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Judges Workshop 2010
- Egyptian Mau -
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Acknowledgements
Sponsored by GEMS - Global Egyptian Mau Society
with generous help from the International Egyptian Mau Society,
and many thanks to Lovisa Johansson for her tireless work.
© Morgan-Johansson
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The Egyptian Mau
The spotted cat with gooseberry green eyes
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Egyptian Mau at a glance
The ideal Egyptian Mau should present an
impression of a colorful, elegant and athletic
cat that has a striking paint job and radiates
intelligence out of gooseberry green eyes
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Egyptian Mau - areas of interest
• Head structure
– Muzzle
– Skull structure
– Eyes
– Ears
• Coat - length and structure
• Pattern - what is random
• Contrast - the spectrum
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Egyptian Mau - Head Structure
• While paint job is a full 45 points and is breed-defining, one
can argue that the single highest point allocation in our
standard is NOT pattern at 25 points, but head with 30
including eye color.
• Of course if you consider all the parts of the head
separately, this is not the case… STILL 30 points on that
unique head with its “worried” expression… Note that the
“worried expression” is not in the standard...
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Egyptian Mau Head Structure
• Slightly rounded wedge - no flat planes
• Clean lines for muzzle that flow into head without break
• Parallel lines length of nose - lend to that “worried” expression
• Profile - gentle contour with a slight rise
• Ears medium to large continuing the smooth lines of the wedge
• Eyes large almond and characteristic gooseberry green
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Egyptian Mau Muzzle - 5 points
• Clean smooth lines with no
pinch
• Not short
• Not pointed
• Not square/blocky
• Firm chin/strong jaw
• Penalize pointed muzzle
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Muzzle
Clean and smooth Pinchy/long and pointy
Nice length/clean lines Long and blocky
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Muzzle
Pinched and blocky
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Muzzle - Pointy
Pointed
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Muzzle - Front
Toys can create illusion of pinch
just as high cheekbones can deceive
the eye but not the hands
Square
Bulbous/pinchy
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Muzzle - clean
•• Make sure to feel for muzzle - high cheekbones will deceive the eye
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Chin - Muzzle - Jaw
Nice modified wedge,
strong chin/jaw
Shallow jaw - weak chin Shorter head/weak chin
Good length, jaw/chin okay Shorter head with strong chin/jaw
Good length, shallow jaw
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Muzzle - Notes
• Need to feel for smoothness
• High cheek bones can create impression of pinch
• Stimulating with toy can cause them to push whiskers
and whisker pads forward creating an unfortunate look
& ruining the lines
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Muzzle - putting it all together
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Egyptian Mau - Skull - 5 points
Modified wedge
- Slightly rounded wedge - soft equilateral
triangle
- No flat planes
- Medium in length
- Not full-cheeked
- Profile: gentle contour - slight rise bridge
of nose to forehead
- Parallel lines length of nose from front
- Penalize short or round head
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Skull - Issues
• Short/Round
• Short or “Shallow”
• Narrow/long
• Flat top head
• Straight profiles
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Skull: Round/short
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Skull: Round/short
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Skull: Short/Shallow - Side
Modified wedge /Flat/Shallow skull - side view
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Skull: Short/Shallow - front
Modified wedge /Shallow skull - front on
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Skull: Short/ Shallow - top
Modified wedge front /Shallow skull - front on
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Skull: Short/ Shallow - side
Modified wedge /Shallow skull - side view
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Skull: Modifed wedge w Flat planes
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Skull: Modifed wedge w Flat planes
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Skull - Long
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Skull - Narrow
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Skull - Sloping
Ski slope or shovel impression that we seefrequently in the ring lately
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Skull - Stud Jowls
Make sure that you pull back loose skinor jowls to properly appreciate the
structure of the skull
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Skull - Front on
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Skull - Nose parallel lines
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Skull - Nose parallel lines
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Skull - Profile
•Mau - Profile showing a gentle contour with slight rise frombridge of the nose to the forehead
•Aby - The brow, cheek and profile lines all showing a gentlecontour. A slight rise from the bridge of the nose to theforehead, which should be of good size
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Skull - Profile
•Aby description specifies gentle contours for brow andcheek while Mau does not
•Aby forehead is specified as “good size” Mau is not
•Profile on Aby is mounted in rounder more pronouncedframe
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Skull - Profile: issues - short head
round top head
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Skull - Profile
•slight rise from bridge of the nose to the forehead
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Profile issues - 2 plane
Straight lines
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Profile issues - 2 plane
Straight lines
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Profile issues - flat
One plane - flat straight profile
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Profile issues - flat
One plane - flat straight profile
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Profile issues - Bump
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Profile - Slight change
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Profile
Good Too straight
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Eyes - shape - 5 points
• Large and alert
• Almond shaped
• Slight slant towards the ears
– Corner should bisect bottom edge of ear
– Penalize for small, round or Oriental eyes
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Eye shape - Large almond
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Eye shape - Almond/Round
Almond:
Round:
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Eye shape - Almond/Round
Slight slant to base of ear
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Eye shape - Small/close
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Eye shape - Oriental
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Eye shape - Oriental
Too biased and not almond
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Eye - Color -10 points
• Gooseberry Green
• Preference at ALL ages for green eyes
• Allowances made for changing color up to 8 months -
green ring spreads outwards
• Penalize for lack of any green in cats under 8 months
• Disqualify for lack of green in cats 18 months or over
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Gooseberry green
- light yellow based green
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Eye Color
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Eye Color -
Green ring/borderline
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Eye Color - Notes
• Breed Defining Characteristic
• Lighting can make a difference
• Toys dilate eyes making it difficult to see true color
• Look for green ring around pupil in young cats
• DQ if not fully green by 18 months
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Eye - color
It can make or break
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Ears - 5 points
• MEDIUM to LARGE
• Moderately pointed
• Continuing the lines of the wedge
• Slight flare
• Broad at base
• Ample width between
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Ears
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Ears
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Ears
Slight flare, ample width
Continuing lines
of wedge
Broad base
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Ears
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Ears - Issues
Small - close set breaking the line
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Ears - Issues
Small - upright set breaking the line
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Ears - Issues
Narrow base, too close, not slightly flared
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Ears - Issues
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Ears - Issues
Not enough room between
Narrow baseNot slightly
flared
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Ears - Issues: Small
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Ears - Issues
Small well shaped ear
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Ears: Issues - upright/too close
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Ears - Issues
Too narrow base Pointy/too close
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Ears - Issues
Too pointed
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Ears - Putting it together
Ideal 8 weeks and 8 months
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Ears - Putting it together
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Ears - 5 very important points
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Ears - A final look
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Head - Putting it all together
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Coat - 5 points
• All colors medium length hair, lustrous sheen
– Challenge is to get contrast with proper length
• Silver & Bronze: Dense and resilient long enough to
accomodate multiple bands of ticking
• Smoke - Silky and fine
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Coat - issues
• Too short
• Lacking density
• Wooly
• Cottony
• Coarse
• Glittered - usually texture wrong
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Coat
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Coat
Challenge is to get contrast and keep integrity of ticking and texture
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Pattern - 25 points
• Random spots - size & shape vary
– Spots can be small, medium or large, oblong or irregularly
shaped (arrows, blotches, oblongs,freckles etc..)
• Shoulders transition between spots and stripes
• Belly should have vest buttons
• Ideally dorsal should be broken or have triple lines
• Look for broken necklaces
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Pattern - 25 points
• Size does not matter
• Shape does not matter
• Spots need not match
• But the spots should be distinct
• Penalize pencillings - lines that run ALL the way from dorsal
to stomach
• Penalize solid stripes on underside
• Disqualify for lack of spots
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Pattern
Modified classic pattern okay
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Pattern
Modified mackerel okay as long as spots do break at some point
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Pattern
Modified mackerel okay as long as spots do break at some point
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Pattern
Note difference in contrast when view from front (left) and from back (right)
Lined up okay
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Pattern
Same cat - Note difference angles make…
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Pattern
Make sure you view pattern on fully stretched cat so that
you can appreciate the glory of a truly random pattern
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Pattern
Note varying shapes - all acceptable
Large spots - open pattern
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Pattern
Large spots - open pattern
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Pattern
Medium spots - busy pattern
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Pattern
Medium spots - open pattern
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Pattern
Small spots - open pattern
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Pattern
Small spots - busy pattern
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Pattern - random: from small to big
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Contrast
• Contrast mentioned in two places:
– Color
– Pattern
• Wide variation of acceptable for color as long as the
spots are clearly visible
• In all cases the spots should be distinct from ground
color
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Silver
• Pale silver ground color with charcoal markings
• Nose leather brick red
• Paw pads black
• Tarnish considered a fault
• Disqualify for wrong color paw pads
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Color - Silver tarnish
• Look for tarnish on head
• On rear
• Along spine line
• Along necklace or mascara lines
• All over yellow tinge
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Colors - variations Silver
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Bronze
• Warm “bronze” ground color with brown to black
markings
• Undersides creamy ivory
• Chest/throat creamy white
• Nose leather brick red
• Paw pads black or dark brown
• Lack of warmth considered a fault
• Disqualify for wrong color paw pads
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Colors - Variations Bronze
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Smoke
• Pale silver ground color with all hairs tipped in black and
markings JET black
• Chest/throat palest area
• Nose leather, whiskers & paw pads black
• Lack of white to pale silver ground color considered a
fault
• Brownish tinge considered a fault
• Disqualify for wrong color paw pads
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Colors - Variations Smoke
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Colors - Contrast good
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Egyptian Mau - Handling
• Keep in mind
– They are smart
– They are willful
– They are stubborn
– They love toys
– They like things on their terms
– They are hyper vigilant
– They are lightening fast
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Egyptian Mau - Handling
• Do’s and don’ts
– Don’t put the Mau in a death grip
– Don’t challenge a Mau face to face
– Don’t stick them in front of other cats
– Don’t over stimulate with the toys
– Don’t stare them directly in the eye
– Don’t hold them up in the air to look at them
– Don’t step away from them while they are on the
table
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Egyptian Mau - Handling
• Do’s and don’ts
– Do use the “moveable box” - they show themselves
off beautifully
– Do use toys - they’ll love you for it
– Do talk to them - it makes a world of difference
– Do keep two to four on the floor when possible
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The Egyptian Mau
Breathtakingly beautiful when it all comes togehter