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Mutant 'bullycats' warning as pet trend heads to UK

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Dr Grace Carroll, lecturer in the school of psychology at Queen’s University Belfast, whose area of research is animal behaviour and welfare, discusses the new trend of ‘bullycats’.

Breeders in the US have created the experimental breed by mixing the hairless gene from Sphynx cats with the short-legged gene from Munchkin cats.

There are already reports that UK breeders have started offering them for sale, despite concerns over serious health defects.

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