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Rosebob cattery
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Description :Selkirk Rex  Selkirk Rex are fun loving ,mellow cats with a generous measure of love and affection for their human companions. Very people oriented, they stay playful and kittenish even as adults. They're very social and don't do well in isolation . The Devon and Cornish Rex have coats governed by recessive genes. In order for a cat to display a recessive characteristic, the kitten must inherit the gene from both parents. The Selkirk Rex gene is dominant meaning that only one parent need possess the gene for the curly coat to be expressed in the offspring. A kitten born from parents that both have the Selkirk Rex gene is a homozygous a great cat for breeders as all kittens produced by this cat will have the Rex gene . The fur of the homozygous cat is curlier and softer than that of the cat that only posses one copy of the gene. The coat goes through several stages as the cat develops. A Selkirk is curly at birth, then loses his curliness and slowly acquires it again at 5 - 10 months of age. The coat doesn't fully develop until the cat is two years old. Climate, Season and Hormones ( particularly in females ) can also influence the Coat Curl. Unlike the Devon Rex and Cornish Rex, the Selkirk Rex comes in both long and short hair. The Selkirk Rex is the result of a natural mutation which appeared in 1987 in Wyoming USA. The breed owes its origin to one cat. Miss Depesto. The originator of the breed was Jeri Newman of Montana, a Persian breeder with an interest in genetics. She was offered the unusual cat by an animal shelter. She mated Miss Depesto to one of her Persian studs resulting in 6 kittens 3 off which had Curly Coats. Jerri named her new breed after the Selkirk mountains in Canada.
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