La-Perm

CALIFORNIA REX
In 1959 Mrs Blancherie,found two wavy haired cats in a rescue centre in San Bernadino,a female odd-eyed Tortie and her Red Tabby son.They were aquired bythe Smiths  who when mated Mum back to son found she produced kittens with long silky coats.They were found to be genetically compatible to the Cornish Rex,but due to lack of interest this breed faded away.Also known as the Marcel cat.

CORNISH REX
IN 1950 a tortie farm cat gave birth to 5 kittens,one of which was curly coated.Mrs E nnismore called this Red/White male Kallibunker.

Advised by her vet she mated him back to his mother.Geneticist Mr Jude was contacted who confirmed the repeat matings of Kallibunker to his mother. One of the kittens was given to the vet and kept entire,which was fortunate as due to increasing kittens,Mrs Ennismore had Kallibunker put to sleep. All the inbreeding had led to reduced vigor and kittens were dying a few days after birth. One kitten a rare fertile blue-cream male named Poldhu sired healthy kittens and was purchased by Brian Stirling-Webb,who had gathered togrther a band of breeders to establish the Cornish Rex as a breed.

Mr Jude advised that Poldu  have an op to establish his chromosone count but this rendered him sterile.To compensate the vet gave Mr Stirling-Webb his male Sham Pain Chas-who carried forward the Cornish lines.Before he was steralised Pohdu sired a  female who was mated back to him and exported to the States. As back then Cornish breeders are still outcrossing to maintain vigour due to the still small gene pool available.

Cornish

DUTCH REX
Reported in Holland in 1985 but not developed!.Had a coarser wavy coat with a brittle texture.

GERMAN  REX
In 1946 a rexed black feral cat was rescued from the grounds of a hospital in East Berlin and named Lammchen. The breed was seriously taken up in 1951 by German breeders following the Cornish discovery. Lammchen had many litters and when 10 years old was mated by one of her sons and produced a litter of rexed kittens.In 1960 two of Lammchens daughters were exported to the USA. From hair samples geneticist proved the German Rex was compatable to the Cornish. In Europe the German Rex is regarded as a separate breed due to the body confirmation being more like a European shorthair.The German Rex is  more popular in Germany and the surrounding Eastern countries.In the USA th breed has been breed into the Cornish Rex.

German

ITALIAN REX
Found in 1950,a wavy coated cat clearly showed a Rex mutation,but not used in any serious breeding programme and eventually vanished.

LA PERM
On a farm in the Dalles, Oregon in 1982 a farm cat produced a litter of kittens,one female was bald,at 8 weeks she grew a soft curly coat. Linda Koehl had many similar kittens born over the next few years and decided to establish a breeding program. The kittens are now born with a straight coat,curling at 6 weeks. The La Perm has a soft tight curly coat either short or long coated the shorthair has an afro look while the longhair has very tight ringlets.The body is slightly foreign,with a long face and tall ears,it is affectionate and easy going. 

MAINE WAVES
In 1988 Di Everett an English Mainecoon breeder,reported that she had a rex coated Mainecoon in her litter,further matings to her stud to different Queens produced 3 more rex coated kittens.The recessive gene has proved not related to the Devon/American Wirehair and probably neither the Cornish genes.It occurs in every 200 Mainecoons born. There is some interest as to a new breed,but Mainecoon breeders see the rex gene as a problem to be eliminated. 

MISSOURI REX
IN 1990  a rex mutation in Missouri,USA occurred,to date no more information has been heard about this rex. 

OHIO REX
This breed was discovered in 1944,but due to WW2 was ignored. In 1953 a curly coated male kitten was born to a domestic cat owned by Mary Medderman from Plainsville Ohio.Toni died young from an infection but 3 more curly coated kittens were born to the same parents.As no long term breeding programme was established this breed died out.

Selkirk

OREGON REX
Another rex  discovered in 1944 and ignored due to the war. Mrs Stringham of Werrenton Oregon in 1959 found a wavy coated B/W female kitten in a litter from her Tortie Queen.She called her Kinky Marcel and was the founder of the Oregon rex breed. Crosses to both Cornish and Devons produced only straight coated kittens showing the Oregon Rex to have its own gene. 

PRUSSIAN  CAT
A curly coated cat reputed to be from a Russian Blue and Angora cross.Called Kater Munk he was found in Konnigsberg  in Germany in the early 1930s but does not appear to have been bred.

POODLE  CAT
Dr Rosumarie Wolf,a German Scottish Fold breeder experimented to produce a new rex cat in 1994. She crossed a Devon Rex with her Scottish Folds.This produced a rexed cat with folded ears,she called this man made breed a poodle cat.

SELKIRK REX
A female calico kitten born amoung a litter of  7,was born at an animal shelter in Montana USA. She was adopted by a Persian breeder and was bred,3 of her 6 kittens produced were curly coated,indicating the gene was dominant,further matings produced both longhairs and shorthairs,so Jeri mated her to his Champion Persian.As the gene was dominant the breed was easily established and he named the breed after the nearby mountains.The breed is accepted in the US as both long and short haired. The head is wide and rounded with a short muzzle,ears are smaller than a Cornish or Devon,coarse guard hairs are present in a thick plush coat. 

SI-REX
In the UK a description used to describe the Himalayan coat pattern of both Cornish and Devon Rexes. In the USA  it is a Cornish rex with a Himalayan coat pattern recognised by the CFA as a distinct breed.

VICTORIA CAT
In 1972 a kitten carrying the wavy rex gene was born to a feral cat in the Victoria district of London. The hair samle taken was proved to be incompatible with  the Devon gene,but no further information is known.

URALS REX 
A wavy haired rex gene was discovered in 1991 in the Urals in Russia,but little more information has been given.