What affects us affects cats
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 …
A picture of a black Sphynx cat the colour of which is caused by melanin being deposited in the hair follicle by melanocytes.
The skin of a Sphynx cat feels oily and smells rancid unless it is bathed regularly.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Andreas Steiger in the book The Welfare of Cats tabulates an interesting list of symptoms and associated welfare problems concerning hairless cats, the best known of which is the Sphynx. The Sphynx is a popular cat breed with many fans although it is not mainstream because of it’s rather extreme appearance. The first welfare …
When we describe a cat as “hypoallergenic” we do not mean that that cat is guaranteed to cause no allergic reaction in people because the word “hypoallergenic” refers to a sliding scale. The prefix “hypo” means “less than” so the most hypoallergenic cat is the cat that produces the least amount of the cat …
