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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 51 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] Bangs42@lemmy.world 92 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Pretty sure they don't exist in nature.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 56 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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 8 months ago

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

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And with it came the oil thing?

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

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

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 8 points 8 months ago

Humans strike again!

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 8 points 8 months ago

Bad humans! 💦🔫

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

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