This robust race must much to the work cats that the first colonizadores brought to the United States but his pedigree goes back until a reddish atigrado male, Belle call, that was sent from England to the beginning of the century XIX, and that was first in registering itself in the United States under the title ?of Short Hair?.
Later one knew them as ?Domestic of short hair?, but from 1966 the official name has been American of short hair. This race has a form less square than the one of the Briton of short hair.
Body: Solidly constructed, with legs of long means, round claws and tail not very long that is narrowed towards the blunted end of steep end.
Head: Great and of cheeks full, longer than slightly wide, with ears slightly cleared, one curves continuous from the forehead to the crown and means nose long.
Eyes: Great and very open, the superior eyelid with a almendrada curvature, inferior the totally round one, in a positioning slightly cants. Color shining gold except in blue or the uneven eyes in the target; green or it countersinks in the silver-plated atigrados ones; green or green bluish in the silverplated punteados ones.
Coat: Short, heavy, it uniforms and it last to the tact.
Colors: Natural, blue, reddish target and cream; chinchilla and shaded silver; shaded cameo shell and; black, blue smoke, cameo and tortoiseshell; coffee, reddish, blue, cream, silver and cameo, atigrado parchado, coffee, blue and silver; blue cream, calicó, calicó diluted; two-color pencil with black, blue, red and cream.