Picture of the chest and forelegs of a Bambino cat

Picture of the forelegs of a Bambino cat, a dwarf hairless cat

This is a picture of the chest and forelegs of a Bambino cat and I find it interesting. You would be forgiven for believing that you were not looking at a cat at all but some strange creature from another planet. The anatomy has an abstract appearance. The Bambino is a hairless dwarf cat, …

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Are all domestic cats wrinkly like hairless cats but we just can’t see it?

Odd-eyed hairless cats

This is a interesting question. It is certainly peculiar that we are seeing many hairless cats with incredibly wrinkly skin particularly on the top of their heads. I’m not sure that there is a caste iron answer to the question as to why hairless cats have wrinkly skin. Certainly, cats with fur do not …

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Are hairless cats hypoallergenic?

Temporary bipedal cat!

No, hairless cats are not hypoallergenic per se but if you are allergic to cats your reaction to a hairless cat may be less than it would otherwise be to a normal cat with a coat. I’ll explain why. The allergen which causes people to be allergic to cats is the Fel d1 protein …

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Cervical cancer campaign uses hairless cats to encourage screening

myGP cervical screening campaign

UK: MyGP wanted to encourage women to attend cervical cancer screening during Cervical Cancer Prevention Week. They decided to use the amount of fur on domestic cats to encourage women to go for screening. It’s what I would call a fusion of two aspects of life: the concept that women like domestic cats and …

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Hairless cat amplifies the beauty of a hairless woman

Yana by Kristina Varaksina

Photographer Kristina Varaksina chose this photograph as the one that changed her career. It comes from a series when the Association of Photographers asked its members to point out a single photograph which had changed their career. Kristina said: The work was born when I met Yana, a very special young woman, who has …

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