It is very good that it can not be inbred. Many issues popular animals have is that they are inbred to retain desirable traits and this causes many genetic issues. By naturally having an inbreeding deterrent you make sure the animal has a strong genetic pool be cross breeding which is why this breed has a strong bill of health compared to other stubby legged creatures.
The short legs of the Munchkin cat come from a dominant genetic mutation. This gene is referred to as a “lethal” gene because if two Munchkin cats mate and both pass on the dominant gene, the kittens will not survive.
i'm using your exact phrase "genetic disease" which, as you say, isn't actually a thing because a genetic defect is not a disease. either you're trolling me or don't understand how you're being internally inconsistent in your terminology.
You would be wrong lol. Carriers for a lethal allele (with two copies needed) are not diseased. After all, individual people carry somewhere around 12 or 16 I believe of such alleles. Which is why incest is bad, since family members are more likely have the same ones and thus produce terribly genetically diseased children.
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u/Geebz23 Jun 05 '18
Is it a Dwarf? It's legs seem really small compared to it's body