Ever hear about the werewolf cat? It isn’t some weird urban myth. The werewolf cat is actually a legitimate breed called the Lykoi.
It’s called the werewolf cat because of the unusual appearance of its coat, which resembles that of a werewolf.
This cat also has the strange ability to change skin color, believe it or not! Let’s take a look at this interestingly strange breed of feline, the Lykoi.
It’s believed that the look of the cat is a result of natural mutation. It would seem that a pair of shorthair cats, both carrying a hairless gene, created offspring that carried this mutated gene.
Breeders have sought to preserve the look of the cat by breeding the discovered Lykoi with domestic black cats.
Lykoi cats are considered unique in that they were found as ferals and strays. One of the key discoverers and investigators of the breed, John Gobble, coined the phrase “second-chance cat” to describe its fortune.
They do lack an undercoat, so their fur is indeed thin, and in some places basically non-existent.
A classic Lykoi has a combination of fur colors as it is partly black and partly amelanistic. This means that some of its hair has no melanin and is therefore colorless.
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