Mohave
Bob * Desert Lynx * Highland Lynx * Snowbob
Let Windswept tame your soul, with exotically wild
spots and stripes to fill the imagination of owning a wild cat with a
purring gentleness of the domestic cat. Windswept is a small
cattery started in the spring of 2004! We are also the founding
breeder of the Mohave Bobs. Our cats are Rare and
Exotic Feline Registry (REFR) registered
Mohave Bobs, Desert Lynx, Highland Lynx and Snowbobs, with several of our cats being snow gene, others just
uniquely colored and a few traditional colored. We hope to produce
quality exotic bobtails that are unique of the snow gene. In the past I have shown
and raised top quality Australian Shepherds
and took a break from showing the dogs, and turned my
attention to these wonderful breeds of cats (a smart dog in a cat
suit).
As of 2007 Windswept will be
downsizing our breeding program to work primarily on the Mohave Bobs.
From time to time we will still have Desert Lynx and Highland Lynx,
still specializing in producing Snow Bobs, in Mink,
Sepia added with a few rare colors of Chocolate, Lilac, adding in
Silver and possibly Cinnamon. In patterns of Spotted,
Clouded and Ticked.
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In the photo, the Mohave Bob cat still in
development and origination of the mixture between four rare
races: Desert Lynx (characterized for the wild aspect, spotted
pelt and ears with tuffs ): Snow Bob (cat of short tail, with
more fingers that the usual one): Selkirk Rex (famous for the
long curled coat and): Highland Lynx (with wild aspect and ears
turned for tras) the idealizer of the Mohave Bob, Stacy Adams of
North American, involved with cats since 2004. Its
objective to form a race that congregated the main
characteristics of the ancestral ones: appearance of cat of the
weeds; tuffs on the one in the ears; shortened or absent tail;
more fingers that usual the five in the front and four in the
back ones; pelagem crespa; e at least in part of the cases, ears
with tips located for tras. The Mohave name was given in
reference to the desert of Mohave, in Arizona, Place of origin
of the race, the term bob comes of bobtail, that assigns to the
lack of tail or its shortening. The first batch of Mohave
was born in February of 2006. Today there are 22 units of the
race in the world, all in U.S.A., the work of four breeders. The
recognized Mohave and only for the Rare entity ties the moment
and Exotic Feline Registry.
11-09-07 Rose has joined with Windswept
Cattery
NOTICE:
DNA testing has not confirmed Bobcat ancestry and this
breed is considered wholly domestic by registry.
It has become very
apparent that most people are not knowledgeable on the differences
between a Bobcat and the Desert Lynx breed. In my years of working
with the Desert Lynx I can say there is no confirmed Bobcat to cat
crosses. While the internet boosts of the sizes of the Desert Lynx
to be bigger than the average housecat, and in the past has stated that
the Desert Lynx is a Bobcat hybrid, I can say I have not seen one.
While the breed is a large breed it does not get the sizes of Bobcats.
While I try to breed to resemble a more bobcat look I do not have
Bobcats nor do my cats get those sizes. It is my goal to have
stocky broad bodied cats with larger thicker legs with broad head pieces
and shaggy coats. But most of all I want my kittens to have the
wonderful dog like personalities.