Overly furry felines

Does anyone really believe that the Sphynx cat came into being through a natural genetic mutation? I think not. Here's my theory on what happened: a mad scientist (mad as in angry, not crazed) whose favourite movie as a child was ET came downstairs the morning after the day he or she had a loveseat covered in chocolate microfabric delivered and discovered that his or her cat named Charlotte had fallen in love at first sight with said loveseat and had spent the night rubbing shamelessly up against it and now it was covered in white fur and then and there he or she decided to insert the gene causing alopecia areata universalis into Charlotte. He or she is probably surprised the denuded cat look never really caught on, particularly among people with furniture. I guess most humans find bald cats creepy or are afraid the cat is suddenly going to ask to phone home. My advice to the mad scientist would have been to insert the chameleon gene into Charlotte's DNA instead. If furniture must suffer the unwanted attention of shameless hussy cats, at least let it be smothered in fur of the same colour.