Someone in Alberta is scamming buyers by selling them shaved kittens as if it were of the hairlesss and expensive Sphynx breed. Although at first the shaved kittens looked similar to Sphynx, their hair grew back in a few weeks, leaving the owners in shock. It turned out that the hairlessness was not a product of breeding, but of abuse. The cruel scammers pluck out the whiskers and use razor or hair removal creams on baby cats. “I thought he was crying for his mom, but he probably was in pain”, JoAnne Dyck, one of the people who paid $700 for a fake Sphynx, told CBC news.

The baby cat named Vlad was dropped off at Dyck’s Red Deer, Alberta, home. “It looked like a Sphynx because he was very, very skinny and his face was really angular.”

Dyck’s soon noticed that the cat behaved very different and didn’t get along with her other Sphynx cats, so she sold Vlad to some other woman. “Me and her talked back and forth the next couple of days about him, because he wasn’t seeming to really calm down. And she took him into the vet and the vet said the cuts on his skin were most likely caused by razor burn or Nair or something like that,” says Dyck.

It also turned out that the cuts on the tail were so infected, it could have led to an amputation. Fortunately, Vlad is safe and sound now, still living with a woman who purchased him from Dyck.

(h/t: cbcnews)

Someone in Alberta is scamming buyers by selling them shaved kittens as if they were hairlesss Sphynx

The hair of purchased kittens grew back in a few weeks, leaving the owners in shock

“I thought he was crying for his mom, but he probably was in pain”

The cruel scammers pluck out the whiskers and use razors or hair removal creams on baby cats

One of the kittens was so injured during a hair removal procedure, it nearly lead to his tail being amputated

Shayla Bastarache, one of the scam victims – the black cat was sold as a Sphynx for $650