Manx |
Have
you ever seen a cat running with no tail and a sort of hopping like a
rabbit? Such a cat is the Manx. The Manx cat is
very strange one as it is the only cat born without a tail.
Its
hind legs are longer than the front ones, giving it a hopping gait when
running. A Manx can run faster than most other kinds of cats.
The
ancestors of the Manx can came from the Isle of Man, a British Island in the
Irish Sea between England and Ireland. The first cats on the Isle of
Man swam ashore from sinking Spanish ships some 400 years ago.
Many
says that the story of how they got to be tailless. One says that
these cats loitered on the way into the Ark, and Noah slammed the door on their
tails. Another says that a Manx is the result of a rabbit mating
with a cat. The
truth is most likely that this cat lost their tails as a result of a quirk of
nature.–Dick Rogers
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