The Selkirk Rex is a breed of cat with highly curled hair.

It differs from the LaPerm in that the Selkirk Rex coat is plusher and thicker.

The Selkirk Rex originated in Montana, America in 1987, with a litter born to a rescued cat.

This foundation cat was bred to a black Persian male, producing three Selkirk Rex and three straight-haired kittens.

All Selkirk Rex trace their ancestry back to the cat Miss DePesto.

A white Selkirk Rex

Unlike other Rex breeds with reduced amounts of hair, the Selkirk Rex is not recommended for those who might be allergic to cat allergens.

The temperament of the Selkirk Rex reflects that of the breeds used in its development.

There are no known health problems specific to the Selkirk Rex breed.

Homozygous cats ( with two copies of the dominant Selkirk Rex gene ) may have a tendency towards excessive greasiness of the coat, requiring increased frequency of bathing.

* Selkirk Rex Breed Club

* Selkirk Rex Breed Council CFA

* Selkirk Rex Breed Cat Club UK

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* Se = Selkirk Rex, dominant although sometimes described as an incomplete dominant because the three possible allele parings relate to three different phenotypes: heterozygous cats ( Sese ) may have a fuller coat that is preferred in the show ring, while homozygous cats ( SeSe ) may have a tighter curl and less coat volume.

* In cats, the Selkirk Rex Breed Club maintains a history of the breed and provides care and grooming tips to owners of the breed.

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* S-Scottish Fold, Selkirk Rex, Siamese, Siberian, Singapura, Snowshoe, Somali, Sphynx

* Selkirk Rex, a breed of cat with curly hair

* William Cowper's The Solitude Of Alexander Selkirk is about the feelings of Alexander Selkirk as he lived all alone on the island.

Gilbert's Bab Ballads, Selkirk is used as a model for the English castaways:

* Selkirk is mentioned in Sailing Alone Around The World by Joshua Slocum.

All of the guests are seated and grace is said, usually using the Selkirk Grace, a well-known thanksgiving said before meals, using the Scots language.

* 1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

It is south-west of Jedburgh and south-southeast of Selkirk.

It is similar ( but not identical by any means ) to the dialects spoken in surrounding towns, especially Jedburgh, Langholm and Selkirk.

The Juan Fernández Islands ( Spanish: Archipiélago Juan Fernández ) are a sparsely inhabited island group reliant on tourism and fishing in the South Pacific Ocean, situated about off the coast of Chile, and is composed of three main volcanic islands ; Robinson Crusoe Island, Alejandro Selkirk Island and Santa Clara Island, the first two being formerly called Más Adentro and Más Afuera respectively.

Alexander Selkirk is ; its highest peak is Los Innocentes at.

Radiometric dating indicates that Santa Clara is the oldest of the islands, 5. 8 million years old, followed by Robinson Crusoe, 3. 8 – 4. 2 million years old, and Alexander Selkirk, 1. 0 – 2. 4 million years old.

Alexander Selkirk is mostly covered with grassland from 0 to 400 meters, interspersed with wooded ravines ( quebradas ), home to dry forests of Myrceugenia and Zanthoxylum fagara.

The William Norrie Centre on Selkirk Avenue is the campus for social work education for inner-city residents.

* February 2 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

Defoe's immediate inspiration for Crusoe is usually thought to be a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk, who was rescued in 1709 by Woodes Rogers ' expedition after four years on the uninhabited island of Más a Tierra in the Juan Fernández Islands off the Chilean coast.

However, Robinson Crusoe is far from a copy of Woodes Rogers ' account: Selkirk was marooned at his own request, while Crusoe was shipwrecked ; the islands are different ; Selkirk lived alone for the whole time, while Crusoe found companions ; while Selkirk stayed on his island for four years, not twenty-eight.

Furthermore, much of the appeal of Defoe's novel is the detailed and captivating account of Crusoe's thoughts, occupations and activities which goes far beyond that of Rogers ' basic descriptions of Selkirk, which account for only a few pages.

While the LaPerm gene is a simple dominant, the Selkirk gene ( Se ) acts as an incomplete dominant ; incompletely dominant, allele pairs produce three possible genotypes and phenotypes: heterozygous cats ( Sese ) may have a fuller coat that is preferred in the show ring, while homozygous cats ( SeSe ) may have a tighter curl and less coat volume.

Selkirk persuaded eighty men and four officers to go to Red River where they were to serve as a military force to protect his settlers from the hostile Northwest Company which resented the intrusion of farmers into the fur traders' empire.

During the trip Selkirk decided that the route through Illinois territory to Indiana and the eastern United States was the best route for goods from England to reach Red River and that the United States was a better source of supply for many goods than either Canada or England.

As these Swiss were moving from the Selkirk settlement to become the first civilian residents of Minnesota, Dousman of Michilimackinac, Michigan, and Prairie Du Chien was traveling to Red River to open a trade in merchandise.

Hearing strange sounds from inland, which he feared were dangerous beasts, Selkirk remained at first along the shoreline.

Selkirk proved resourceful in using equipment from the ship as well as materials that were native to the island.

The agile Selkirk, catching two or three goats a day, helped restore the health of Rogers ' men, who were suffering from scurvy.

* " The life and adventures of Alexander Selkirk " by John Howell ( 1829 ) from Google Books

( Alejandro Selkirk ), are high enough to cause the Kármán vortex street that can be seen from space.

Introduced fauna by humans include rats and goats, which castaway Alexander Selkirk survived on during his four year stay from 1705 to 1709 ; his travails provided the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.

When Scott was a boy, he sometimes travelled with his father from Selkirk to Melrose in the Border Country where some of his novels are set.

Its source is St. Mary's Loch and from there the Yarrow Water flows in an easterly direction with a fall of passing the settlements of Yarrow Feus, Yarrow and Yarrowford before joining the Ettrick near to the site of the 1645 Battle of Philiphaugh just west of Selkirk.

The valley is traversed by the A708 that runs from Selkirk to Moffat.

Here is an example from William Cowper's " Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk " ( 1782 ), composed in anapaestic trimeter:

The Selkirk Concession, also known as Selkirk's Grant, included the portions of Rupert's Land, or the watershed of Hudson Bay, bounded on the north by the line of 52 ° N latitude roughly from the Assiniboine River west to Lake Winnipegosis, then by the line of 52 ° 30 ′ N latitude from Lake Winnipegosis to Lake Winnipeg, and then by the Winnipeg River, Lake of the Woods and Rainy River ; on the west roughly by the current boundary between Saskatchewan and Manitoba ; and on the south by the ( mostly very slight ) rise of land marking the extent of the watershed.

Selkirk had to ban anyone from taking food out of the colony.

Selkirk then sent in a force of about 100 soldiers from the British Regiment de Meuron to enforce the peace and eventually become settlers themselves, while also capturing the Northwest outpost at Fort William.

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