SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SELKIRK REX AND OTHER REX BREEDS

BREED CORNISH REX DEVON REX LAPERM SELKIRK REX HEAD Medium wedge. Short, broad wedge Modified wedge with Similar head type to British Head length with high cheek bones. slightly rounded, gentle Shorthair except for slightly about one-third Strong muzzle. Well contours. Whisker pads curved top of head. The greater than defined whisker break. should appear full and muzzle is of medium width maximum width. Brow curving back to rounded. Forehead with well-padded whisker The wedge flat skull. Strong should be a flat plan to pads giving a rectangular narrows to a muzzle. top of head. impression & is clearly visible rounded muzzle. beyond the cheeks when viewed in profile. NOSE Flat skull curving Short nose with definite Straight nose with Short, broad and straight with gently at the fore stop. gentle convex curve a downward slant. In profile head and rising from base to the the nose can appear to have continuing in a top of the eye. a convex curve. The nose straight line to the break is neither too tip of the nose. Profile showing gentle pronounced nor too shallow. contours. CHIN Strong chin. Firm chin and well Slightly broad muzzle in Firm and well developed. defined whisker break. proportion to wedge. The bite must be level, the tip Strong, firm chin. of the chin should line up Moderate whisker with the tip of the nose in the break. same vertical plane. EARS Large, set rather Large, set low and wide Placed to continue Medium sized, broad at the high on head, apart. Very wide at modified wedge. Slightly base and may be tufted at wide at base base tapering to flared and cupped. the tips, Set well apart on the tapering to rounded tips. Medium to large with broad head. Should fit into rounded tips. furnishings and ear (without distorting) the muffs. Tufts desirable rounded contour of the head. Internal furnishings, if present, are curly. EYES Oval shape, Wide set, large, oval Medium large and Large, round and well medium in size. and sloping towards expressive. Almond opened. Set wide apart with outer edges of ears. shaped. Set moderately no tendency to Oriental far apart. shape nor squint. BODY Elegant neck. Slender neck. Body Medium in size, Cobby type with a level back Body hard and hard and muscular, moderate foreign type, and may have a slig muscular, slender slender and of medium well muscled, medium the heavy hindquarters. The and of medium length. Broad chest. fine boning but not light. muscular torso is more length. Carried high. Neck carried erect, rectangular than square but medium long in not long. The body is equally proportion to body broad across the shoulders length. and rump, medium to large but not rangy. LEGS & Long and straight, Slim legs with length of Medium long to match Legs of medium length PAWS giving overall hind legs emphasized. body. Forelegs may be substantially boned. Paws appearance of Small oval paws. slightly shorter. Medium round and firm. being high on bone. Rounded feet. legs. Paws small and oval. TAIL Long, fine and Long and tapering. In proportion, Thicker at Thick, medium length thicker tapering. base and tapering at the base with a rounded towards tip. tip. COAT Short, dense and Short, dense and soft in Curly or wavy. The feel The coat is thick and dense. silken in texture texture and of even to the touch is unique The coat stands out from the without guard length on the body. The among Rex breed. It is body and should not appear hairs. The coat coat must be waved or a textured feel. The coat flat or close-lying. It is must curl, wave rippled particularly on has a springy texture random, unstructured coat or ripple the back, sides and tail; standing away from the arranged in loose individual particularly on the waving may also extend body with waves over curls giving an overall soft back, sides and down the legs. The coat most of the coat. At and plush feel. Ideally the tail. Waving may on the head and neck times the coat will part entire coat should show the also extend down over the shoulders and naturally down the effect of the rex gene but the legs. on the legs and paws is middle of the back. curliness may be most sometimes too short to evident on the neck, belly wave. Rexing in these Shorthaired or and tail. areas is desirable but Longhaired absence of it is not a Shorthaired or Longhaired. withholding fault.