Cymric Cat

Cymric are a sister breed to the short haired Manx. The records show the Manx originated on the Isle of Man, the initial population arrived to the rest of the world by ship on the Manx shores. A small island, the Isle of Man is an isolated area so inbreeding resulted in the lack of a tail becoming a common trait. At some point, a mutation occurred so kittens were born without the vertebrae of a normal tail. The first picture of a tailless one is a painting from 1810 however linguistic evidence suggests an earlier date around 1750 when the English word 'stubbin' is first used as a nickname for the breed. Manx were among the original breeds at the dawn of the cat fancy in the late 1800s as we find them in the show records from that era. Tailless longhairs also appeared on the Isle of Man, however, they did not achieve mainstream recognition until later. Eventually given their own name, Cymric's have an identical standard to Manx.