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Types of Coat
There
are several types of coat that are modified by a combination
of the diferents skin / hair /coat hairloosing pattern.
Peterbald
can have ranging from totally naked (more naked than Sphynx)
to different "brush" kind of hair, which are in same
cases somewhat similiar to a normal cat's hair. With any type
of those, a cat is still Peterbald if it looks the way that
standard describes it.
“Absent
of Coat = Bald or naked”.
They
are hairless even completely naked. They are also called "rubber"
or "gummy”. Their skin is soft, warm and almost sticky
to the touch by their “Hair absent”. They can have
same charming wrinkles. Kittens of these type are born with
a very short “flock or velour” coat or absolutely
hairless.
They
born with open eyes or open it in the next 2 days, normaly they
not have whiskers and eyebrowes.
For
people who have allergy from cat's hairs most advisable option
is completely hairless Peterbald, though it's still not 100%
guarantee there won't be allergy.
“Flocked coat”.
They
have “flock” or “short chamoise” hair.
The
flocked hair is between 0.2 mm to 2.5 mm. Is short, soft and
fine down hair, not dense not extremely sparse. We can differentiate
two subtypes of flock, “usual flock” and “extra-short
flock” that is one little step from hairless.
The
“usual flock”coat is in 1.5 – 2.5 mm short
and fine hairs. The sensation is smooth without resistance when
you move it. Is not invisible to the eye. Hair can have same
shine on light and it give a satin look to the eye.
The
“extra-short flock” “Soft Chamoisse or flock”
hair is in 0.2 -1.5 mm shorter and finer. Invisible to the eye.
The coat have a smoother sensation. Hair doesn't shine on light
is almost invisible to the eye. Still, from times to times hairs
may very from one of those subtypes to another (with age, pregnancy
and other factors). It's useful to know that even flocked cats
may have longer type of hair ("velour" or "brush")
on some areas of the body. Usually it's points and tail. All
floked cats have curly whiskers.
“Velour coat”..
The
Velour type of hair is short, between 2.5 mm to 4 mm of long
in hairs.
Normaly
are soft and fine down hair; dense, closely put one to another;
but can be sparse on body.
Coat
is shiny on ligth. Usually you can see those hairs from middle
distance and when you touch a cat with a hand it's still somewhat
smooth sensation, though hand get some resistance when you move
it over skin, you sense some close short hair.
 
“Brush
coat”.
Brush
coated Peterbald are those cats that are more fur to be hairless.
The hairloosing gene have afected in the less degree the hair
follicule and the result is modified hairs. Normaly are protection
or guard modified groose hair; really dense. We can
differenciate three subtypes of brush coat, wiry waved and
softhing or cottoned.
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“Brush
Wiry”. They have “wiry and hard” hairs.
The hairs are wide ad groose with the curly tip. Wiry are
normally short haired, the hair long is between 5mm to 15
mm. Wiry coat are sparse never extremely dense. They are
agresive to the touch, NOT SOFT becausse the curly tips
made resistance. Curly whiskers.
 
 
When
you touch any sort of brush hair, it's absolutely unlikely to
anything naked, it's just a hard or soft waved hair, short or
lengthy. Brush cats have curly whiskers, which differes them
from cats with normal hair, sometimes also called "straight
hairs". Sometimes a cat can be "brush-point",
that is she have brush kind of hair on legs and tail and velour
(or even flocked!) on other parts of the body.
“Straight hair”.
They
are the cats with normal hair, alway they have normal whiskers.
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Main
thing is, there are no just 5 strictly defined groups of hairs
with same subtypes, those groups are somewhat diffusive, you
can't always tell if it's flock of velour, if it's extra-short
flock or usual flock and so on. There's plenty of midium cases.
And finally when are not sure “what kind of hair”
your cat is, check the legs and decide upon its analysis.
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