Woman shocked after realizing $700 hairless sphynx cat she bought was just a shaved regular cat

Someone in Alberta, Canada recently scammed cat buyers by selling them shaved kittens as if they were of the hairlesss and expensive Sphynx breed.

According to CBCNews, at first the shaved kittens looked similar to Sphynx but after a few weeks, their hair grew back, leaving the owners in shock. It turned out that the hairlessness was not a product of breeding, but of abuse.

What the cruel scammers usually did was pluck out the whiskers and hair on baby cats using razor or hair removal creams and then sell them. One of the kittens was so injured so bad during a hair removal procedure, it nearly lead to his tail being amputated.

One of the people who paid $700 for a fake Sphynx, told CBC news:

 “I thought he was crying for his mom, but he probably was in pain. It looked like a Sphynx because he was very, very skinny and his face was really angular.”

The lady soon noticed that the cat behaved very different and didn’t get along with her other Sphynx cats, so she sold the cat, 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.” 

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 the first lady.

Source - CBC News