) Tail kinked or lacking flexibility.
White lockets.