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While beautifully unique and social kittens like these Selkirk Rex babies find their homes in mere minutes, many shy, skittish, or otherwise less desirable animals spend years upon years in shelters.
One of the newer cat breeds, the Devon rex has fascinating origins. Deep in rural England, a genetic mutation gave rise to a curly-coated kitten – who became the progenitor of the breed.
The Cornish Rex is a breed of domestic cat.The Cornish Rex only has down hair.Most breeds of cat have three different types of hair in their coats: the outer fur or "guard hairs", a middle layer called the "awn hair"; and the down hair or undercoat, which is very fine and about 1 cm long.
Typically, there is a chance that the myopathy in the cats might stabilize, however, most of the time, the condition worsens and the Devon rex cats die from laryngospasm, after obstructing their larynx with food. [3] [4] [5] The Devon Rex was found to be predisposed to feline atopic dermatitis in a retrospective study of cases of the disease. [6]
Thus Lämmchen was the first breeder-owned Rex-type cat and the maternal ancestor of all current German Rex cats. The first two German Rex deliberately bred were two Rex kittens from a 1957 litter of four, offspring of Lämmchen and the straight-coated son Fridolin she had with a stray black tom Blackie adopted by Scheuer-Karpin.
Rescue cats gather for snack time at Shane's Sanctuary and Kitty Adoption Center in Erlanger, Ky., on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024.
Homozygous cats (with two copies of the dominant Selkirk Rex gene) may have a tendency towards excessive greasiness of the coat, requiring increased frequency of bathing. Other health problems may be inherited from the outcross breeds used, including polycystic kidney disease from Persians and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy from British Shorthairs.
On the front lines of the pet rescue effort in Los Angeles, volunteers capture hearts in a city reeling from disaster but determined to save itself. ... The rescued include untold cats and dogs ...