Colour
Base colour
Any shade of black tabby
- Pattern: As for all blotched tabbies.
Preferred
- It that the pattern shows agouti hairs in the solid areas, which makes the special appearance that identifies the Sokoke breed
Not on TICA’s championship list.
No breeder is on record here yet.
Medium-sized, athletic cat with distinctive modified tabby pattern. Natural breed from Kenya's Sokoke forest.
Natural breed from the Sokoke forest region of Kenya. Known locally as Khadzonzo. First brought to Denmark in 1978. One of the rarest natural cat breeds. Distinctive tree-bark pattern.
Generally described as easily leash-trained, intelligent, curious, interactive, loving and active.
That is the breed in general, not a promise about one animal. Ask the breeder what their own line is like, and meet the parents before you decide.
Breed reference from The Cat API.
Nobody has written this side yet. It is a judgement rather than data, so it waits for a person — not for a missing source.
Drawn from sources, not opinion: FIFe breed standard; The Cat API. An empty column means we hold nothing for that side, not that there is nothing to say.
The Sokoke standard is published by the FIFe (Fédération Internationale Féline), the international federation of pedigree-cat clubs, and it is what show judges apply. This section sums up what it says about coat and colour. It does not assess any one animal: use it to know what to ask the breeder.
With little or no undercoat.
Base colour
Any shade of black tabby
Preferred
Shortened from FIFe standard SOK — each label is the standard’s own wording with the verdict lifted into the tag beside it. Read the full clause at source. FIFe prints no modification date for this standard. Text read on 2 Nov 2026.
The colour varieties FIFe recognises for this breed are listed, with their EMS codes, in the table at the end of its standard. FIFe describes each colour group in the General Part of its standards.
The colours and patterns the standard admits, and what it prefers, discourages or disqualifies in each. An accepted colour says nothing about health. Quotations from the FIFe are in English, as the standard publishes them; the headings are ours.
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Sokoke on this platform yet. That is a gap in our records, not a clean bill of health — ask the breeder which hereditary conditions their lines are tested for, and ask to see the results for both parents, dated and from a named laboratory.
Breed-level information from The Cat API. It describes the Sokoke in general; any individual animal can differ.