Thursday, August 04, 2016
One of my clients breeds Sphynx and Lykoi cats and I get to go up every few months and take some photos of the kittens. My client lets me do anything I want with them, which is a lot of fun. The thing about Sphynx cats is they are so sculptural. Absolutely gorgeous. Where fur hides the folds of most cats, with Sphynx, you really see every nook and cranny, every little detail. They are fascinating creatures, almost alien in their appearance.In this session, we had one kitten that was a split odd-eye. An odd-eye by itself is one eye is one color, the other is another. Like David Bowie's eyes were except in this case instead of gray and brown, they were green and blue. So a split odd-eye ...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
A friend of mine, Jayne Harrower, has a cattery in which her specialties are Sphynx and Lykoi cats. OK, for the uninitiated, Sphynx are hairless cats while Lykoi are known as the werewolf cat... they are a completely naturally occurring cat, not a designer cat, and they are awesome in their unusual look, which includes sparse fur on the top and almost no fur on their undercarriages (undercarriage may not be a technical term... that's what I call my cats' bellies). Jayne is breeding Lykois and she will have the first of them available in 2016. So exciting! For more information, I have a previous post about Channing, the Lykoi.Jayne's cats just had a few litters of kittens and she invited me ...
One of my clients/friends is Jayne Baker-Harrower, who runs the Bare Enough Sphynx Cattery in Phelan. Jayne and I met at a cat show last December when she was showing Channing, her Lykoi cat, which is one of the new breeds of cat. Lykois are called the werewolf cat, and the appearance of their sparse fur is a natural mutation, not a designer breed. Jayne will be breeding Lykois though the first ones won't be available until next year.But her Sphynx are available and Jayne was recently contacted by Kateryna Shalayeva, lead singer of the band Stereolizza, because she wanted to use a Sphynx in her latest music video. So Jayne made the long trek to Los Angeles (with her adorable ...