Misses Pinkerton
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I know the other thing people have mentioned on here realted to hair growth is hormones, has she been spayed or come into heat recently?
I know the other thing people have mentioned on here realted to hair growth is hormones, has she been spayed or come into heat recently?
It happens but to say it is normal is not really good.
No matter weather or hormones a pure bred sphynx should not grow hair (more than fuzz)outside of it's hair zones, they should be genetically programmed not to.
Now, we are dealing with a live being so it will never be 100% up to a written standard but it is still not supposed to happen nor something that should be accepted from a breeding view point.
It is a bit of a hot potatoe though as it can be seen as we don't love our pets as much because of their apearance changing but that is not the question. We all do.
However...
I and most with me I am sure, are or would be, quite dissapointed anyway if our naked cats grew furr, especially if we paid top dollar for our pure bred cats.
We don't have to deny that in the belief that we would seem less affectionate towards our pets, we all know each and every member here loves their sphynxes dearly.
Here the problem is almost unheard of and Scandinavia is cold. We have very regulated breeding and no mills though so it might be a reason. How is Netherlands and Great Britain? Netherlands are famous for good breeders in cats so it would be interesting to hear from Gizmo6370 about how it is there.
My suspicion is that mills and breeders not properly seeking the long term future good of the breed is the main source of this problem. Also the lack of regulations when it comes to registration of ALL pure bred cats must make it much harder to investigate lines even for the ones with the best of intentions thus bad genes (or just wrong ones) easier sneak into the breed and get harder to irradicate.
My suspicion is that mills and breeders not properly seeking the long term future good of the breed is the main source of this problem. Also the lack of regulations when it comes to registration of ALL pure bred cats must make it much harder to investigate lines even for the ones with the best of intentions thus bad genes (or just wrong ones) easier sneak into the breed and get harder to irradicate.
alphabet-guy
Niles has really soft hairs on his feet. His nose bridge and ears have just a bit of hair, and his tail has scratchy hairs that I swear more grows... I sometimes mess with it, which he doesn't appreciate.
Just like Tess, I sometimes think about shaving his tail. I haven't done it, but it has crossed my mind form time to time.
He sometimes has short whiskers. He grew a long one on one side of his face...I plucked it. He didn't even move. I thought it'd be a big deal but no reaction at all. Now I don't feel so bad!
Thanks for the explanation ypvs! I don't mean any offense and hope I didn't upset you; it's because I'm dyslexic. I'm older (52) and have to devise my own coping mechanisms when I see a word my brain just can't understand, so I call you "alphabet-guy" in my mind whenever I see your handle. I can handle ypvs but am afraid anything more sends me into a tailspin. Again, I apologize for any upset I caused you.
Ypvs, I was fortunate in that I had a mother who was a great reader. She started teaching me when I was an infant. I guess I learned how to figure it out when I was a toddler. It's hard for me to explain but the easiest way is that I've learned how to recognize "blocks" of letters as particular words, but each individual letter in a word doesn't mean anything to me.
One strange side effect, I guess, is that it's very easy for me to associate certain symbols (be it a letter of the alphabet or a musical symbol) with certain actions. For example, when reading a sheet of music I didn't have to stop and actually comprehend that the F# I was seeing was an F#; my fingers just automatically went to the correct key on the keyboard or fingering/embouchure on flute and other instruments. It made me a helluva musician lol. And also means that typing is very easy for me, far easier than handwriting for some reason.
The reading/writing parts of the dyslexia don't cause me problems. I don't run an external spell-checker program but admit the built-in spellchecker while I'm writing a post helps a lot. My biggest problem is that I often transpose words and phrases. Thank goodness we can edit our posts, I swear 99% of mine are edited within minutes of being posted.
I'm also told that it's responsible for my stuttering, but we didn't know that when I was a kid. But I was in speech therapy 3x per week from the time I was 4 until I turned 19 (with the exceptions of a few months when I lived in Paris or other times when I was touring). It still gives me problems and often I start to stutter, so I just stop trying to say what I wanted to say and say something else instead. You could hear it happening a couple of times in Pedda's SS video (especially having to be very deliberate when I was reading the card aloud) but I posted it anyways, I figured it wouldn't bother anyone here (it makes my family crazy sometimes).
The biggest problem, though, is that I have a big "directional component" to my dyslexia. I'm one of those people who literally couldn't find their way out of a paper bag. I've lived in my home for 16 years and still manage to get lost 1/2 mile away from home. I get lost coming home from visiting my parents. I can't tell you how many times I've called Pops from a pay phone to come and show me the way home cause I couldn't figure it out. Thank God for techology and portable GPS systems - and that really is a heartfelt thanks, I'm not being facetious! It's made my life so much easier; I wouldn't dream of leaving my driveway without the GPS in my car!
I never really knew there was something wrong that they could put a name on until I was in my early 30's and happened to be talking to a neurologist at work. He had me go in for some tests and that's when I officially learned what was going on.
Bleh, this turned into a ramble. I hope it made sense.
Time for an explenation maybe.
When I first got internet at home in 94 (there was not much to see on the net but that's another story) I used Ypvs as a handle in chatrooms etc.
Why?
Well I've raced motorcycles all my life or at least been very into that world when not. Back then I loved 2-stroke road racing bikes and owned a series of 4-cyl Yamaha 2-strokes.
Now this is where it gets a "bit" geeky (and why I bury it deep in a thread so everybody wont read it hehe).
Yamaha and all other brands used different sorts of solutions to get better torque out of their two stroke engines. They were always names with letter combinations and being into tuning engines and especially Yamaha 2-strokes I started using Ypvs.
It reads out
Yamaha Power Valve System
Whenever 4 letters is not enough to use as a handle I double it and always did so now it's just me.
No ramble, I read with great interest. Thanks for answering.
And about directional problems, that's just being (I'm so gonna die now) woman.
*raising shields against incoming slaughter*