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[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

ICYDK = in case you don't know

[-] SecretSauces@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

TY;DK = Thank You; Didn't Know

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 51 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Bangs42@lemmy.world 93 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure they don't exist in nature.

[-] DrBob@lemmy.ca 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 4 points 1 year ago

And with it came the oil thing?

[-] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 8 points 1 year ago

Bad humans! 💦🔫

[-] nieceandtows@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

Humans strike again!

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Whatever they want. They are cats after all.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

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

[-] teft@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

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

Thanks.

[-] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago
[-] PopcornPrincess@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Cat ears for cat ears so you don’t see cat tears.

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year 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.

[-] poppy@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year 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.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago

"I iz yoda!"

[-] MacedWindow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[-] nifty@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
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