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Is the LaPerm related to the other curly coated breeds?

April 26, 2017breeds Coated curly laperm

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Is the LaPerm related to the other curly coated breeds?

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No. The LaPerm is not related to any of the other curly coated breeds. While the breeds can be classified together as they are all rex breeds (that is, breeds which have curly coats) there should NEVER be any interbreeding to the LaPerm. The original colony of curly coated farm cats had a new spontaneous occurring natural mutation; these are the cats that are the base of the LaPerm breed. Only these cats and other domestics (non-pedigree) with straight coats 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.