Something I just read about Sphynx cats

Sphynx hairlessness is produced by an allele of the same gene that produces the Cornish Rex, which has only one of the usual two fur coats. The Sphynx allele is incompletely dominant over the Devon allele; both are recessive to the wild type. Sphynx were at one time crossbred with Devon Rex in an attempt to strengthen this gene, but unfortunately this led to serious dental or nervous-system problems and is now forbidden in most breed standards associations. The only allowable outcross breeds in the CFA are now the American Shorthair and Domestic Shorthair. Other associations have different rules. In Europe mainly Devon Rex has been used for outcrosses.

When I think that my Charles suffered during his entire eleven years with problems chewing (the configuration of his jaw did not allow him to chew as well as he could have) and his IBS that had him always yearning for food that his situation did not allow him to eat–turkey, chicken scraps– can cause me to sob uncontrollably. But then I realize that because I love him and took care of him all his life that  I was rewarded with love back so pure and unconditionally that many nay never experience. But because of the cross breeding that took place with the Syphnx breed he only lived for what should have been his middle age and not at least ten more years of love and adoration and I now missed that pleasure with him.  Instead his problems weakened him and something that should have been conquered instead killed him. And now I will grieve for the rest of my life.

If I can do anything in my life it will be to stop the cross breeding and experimentation of cats and dogs  as the Nazi’s did for their prisoners , that cause these animals  to have terrible troubles throughout their lives or even the shortening of their lives as what happened to my Charles.  It took years to find out that the mix as I described above did that and I can only imagine the heartbreak and suffereing those cats and their owners went through.

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