Sphynx

Sphynx Cat Race (formerly called the Canadian hairless) is a race with a cat that has short hair or very little. Cat fur is very soft like a thin layer of the skin. This race is produced from the cats who have genetic mutations. The number of cats this race is still very limited. 

History

Over the last few hundred years, a cat without hair spontaneously born from domestic cats have short fur. This natural mutation occurs spontaneously. The cats who have this mutation was found in several places such as Canada, France, Morocco, Mexico, Russia, Australia and America. But the cats are never developed into one specific race, and most die due to lack of maintenance or because of various problems breeding.
In 1960 a pair of local cats short haired Canadian who bear children without hair. Since then the program breeding cats without fur is initiated. In 1970 Cat Fanciers Association (CFA) provides the status of these cats as Ras "Canadian hairless." But a year later CFA retract its decision because there are health issues and the proliferation of these races. At that time, genes associated with the lack of hair is considered lethal (lethal). Eventually the cats and their offspring became extinct.
In 1975, the owner of a farm in Minnesota named Milt and Ethelyn, have a kitten who was born without hair of normal cats at their farm named Jezabelle. Back next year without the fur of a cat born Jezabelle. The second kitten is named epidermis and dermis. Dermis and epidermis purchased if a cat breeder from Oregon named Kim Mueske. Descendants of the dermis and epidermis is called the Pearson lineage
Meanwhile, one other breeder from Minnesota named Georgiana Gattenby also try to develop race fur of a cat without the other parent named Pearson who also produce a child without hair. He wed the cats Devon Rex is a race to strengthen the genetic traits. Descendants of the cats are healthy and proven to be named Sphynx. The name was taken from the great Sphinx in Giza, Egypt.
In 1978, a cat breeder in Canada named Shirley Smith rescued a male cat, without fur-named Bambi. Bambi and then castrated (sterile) and reared as a pet cat. Bambi's mother a year later gave birth to two cats without fur-named Punkie and Paloma. In 1983, Smith sent Punkie, and Paloma Dr. Hernandez in the Netherlands for the bred. Dr. Hernandez is also the second mating with cats cats Devon Rex Ras. He also found the fact that genes without hair are more dominant than the curly hair genes as in the race Devon Rex, but recessive to gene hairy in normal cats.
Punkie descendants of the cats, Paloma and Pearson (dermis and epidermis) is what later became the basis of the development of Ras Sphynx. All four cats that is the ancestor of most of the Sphynx cats exist today.
CFA sphynx Race start accepting registration in 1998 and in 2000 had 120 cats registered in CFA Sphynx race.

The shape and characteristics of Sphynx Cats The length of the body is, straight and rounded areas such as stomach tubes and chest width. Head longer than wide and triangular. Flat forehead and prominent cheekbones, short nose with a distinct notch or just a little indentation. Firm chin and a little mustache, short or entirely without a mustache. Large ears, wide at the bottom and stand upright, the inner ear is not hairy. Lemon shaped eyes with the tip of the outer leads ketelinga and wide open, all eye colors are recognized and need not be in accordance with coat color. Long neck, rounded and muscular. Feet long and proportionately with body size, the front legs more slender and shorter than the hind feet, long toes with thick soles. Long and whip-shaped tail, tip of tail feathers found little resembling the tail of a lion. The skin around the body with little hair is very fine textured, wrinkled section head, body and legs. In the kitten's head and the number of wrinkles on the skin more.