The ideal York Chocolate is a strikingly rich chocolate
brown or lustrous lavender with a coat that has a glossy sheen and flows
over body lines accentuating graceful, flexible body movement. The cat should
give an appearance of good health and vitality.
Body size medium to large. Oblong, lengthly type with smooth flowing body
lines. Neck is short to medium. Chest is full and rounded. Boning is sturdy;
muscular firm. The rump slightly higher than shoulders. Males are larger,
heavier boned and more musculare than females.
Legs are medium to long in length and well muscled. Hind legs are slightly
longer than forelegs. Paws are large, round and slightly tufted.
The tail is medium to long; the length is comparable to the length of the
body. It is wide at the base tapering to a rounded end. It is desireable
for tail hair to spread out like a plume in the mature adult.
Head
The head is medium size, in proportion to body,
longer than wide when whiskers and facial hair are smoothed back. The head
is a modified wedge shape, beginning at the nose and spreading to the tips
of ears. The muzzle is moderately rounded, neither short nor sharply pointed.
Allowance should be made for stud jowls in males. In profile the skull is
slightly rounded, the nose has a slight dip. There is a slight whisker break,
gently curved, following the lines of the wedge. Chin is gently contoured,
tip in an even plane with the tip of the upper lip.
Ears
Large, pointed, tufted. Tilting forward, broad
at base, set well apart continuing wedge line of the head. Ears are tufted
inside, little hair is present on the outside, the leather may show through.
Eyes
Eyes medium in size, almond shaped, slanted slightly
toward the nose, conforming with the wedge line of the head. Eyes are at
least one eye length apart. Color is a striking gold, green or hazel.
Coat
The coat is medium long in length, smooth and glossy,
following body lines. The texture is soft and silky, with no woolly undercoat.
Hair is shorter on face, belly and lower legs; longer on back, sides and
upper legs. Slight frontal ruff. Ears and toes tufted. Colors are chocolate,
lavender, chocolate-white and lavender-white.
Points
Head
Ears
Eyes
Body
Legs / feet
Tail
Coat
Color
Condition