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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 51 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Bangs42@lemmy.world 93 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure they don't exist in nature.

[-] DrBob@lemmy.ca 56 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[-] nieceandtows@programming.dev 13 points 2 years ago

Wow, that thing is a rabbit hole! Thanks for sharing

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 4 points 2 years ago

And with it came the oil thing?

[-] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'd think all cats naturally do the oil thing to protect their fur

[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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).

[-] safesyrup@lemmy.hogru.ch 13 points 2 years ago

Yeah, wikipedia tells me its a breed of a breed of breeds

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 4 points 2 years ago

I mean, if you compare wildcat > sphynx cat with elves > orks..

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Orks are a type of sapient, psychic fungus, though.

[-] nieceandtows@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

Humans strike again!

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 8 points 2 years ago

Bad humans! 💦🔫

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

They're not natural. These are the result of human breeding. They've never had to exist in nature.

[-] SavedKriss@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Whatever they want. They are cats after all.

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