Body: |
Aphrodite’s Giants (Mediterranean Breed) is an elegant cat with a lean muscular body, not cobby. Long back and neck with muscular shoulders and hips. Puberty develops quickly. Due to development of breed, kitten could be less muscular but big boned from the beginning. Back legs slightly longer than front legs. Tail medium to long and in balance with the body measures. In shorthair variety tip of tail more slender than the heavy root. |
Head: |
Looking from the front, you see a long triangle, cheek line straight. Long straight muzzle and nose with a very slight dip under the height of the eyes. Strong chin and teeth. Front slightly rounded, slight dome to the forehead. |
Eyes: |
Olive shaped, from a bit rounder to a bit more oval. Eyes are placed oblique. All colours allowed. Pale blue and light yellow is valued to be as good as dark blue and green. Colour should be uniform. |
Ears: |
Wide at the base, medium to large ears, placed in form of an open V with a slightly rounded space between the ears on the top-head. |
Coat: |
Soft cotton-woolly coat, not too short with undercoat in winter. In summer much shorter and no undercoat. Not much topcoat covering. Neither in summer nor in winter. Only on back very little top-coat covering, coat texture feels very soft to the touch. |
Colour varieties: |
All colours with the exception of pointed colours and mink. Solid colour should be without white. In bicolour non regular colour setting is desired. |
Remarks from WCF federation: |
To maintain the beauty of the Aphrodite’s Giant breed, we would like to request judges to prefer large examples of both sex of that breed. |