Mutant breed, starting to be offered for sale in UK, has short legs, no whiskers and suffers serious health issues

People are being urged not to buy the feline equivalent of XL bully dogs, which have been created by breeders in the US.

The hybrid breed is understood to be spreading to the UK after being bred to resemble XL bully dogs, mixing the gene that causes hairlessness in sphynx cats with the gene responsible for the short legs of munchkin cats.