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Distinctive for their barely-there coats, the sphynx cat came about in the 1960s in Canada, when a female cat produced a litter of kittens with only the finest layer of peach fuzz for a coat.
The Sphynx cat has a high rate of heart disease, either as HCM or mitral valve dysplasia. In a 2012 study of 114 Sphynx cats, 34% were found to have an abnormal heart, with 16 cats having mitral valve dysplasia and 23 cats having HCM. [27] These prevalences were found in cats with an average age of 2.62 years.
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According to the ASPCA, Sphynx are one of the friendliest cat breeds out there, and as we can see in the video above, they love their humans. They are also known for getting along well with other ...
To achieve his desired breed he bred the Munchkin with the Sphynx to try and restrict hair to the points. He later added in Devon Rex and Burmese stock into the breed. The first cat that met the desired standard was born in July 2000. By early 2005, roughly 50 cats met the criteria. [1]
"All Breed" rings allow cats of every breed approved by the CFA to be judged...from Sphynx to Persian and everything in between. "Specialty" rings separate out cats into one of two types: the "Longhair" category include cats like Persians, Maine Coons, and other long-haired cats, while the "Shorthair" include Burmese, Sphynx, American Shorthair ...
Sphynx cats are the best known of the hairless cat breeds. The breed was developed in the middle of the twentieth century, and are beloved for their unusual appearance as well as their outgoing ...
The gene that causes the color to be restricted to the points is a recessive gene; therefore, the general population of the cats of Siam were largely self-colored (solid). When the cats from Siam were bred, the pointed cats were eventually registered as Siamese, while the others were referred to as "non-blue eyed Siamese" or "foreign shorthair".