German Rex
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The ears are medium in size, broad at the base and slightly rounded at the tips. The outside is densely covered with fine hair, the inside slightly hairy.
German Rex is a domestic cat breed.
Features
Race -forming feature is curly or wavy coat that feels silky smooth like a mole fur. The guard hairs are underdeveloped and the guard hairs are missing. The whiskers are shortened and curved. The shape of the German Rex is medium sized and strong, but not coarse. It has a rounded head with prominent side sections and a slight indentation at the nose approach. Her eyes are medium sized and round, the ears have rounded tips, the legs are relatively slender with oval paws. Your overall appearance corresponds to a slim house cat.
Fur
The Rexfell is different from the normal skin and the essential feature of the German Rex. Due to the lack of guard hairs, the coat combines soft and velvety like a mole fur. It is softer than that of the Devon Rex. The coat is short and plushy, with a clear tendency to ripple or allurement. Completed the curls development is often only after two years. In young animals is considered. The whiskers are slightly shorter than normal and slightly curved. The plant for the curly coat is a defect mutation of hair growth and is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait. It is identical to the mutation of the Cornish Rex cat owes her curly fur.
History
As the oldest Rex cat breed is a photo from 1930 or 1931 blue-gray cat Munk as representatives of this race, who lived in Königsberg.
The first Rex cats in Western Europe, which we know are not the result of deliberate breeding, but owe their discovery by chance. In 1950 discovered the cat breeder Nina Emismore in Cornwall, England, in the union of a family tree loose short hair cat a kitten with a coat that looked similar to the Rexkaninchen. It was plushy and wavy. The whiskers and eyebrows were curled. This was due to a mutation. The owner called the animals Rex cat. It was the ancestress of a new race.
Strain and breeding
Ancestress of the present-day German Rex cats is lamb, a cat with curly fur, which visited since about 1947 in the vicinity of the hoof clinic in Berlin-Buch. In 1951 the doctor, Dr. Rose Scheuer - Karpin the cat and took her to live with him. 1957 gave birth to lambs for the first time curly offspring, father was Lämmchens son, the smooth- haired Fridolin. With Blackie II, also one of her sons, she witnessed the Rex cats Curlie, Christopher Columbus and Marco Polo. Only Curlie remained in the former GDR, Marko Polo was sent to France and Christopher Columbus came to the U.S., where he earned his inheritance in the Rex cat breed.
As lambs 1967 ( another source called December 19, 1964 ), died she had in Berlin (East), only three curly Offspring: Brutus came to Beatrice and Jeannette from the ground at the kennel "vom Grund" the Barensfeld family. With the hybrids Boniface they put there the basis for the further development of the breed. In West Germany was involved from 1973 family Wollner, Cattery " Zeitz " in the German Rex breed.