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 …
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 …
The difference between the Bambino and the Sphynx is that the former has short legs due to dwarfism and the latter does not. Other than that they are very similar. In other words the Bambino is both a dwarf cat and a hairless cat while the Sphynx is a hairless cat of normal dimensions …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A picture of a black Sphynx cat the colour of which is caused by melanin being deposited in the hair follicle by melanocytes.
Sphynx cats don’t sweat perspiration except from the pawpads just like any other domestic cat with fur.
