This is an illustrated version of the breed standard for the purebred Sphynx cat. This an interesting, intelligent cat that is nice to touch and hold – the feel of warm, silky chamois leather. The photograph is by the celebrated cat photographer, Helmi Flick. It is protected by copyright, which I ask you to respect, …
Sphynx breed standard – summary plus illustration Read More »
This feline family looks a bit alien. It does not take much imagination to dream up an alien environment containing these weird, pulsating, hairless blobs atop their queen. Straight out of Nostromo in the film Aliens. Another version: Here is the video: Note: This is a video from another website. Sometimes they are deleted at …
Picture and video of Sphynx mother and her newborn kittens Read More »
This is a picture and video of a hairless cat, a Sphynx, cuddling up to a cat with hair and the reason is first and foremost for the companionship – and for a bit of warmth too, I expect. It is a beautiful little video. Quite sad, I find because I feel the hairless strongly …
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This is Jasper who is both hairless and eyeless. He’s a Sphynx cat so that he is hairless for that reason and he lost his eyes to a feline herpesvirus infection. He lost his right eye first as it became ulcerated and had to be removed. Then five years later he lost his other eye …
Hairless and eyeless cat Jasper from a horror movie Read More »
Sphynx cats tend to throw up some strange photographs. One I published years ago showed the webbed feet of cats. The hairless cat’s lack of fur reveals more clearly the domestic cat’s anatomy to us. We see things we would not normally see. In this instance we see a lot of loose skin attached to …
Picture of Sphynx cat shows a lot of skin between arm and body Read More »
For me, and I suspect many others, this is an example of the exploitation of hairless cats for self-aggrandizement. A lot of people will disagree with me and enjoy the videos on TikTok, one of which is published below. I’ll explain what I mean. This woman, in Russia, realises that Sphynx cats have an interesting …
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Maybe it is just me again, but this is not what domestic cats are meant to look like. The original, discovered Sphynx cat would have been a normal looking moggie without hair or sparse hair due to a random genetic mutation. The mutation was a mistake of nature and but for breeders hairless cats would …
Short video of Sphynx questions whether we should be breeding cats Read More »
A very impressive work of art. For me there are two things that make it work so well. Firstly the artist, Tom Bragado Blanco from Marseille, France, paints the landscape behind the gas tank onto the gas tank as well as the Sphynx cat. This makes the gas tank disappear and it looks like the …
Street artist paints illusion of Sphynx cat on old gas tank Read More »
A picture of a black Sphynx cat the colour of which is caused by melanin being deposited in the hair follicle by melanocytes.
Right away I must say that this cat is exploited. Lucy is called The Bat Cat by her owner and she has 25k followers on Instagram. She is another one in a long line of online cat celebrities because of her strange appearance. The picture that I have created is a screenshot from a video. …
He is described as the World’s Scariest Cat but it is just a label. He is cute and nice in real life. He’s playful with a great temperament. It is a good promo label, though. His name is Xherdan. A good name which matches his appearance. He is a Sphynx cat from Switzerland. His human …
It took me a little while to figure what was happening in this photograph. The picture is abstract. You see layers of wavy material. There are three layers of off-white material and in between, in a kind of sandwich, you have what appears to be grey material, also wavy. Well, you may have guessed before …
THIS IS AN OPINION ARTICLE. IT IS NEITHER RIGHT NOR WRONG: The power of human over animal is emphasised in this picture. The human is god and the cat is a possessed object. The two components of the photograph – the designer cat and the false pink nails – go together beautifully and sum up …
Picture of black Sphynx ‘alien’ kitten and false pink nails Read More »
These pictures of a fat Sphynx cat are perturbing or disturbing or perhaps you don’t agree with me. The combination of obesity and hairlessness creates a very strange, surreal image. They are on the my_nakedbeauties_2002 Instagram webpage. I don’t have much more to say really. I just don’t think this is correct. Germans would agree …
Rosie and Poppy live with Sarah Jenkins who lives in the US. Sarah is a teacher and she decided to share her quality photos of her Sphynx odd-eyed cats on social media because someone said that they looked ‘weird’. Weird is good on social media especially if they are cats. It is an excellent combination …
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