PIXIE-BOB COATS

The  Standard:  Lenth (PB): Short coat must stand up off  the body.  Dense belly hair is always longer than the rest of the coat. (PL): Medium, under 2 inches.  Semi-dense, belly hair is always longer than rest of coat. Texture:  (PB): Soft and wooly, having loft. Is resilient to the touch.  (PL): Soft, lying closer to the body than shorthair.  NOTE:  For both coats, facial hair is full and brushy in appearance, having a downward growth pattern.  Appearance of heavy fur above eyes.  Coat separates easily and is weather resistant.  MISCELLANEOUS:  Seasonal coat changes effect, color, lenght and depth in short and longhair varieties.  Hot weather reduces all but the ground color, which is intensified, in summer season.  Winter season will give coat a frosted appearance.  PATTERN:  Small spots with or without rosettes, (broken mackerel pattern allowed)  gretly muted by heavy ticking.  Random spotting preferred.  Belly must be spotted.  In the sumer time, the pattern is more easily seen than in the winter, when it is muted out.  Pattern is secondary to type.  COLOR:  Light to medium shades of brown spotted tabby with warm/reddish tones preferred, broken mackerel (muted) spotting accepted.   The agouti hair must have several bands of color.  Wild hare appearance has a mandatory mouse base coat  with reversed ticking having the lightest band at the top and ending in a darker band near the skin.  Medium to dark brown bands for the spotting.  Lightbands at the tips of each hair giving a frosted appearance to the coat, heavier in the winter.  Chin to belly to inner legs should be off white to creamy color with mouse gray base.  Pale or light color belly to neck.  Paw pads to the hocks, must be dark brown/black.  End of tail should be dark brown/black..  Coat color is secondary to type.

Coat Lengths Short or medium.

Medium coat. (No Pixie-bobs have truely long coats.)

Short coat.

Note: Please be careful if you decide you want a long-haired pixiebob.  Some breeders have bred their cats with Maine Coons.  That in itself isn't necessarily a bad thing, except that I've heard that a blood disease that exists in Maine Coons is now also showing up in some Pixiebobs.

Coat Colors: Silver, cream, red.

Most Pixie-Bob coats are some variation on cream with either silver or red highlights.   Here are some cats with silver coats.

These cats have cream coats.

These Pixiebobs have red coats.

The cat below has a  cream foundation with silver and red highlights.  All of our kittens have some variation of this type of coat.

Coat Patterns: Spotted or Marbled. (There are others -- some breeders occassionally have solid colored kitten, or ones with a taby striped pattern but I haven't had any of those.)

Spots, spots, and more spots.  Spots become more or less visible due to season, length of coat, and degree of ticking. Ticking refers to several colors on the same strand of fur.  Some ticking is considered desirable in Pixie-bobs.  The more ticking and the loger the hair, however, the less destinct the spots become.  Pixie-bobs also may have less distinct spots when they are in their heavier winter fur.

A true Pixiebob, even one that  is off-color, will have a spotted belly.

The cat above is Una's mother.  She had brown spots.

The cat above has black spots.

Salal has a red coat with red spots.  In this photo he looks like he has dark brown spots, but they are really red.

Some Pixie-bobs have marbled coats like the one below.  We rarely have a kitten with such a coat.

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