Is the LaPerm related to the Devon or Cornish Rex?
The LaPerm is not related to any of the other curly coated breeds. While the breeds can be classed together as they are all rex breeds (i.e. breeds which have curly coats) there has not been any interbreeding to create the LaPerm. The original colony of curly coated farm cats, which were developed to give us the LaPerm breed that we know today, arose from a new spontaneously occurring natural mutation. Only these cats and other straight coated cats have been used to develop the breed. The gene responsible for the LaPerm coat behaves in a different way to the Cornish Rex, Devon Rex and Selkirk Rex genes.
