Sfinx - Sphynx, Canadian Hairless, Moonstone Cats

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He who sees Sfinx for the first time, its prominent appearance and zevnejskem absolutely fascinated. Or will a certain resistance. Middle path, or perhaps not. The beauty of these cats repel and attract at the same time. There is something of zvrasnenych prehistoric reptiles and also something absolutely nepozemskeho. A man with a rich imagination at first sight its just stares and then think of monkey, baby, humanoids! Alien or cat?

Aztec origin or Canadian stresandy?

Hairlessness is a natural spontaneous gene mutation. Naked kittens, occurring in the past in vrzich normally osrstenych or pure domestic cats, always interested in people and has always been gimped secrecy. In the past, this phenomenon has been sporadically documented, but no breeding program has been recorded before the beginning of the twentieth century. According to archaeological finds bezsrste the cats were already in pre-columbijske era in the Aztec empire. American sources is called Mexican hairless. Because talent hr (hairless) responsible for lysost is recessive, can be transmitted to different cats to its progeny without the express, for generations. Only in the recessive state homozygotnim (hr hr) cat is completely or almost Lysa.Rexovitosti issues and lysosti hair in cats studied had around 1938 French Professor E. Letard. He said to his studies and benefited from cats in Austria and prewar Czechoslovakia.
Today sfinxove are descendants of several lines. Start one of the first breeding programs is dated at 30 JANUARY 1966. In Ontario, Canada with black and white domestic cat Elizabeth born bald black kitty behalf Prune. About this issue started to be interested breeder Yani and her son Ridyah Bawa. They took the kitten and its mother. Bawowi made back-crossing and 16 January 1967 they were born seven kittens. Of these were two cats and two naked naked kocourci. Later Bawowi breeders began to work with spouses Tenhovovymi and breeding station Dutchies.These Cats Moonstone (monthly blocks) became founding individuals breeding program, which established in 1973 and breeder Sandy Kaiser. Two of litters, Mews-Kal Starsky and mews-Kal Johnny became in 1978 the first Sfinx imports to the European continent. The happy owner was Dr. Hugo Hernandez in Holland.
Other well-known line of naked kittens come from Minnesota. Mother line in 1975, became a domestic cat Jezabelle spouses Pearsonovych. Her descendants have become part of the breeders breeding station Z. Stardust and founder Sfinx kennel Jen-Jude.
At the end of the seventies in the streets of Toronto have found three children naked kittens. Brought them to Shirley Smith, a local breeder siamskych cats.It took black and white tom-cat, kastrovala and named him Bambi. Cats, found in 1979 and 1980, black and white modrobilou Paloma and Punkie, sent Dr. Hugo Hernandez in Holland. These became later, after an unsuccessful beginning with the cats from the Mews-Lee, founder of European cats Sfinx lines.

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