General Description from the TICA website
The Donskoy is in a class of its own. It is a highly intelligent, beautiful loving cat that looks directly into your eyes and seems to penetrate your very soul. These beautiful hairless cats remind you of extra terrestrials coming from the outer universe. Their appearance is characterized by magic harmony and their wrinkles give them an extraordinary old wizened look. If you can imagine the head of ET with long shell type ears, almond-shaped eyes that make you believe in the transmigration of a Bastet Goddess Ghost, the scruff of a giraffe, a small belly of a piglet, the tail of the Rats` King from The Nutcracker, small webbed toys of a monkey all wrapped up in into a leather or suede vestment with numerous wrinkles - you will get the surrealistic image of the enigmatic Donskoy.
If you are looking for a cat that loves to be will you all the time (especially if you are in bed under covers), runs to the door to great you when you get home and gallops around your house like a herd of stampeding elephants then consider a Donskoy.
General Care
A hairless cat requires skin care that a haired cat does not. If I do frequent face and paw wipes with a warm damp cloth and give a light rub down with coconut or almond oil, I only need to bathe my cats with a gentle baby shampoo every couple months or so. Their nails grow extremely fast, I suggest clipping once a week. They also need their ear cleaned out frequently, they have no hair to trap dust and oil so it all sticks to the skin. I have found that cleansers marketed to cleaning ears is to harsh and irritates their skin. I use cotton swabs and cotton balls dipped in a little almond oil to clean out residue.
The Donskoy is in a class of its own. It is a highly intelligent, beautiful loving cat that looks directly into your eyes and seems to penetrate your very soul. These beautiful hairless cats remind you of extra terrestrials coming from the outer universe. Their appearance is characterized by magic harmony and their wrinkles give them an extraordinary old wizened look. If you can imagine the head of ET with long shell type ears, almond-shaped eyes that make you believe in the transmigration of a Bastet Goddess Ghost, the scruff of a giraffe, a small belly of a piglet, the tail of the Rats` King from The Nutcracker, small webbed toys of a monkey all wrapped up in into a leather or suede vestment with numerous wrinkles - you will get the surrealistic image of the enigmatic Donskoy.
If you are looking for a cat that loves to be will you all the time (especially if you are in bed under covers), runs to the door to great you when you get home and gallops around your house like a herd of stampeding elephants then consider a Donskoy.
General Care
A hairless cat requires skin care that a haired cat does not. If I do frequent face and paw wipes with a warm damp cloth and give a light rub down with coconut or almond oil, I only need to bathe my cats with a gentle baby shampoo every couple months or so. Their nails grow extremely fast, I suggest clipping once a week. They also need their ear cleaned out frequently, they have no hair to trap dust and oil so it all sticks to the skin. I have found that cleansers marketed to cleaning ears is to harsh and irritates their skin. I use cotton swabs and cotton balls dipped in a little almond oil to clean out residue.