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FiFé EMS
Colour Code System

Cats in general come in just about any colour, pattern and eye-colour possible.   Norwegian Forest Cats, in particular, come in just about any colour, pattern and eye-colour you care to mention.   The only exception to this is that the Himalayan (Siamese) pointed pattern is not allowed.   There are the so-called  "X-colours", colours currently unrecognised in the NFO standard in Australia, although now becoming accepted in various European NFO standards.  These are chocolate, lilac, cinnamon, and fawn, which are considered highly unlikely to occur in pure-bred NFOs without cross-breeding with some other breed.

So the question becomes, "How should we describe the various colours and patterns seen in NFOs?"

FIFe (Fédération Internationale Féline) uses a system widely known as the EMS ("Easy Mind System").  Click here to see the FIFe EMS page.

The EMS code system consists of a 3 letter  code for the breed of cat (Wegies have been assigned 'NFO'),  followed by an alphabetic code describing colour.   This may be followed one or more numeric codes, describing coat-patterns, eye-colours, tail-types (although tail-type codes are not used for Wegies), etc...

The following tables describe all the codes that are currently used for Norwegian Forest Cats.

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