Other names : Munchkin Cat
Native country : United States
History
A long body and short legs, like a DachshundIn 1991 in New York’s Madison Square Garden, a strange cat with short legs was shown. It was nicknamed the “Dachshund cat” or “Basset cat.”Already by the 1930s, cats of the same type were reported in England but forgotten during World War II. A specimen was described in Stalingrad in 1953.These cats are named after the inhabitants of Munchkin Land in Fleming’s famous movie The Wizard of Oz (1939).The ancestors of today’s Munchkins are descended from Blackberry, a black cat found in Louisiana around 1982.The gene responsible for short legs, the basis for this spontaneous mutation, is dominant.T.I.C.A. recognized the breed in 1995 and published a standard the same year. The first Munchkins arrived in France in 1993.
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