Poor/Weak Rex??

Gummi Bear · Jun 15, 2009

As dumb as this is going to sound, I have to ask. My two boys were itty bitty bubs when I got them, they had really tight curly fur and perfect curly whiskers. Now they are adults and their fur just looks ragged and rough. Could you call them a weak or poor rex? I'm wondering if there is such thing.

TwilightRatz · Jun 15, 2009

They can be called Both actually or anything you want to call them they are yours LOL ...I rescued a Poor Rex once, it was like she had a little ruffled hair that was a littler rougher then the normals with Curly whiskers, but that was it.

No nice Curly hair for her, it was just like she forgot to comb her hair in the morning :lol:

I always said she was having a Bad Hair day, LOL

smalltowngirl · Jun 15, 2009

I think I remember reading somewhere if both parents have Rex fur the babies fur can sometimes come out patchy when their adult fur comes in.

jorats · Jun 15, 2009

If both parents are rexes, chances are you'll have double rex babies... lots of patchy spots and all wired and falling too. That will stay with them all their life.

There are all kinds of kinks in hair... such is genetics.

lilspaz68 · Jun 15, 2009

Most rexes start off as curly bubs and then everything straightens and they lose their curl as an adult, and become more of a crimp or wave

These are poor rexes. Good rexes keep their curls. Females are more likely to lose their curls than males as well.

whoknew · Jun 15, 2009

my first boy was a tiny little rex baby, but as he grew up he lost a lot of the curls in his whiskers and his fur and eventually ended up with just wavy whiskers and funny coarse fur that looked like an old man. he was just too cute! now that i think about it... all the rexes i've come into contact with have gone through this change.. i would be really interested to meet an adult "good" rex.