Don Sphynx

Don Sphynx
Introduction
First things first; this breed of cat is not related to the better known Sphynx (aka "Canadian Hairless", "Moon Cat" and "Moonstone Cat"). This cat is native to Russia.

Don Sphynx
A cat from the outerspace... (other names: Don Hairless, Russian Hairless, Don Bald Cat, Donskoy , Donsky Sphynx)
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Don Sphynx (Don Hairless)
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Don Sphynxs are highly intelligent and loyal to the owner. They say about Sphynxs, "They are not humans beings yet but they are not already cats." They are smart, waggish, very lively and behave themselves rather like children not like cats.

Donskoy, Don Hairless, or Don Sphynx - a hairless cat, but that has a "peach fuzz" type of coat. This is mutation cat breed whose characteristic hairlessness is caused by a dominant gene.

As a start there were taken the hairless Don Sphynx cats and Scottish Folds with folded ears. For many years this two breeds were carefully crossed.

Peterbald is a cross-breed between Don Sphynx and oriental-typed cats, St. Peterburg, Russia, in 1994, and not based on a direct natural mutation.
Under Burmese is missing: there are American Burmese and European Burmese, see CFA, CCA, LOOF.

This is a type of coat in the Don Sphynx and Peterbald.
Usually Don Sphynx and Peterbald are nacked. But there is a coat type which has wavy, quite stiff short hairs, uneven and with bare patches on the head, the neck and the back.

The Peterbald's origins only go back to 1994 in Russia. A male Don Sphynx was crossbred with a female Oriental Shorthair, and gave birth to four Peterbalds.
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She was mated with domestic shorthairs to develop a breed with many names: Donskoy, Don Sphynx, Don Hairless, Don Bald Cat or Donksy. It is a Russian breed with curly whiskers and tail tip with a soft, dense, close lying slightly curly coat.

Irina Nemikina, enthusiast and professional cat breeder rescued a kitten and in several years generated a completely new breed of Russian cat, a hairless one which she named--the Don Sphynx.

See also: Peterbald, TICA, Donskoy, Sphynx cat, Oriental Shorthair