Editing Sphynx cat (section)

=== Minnesota ===
The first noted naturally occurring foundation Sphynx originated as hairless stray barn cats in Wadena, Minnesota, at the farm of Milt and Ethelyn Pearson.<ref name=":1" /> The Pearsons identified hairless kittens occurring in several litters of their domestic shorthair barn cats in the mid-1970s.<ref name=":1" /> Two hairless female kittens born in 1975 and 1976, Epidermis and Dermis, were sold to [[Oregon]] breeder Kim Mueske, and became an important part of the Sphynx breeding program.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":1" /> Also working with the Pearson line of cats was breeder Georgiana Gattenby of [[Brainerd, Minnesota]], who outcrossed with [[Cornish Rex]] cats.<ref name=":3" />