The Varieties

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Sources - Selection of sources that contributed to this section.

Fancy Mice - an Introduction - Fancy mice have a type of their own.

General Standard of Excellence (GSE) - The over all appearance of a show mouse.

Breeds - The coat varieties of mice.

Self (I) - The varieties with uniform, solid colouring.

Ticked (II) - The varieties having hairs of different colour than the "basic colour" intermingled in the coat, often having different colour layers in single hairs as well.

Silvered (III) - The varieties with white hairs intermingled in coat of "basic colour".

Shaded & Pointed (IV) - The varieties with coat colour patterns where there are areas of differing colour on the mouse, i.e. points (like on a Siamese) or the back of the mouse darker than the sides and under (like on a Sable). Un-shaded pointed varietes (like himalayan) are in this class as well.

Tan & Fox (V) - The varieties with a distinctive belly colour. Tan has a reddish belly, fox has white.

Marked (VI) - The varieties that have either coloured markings on a white background or white markings on a coloured background (except with Tricolor, where there are three colours present). with uniform colouring.

Provisional (VII) - The varieties that aren't yet fully standardized.

Unstandardised (VIII) - The varieties that haven't yet been admitted to provisional standards.