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Ch. Kessy de
Woracanose
Breeder: Noël Weckerle,
Woracanose
cattery, Switzerland |
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German Rex come in all colours and patterns, which one can
imagine, with white and without white, with silver or in golden, with tabby
pattern and in Colourpoint.
 | black, blue |
| chocolate, lilac |
| red, cream |
| cinnamon, fawn |
| tortie, bluecream |
| chocolate tortie, lilac tortie |
| All those colours can also have all tabby patterns, for example black
spotted, red mackerel, bluecream blotched, and so on. |
| All those colours can appear with silver or with golden, for example
blue smoke, black golden shaded, blue golden mackerel, red silver
blotched, chocolate tortie silver spotted, cream silver mackerel, and so
on. |
| And all those colours can also be with white (bicolour, Van, etc.),
for example black and white bicolour, red and white Van, tortie mackerel
bicolour, cream smoke with white, black silver blotched bicolour, and so
on. |
| And - last but not least - all those colours can also appear as
Colourpoints, with white or without white, as silver or golden pointed,
tabby pointed, and so on. |
There exist hundreds of colours and pattern combinations, and all those
varieties can be admired on shows.
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Eurocatfancy
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| Breed profile |
| The German Rex is a medium-sized shorthair
cat. It is a medium cat, where nothing is extreme. The head is
medium long with prominent cheekbones and a rounded muzzle. The head
appears rounded. The nose is medium long and straight with a slight
indentation at the base. The eye brows and whiskers are stiff and
crinkled.
The eyes are medium-sized and round. All eye colours are permitted.
The ears are medium-sized and higher set on the head.
The body is medium in size, medium long and solid, but not
coarse. The chest is round.
The legs are relatively fine and medium long with oval paws.
The tail is medium long and only slightly tapered.
The coat is medium-short and soft. The coat can
be curled or wavy. It takes quite a long time until the wavy coat is
developed. The coat can have any colour, any pattern, the colours may appear
with white or without white, there are also existing Colourpoints which are
called Si-Rex. |
History
The breed is still a rare breed. The first cat was
Munk, a blue male, the result of a cross between an Angora cat and a
Russian Blue, living with Mrs. Schneider in Königsberg (East
Prussia) in 1930/31. It was Dr. Rose Scheuer-Karpin who founded the
breed. In 1951 she found a black female with wavy coat, which was
called "Lämmchen" (German word for little lamb) and lived in the
backyard of the hufeland hospital in Berlin-Buch. In 1957 Lämmchen
was back crossed with her son Fridolin, a hybrid, she got a litter
of four, where two kitten had a wavy coat. Over the years the breed
almost died out, and in 1968 only three cats had been left. Some
breeders tried to save the survival of the German Rex:
Family Barensfeld, cattery "vom Grund" and living in eastern Berlin
outcrossed their cats with Devon Rex and other domestic cats. Family
Wöllner, cattery "von Zeitz", living in western German, imported
despite all problems a German Rex from famly Barensfeld in 1973, and
produced the first Si-Rex in 1981.
Some well known catteries of the begin are "vom Glücksklee/Glücksanger"
(family Glück), cattery "vom Jagdrain" (family Kania), cattery "von
Assindia" (Mrs. Anneliese Hackmann, the founder of the WCF), cattery
"vom Hause Hamann (Mr. Thomas Hamann).
In 2002 the first litter of German Rex in Finland was born.
In 2002 the German Rex Cat Club (GRXCC) was founded, whose main goal
is to develop breeding strategies for the German Rex and to ensure
the breed's survival. |
Temperament
The German Rex is an active cat with a gentle
temperament. They are like little clowns, love to play and are very
loayal cats. One will be caught by their lovely character. |
Grooming
German Rex need little grooming, because their coat does not shed.
Brushing them from time to time will keep their coat healthy and
remove dead hairs. |
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