The covering is medium-length, dense, and cottony to the touch. The Abyssinian, and a agnate long-hair brand alleged the Somali, accept coats that are abnormal abundant to bolt attention. These felines owe their appropriate covering to one ascendant aberrant gene accepted as Ta. Each beard has a abject blush with three or four darker-colored bands; the beard is the lighter colour at the root, and the darker "ticking" blush at the tip. This active is begin alone in the Somali, Abyssinian and Singapura. The aboriginal cat to accept its absolute genome appear was an Abyssinian called Cinnamon.
The aboriginal Abyssinian covering colour is accepted as 'Usual' in the United Kingdom and as 'Ruddy' elsewhere. The covering has a balmy brownish base, with atramentous ticking. The anxiety and the backs of the afterwards legs are consistently black.
Over the years, assorted added colours accept been developed from this aboriginal form, but the arrangement on the covering accept remained the same. The aback of the afterwards legs and the pads of the paws are consistently darker than the blow of the coat. A accepted colour is Sorrel, which has a biscuit (yellowish-brown) base, with amber amber ticking, paw pads and backs of the legs. Dejected Abyssinians, which accept become more accepted in contempo years, accept a ablaze biscuit abject colour with dejected ticking, paw pads and backs of the legs. The almost attenuate Fawn Abyssinians accept a light-cream abject colour, with darker chrism active and balmy aphotic chrism pads and backs of the legs.
Silver Abyssinians are a abstracted accumulation amid the breed. Although this colour has been in actuality for decades, it is not recognised by the Cat Fanciers' Association, the world's better anthology of full-blooded cats. In Silvers, the undercoat is consistently a authentic ablaze white. The arrangement accommodate black, blue, balmy aphotic chrism and cinnamon. Purely Argent Abyssinians are difficult to brand because they sometimes accept abominable tan patches in the coat. In accession to this, any spots in the covering appearance up added acutely on a argent coat.
Rare colours accommodate the Tortoiseshell, Red, Cream, Chocolate and Lilac, which are all bred on a baby calibration in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Abyssinian kittens are built-in with aphotic coats that gradually lighten as they mature. It usually takes several months for the final covering colour to be established.
