A cat without fur? It is a breed more and more spread in Italian houses, also known as naked cat. It is elegant and unique, a cat that is different from a traditional one with long fur, but it is not furless despite our thoughts.
It shows an almost invisible fur, but you can feel it if you touch this cat. Since it technically is a furless cat it should live in an apartment, it suffers low temperatures and fears the burns. There are several types among them, but how much does it cost?
Furless cat, prices
Furless cats are a very peculiar and uncommon type of cats: there are different breeds of furless cats, they are often born from breeding, but the naked cat has ancient origins, since also Egyptian had it. We know for sure that furless breeds tend to be more expensive. Let’s see in detail the prices of the most spread naked cat breeds.
The price of the different breeds
The furless cat is characterized by a glabrous look and the apparent absence of fur caused by a spontaneous mutation of a recessive gene called hr. Actually, the furless cat has a thick and thin hair. But how much does one of them cost? There are many different breeds, usually all of them are expensive.
The Canadian Sphynx, or Egyptian cat is probably the most spread furless cat breed: its price is about 1000 Euros, but it can go up according to genealogy.
The puppy is born form a Sphynx and Munchkin breeding and it is characterized for a wrinkled look, it shows a friendly and affectionate personality and it is one of the most expensive furless cats: its price ranges from 1,500 to 3,000 Euros. It is also expensive the Elf cat, a recent and very rare hybrid breed derived from a breeding between Sphynx and American Curl: its prices range from 2,000 to 3,000 Euros.
The Peterbald is a quite spread breed. It is born in Russia from a breeding between Donskoy and Shorthair: it has a sweet and affectionate personality and its prices range from 2,000 to 3,000 Euros.
Levkoy cat is a very playful and intelligent one, its price ranges from 800 to 1,200 Euros.