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Thanks. I found references to the Canadian Sphynx when I did an image search yesterday, but reading about the Don (Donskoy) Sphynx just now it seems that they’re not related genetically.

They're both funny anyway!

Alfred wrote:

Wow, very stripey! And those ears are amazing!! What breed is it?

Thank you, Alfred! I often get confused, so it could actually be either a Don Sphynx or a Canadian Sphynx

Thanks. I found references to the Canadian Sphynx when I did an image search yesterday, but reading about the Don (Donskoy) Sphynx just now it seems that they’re not related genetically.

Wow, very stripey! And those ears are amazing!! What breed is it?

Thank you, Alfred! I often get confused, so it could actually be either a Don Sphynx or a Canadian Sphynx

Here's my little fella.

Amongst all the rubbish one sees on Quora there is occasionally something amusing! This caught my eye, and although I'm not too sure I like where the area I live in is positioned......

I'm not too sure I like where the area I live in is positioned......

And thereby hangs a tail.

Sounds about right!

Has she got the Cat Master/Mistress, Human Slave thing properly sorted?

Absolutely!

She was a stray, that we would see occasionally for a few weeks, and would run off when she saw anyone. It was quite  while before we could get close, but she eventually got us under full control.

It's quite dangerous for stray cats around here. No traffic, but coyotes, bob cats, raccoons, eagles and black bears, and once in a while, a cougar.

A bob cat attacked a couple of chickens recently, and one died a week or so later. Squeaky saw it from about 2o yards, and disappeared below the house in a flash. She can move quite quickly when danger threatens.

Just a few evenings ago we had a visit from a mother bear and two cubs out in the field adjacent to the house.

Wow! I think the most exciting thing we get in our back garden is a hedgehog!

Good to know that Squeaky lives a safe life. Here in the UK, because of lack of any real predators, cats are often free-range. All our previous cats would come and go with the cat-flap, although we always locked them in overnight after our first black cat, Tasha, brought home a weasel or ferret at 23.00 which we ended up catching and releasing in a nearby field just before midnight.

Our latest Kitty Master, our third house panther Binx, voluntarily became a house cat at around 18 months old. We think he'd been bullied by another cat and decided he preferred the safety of indoors. As he has a tendency to bilateral patellar subluxation in his hind legs (he really impressed the vet on a recent MOT visit as to just how much and easily his back knees could pop in and out, in all directions!) I'm actually quite happy about this. If he were to be out and about and make a bad jump (he always lands in a 4-legged 'splat' which probably explains the BPS) and was unable to get back home it could end badly for him. He seems generally quite content wrapping himself in the curtains as he sits on his cat-tree, or lurks under the sofa covers.