• Dr. Bob
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    8 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@sh.itjust.works
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          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).