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Maintenance and care

svetlana_v — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 10:57:31 GMT

Sphinxes are quite simple in maintenance and care. People's opinion that the Sphinx needs special "greenhouse" conditions of detention is incorrect. There are several features that when the content of the Sphinx need to be considered.

Eating sphinxes are omnivorous and have an excellent appetite. This is due to increased metabolism due to increased body temperature and lack of hair.

But, despite omnivorous, it is necessary to adhere to a balanced diet.

There is no need to feed the Sphinx only with natural feeds or only canned feeds, it is better a reasonable combination of those and others, and, of course, the highest quality of dry, canned and natural feeds.

The second feature is that the Sphynxes sweat and get dirty, releasing through the skin a brownish wax-like coating. Probably, this substance is a protection for the skin, devoid of hair. But, too abundant allocation of this substance can say that the animal eats incorrectly (for example, too fatty food) or does not feel very well. It is necessary to find out the reason and eliminate it.

At moderate discharge is sufficient to RUB off, as dirt, the cat with a damp sponge or baby cleansing wipes. If you want, you can bathe the animal, using means for bathing babies or mild shampoo, which has an acidity level of pH 5.5, such as baby shampoo Johnson Baby.

You must remember that everything that is harmful to the child, and harmful to the cat and to adhere to this principle when using human cosmetic and medicines. After bathing, it is necessary to wipe the animal dry and make sure that it does not cool.

The third feature-ear cleaning. Black and brown secretions accumulate in the ears fairly quickly. It does not hinder the cat and cleaning is required in purely cosmetic purposes. Clean with a cotton swab, in process of pollution, and before an exhibition or shooting.

By the way, Sphinx is a photographer's dream. They pose wonderfully, look straight into the lens and are so funny that you can photograph them endlessly. When I go to the country with cats, make sure you take a camera with me, fearing to miss any charming and scenic shots.

Sphinxes, like people, are useful in reasonable quantities sun. Sphinxes of sunbathe and by the end of summer their colors are simply stunning-bright and contrasting, but we must remember that the Sphinx can burn in the sun. It is therefore necessary gradually to accustom the animal to the sun and in the afternoon not to walk them in the sun, it is better to diffuse the shadows. And in General, the animal must be tempered, it should not grow under a glass dome, like a Mimosa.

You need a proper diet, fresh air, in a warm season, exercise. There is no need to cut the Sphinx, you just have to be afraid of drafts and sudden hypothermia. Sphinxes do not need an elevated temperature of content when they are active (i.e. eat, play, etc.), but they prefer to sleep in heat, it is better for the host under the blanket, clinging to the whole body and loudly urcha. And it's nice to sleep with them, they seem designed for this. Of course, the sphinxes have healing powers.

They feel pain points on our body and immediately fit there with their naked hot body.

Adults sphinxes of fall sick rarely. In the case of infection heal fast enough, while maintaining immunity to the disease for life. This is due to the increased body temperature. Kittens and young animals, especially respiratory diseases, are more prone to infections. Therefore, the content of sphinxes required their vaccination.

The sphinxes are good at taking it at any age. For kittens it is better to use inactivated vaccine, at least in the first stages of vaccination, as live vaccine can sometimes cause complications - kittens begin to get sick with the same virus, although modified and weakened, but alive, which is present in the vaccine. Adult animals vaccinated with a live vaccine carry easily and usually without complications.

Puberty occurs in sphinxes at the same time as in other breeds of cats, i.e. about a year. The final formation of the animal occurs to one and a half years. The first estrus in cats can be from 5 to 12 months, depending on heredity. Cats reach sexual maturity around the year, and marks nearly half of them.

The number of kittens in a litter varies from 2 to 5, but usually 3-4 kittens. Sphinxes normally give birth, the tendency to the disease is not observed. Kittens are born naked, all in the crease, and like fledgling Chicks.

The less kitten fur, golee it will be in the future. Eyes open very early, 3-4 days. Ears in kittens hanging like puppies and up to about 3 weeks, and the more ears the Sphinx, the more they hang down and later up. Kittens are very active and intelligent, they develop intellectually before physically.

Like all breeds difficult is the period of weaning from the mother and the transition to independent feeding. It is necessary to monitor the condition of the kittens and at the first sign of diarrhea to take immediate action, as syncada because of the increased metabolism, faster lose their vitality. There is also a need to monitor the absence of sources of respiratory infections.

The appearance of small sphinxes is unique, it is impossible not to fall in love with them. They look like a Cheburashka and a dinosaur at the same time. They are very eared, naked, all folded, including legs and tail, and they are worn around the room, loudly stomping like a herd of hedgehogs, pressing their ears to the back, and if they fall, then there is a loud slap, as if on the table threw a leather wallet.

And they, like naughty little children. Of course, cats they do not consider themselves. They are intelligent, easy to learn, aimed at people, get along well with any breeds of cats, dogs, and other animals.

I would also like to emphasize one of the significant advantages of the breed - these cats can include people who suffer from allergies to wool or unable to care for Persian long hair.

The history of the breed

svetlana_v — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 10:55:42 GMT

Despite the fact that cats met quite a long time and in many countries, the history of Sphynx started in 1966, and oddly enough in Canada when Ontario was born naked kitten from an ordinary cat named Elizabeth. The kitten was nicknamed Prune.When he grew up, he was tied up with his own mother. As a result, in litter was as hairless and normal kittens. In the future breeding as well used close inbreeding - Prune jibe with their daughters and granddaughters.It resulted in the small number of hairless cats, 2 types, different features of the Constitution. CFA has created for this breed temporary standards. Breeding Sphynx began unsuccessfully received, a small population was unsustainable. And in 1971, CFA abolished the previously created standards. The kittens were born weak, many were sick and often died. Was the version that asserttest associated with gender of the animal, but not confirmed.

in the photo cat Prune.

In 1975 Wadena( minesota, USA) in a litter of domestic cats was born a new hairless kitten, he was given the nickname of the Epidermis. A year from the same cat was born a similar cat, it was called the Dermis. Both animals were purchased by the nursery Z. Stardust. The epidermis became the founder of the first line of hairless cats, which date back some modern pedigrees.

The epidermis and mom.

In 1978 in Toronto sherley Smith saved two kittens left by mother who were born from a domestic Shorthair: a longhair and a black-and-white bald cat(it was called Bambi). Kitty was unfortunately in a poor state, so it had to be castrated. Therefore, in subsequent breeding Bambi did not participate. But surpassed in another, he lived a long and happy life in the kennel" Aztec " in Canada, died at the age of 19 years in 1997, a little before reaching twenty.

In 1980 the mother of Bambi gave birth to two more hairless kittens, two cats. Kittens named Squeaky(Squeakie) and Pinky (Pinky). But neither mother Bambi or cats in the County were not bald, hence baslerstrasse gene was recessive in nature, and the cats were carriers of the gene, and perhaps descendants of prune back. Because of the properties of recessive genes appear in the phenotype of the offspring only when both parents carry this recessive gene. Subsequently, the kittens were sent to Holland, and took part in the breeding of the Canadian Sphynx as a Punk(Punkie) and Paloma(Paloma) Dr. Hernandez.

The Dutch experiments of Dr. Hernandez, made a great contribution to the breeding of Canadian Sphynx breed. Dr. Hernandez tried to cross between Starsky's brother and sister and johnny first. However, the results were not happy, all kittens of a single litter died because the mother abandoned them. After to Dr. Hernendez arrived from Canada Punk and Paloma, he decided to tie Starsky with the arrived ladies. But Starsky never wanted to accept the new cats, and Dr. Hernandez had him castrated in 1981. Paloma gave another Dutch breeder nanny Nathan, and then it was discovered that the cat is pregnant from Starsky of course. It's a shame, it's a shame, come on. Unfortunately Paloma was unable to bear children, and lost the litter. In a Dutch breeders, not a single Sphynx for breeding. And then Dr. Hernandez decided to use the cat breed Devon Rex. Punks tied with Devon Rexam named Carer van Jetrophin(Curare van Jetrophin). And she won, in a litter of hairless kittens were born! For replenishment of genetic material of breed the Canadian Sphynx, began to use regularly cats of breed Devon-Rex thanks to which Canadians became owners of big ears.

Thus, almost at the same time, the Sphynx breed was bred in the United States and in the Netherlands, using cats breed Devon Rex.

In 1985, Carol and Walt Richard of kennel "Britanya" in Texas, began their own breeding program of this breed, with the help of Dr. Salvage of Pflueger, who was Chairman of the Department of genetics in TICA. The cat from this cattery, named Britain Lady Godiva(Lady Godiva Bitanya's), was the first Sphinx, reached in 1986, the title of champion Supreme Grand Champion in TICA and received the title of TICA - Sphinx.

In 2002, the CFA for them was the open class Champions.

Sphynx cats are medium in size with a stocky build, and with a very soft outline shape. Reminiscent of suede, thick skin forms numerous folds on the body. Because of the "zamshelosti" and strong. The most common peg ( different variants of the basic color with white) and white ( Sphynx pinkish hue). Coat remains on the nose and back of ears, also allowed a small amount of gun on the ends of the legs and tail. Feature of the breed is the dense pear-shaped tummy. Hind legs longer than the front, due to which they have formed a peculiar gait. Separately, about the standards of the canadian Sphynx in the article is devoted to the standards of the breed.

Care for newborn kittens of the Canadian Sphynx

svetlana_v — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 10:58:49 GMT

Pregnancy cats has drawn to an end. You notice that before calm, she does not want to be alone and follows you everywhere with a quiet meow. Prenatal, that is, the prenatal period is completed, and cat the Sphynx is preparing for a neonatal is from birth to two weeks of age, which today we consider.

Usually, a kitten is born in a "shirt" — a gestational SAC, and the cat itself breaks its teeth, chews through the umbilical cord, licks his muzzle, clearing the mouth and nose of the baby to breathe. Licked, but not yet fully bahovskih kittens cat paws pushing like shovels in a heap, to his nipples. Healthy kids do not need to be persuaded for a long time: they literally suck to the "nipple", and in the first days in total hang on it for 8 hours! Cat Sphynx continues their dry language, and, lying on his side, pleased and purring, hugging their offspring paws, virtually excommunicated from them.

Relax and you only first remove the dirty (blood stains) litter, put a bowl of water closer to the nest. Give the cat rest, and tomorrow and in the following days you will be with affection and surprise to watch her and kittens, as once Karel Chapek, who owns heartfelt lines about the cat's motherly happiness:

"It's all going to come languor, exposing her maternal feeling; her every movement is full of infinite softness and wariness; her disheveled belly, patiently curved arc back and sensitive feet grasping swarming kittens soft motherly hug: look — we are one flesh. Leaving for a moment its nest, it comes back to Jogging, even from a distance giving voice and purring; at such moments it represents the parent of fanaticism."

Healthy kittens squeak rarely. At birth, the body tempera Tura kittens is the same as the mother, but almost immediately drops a few degrees. Wet baby Canadian Sphinx quickly cooled, so the primary task of the cat-to dry it, vigorously licking. Temperature conditions also affects the temperature of the kittens, and ideally, it should not be above 37,8°C. in newborns, virtually absent subcutaneous fat layer, they have no mechanism for thermoregulation, hypothermia is fraught with slowing of metabolic processes. That's why the nest must be very warm for the first two weeks.

Length of newborn kittens from 11 to 15 cm, weight from 70 to 135 g. This variation is explained by the physical condition of the cat, number of cats, heredity. Kittens are helpless, blind and deaf. Their life depends entirely on the mother, who for the first two weeks establishes with them a very strong connection, the role of which is assigned to smells.

All the energy kittens get from the mother's milk, and in the early days with colostrum. The more energetic the kitten sucks, massaging the skin around the nipple with tiny paws, the more milk is produced in the cat. However, lactating cat needs hard feed, more than the usual 2-3 times. The mammary glands of cats are swell and take the form of two large dense bundles along the belly. Colostrum can begin to stand out in the last day of pregnancy, and after childbirth — only in the first 2-3 days. Colostrum contains antibodies-a barrier to all infections. The greatest amount of it comes to nipples lower abdomen, that's why kittens are born first, grab these "feeders".

Sphynx kittens need to gain weight, increasing it to 8-10 th day half.

The cat continues to monitor the hygiene of the babies, carefully licking their genitals, the anus, massaging the rough tongue stomach. Licking helps correct blood circulation and breathing. She constantly touches them with a mirror of the nose, " marks "his secret, hurries to help comfortably settle down to the"feeder".

Finally, 5-10 day kittens open eyes. Famous cases of the early enlightenment, for example, on 2-3rd day you open your eyes Sphynx. First, there is a narrow slit in one eye, rarely in two. A number of things accelerate or slow this process. The light females before males. On 10-12th day revealed the ear. Kittens react to loud sounds, causing ears in different directions. By the end of the second week, their hind legs will be strengthened to support the body.

Sphynx kittens need to gain weight, increasing it to 8-10 th day half.

All the days of the neonatal period kittens of the Canadian Sphinx to gently but briefly to take in hand — so you can quickly and positively resolve the issues of habituation to people.

Almost immediately after birth to determine the sex of kittens of the Canadian Sphinx. Directed from a tiny anus vertically downwards, a small slit will point to the female, and a round hole (under the anus) — to the male. In addition, seals in the early days of "the bump" are the testes (testicles).

Everyone who first watched the mother cat was probably surprised and even scared by the fact that 2-4-day discovered in the nest no cats or kittens. Pomadasys through the rooms, looking into all the dark corners, "crazy" mother of kittens found and installed in place. Some cats their voyage gripped in the teeth baby are doing right in the eyes dazed from what he saw of the owners. This phenomenon is a very simple explanation: maternal instinct. After lambing, backed by itself, the placenta, and at the same time clean the shelter, the cat calms down for a while. She constantly cares for the kids, licking their allocation, but this is not enough. The smell may still attract predators, and she's saved by the fact that changing the lair, dragging the kittens one by one to a new secluded place. The second relocation cat suit a month after lambing.

The same thing, that is, the "salvation" of the children, the cat performs and in the apartment. As practice shows, her imagination in choosing a secluded place is limitless. Known cases when kittens of the Canadian Sphinx pulled out from under the refrigerator, from the drum of the washing machine, from under the carpet (!), with bookshelves, mezzanines, not to mention dark places like the back streets of the bathroom.

If the great resettlement has begun when you are at home, treat it calmly. Give them the opportunity to move all the kittens, if possible placing for the selected cat to place a towel. Of course, you are convinced of its complete unsuitability, but do not scare the cat, let her rest, and kittens after such transportation should warm up and eat. After some time with this towel take kittens (preferably all at once) at the same place. Sit next to her, pet the cat, talk to her.

ARTIFICIAL FEEDING kittens of the Canadian Sphinx

Sometimes, in case of death of mother, severe illness or other cause, to resort to artificial feeding kittens. An ideal option-cat-nurse, but usually cats transfer on special a mixture. I must say: it is a tough. About full sleep for two or three weeks will have to forget, as the main thing — to observe the feeding regime. Want to save some time, buy the ready dry mix — substitute cat milk (protein, vitamins) and act on instructions. However, these recommendations are applicable only to those who live in big cities, but it happened that kittens fed with a spoon literally what was in the fridge. Importantly, the mixture was warm (in the first week of 38-39 °C), the pose kitty — natural, and the "nipple" that replaces the nipple.

What to fit under the nipple? Perhaps, disposable plastic syringe for subcutaneous injections with quite tight piston. In vivo kittens suck, relying on their hind legs, but front massage the cat's stomach, so to attach to the feeding of a kitten of the Canadian Sphinx iskusstvenniy need on the same sample. Try to build a roller under his front legs. Feed every two hours day and night (!) the first two weeks. The next ten days every two or three hours in the afternoon and once or twice in the night. The next ten days you can feed three to four hours during the day and once at night. The total number of feedings in the first week should be at least 10-12 per day, so take care of the alarm clock for yourself. Milk mixture cools quickly, so keep her at feeding time in the tank with hot water. Before introducing the tip of the syringe into the tiny mouth, coat it with a mixture — let the kitten posmatret one drop. After feeding — toilet i.e. wiping with a damp cloth only Taurus (imitation of licking), and massaging the belly. Watch the" tail " of the umbilical cord, do not forget to keep warm in the nest (28-30 °C) with glass or plastic water bottles wrapped in a soft cloth. Kittens of the Canadian Sphynx orphans to feed you, but also your desire will need exposure. Without any problems they are fed two or three people, replacing each other at night. From the fifth week well gaining weight kittens night feeding is not required. They can be accustomed to solid food — special baby food or boiled fish, chicken, beef, cottage cheese.

According to the article on E. Lipoxinol "Cotoara" from the journal "Friend of cats" № 3, 2008