We've fostered so many cats over the years, usually for just a short time before they were adopted, that most of them have blurred together in my memory. A few stand out, though, and Sparky the Cornish Rex is one of them.Why? Well, to be honest, because of his looks. The Humane Society rep explained Cornish Rexes to me this way: "They're ugly, but some people like them."
It turned out this breed of cat had no guard hairs. I didn't know what those were, but when I saw Sparky, I realized most of the hairs on a cat must







