standard munchkin kitten for sale

  Munchkin is just a domestic cat that's made unique by its short legs. The short limbs are owing to a genetic mutation and thus there is debate as regards the origin of this cat, because the mutation may have occurred at any stage in the past. Notable cases though, existed in Europe around the middle of twentieth century. Like so a number of other pet breeds, the Munchkins also went into obscurity with the advent of Second World War. It wasn't until nineteen eighties that Munchkins were again reported, this amount of time in United States. The short-legged creatures were seen with great intrigue by observers and named 'Munchkins', following the dwarfs in the Oz series of books by Lyman Frank Baum. The short leg size, or hypochondroplasia, was soon established like a results of the genetic mutation. Considering that the gene is lethal in homozygous formation, Munchkins are outcrossed with other cats including domestic felines, Abyssinians, Persians, Siamese etc to make ...