They just draw you in. "Like a Raw Cat." So when I saw the Sphynx cat for the first time, about three years ago, I lost it. It was something beautiful and awkward and rare. I became a bit obsessive.

With looks like this you would probably want to keep this moody moggy hidden indoors. But remarkably this Don Sphynx cat - who looks not dissimilar to ET and a Gremlin - has been drawing hundreds ...

He said: "Bullycats are likely to suffer the same shortened lives reported from a recent RVC VetCompass paper in Sphynx cats, that lived 6.7 years compared to an average of 11.7 years in cats overall.