LONG HAIRED DEVONS

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Comment by Babs Chiara Bailey on May 2, 2012 at 18:03

 we adore our devon called CHUTNEY with the longer hair - like to run my fingres thru his coat from tail to top he loves this a lot ! its natures way of trying do diversify the gene pool gently...

Comment by Elizabeth Brown on May 1, 2012 at 6:19

Very interesting, Jade - and a suggestion that has already been brought up by Devon breeders - that the cats with thicker - even untidier coats - are LH carriers. Would make an interesting study now we can test for LH. It was my understanding that outcrosses to Persians were done in the first place to 'improve' the poor coats of the day.

Comment by Jade Kleider on May 1, 2012 at 4:53

Long haired variants have always been a curious thing to me. I also wonder if it is necessarily "wise" to DNA test and "weed" out all carriers. I was told by my mother who was a Persian/Exotic breeder that when they were creating the Exotics years into many Breeders who had succesfully kept only homozygous short-hairs began having coat issues. The coats were not as fluffy, were flat and or greasy..and didn't have the same oomph that some with lh recessives did. Some exotic breeders would purposefully keep a lh recessive to keep coat factor. The Devons are a fairly new breed, and I have watched people paranoid about "lh" test and test to weed out ALL lh recessives....and I wonder if down the line 5 generations or so there will begin to be massive coat issues. Baldness, lack of fullness, and greasiness coming into play. The coat has all three types of hair....and I believe the lh recessive plays a part in this. Generations upon generations of homozygous sh will take their toll on coat factor in the long-run if all lh recessive is eliminated. I believe this is already happening with some breeders. I think a wiser thing to do is weed out and not breed the obvious LH. HOLD ONTO homozygous SH and breed them to known lh carriers  to avoid carrier to carrier breeding, and coming up with purposeful lh's since the idea is to have SH. But eliminating them I think is a bad idea. I think having them creep up here and there is a healthy thing, a diversity thing. Perhaps they don't belong in the show ring, but I hate the Pariah aspect of it. I feel they should be viewed the same way an "allowable" out-cross is viewed. Also the way the lh Exotics were viewed back in the day. But that's just my opinion...

Comment by Kate Ekanger on March 9, 2012 at 3:34

Hi Babs,

I notice you refer to the handsome Chutney as a Variant but you also speak of him having had curls/waves.

I am confused:)

 

Kate

Cloudborn

Comment by Barbara on March 9, 2012 at 2:38

Chutney looks gorgeous

Comment by Babs Chiara Bailey on March 8, 2012 at 2:08

update on long haired devon rex variant called CHUTNEY - photo with his friends taken this week - hes still long haired - not so curly at this time think hes started to shed some hair for the spring already - a bit early with our wet weather again this week ! - he has a shorter curlier coat all summer and the colours lighter and in the autumn he grows a longer redder shade of coat - strange ! 

Comment by Babs Chiara Bailey on July 19, 2011 at 19:32

the standard of points systems for catshows - but since all cats arent supposed to all be "idential" - cats arent clones ! - and they all have their own individuality of course - we both also dont see whythese beautiful  LH devons shouldnt be in a seperate section for themselves - thanks for comments -

Comment by Karen Kindell on July 19, 2011 at 8:19

I think the long haired Devons are beautiful. Who decided and why that SH Devons are the only acceptable kind?

Comment by Morgina on June 24, 2011 at 0:22

My darling BonBon, plushy, velvety coat is magnificent. She is a total Devon in build, has curly white eyebrows that remind people of false eyelashes and definitely has the wonderful Devon personality

Comment by Gisela Konig on June 19, 2011 at 2:16

Thank you Elizabeth, Kate & Babs for the info, love the photos of these longhaired cheeky devons!

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