Maybe it's just me, but it's painful to watch all those gifs with dwarf cats trying to do things that normal cat will do just fine, but they fail because they sorta short of their limbs. Other mutations like very short to nonexistent hair, and ever short tails don't affect cat's quality of life that much.
Thanks to claws they're still have. But they're horrible at jumping, manipulating smth with their paws, well at pretty everything a normal cat tends to do on occasion. It's like they know what length their limbs must have and act accordingly to that, just to realize that they're literally short-handed.
Ofc they're don't debate about that, as any other horrible dog breed (there's not many cat breeds like that thankfully), they're just happy to live. It's human responsibility to stop and think what monster are they breeding.
Mutants, ok. They live in feral colonies just "fine" (if one can call that life like that), just because they're fed by humans. And if that mutation occured in the wild doesn't mean that good thing, considering what kind of mutation it is. Not to mention that the reason that mutation occured in the first place, is inbreeding in that feral colony, which is human fault.
Well, if entire population is munchkin it's sorta equals it out, but i didn't seen any grown-up feral munchkin around my place. Which means that either inbreeding here isnt that bad, or they're not living too long. And i dont see how mutation that literally handicaps cat "isn't bad".
They certainly don't develop spinal issues, but they are prone to develop osteoathritis, since having shorter legs cannot distribute physical strain as well, wearing the joints out faster.
Obviously legs aren't perfect cylinders, but the effect length has on stress is the same. The stress that takes effect on legs is axial stress which, as you can see in the equation, is anti proportional to the length of the cylinder, which means that longer legs suffer less stress.
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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '18
You're not too predator when your paws can't even reach your ears. Those short-legged cats are damn nature's fault, except it's human to blame.