topcoat
The term for hairs on a coat that are smooth and stiff; may also be known as guard hairs
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The Wegie is no exception, shedding its topcoat approaching the warmer months. Although regarded as a low maintenance cat for most of the year, when shedding occurs a regular grooming program is required.
The topcoat is hard with a downy undercoat that insulates the cat from weather extremes. When in motion, it should exhibit a natural rolling gait giving the cat with all of its combined physical characteristics the resemblance of a bobtailed wildcat.
Coat: Very fine fur with long hair in the topcoat and undercoat. Dense, silky, long hair on the entire body (10 cm on average and up to 20 cm on the frill). All colors are recognized.
Fault: Long or narrow head.
With a topcoat inclined to silkiness, and an undercoat somewhat not as woolly, the Himalayan coat is much less prone to matting.
Soft and fine undercoat covered by a substantial topcoat. Short on head, neck and shoulders lengthening gradually down back, flanks and tail. Trousers and belly fur full and shaggy.
Frontal ruff desirable. Texture silky, falling smoothly.
Resilient undercoat; longer, protective topcoat. NOTE: degree of woolliness depends on age, sex and habitat, mature males exhibiting the heaviest coats. Silkier, thinner coat permitted on females and cats under two years.
Cats are further divided into categories by coat type. There are three types of hair in a cat's coat - the topcoat or guard hairs, and two types of undercoat hairs - the bristly awn hairs and the soft curly down hairs.
Medium-short; slightly wooly in texture; should break like sheepskin at neck and flanks; resilient undercoat; longer, protected topcoat.
Any shade of blue-gray from ash to slate; tips lightly brushed with silver.
Simon's Unusual Coat (of Two Colors)
No superstition story; our cat just has a very unusual coat. His topcoat is black and his undercoat is white. He has white points around his ears, nose,...
This breed of cat is a muscular animal and quite hardy, with a distinct double coat of many colours with soft under hair and a glossier topcoat.
This pattern is particularly striking when seen in a Silver Tabby, where the light silver ground colour allows for a strong contrast with the deeply coloured markings of the topcoat.
Type, Color & Grooming: Curls may be longhaired or shorthaired; in both varieties, the undercoat is sparse, which means that even longhaired Curls are not likely to develop matted coats. Longhairs have a silky, semi-long, close-lying topcoat.
Shorthaired and longhaired varieties exist. The short coat is of medium density, with a downy undercoat and hard topcoat. The long coat is medium in length and somewhat shaggy in appearance. Many colors and coat patterns are accepted.
medium short coat with dense undercoat and protective topcoat
color: any shade of blue-gray
rounded open expressive eyes
This is a really nice looking cat for me. Reference to a blue coat means blue-grey.
of an American Shorthair, from which its ancestry originates. This pattern is particularly striking when seen in a Silver Tabby, where the light silver ground colour allows for a strong contrast with the deeply coloured markings of the topcoat.
The topcoat is lustrous, not flat but slightly raised and the undercoat is dense, resilient. Chartreux’s come in any shade of blue-gray from ash to slate with the tips lightly brushed with silver.
 See also: Behavior, Persians, Cobby, Taper, Double coat
  
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