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The Peterbald is a Russian hairless cat breed created in 1994 by crossing an Oriental Shorthair with a Don Sphynx. The result was a cat with the long, elegant body type of the Oriental breeds combined with the hairlessness gene from the Don Sphynx, producing a hairless or nearly hairless cat that i
The Donskoy, also known as the Don Sphynx or Don Hairless, is a Russian hairless cat breed that arose independently of the Canadian Sphynx and carries a completely different gene responsible for hairlessness. Where the Sphynx's hairlessness results from a recessive mutation, the Donskoy's hairless
