UKRAINIAN LEVKOY
In the fall of 2005 on the international exhibition of cats, conducted by "ROLANDUS-UNION INTERNATIONAL" by the international association of the amateurs of cats, by Pedigree commission of Association and by the author of the created new breed of cats - by me Biryukova HELEN were presented seven animals (of more than 30 already existing) to the presentation, for the acquaintance of wide public with the cats UKRAINIAN LEVKOY.
In addition by the Pedigree commission were represented the Article about these cats and preliminary standard for Ukrainian levkoy cats, printed in the Associations annual for 2005 year. On the preliminary standards, translated into English, to foreign experts in all breeds of cats, whom arrived to the exhibition: from Netherlands PETER PAUL MOORMANN, from Great Britain ELAIN RICHARDSON, from Russia HELEN DUBROVSKAYA and expert from Ukraine GNATKEVICH HELEN it was proposed to estimate on accordance to the standards given by the author and by other owners of UKRAINIAN LEVKOY cats. It is necessary to say that the results were stunning - and spectators, and experts, and press, and the television: - all were astonished and interested, they took pictures, conducted videosurvey, questioned about the ways of the raising of these animals. Especially international experts became interested by Ukrainian levkoy, and Peter Paul Murman and Elayn Robinson said that among breeds of cats Ukrainian Levkoy has very good prospects, they took pictures of these cats and photographed with them and with the author of breed with pleasure. Paul Murman said that will acquaint foreign felinologists with the Ukrainian levkoy and propagandize abroad their breeding. Russian expert Helen Dubrovskaya originally estimated Ukrainian Levkoy - she concluded after examination: - "I even sweated from such beauty".
I am ( Biriukova Elena - the author of the breed of cats Ukrainian levkoy) - infinitely grateful to all experts, members of Pedigree commission "ROLANDUS", to all workers of my club, to photographer S. Yarkovoy for a huge help in the prosecution of breed. I apply photographs from this exhibition. Besides photographs I have videotape recordings from the exhibition, made both by me and by television, the reportings from six (6) channels of Ukrainian television, photo reports with the comments of Ukrainian newspapers, numerous responses on the Internet.
And all began so: - from thoughts and once again thoughts.
Planning creation of new breed of animals by connection in one genotype two sufficiently far being distant genes and obtaining dihybrid livestock with the planned pedigrees signs, it is necessary to be aware of problems in the form of appearance of a critical or unstable state of genome, which is characterized by the whole set of reactions, different from the initial, with the aid of which new organism attempts to find a new ways of existence, maintenance of homeostasis in the new body.
The purpose of breedmaking is a creation of that desired, in relation to the stable genome, composed by the genomes of all its individuals, but not static set of genes, but totality of genes in their dialectical interaction – is developing genome of breed.
Taking into account these factors, assuming this approach to the genome, as to the acting system of self-regulation, it is possible to foresee close ones and distant formations of new, strongly differing from initial, phenomena. Such, for example, as hybrid disgenez – the instability of genome, or vice versa - the phenomenon of heterosis - successful combination of genes, and we will get wonderful healthy posterity of the desired type. Appearance of plenty of systems anomalies in posterity will be the index of disgenez. Therefore after the flow of the "primary drop of the blood" it is desirable to separate animals "in itself", if the worst did not happen (anomalies), we are choosing and allowing in work only individuals, who manifest good base of hybrid force - the heterosis, expressed in stability to diseases, strong constitutionally and adequate on the behavior. At the same time it is necessary to take care also about the selection in the pair of most similar according to the planned type of animals on the basis of inbreeding in order to double, stabilize desirable signs and, at the same time to double "negative" – to have a possibility to reveal and to reject animals with the poor, harmful heredity quickly.
So, at first we bring in a sign, and then stabilize and improve the type of the obtained descendants in each subsequent generation. Special attention must be spared to the steadiness of the reactions, to the adequate behavior of the animal selected by producers, ancestors. Phychical (mental) health is directly connected with the physical prosperity of organism. The stronger the organism, the more stable the nervous system. Anomaly of behavior is the first sign of disharmony, instability, disgenez. Forming an exterior is impossible separately from behavior, as it is not possible to separate form from the content. Harmonious animal is the coordination of all functions of organism and the adequacy of its reactions to the factors of environment, excellent balanced appearance (even if it is uncommon in the general understanding) and, certainly, sparkle of individuality.
The best animal have to have norm on the bulk of the signs stipulated in a standard, not separately, but in the wholly harmony.
Beauty is not ideal constitution (build), this is something more, where neither to add nor to reduce, when deficiencies do not strike the eyes, they do not scotch a look, and create unique appearance of exactly this animal with its energy and energetics, plasticity and cleanness of lines.
So, it seems, everything is clear: here are genes and signs encoded by them, which are transferred from the parents to posterity in a certain way.
Here is the prosperity of breedmaking! These genes – are colors! Others - fur, ears, tail, eyes, head etc. But No!
Yes, there are genes, they exist materially, as the signs coded by them are material. But these are not always only those signs, which we see, looking at animal, not their sum, but elaborate complexes.
Describing animal, we use such concepts and terms as form, size, mill, line, length, texture, etc. But all these parameters of living organism, called by us ”signs” are not separate, independent from each other. Probably, they on their biological essence are complex, complicated, dependent on each other and are divided into the smaller, not so noticeable, equally inherent to both one and another, maybe not very desirable sign.
Simply for comfort during the work with the selective material, in the description of the exterior of animals we enlarge, select them for designation. And according to the description of the various reasons or parameters of animal we can imagine its general view, on associations, existing in the consciousness, imagine, as it moves or feeds.
Due to different life experience and different aesthetic views of people, reading standards, which determine the exterior of animal, they differently perceive and imagine the look of animal. Therefore descriptions according to the type "long corps", "large ears", "short nose", "wider, longer, higher and so forth" are received not on quantitative - but at sensual level. Pictures, at the level of appearance, if you want. Without drawing or program. Certainly, it would be possible to make measurements and checkings, to design with the help of computer graphics any most whimsical animal: as long ago died dinosaur or fruit of fantasy of creator. But that will be robots, chimeras. To create the living, warm, happy real animal with the planned exterior and the desirable character - became my persistent idea. An idea walked through meditations, pictures and selection of living material (cats) for realization of plan.
Any idea in its formation and development passes three basic stages. At first it is assumed by ones, with negation and bewilderment of many. But majority generally know nothing about it. Then, in development and progress of idea by professionals, it follows its acknowledgement, and disputes of specialists and developers - "pro and con", about the "good and evil", about the aspects of application and influence on the surrounding world become the property of wide masses.
Idea with further improvement, although in the simplified form, after all, is being perceived even by laymen, simply someone likes it more, and someone less.
Everything said is correct for formation and development of both: world views and technical ideas, aesthetical canons in art, architecture or industry. It is correct and for the views on creation of new forms of life - breeds of animals and plants, their modification, or cloning, other ways and methods of their obtaining. It is more simple with productive animals - nevertheless this is meat, eggs, milk, fur, horsepowers! Purpose is clear. We can argue as desired furiously and emotionally about the occasion of the need of creating the new, completely unreasonably whimsical, not useful, not productive, not working animals, about expenses, objective difficulties of their breeding and support. But the fact remains to be the fact: "created by appearance and the similarity "- correspond and create, devoting to the Temple of dreamings everything: thoughts, time, money, life. In this way appeared all brilliant and not works of art, records, models of clothes, cars, yachts, weapon, toys, etc.
Decorative animals - toys - "mini" horses and doggies, curly and "super" long-haired, absolutely naked or maximally short-nosed, short-legged, short-tailed cats - the matter is clear - this is a whim, but not a necessity. But how we love them those no longer "our smaller brothers", created by Mother nature, but created by us people - our children.
Sure, to give birth to a child (let us say, a human baby, idea or the work of art) is a very responsible work, troublesome and exciting. And as to his own child each creator - father or mother, certainly, wishes cloudless existence, which is unthinkable without the reliable material means.
In living organisms this fortress of construction, reliability of life-support, no matter how touchingly ephemeral they will look. This is priority principle, although in the creation of decorative breeds often are taken exactly abnormal, vicious in the wide understanding signs - the border signs: too short nose, too long wool, etc, which complicates the life of animals. Now without an owner such "toy" can not live, it will not manage its organism. However, the wild animals, grown in the zoo or simply in captivity, be it a tiger or canary, they become helpless, dependent on the man too.
And nevertheless, realizing all above enumerated, I started acting.
Taking into account that the breeds of cats Donskoy sphinx and Scottish fold, are natural dominant mutations of aboriginal domestic cat in Rostov-on-Don and simple farmer cat in Scotland, I was relied on the God and the Mother nature. And decided, figuratively speaking, to use the principle of the "mixer of hot and cold water for the receipt of desired warm" to create naked lop-eared cat. Previously I outlined to myself original appearance of "neophyte" developed the construction of that bridge, which had to connect nudity, wrinkleness and foldness, without repeating, but only using signs of the INITIAL breeds. This means that I did not want to get a lop-eared sphinx or naked fold. LEVKOY is planned different from both mentioned breeds. He is flexible, elegant, more stretched than both ancestor breeds (probably, this will introduce flexibility and nondefectiveness of skeleton), it is more amusing than Don sphinx and fold, has flatter skull. And even ears are not clasped to head as Skottish fold’s, but standing, and only a part of the ear hangs rounded on the cartilage, more faithful recurvate ahead downward.
Eyes and wristles I undoubtedly took as the breedforming sign from the sphinx. The presence of these data was obligatory. The sizes of body, head, extremities were dictated only by the presence of salubrity, energy, freedom of motions.
Confidence in the health of posterity was given by knowledge, that many individuals - the ancestors of the new breed of levkoy cats – descended from my nursery and from the nurseries of well-known acquires and they were checked on posterity, and also they did not bear obvious negatives.
Name for the new breed of cats arose after prolonged reflections, messages at the subconsious level, after debates with like-minded persons and opponents of idea.
LEVKOY is consonant and somewhere conformable to the bent leaflets of this plant (ears of the levkoy cat). And almost naked doggy with similar ears is called Levretka. But even more naked Peruvian dog is called Peruvian orchid. And something in it is general with the angularity of Levkoys.
UKRAINIAN levkoy is named, according to tradition appropriate to the breeds of different animals a name of the geographical places of their origin. Here are Caucasian, German, Belgian, Scottish sheep dogs, and English, Arab horses, and Russian, American trotters, Dutch and Latvian cows. And cats: Angora, British, Siamese, Siberian, Russian blue, Persian, American short-haired and American Kurl , variation of different Bobteyls, the Canadian sphinx and Donskoy sphinx, Cornish, Devon, German and the Ural Rexes - cat of all countries and peoples!
But there was no Ukrainian cat. And finally it happened.
After several years of preliminary preparatory work, on 21 January, 2004, from selected and grown by me pair were borne the kittens - first UKRAINIAN LEVKOYs. Among them there was outlined type velour, almost naked and lop-eared cat - LEVKOY OF PRIMERO. So was registered the first cat of the new created breed UKRAINIAN LEVKOY by the Pedigree commission of International Cat Fanciers Association "Rolandus - Union International" in Kiev, Ukraine.

Ukrainian Levkoy is very contact and energetic, amusing and is similar to a cat just a little. It has long enough, but not beyond measure, body, strong extremities, rounded sinewy neck, straight mills, hardly curved as dragon’s; with everything of that, when a cat sits down or is laid, the relief wristle of surplus skin are obviously visible on the neck, breast, head, armpits and in groin. The head of cat is not round, but angular, in profile it is stepped as I wanted. Ears are bended forward - downward to one third, that gives to a cat completely original form.
At the beginning of 2006 there were already about 40 individuals of Ukrainian levkoys. They are the descendants of LEVKOY PRIMERO and 7 lady-cats.
Nowaday We have more than 350 cats Ukrainian Levkoy The most part of them are Ukrainian levkoy in the third or fourth generation of these kittens already. Phenotypically almost all descendants of ancestor are similar, although among them there is not only naked, also velour and brash variations, or not lop-eared - "STRAYT" kittens, which are fully laid in the scopes of standard of the created breed of cats.

Preliminary Standard on UKRAINIAN LEVKOY:
UKRAINIAN LEVKOY (ULV)
Preliminary standard
Scale of marks
HEAD (40)
Form...............10
Ears.................10
Eyes...............10
Type.............10
BODY (35)
Trunk............7
Feet and paws.........7
Skeleton..............7
Musculature.........7
Tail...............7
SKIN AND WOOL (20)
Naked skin.......10
Wrinkles........10
CONDITION (5)

UKRAINIAN LEVKOY is the selection breed of cats, on basis of two natural mutations of Hairlessness Hrbd
and foldness: - Fd.

Work started in 2001, Ukraine, Kiev, МАЛК RUI «Ladacats Ufo» nursery, breeder Byriukova Elena Vsevolodovna.
A new breed was composed on the basis of animals of the nursery: Don sphinxes ( DON HAIRLESS) a little bit facilitated and enlongated format, with the introduction also of the natural mutation of foldness (Fd). A used cat, was specially selected by the origin, long, flexible, strong and healthy, with wonderful character, obtained by the intentional cross-breeding for obtaining the necessary phenotype. It’s not thoroughbred, but the main thing - lop-eared! All its ancestors occur from the well-known nurseries of the Ukraine.
General view:
The Ukrainian Levkoy is a cat of very original appearance, hairless and with folded ears. These cats are of medium size, the body is rather long, muscular and slender of rectangular format. The bare skin of Levkoy is soft and hot, it is excessive, elastic and wrinkled. Levkoy cat's peculiar features are: special angular contour of its head and "stepped" profile (dogface ) folded ears and large, but not well wide opened, almond-shaped eyes. They are very friendly and active. The cats express sexual dimorphism.
Levkoy - this is naked, lop-eared, (Fold-eared) cat of original kind, hot by touch, strong and flexible, with the elegant average-long body, with long enough extremities and average long tail, surplus elastic skin, which generates wrinkles on the head, body and feet. As the breed-forming sign it is necessary also to consider the elongated, almond-shaped form of eye. Levkoys are very well-behaved and contact with respect to themselves similar and man.

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FRUIT OF THE IMAGINATION
This is not a bat. Nor a alien creature. It’s a cat. Precisely the Ukrainian Levkoy, cat breed that aroused from a feline model literally drawn by the idealizer, the Russian Elena Biryukova. Living in Ukraine has more than 50 years, Elena breeds cats has 18 years. In 2000, she gained from a friend one Don Sphinx, Russian breed without coat. Impressed with the different look of the cat, she started to imagine how could became still more bizarre. With a pencil and paper in the hand, she scraped the new and very pitoresc feline. He would have ears folded forward, reminds the ones of the Scottish Fold breed, but bigger, not too much approached to the head nor to much close each other. The cat also should have wrinkles, absence of coat, slender physical (structure), elongated body, angled head and almond eyes. She knew that mixture the Don Sphinx with the Scottish Fold wouldn’t be enough, since these breeds haven’t all of these glimpsed (idealized) features. Elena would need prepare the ancestral to the boldness project. She selected individuals of the Don Sphinx that most close to her purpose and mixtured them with cats of Peterbald breed, marked for the almost absence of the coat. Simultaneously (In parallel), she worked with the selection of Scottish Fold’s individuals and with the mixture among them and Orientals and cats without defined breed. Almost five years goes by (passed) until she obtained a couple of cats whose the appearance promised to give life the cat of the drawing. The female came from your matings working with the Don Sphinx. The male, from the bloodline of the Scottish Fold. They mate themselves (each other). In January of 2004, was born the pioneer litter. They were three little cats. All of them presented desirable characteristics. But one in special close itself still more to model illustrated by Elena. It was called Levkoy Primero and become itself the percursor (the father) of the breed. Since there, new matings had been done. Although rare, the Ukrainian Levkoy is already bred for around 15 breeders, all in Russia and Ukraine. It is also counts with a specialized society, the Catteries Union of Hairless Fold Cats of Ukrainian Levkoy Breed, and with the official recognition of the International Cat Fanciers Association Rolandus Union International association little known, but with international acting. The current population of the breed is calculated between 50 and 60 cats. More information in the website http://levkoy.com or with the breeder Elena, by the e-mail ladacats@ukr.net

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Ukrainian Levkoy
En framavlad naken katt, med vikta öron. En blandning mellan Peterbald, Don Sphynx, Scottish Fold och Huskatter. Dessa finns i Ukraina.
Gillar du båda nakna katter och de som har vikta öron? Då kanske Ukrainian Levkoy är något för dej. Katten är framavlad av Elena Biryukova, i ukraina. Hon planderade att avla fram katter från en standraqd, och valde då att korsa Don sphynx/Peterbald med Scottish Fold. Även huskatter har användts. Detta är alltså två genetiksa mutationer som har korsats för att få fram en önskad kombinerad mutation.
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Efter en hel del jobb, så föddes så äntligen den första katter som liknade en Ukrianinan Levkoy. 21 januair 2004. Redan hösten 2005 fanns 30 stycken katter av rasen. Både med hår och utan, med vikta öron och raka. Vid denna tidpunkt visades också katterna upp på en intrenationell utställning i Ukraina. Förbundet heter "ROLANDUS-UNION INTERNATIONAL", och avelsarbetet blev lovordat av båda domare och media. Det blev en stor media uppståndelse. Rasen fick då en rasstandard. Redan 2006 fanns det 40 stycken registrerade katter

Hur är då en katt av Ukrianian Levkoy. Ja enligt upp gift (Jag har ju av naturliga själ inte själv träffat någon) skall den vara aktiva och sociala. De är av medium storlek. Kroppen är relativt lång, muskulös och rektangulär. De känns mjuka och varma, med elasiskt och rynkig hud. Huvudet har formen av en "pentagon" (ovanifrån). Tydlig övergång mellan topp och nosrygg, men två paralella plan. Nosen skall vara 1/3 av huvudet. Öronen relativt stora och vikta. Ögonen stora, men dock inte helt öppna och mandelformade

De tillåts att ha lite "veluor" päls på yngre katter (vid utställning). Men även Brush pälsade katter tillåts användas i avel.
Alla färger tillåtna.
Diskvalificerande fel är defekter på benstrukturer, inåtvända ögonbryn och vinögdhet.
Nedan lite bilder.
Jag vet inte själv vad jag skall tycka om denna ras, då jag inte är förtjust i Scottish fold, då jag har fått för mej att deras mutation också kan ge andra mutaioner i benstomme. Att då använda en sådan ras för att mauellt få fram en ny ras känns lite knepigt.
Jag skulle nog personligen inte välja att köpa en av dessa katter. Just på grund av detta. Även om de kan synas lite söta. Elena verkar dock ha varit väldigt ordentligt och tänkt igenom avelsbiten väldigt noga. Hon skriver på sin sida att hon noga planerat igenom allt och funderat på det mesta. Hon har också satt de djur som visat någon defekt, eller sämre psyke, ur avel. Men att starta en ny ras innebär ju alltid att man inavlar. Så ja, vad tycker ni?
Natali Publicerad: 2008-02-22

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