Neon-Cat Devon Rex
Neon-Cat Devon Rex
Fort Worth, TX
United States
ph: 817-377-2015
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Twila - little pixie in the sunshine - kitten photo
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Welcome to Neon-Cat Devon Rex, home of the friendliest Devon cats and Devon kittens in the whole USA! You might just find your special feline companion right here...
Neon-Cat is a small CFA registered cattery located in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. Although we've retired from showing, we've been active in the cat fancy since 1989. To our great delight we've been involved and devoted solely to Devon Rex since 1994.
Here our Devons live and grow up in a clean, neat home environment with lots of love and attention. The Devons freely enjoy the companionship of other kitties and their canine friend. They also take an active interest in watching their favorite bird families, squirrels, and geckos from safe window vantage points inside.
Kittens may go to responsible pet owners and families beginning at 12–14 weeks of age. Neon-Cat's standard contract calls for kittens and cats to be kept indoors and treated like royalty. All Neon-Cats leave home healthy. From time-to-time there are males and females available to established breeders. Breeding rights are purchased in the cat fancy and future breeders should be mentored by an experienced breeder or two. Individual registration papers from our cattery will reflect only a spayed or neutered pet, unless a kitten/cat has been placed with breeding rights. Those claiming to have purchased breeding right from Neon-Cat in the last 10 years have not and should be considered to be common thieves.
Our cattery is what is called a "closed cattery" - there are no queens sent out for breeding nor are there any cats taken in for breeding. This policy helps keep our Devon family healthy. Queens love being mothers and maintain excellent condition and health throughout pregnancy and nursing. They are bred as appropriate for them and to prevent feline uterine complications from too widely spaced inactivity. In over twenty years of breeding we have never had a major disease ourbreak, herpes, calici, and FIP included (see: "Devon Rex Client Education" section). We have been truly blessed. All adults and kittens are routinely vaccinated and wormed. We are a feline leukemia/FIV negative cattery. All incoming cats/kittens were isolated and tested for feline leukemia/FIV on day one and then again after 28 days to ensure that we remain a
feline leukemia/FIV negative cattery. Individual kittens are not routinely tested, but can be if a prospective owner so desires. All adults are routinely screen by echocardiogram for heart disease and HCM (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) and are free and clear. All cats are screened periodically, most recently in July, 2018.
All legitimate concerns and complaints are promptly and politely dealt with and always have been (see "Devon Rex Client Education" for more details).
Warranties
In the unlikely event of a genetic or congenital defect that may come to light in the first year (as documented by your veterinarian), a replacement kitten will be provided when available if a complete veterinary record can be provided directly from your veterinarian to my veterinarian.
Wellness checks on your kitten, where desired, should be accomplished 1-2 days after adoption.
There are no cash refunds, and deposit fees are non-refundable, although hardship cases may, at my sole discretion, warrant the return of the deposit.
Your warranty becomes void if terms of sale are violated. For example, declawing your kitten or cat voids all warranties.
The use of Griseofulvin (Fulvicin) or Ketoconazole (Nizoral) voids your warranty.
Combining the core kitty vaccination (FVRCP) with either the 1 or 3 year rabies vaccine voids your warranty.
Policies
Kittens are $1,000.00. Pricing and terms will be discussed with you during your initial telephone call and all kittens are priced alike for the year 2018 regardless or sex or color. There is a special pair price of $1800.00 available.
A $350.00 non-refundable deposit reserves your selected kitten ($600.00 for two) until it is time for the kitten(s) to leave home. Deposits should arrive in a timely fashion (7 days or less) and be made out to me, Marian Gooding. A kitten is not reserved until I have received your deposit. You will be notified by telephone when your deposit arrives. An email receipt can be supplied if desired. At time of pick-up or delivery to the airport, unless you mail your balance in ahead of time so that the check can clear the bank (1-3 days), cash must be used to pay your balance in full.
We do not maintain a waiting list. The color, patterns, and sexes of future kittens cannot be predicted with accuracy. If you are interested in a Devon Rex, please check back periodically.
We do not ship, but are willing to meet clients at either Dallas-Fort Worth Airport (DFW) or Love Field, Dallas. Airport transportation is $60.00, weekends only, with times and dates to be mutually acceptable. Please ask your airline carrier about their fee, if any, for flying your kitty in-cabin. Also inquire whether or not the carrier requires a health certificate to transport your kitten. If required, a health certificate is obtained at my vet's for an additional $37.00. If the airlines requires a health certificate and you appear at check-in without one, your kitten will not fly. Airline fees, if applicable, the fee for a health certificate, if needed, and the airport transporatation fee are the client's responsiblity.
If you or someone in your family has an allergy to normal cats, or suffers from asthma or experiences hives around cats, this must be disclosed prior to an adoption agreement between us. In the rare event the placement fails due to allergy, a refund in the amount of the resale value of the kitten less deposit/service fee will be provided. The purchaser will be responsible for all travel costs incurred for the return of the kitten. In no case will I be held responsible for medical expenses related to your purchase of these kittens. I do not advertise our Devon Rex as hypoallergenic. Home visits are encouraged if you have not met a Devon before - it provides a quick but non-definitive check on your tolerance to Devon Rex.
Kittens and cats will be kept as an indoor pets only.
Kittens and cats will not be declawed.
If you feel you have 'special circumstances' that entitle you to declaw your kitten or cat, please find and work with another breeder who condones declawing.
We have a number of clients with disabilities. It is expected that future owners will be mobile and able to care for their kitten/cat unless living arrangements include an able-bodied family member or full-time care-giver.
Before they leave home, kittens here routinely receive two core vaccinations (FVRCP) and check-ups by a licensed veterinarian. The FVRCP consists of coverage for the three main diseases implicated in feline disease: Feline herpesvirus-1 (FHV-1), Feline calicivirus (FCV), and Feline panleukopenia (FPV).
Diagnostic testing via PCR panels specific for feline URI have become widely available. A recently vaccinated kitten may have positive results when tested via PCR and this is not cause for alarm. Due to the nature of the PCR test itself, both live (field or vaccine strains) and inactivated (killed) virus may be detected. Thus, a positive PCR test result on a sample from an individual kitten has little meaning in and of itself. It does indicate that your kitten did, in fact, recently receive his/her vaccinations.
Adults have always received routine, prophylactic worming throughout the year for common feline parasites and kittens begin a set worming protocol beginning about day 28. Spot checks are occasionally performed by our vet. Breeding queens and studs also receive regular cardiac ultrasound testing.
I cannot be responsible for the future health of your kitten -- they have been given an excellent start here, the rest is up to you. In the very rare event that a genetic or congenital defect comes to light in the first year of life a replacement kitten will be offered.
Coat and the Devon Rex kitten molt:
We have several family lines each with there own distinct 'look'. For example, some cats will have more coat than others and some cats may be bigger-boned than others from more petite lines. All our adults have full rich coats.
Some kittens molt, e.g., lose their coat between the 5th and 10th week. This is normal and is a feature of some family lines of Devon Rex. Molted kittens will regrow their coats from about 3 1/2 months to 6 - 10 months of age. Kittens may become totally furless like Pix (below). All our kittens will eventually develop soft, wavy coats. Some patience may be required. During their molted phase, kittens may exhibit scratches or pricks from playing with one another or, at the owners' homes, from playing with other animals. Here kittens may engage in "mock nursing" - it is a social thing and comforting to them. The rare kitten will self-nurse or attempt to nurse the arm of his human. Hickies may result. Kittens outgrown this mock-nursing. We do not brush Devon Rex - their beautiful coat is soft and rather fragile - brushing will pull out fur. Once in awhile when young, a mother cat will over-groom a baby with resultant fur loss. Over-grooming most commonly occurs around the tail, rear legs, or face and head area. This lost fur will regrow.
Pixs - an example of a molted Devon Rex kitten; Pixs has actually started the regrowth of her fur, she was totally hairless a few weeks ago, pretending to be a Sphynx; 11-30-12
Grooming:
Ears in young Devon Rex may be very waxy; the waxy is dark-brown in color. Weekly gentle ear cleaning is recommended. Trim nails at the same time ears are done - the nails of kittens are needle-sharp.
Molted Devon kittens and young kittens in general will have a slightly oily coat (or skin) and may require bathing every week. The skin oil is brownish in color and can be irritating to skin. Oils also provide an excellent medium for bacterial and fungal growth, so bathing is important.
Both ear wax and skin oil production subside as kittens age. Adult Devon Rex are very low maintenance, requiring bathing only if they get into something, or, in the case of those clients having allergies, as needed for allergen mitigation. Devon fur is soft and easily broken; there is no need to brush a Devon Rex. Brushing may remove fur.
Kittens begin to self-groom about 7-8 weeks of age, sometimes sooner, sometimes later. Here baby Aster tidies up after a breakfast of wet food. Photo from 11-8-13.
Eye color:
All kittens are born with blue eyes that change color as they age, often beginning with a semi-gray phase that then develops the adult eye color. Adult eye color is typically gold, hazel, or green in non-pointed cats here, with blue eyes in the pointed kitties, and aqua (blue-green) eye color in the mink cats. Cats have excellent vision - day or night, regardless of their eye color.
Ideally, eyes should be almond-shaped, as exhibited by young Winston. He's a 9 week old, red point & white boy.
New the past few years are pointed Devon babies - they have the Siamese color pattern and lovely blue eyes. Pointed Devons are also called "Si-Rex". The points refer to the darker contrast color on the face, feet, ears, and tail.
Tommy's Cherice - Seal point; photo from 9-19-18
Pointed colors
Seal point: the darkest of the pointed cats with points appearing seal-brown to black; bodies off-white to light or dark tan or beige;
Chocolate point: these cats have brown points ranging from bittersweet chocolate brown to pale milk chocolate; bodies in a light color;
Blue point: the lovely blues have point colors that are slate-gray and bodies that are a glacial white;
Lilac point: the lightest of the basic pointed series, lilac points have whitish bodies and silvery gray points often tinged with rose or lavender;
Red point & Cream point: red points have orange-color face, feet, ears, and tails; cream points have tan or reddish-tan point colors; both have white to off-white body color;
Tortie points (girls only, boy torties are extremely rare): light bodies with daker points colors also colored with black or red.
Mink colors
Natural mink: dark brownish-black point colors and brown bodies; similar to seal points, but darker;
Champagne: medium brown point colors and light brown bodies; similar to chocolate points;
Blue mink: slate blue point colors and glacial-white bodies; similar to blue points;
Platinum mink: frost gray points and whitish body color; similar to lilac points;
Red mink: bright apricot to deep-red points and off-white to pale tangerine body color.
The white spotting gene (piebald gene) may add decorative white color to the pointed or mink color kitties. Point colors may be partially or wholly obscured by the "and white" pigment.
Dixie - seal point & white girl; 13 weeks old; her dark mask is highlighted in white; photo from 10-20-18
Sadie's kittens - 3 days old on 3-27-14; there are two pointed Devon boys, Brandon and Seamus, and a red tabby girl, Christine; all pointed kittens are born white - their color pattern will develop in a week or two and continue to deepen over the next month. Their faces, feet, legs, and tails will be in a contrast color to their whitish body color. These pointed Devons will have pretty blue eyes as adults and nice wavy coats. Kittens are born with their eyes closed - eyes open between the 5th and 10th day. They will begin to hear around 2+ weeks of age.
Also relatively new for us are the mink series of pointed Devons. Like Tonkinese, Devon Rex can host the cs/cb genes (cs Siamese; cb Burmese) to form a darker verison of a pointed kitty. They are quite lovely. Their eye color as adults will be a non-flashing blue-green (aqua).
Virgil - natural mink boy at 7 weeks old; 7-29-15
Mink colors may also come with the white spotting gene (piebald gene).
Yogi - dark and handsome natural mink & white boy; 5 weeks old; 4-26-19
Devon Rex can have about 1900 different colors and patterns.
Food:
Kittens begin life eating Blue Buffalo Wilderness kitten dry food (chicken recipe) at about 5-6 weeks of age.
https://bluebuffalo.com/natural-cat-food/grain-free-blue-wilderness/dry-food/wilderness-kitten-chicken-recipe/
Kittens also eat 2-3 meals a day of wet canned food (Royal Canin, Nutro Max, Blue Buffalo, and Science Diet). Young kittens wean to the wet food first before learning to eat dry food. All things being relatively equal, our food choices are based on what the kittens and cats really like and will eat readily. Kittens in the past have enjoyed Royal Canin kitten dry food. Adults do very well eating Blue Buffalo Wilderness (chicken recipe) mixed with 50% Nutro Wild Frontier. It is recommended that you feed your kitten or cat a balanced feline diet. Cats are obligate carnivores and do not require veggies and may find foods with herbs and vegetables hard to digest. Look for AAFCO labeling on food bags and cans to assure that the food meets the nutritional levels established for felines. Kittens should be started on the foods they are use to and familiar with here; if you wish to switch foods, do so gradually to avoid digestive upset. Devon Rex kittens and cats love to eat and a few human snacks and tidbits can be shared. Avoid spicy foods and foods with garlic and onion.
All tuckered-out: Austin and Evie fast asleep in their food bowl. Danny (left) is greatly perplexed - to wake them or not??
Leave dry food out so that your kitten or cat can snack throughout the day (free feeding) unless weight gain is an issue with an adult. Here little Izabella gets a snack. Kittens need calories all day long.
Devons, a smallish, lively breed (5–9 pounds adult weight, sometimes a little larger depending on family lines), eat and drink about three times as much as ordinary cat-cats. We free-feed adults and kittens here. In addition to their dry food, kittens also eat 2-3 meals per day of wet canned cat food. Adult cats eat Blue Buffalo Wilderness dry food as demonstrated by Alexei above at a feeder. Adults also eat wet food a few times a month as a treat (pregnant and nursing queens are served wet food daily as a supplement). The wet food most often fed here is creamy, tasty Nutro Max or Nutro's 'Perfect Portions' where one half the plastic container makes a perfect kitten or adult portion. Kittens also love Royal Canin kitten wet food (one half a 3.0 ounce can is sufficient per meal).
Just hours old, Devon babies can easily drink 3 cc of milk.
Cat Litter:
Our litter of choice is Tidy Cat clumping litter - "Instant Action". Devons are very good about using their litter boxes and kittens adjust well to other brands of cat litter. They do like a clean litter box.
Some of our clients have trained their devons to use the toilet. Devons are very smart - Nickey, below, began using the toilet on his own. Products are commercially available to aid toilet training.
Justine's Nickey (4½ months old) takes a whizz. Nickey has also learned to use a sensor to flush when he's finished.
See the "Devon Rex Client Education" section of the website for more information on your Devon Rex and his/her care.
At the breeder's
Some folks spend up to an hour or so playing with kittens and adults while meeting the feline family.
Samantha & her kitten Sancy, a blue-silver tabby & white girl; photo from 6-23-07
Samantha & Sancy; 6-23-07
Samantha & Sancy; 6-23-07
Watch here below as Rosco adopts Magda when she came to visit:
Rosco checks out Magda's hat and hair 10-22-12
Rosco adopts Magda 10-22-12
Rosco: "Yes, Magda is the one for me" (10-22-12)
Fun time with 8 week old kittens: Sally (left) & Molly (right); 10-28-16
Devons are Fun!
Devons are very intelligent and amenable to teaching and training (within reason - they are still cats).
Gaylene's Itsey - on leash and out for a stroll with mom; April 2014
Devons love to be with their owners and travel well. With their adventurous spirit, zest for life, and fearless nature Devons do well in a variety of situations. Many Devon Rex are known to love to perch on their owner's and friend's shoulders.
Chris with Eliiigrace - out for a drive.
Noella's Polly - cruising! May 2014
Mazzy with "mom" DeAnn - cruising down the highways of life together ; August 2014
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Marian Gooding as Neon-Cat or neoncat@flash.net or neoncat.marian@gmail.com maintains only this web site and a Flickr Photo site on the internet. There are many people using the name or label Neon-Cat or other similar names.
Check out the ceramic art work on Flickr. Some work features Devon Rex and other animals, real or mythical.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neon-cat/
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Neon-Cat Devon Rex
Fort Worth, TX
United States
ph: 817-377-2015
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