German Rex

German Rex is a breed of domestic cat. They are a medium sized, breed with slender legs of a medium length. The head is round with well developed cheeks and large, open, ears. The eyes are of medium size in colours related to the coat colour.

German Rex Credit: Wikipedia Download full size image The German Rex is a medium sized breed of domestic cat with slender legs. The breed has large ears, a round head, curly whiskers and a curly, short coat of any color.

GERMAN REX Body Body medium in size and length, strong and muscular but not massive or fat. In profile the chest is rounded and strong. Legs fine and of medium length; feet small and rounded.

Wearing a full lambswool coat The German Rex is the oldest known breed of curly-coated cat. It first appeared in 1946 in the home of Dr. Scheuer-Karpin but was actually developed from a stray adopted by breeders in 1951.

German Rex is a breed of cat that began with the male cat Munk, in 1930-31 in Königsberg, in what was then East Prussia, Germany . Munk was the son of an Angora cat and a Russian Blue.

German Rex Current European Shorthair type exhibiting gene for Cornish Rex. The original rex cat was a semi-feral hospital cat in East Berlin in 1946, but the mutation was not actively followed up until the late 1950's.

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Note that though the Devon Rex cat breed may resemble the Cornish Rex and German Rex breeds, the gene that produces the "rexed" or curled fur is different in each breed.

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While the German Rex was largely ignored by breeders, British efforts to mate the original English Rex named "Kallibunker" with his mother encouraged a new genetic line.

The curl in their fur is caused by a different mutation and gene than that of the Cornish Rex and German Rex, and breeding of a Devon to either of those cats results in cats without rexed (curled) fur.

weeks word of Mosher's kitten reached Joan O'Shea, who lived in nearby Vernon. O'Shea bred Siamese, Havana browns and rex. She also wrote for a local newspaper and had made news herself a few years earlier when she imported the first German rex male ...

The Cornish Rex is closely related to the German Rex. They share the same curly-coat gene. While the Cornish Rex appears to be very similar to the Devon Rex, they do not share the same gene for their curly coats.

See also: Rex, Cornish Rex, Devon Rex, Siamese, Domestic