Egyptian Mau

  The Egyptian Mau was an attempt to establish a race that was resembled the cats represented in the old Egyptian art, from a speckled cat native of natural production.

The Mau came from a female speckled silver-plated coming from Egypt, to that they took to Rome in the Fifties and separated with another Egyptian cat, a speckled male smoke, that had arrived first. Their cats, after to have participated in Rome in a exhibition were taken to the United States, in where finally recognition to the race in 1968 occurred.

The Mau has a combined with one more a more dumpy figure, seemed Eastern appearance, to the one of the Abyssinian more than to the Siamese.

The coat is speckled at random with different spots from size and forms variables on a pale bottom. The cheeks are lined on a line from the eye throughout the contour of the cheek and other than is curved upwards from the center of the cheek.

The forehead shows a ?defined M? and frown marks that form outlines between the ears and extend downwards behind the neck and they dissolve in spots extended throughout the thorn.

It has one or more unfinished marks of ?necklace? in the high part of the chest the spots of shoulders and those of the hips and the high part of the back legs are of transition, between rays and spots, the legs are lined and the tail fastened with rings with the dark end

The silver-plated cats have speckled gray or very dark coffee on pale silver-plated bottom; the dark bronze has coffee-black on a cobrizo coffee, that vanishes until a cremoso ivory in the part of down; the smoke has deep black on pale silver-plated bottom with an inner coat of silverplated target to pale.

In Great Britain the Mau name originally was used for a variety of bred cats speckled in form experiments in the Sixties. These were not based on the Egyptian race now has settled down to them under the name of Eastern atigrados.

Body: Medium and elegant with developed muscles affluent; short front legs in comparison with the back; small and fine claws; tail of medium length, thickness in the base and with a smooth thinning towards the end.

Head: A wedge slightly cleared, without flat surfaces, a nose of regular width all along; great, alert and moderately pointed ears of medium to.

Eyes: Great, almendrados and of clear green color.

Coat: Of medium length with a bright brightness, the ears can have tufts; dense and resitente coat.

Colors: Silverplated, bronze and smoke.

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