XL Bully Cats

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Anyone seen these in the news?

I think I prefer the dogs, on balance. And I hate the dogs.

Reminds me of the chickens that have been bred to overproduce eggs/grow to a massive size quickly, so cruel

I think they're cute and would love one but I would worry about the long term health implications of the breed. I'll stick with my two moggys instead.

I'm a cat person but those are ugly as fuck. Reminds me of those awful pug dogs that have been so inbred that they can't even breathe properly. Stupid, irresponsible breeders.

How can people be so cruel?

It’s like something from a. Horror movie.

I also dislike skinny pigs? The hairless guinea pigs.

They look reptilian.

What have I just seen?

That poor cat - it's cruel. How does it come about? Why has someone actually gone out of their way to create this thing. I hope they're a very short lived trend (I fear they'll certainly be short lived cats)

Toadline Bulldogs are worse

What the fuck are people thinking of when they do this to cats? Apart from the money changing hands and the income from social media for having animals with defective genes, obviously.

Completely agree - a cat wouldn't even give a damn unless someone was trying to steal the kittie crack Dreamies and even then they'd expect their owner servant to do the heavy lifting.

It's awful that they have been breed like that. The poor things don't stand a chance. Can't go out as they would probably get bullied by other cats. Have little legs so can't jump or run properly. Also risk of skin cancer in sunlight so shouldn't go outside. Also would probably feel the cold a lot.Their lifespan is quite short too compared to normal cats. I don't know why people would want to buy them.

The breed should be banned.

Tis but clickbait really, there will be no 'rise' of these cats as they will be horribly expensive (both 'parent breeds' are hard to breed with a lot of health issues that mean litters are small and mortality rates high and life spans very short), and produced by very very few people and owned by very few people.

It's just a way of getting five minutes in the papers and shifting a few more horribly overpriced deformed kittens.

Poor things - why do this to animals?

Oh my good lord, I can hardly believe what I've just read and seen. I'd never heard of them before I read this thread. The poor creatures.

Oh For FUCKS SAKE stop the world I want to get off.

So cats with skin cancer, skin infections, and pain in multiple joints including their spine, for starters. Plus whatever else these poor things are predisposed to.

I hate people.

Oh my giddy aunts I love cats but I wouldn't entertain one of those even if it was the only feline on the planet, it is hideous

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I wish I had your confidence.

IMO somebody will (deliberately or accidentally) cross them with something that has better reproductive success and a disappointingly large number of people will pay £4k for a cat...

That's not a glowing recommendation of either "breed"...

Like a naked bengal.

Mm... but the demand will be incredibly low.

Theres also no showing side driving this, because none of the big cat fancy organisations will touch them, at least one won't register or allow the exhibition of Munchkins... so that takes away a lot of the ego/prize fuelled production..

There won't be enough of them for owners to form their own little society like the XL Bully people have...

So it'll be self limiting - very very few people want an unattractive cat that is a walking vet bill, vs people wanting the same in a dog. I think in huge part because you can't parade these cats around the streets like you could a dog, intimidating all and sundry with it. It doesn't ego-boost those with tiny willies and tiny brains.

The cat fancy has seen quite a few new breeds come and rapidly go for similar reasons - that just one or two people are actually interested in them.

I’ve had a look. Wow. They’re awful poor things

Anyone who breeds or owns one of these is scum.
It's bad enough that so called 'professional' breeders have produced cats that are hairless, or stunted, or brachiocephalic, or bred with wild cat lines, or bred with severe cartilage problems, and so on, but this I find fucking disgusting.
Why take something as perfectly formed as a moggy and turn it into something utterly deformed and genetically unfit for life?
I despair.

What a horrible thing to do.

I’ve said this a million times; owning an animal should be licensed. There needs to be strict laws on breeding, selling and all other aspects of pet care. People who are found to be acting outside of these laws need to be banned for life and all subsequent animals removed. End of.

I feel desperately sorry for those poor cats; I'd adopt one just to see it was looked after properly, but they are not attractive in the way almost all cats are.