Title: The American pet stock standard of perfection and official guide to the American fur fanciers' association
Identifier: americanpetstock00amer (find matches)
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: American fur fancier's association. (from old catalog); Wagner, J. Henri, 1881- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Rabbits; Guinea pigs; Rats; Mice
Publisher: (Washington, E. G. Torrey, printer)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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later inipruxed Ijy the En,L;lish pidiieer fanciers. Length of coat, head furnishing, and texture or silkiness of coat are the principal points for which the Peruvian admirer strives. The importance of these three characteristics may be appre- ciated when we consider that tifty-fi\e points out of a pos- sible hundred are allotted to them in the standard. The Peruvian is larger than the English or the Abyssinian, while the head alone is proportionately not so large as in the other varieties. The colors produced in this variety are the same as in the other two. STANDARD OF POINTS SWEEP—(Length of Rear Coat)—Of as uniform length over all as possible 15 DENSITY OF COAT 15 TEXTURE OR SILKINESS OF COAT 15 SIDE SWEEP OF HAIR, as long as possible 15 COLOR—(Selfs, free from stray hairs; Broken, as uni- formly colored as possible, according to classes) 10 CONDITION 15 HEAD FURNISHINGS—Fringe should fall well over face, and shoulders should be furnished that it falls in a thick mane 15
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ABYSSINIAN CAVY (T. A. Martin) ABYSSINIAN The Ain-ssinian. like the I'eruvian. did not derive its name 1)\- an\- geogra))hical associaticjn and luuli >ubtedl)' emanated from the same source as all other oavies. It has been steadily improved both in harshness of coat and the 37

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