Toesday: Merlin

Hello all!  Merlin here again!  It's two days until my 9th Gotcha Day!

Here are some close-ups of my toes.  As you can see, when I was given a bath on Sunday, my mom and dad didn't clean my paws.  I'm not fond of being bathed, and they didn't want to stress me out too much, so they left my paws for another day.

We Sphynx need to have our paws cleaned regularly because we have no fur.  You see, our skin secretes oils, just like furred cats, but with us Sphynx, there is no fur for the oil to work itself through.  So the oil builds up on our skin, and with our paws, it combines with litter dust to create a waxy substance that can stick to our paws, and especially our claws.  You can't really see it in these photos, but we get quite a thick, waxy buildup on our claws that needs to be cleaned away.

If you click the photos to see them larger, you can see the tiny, fine little down hairs that I have on m feet.  Out of the three of us (Dragonheart, Devi, and myself) I have the least amount of these hairs.  However, since being on chemotherapy for cancer, I've started acquiring a bit more fuzz in certain places.  I'm still extremely bald compared to Devi though!

If you can, be sure to visit on Thursday for my big 9th Gotcha Day celebration!