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The Cornish Rex is a genetic mutation that originated from a litter of kittens born in the 1950s on a farm in Cornwall, UK. [7] One of the kittens, a cream-colored male named Kallibunker, had an extremely unusual, fine and curly coat; he was the first Cornish Rex.
Cornish rex kittens sitting in window. Cornish rex cats are certainly not a breed you will easily mix up. With their bat-like ears and distinctive curly coats, they are a breed that stands out ...
Cornish Rex; D. Devon Rex; F. Foreign White; H. Havana Brown This page was last edited on 3 January 2023, at 14:10 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The British/European style of cat is sufficiently different from the breed in North America that the latter is also referred to as "American Cornish Rex" to differentiate it and to accommodate the different breed standards. 1950: Italian Rex. Three rex-coated kittens were born to a straight-haired female, but these were not pursued as a breed.
However, the first Devon rex was born in the county of Devon, in the southwest of the UK, in the late 1950s. It was the son of a stray, a novel-looking, black, curly-haired kitten, which was named ...
Beryl Cox came across a novel curly-coated kitten in Buckfastleigh, Devon in 1960 whom she decided to name Kirlee. Originally, Cox believed the cat's gene to be related to the Cornish Rex which led to her breeding Kirlee with Cornish Rexes. However, when the queen gave birth the kittens all had straight coats, which led to the discovery that ...
Pages in category "Rex cat breeds" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... Bohemian Rex; C. Cornish Rex; D. Devon Rex; G. German Rex; L ...
During the 1980s, European breeders, principally those in France and the Netherlands, initiated their own Oriental bicolour breeding lines. A red and white female Moroccan street cat was used as an initial outcross, then later on a Black & White Cornish Rex. Further cats were imported from the USA.