Evidently he finally settled on the mixture of Jungle Curl along with whatever throw-away mixture he had developed over the years along the way and registered them as Desert Lynx, while developing his Highland Lynx breed. Instead he broke the rules of the original Desert Lynx standard. Those resulting kittens whether straight eared or curled should have been given a new breed name with each additional breed he mixed in. Again this is against the rules & why standards are important.

He did not deem any of these kittens right for his new breed (whether color, straight ears, etc.) they were again put in his registry as Desert Lynx.

Joe Childers went on to mix in the British Fold, Bengal, Calico’s American Folds, and so forth to develop the Highland Lynx. This is the reason standards are set and must be fallowed in any breed. They should not have been registered as a pure bred Desert Lynx but a mixed breed and called some thing else other than a Desert Lynx as they no longer meet the criteria or rules of the Desert Lynx standard. Any breeder will tell you that this is not an ethical practice. The kittens with folded ears he placed in his registry ( REFR) ( Rare & Exotic Feline Registry) as a Highland Lynx, the kittens with straight ears he threw back in his registry and called them Desert Lynx. That is where the name “Highland” came from, the Scottish highlands. He took the Desert Lynx and bred it with a Scottish Fold cat. In approximately 1996 a man named Joe Childers, owner of Timberline Cattery and the Rare & Exotic Feline Registry ( REFR) wanted to develop a new breed of cat with folded ears. Sometimes someone will claim to have a Desert Lynx when it is really a Highland Lynx. Not every cat that looks like a Desert Lynx is a true Desert Lynx, with the beauty and temperament of the breed. I would like to explain the difference between the Highland Lynx and the real true original Desert Lynx.

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