• GENERAL APPEARANCE: Alert appearance

• SIZE: Medium

• HEAD SHAPE: Viewed from the front, the head is heart-shaped with breadth between and across the eyes. The eyebrow ridges from the upper curves of the heart and the sides of the face curve gently down to the chin to complete the heart shape. Length in proportion to the face with a slight stop in profile.

• NOSE: There is a slight downward curve at the tip of the nose and nose leather (lion-like).

• JOWLS: Jowls and chin firm and well developed, forming a good balance for the profile and for the completion of the heart shape.

• MUZZLE: Muzzle neither sharply pointed nor square.

• CHIN: Chin neither week nor receding which gives a pointed shape to the head.

• EARS SHAPE: Large, broad at the base, slightly rounded at the tips. Inside of ears slightly covered and outside well covered with extremely short and close hair.

• EARS PLACEMENT: Set high on head to vige an alert expression

• EYES SHAPE: Large, round and well opened, rather oversized for the size of the face, luminous and expressive.

• EYE COLOUR: Brilliant green colour preferred, but amber is permissible.

• BODY STRUCTURE: Neither short like a Manx nor long like a Siamese, muscular, supple; powerful but not heavily built; heavier in weight than appearance suggests. Back curved

• LEGS: In good proportion to the body. Hind legs slightly longer than front legs.

• PAWS: Oval

• TAIL: Medium long, heavier at the base, tapering to a rounded tip.

• COAT STRUCTURE: Short to medium in lenght, lying close to the body, single coat. Glossy and fine. Inclined to brake over the spine as the cat moves.

• COAT COLOUR: Silver-blugray all over, hair tipped with silver; the more silver the better. At the extremities where the coat is shorter, the silver shine is intensified.

• NOSE LEATHER, LIPS, PAW PADS COLOUR: dark blue-grey or lavander (paw pads with a pink tinge)