A few animals, such as the sphynx cat below and the Mexican hairless dog at left, are practically hairless because people bred them that way.

They're bred as pets.

A sphynx generally feels like suede to the touch. Some sphynxes have very fine, hard-to-see body hair. They feel like warm, fresh peaches!

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Text by David George Gordon
Photographs by Fred Hirschmann (Mexican hairless dog); Tetsu Yamazaki (sphynx cat)