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World Cat Federation(WCF)

Scale of Points Points
Total 100
Type, Body, Tail 20
Head and Ears 15
Eyes 10
Body Colour 25
Ticking 15
Texture 10
Condition 5

Body Medium long, elegant, firm, lithe, showing well developed muscular strength, solid to the feel. Tail long and tapering, broad at base. Legs to be sinewy, long and slim. Feet small and oval. Slender neck.
Head Modified wedge with slightly rounded contours. Firm chin; nose medium in length; profile gently curve.
Ears Large, set wide apart; wide at base with moderately rounded tips. Ear inner furnishing and ,,thumb print" markings are desirable.
Eyes Large, brilliant and expressive, slightly almond shaped, set well apart. Eye colour to be pure, clear, intensive amber or green. For silver varieties green is preferred. In all colour varieties eye lids are encircled by the ticking colour (eye line).
Ticking Double, or preferably, treble ticking, i. e. two or three bands of colour on each single hair. The ticking to be evenly extended all over the body, free of any barring. The spine line, the tip of tail and heels are intensively coloured in the ticking colour. Chest, underside of body and inside of legs showing base colour without any ticking.
Textur Short, fine and glossy with slight undercoat, but dense, resilient and close lying.
Faults Broken necklace; grey or too light undercoat colour; lack of ticking; barring on front legs; ghost markings; no line of dark pigmentation round the eyes; white elsewhere than chin. Faults excluding the CAC: Unbroken necklace, white locket, barring on all four legs, too much grey undercoat.

Association info
The WCF was founded on 1988 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by three clubs which were seeking for more democratic and human procedures in the cat fancy, more than other existing federations ever had. Right now the WCF consists of more than 540 clubs throughout the world covering all continents including the Untited States.

The WCF is registered in Germany as "eingetragener Verein" and - when European community is ready - in Brussel as an European federation, too.

The WCF takes part at consultations, arranged by the European parlament in Strasbourg, and is responsible for animal welfare and legislation in some working parties and hearing. A WCF member, wether it is a club or a federation, is independent in his business.

The WCF?s responsibilities are ...
* international cattery registration
* education, training and examination of the international judges
* standards and points
* giving rules and classes at shows
* international liaisons
Link: http://www.wcf-online.de/

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