MUNCHKIN
The Munchkin breed descends from a stray cat with unusually short legs. Since cat fanciers got their first glimpse of this dwarfish feline at a show at New York’s Madison Square Garden in 1991, the breed has created quite stir, and its acceptance is not unanimous. The Munchkin’s shortened legs are caused by a spontaneous dominant mutation that has appeared before in England in the 1930s and in Russia in the 1950s. Munchkins are still a breed in progress; most major breed associations do not recognized them for competition.
Posted November 7th, 2000
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