• Björn Tantau
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    514 months ago

    What do these cats do outside in nature when they can’t find any soap?

      • Dr. Bob
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        4 months ago

        IIRC the founding animal was a street cat that was adopted. So people were only indirectly responsible.

        Eta: Partially true. But there was a whole lot of breeding fuckery to stabilize the mutation.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphynx_cat

            • @Barbarian
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              Yup. For a lot of cats the layers are oil, undercoat, main coat. The undercoat is a very short, dense and wiry coat of fur to stop things getting from the main coat to the skin.

              The undercoat, as you can imagine, also absorbs a lot of the oil. Most people who are allergic to cats are actually allergic to the oil.

              Also, in very specific breeds, there can be 3 layers of fur (like Siberian, for example).

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    434 months ago

    Leave it to people to take nature’s apex predator and turn it into a high maintenance fashion statement.

  • teft
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    214 months ago

    Now I’m imagining The Neverending Story with two of these guys guarding the gate instead of the normal sphinxes.

    Thanks.

    • @[email protected]
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      104 months ago

      Well, he’s certainly mastered the glare that could skeletonize a fully-armored knight from a hundred paces.

  • @[email protected]
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    74 months ago

    Does this breed tend to be calmer/more interested in water? or do you have to bath train them as kittens? I could not imagine giving weekly baths or covering ears/head on the average cat being a pleasant experience.

    • @[email protected]
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      144 months ago

      Since they have to be bathed from a young age, they probably don’t develop an aversion. I know other people who have had to get their adult cats accustomed to baths (the cats lack the ability to clean themselves), and after a while the cats just resign themselves to it lol.