The Munchkin is a relatively new breed of cat characterized by its very short legs, which is caused by a naturally occurring genetic mutation.

The Munchkin was first introduced to the general public in 1991 via a national network televised cat show held by The International Cat Association ( TICA ) in Madison Square Garden.

Several cat registries do not recognize the Munchkin: Fédération Internationale Féline, which refuses to recognise what they consider a breed based on a " genetic disease ", achondroplasia.

The Munchkin is generally described as a sweet-natured, playful, people-oriented, outgoing and intelligent cat which responds well to being handled.

Pectus excavatum is also known to occur in animals, e. g. the Munchkin breed of cat.

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* Nels P. Nelson ( 1918 – 1994 ), actor, Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz

Most significantly, in the musical, Glinda unwittingly sets into motion the events that lead to the Munchkin Boq becoming the Tin Woodman ( which only happens in this musical ), and Elphaba's sister Nessarose being killed by Dorothy Gale's farmhouse.

Oz is roughly rectangular in shape, and divided along the diagonals into four countries: Munchkin Country ( but commonly referred to as ' Munchkinland ' in adaptations ) in the East, Winkie Country ( called " The Vinkus " in Gregory Maguire's Wicked and its sequel Son of a Witch ) in the West ( sometimes West and East are reversed on maps of Oz, see West and East below ), Gillikin Country in the North, and Quadling Country in the South.

* Mickey Carroll ( 1919 – 2009 ), Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz film

* Munchkin ( role-playing games ), a player who plays a non-competitive game in a competitive manner

* Munchkin ( card game ), a card game by Steve Jackson Games that satirizes the player type

Colvig worked for not only the Disney studio, but also the Warner Bros. animation studio, Fleischer Studios ( Bluto, Gabby ), and MGM, where he voiced a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz.

** The Munchkin RPG is an extended parody of Dungeons & Dragons: the latter has " cantrip " spells, the former has, among others, " can trip " ( foils pursuers with preserved foodstuffs ), " can't rip " ( reinforces fabrics ) and " Kant trip " ( induces hallucinatory deontology ).

Elphaba becomes friends with a Munchkin boy named Boq ( son of Bfee, the Mayor of Rush Margins, which was the town in which Elphaba was born ), who develops a crush on Galinda.

He has illustrated board and card games for several companies, including Steve Jackson Games ( notably the Munchkin card game plus its many expansions and derivatives and Chez Geek and its derivatives ), Cumberland Games & Diversions ( Pokéthulhu ), and the third edition of Fantasy Flight Games's Mag Blast.

It is from Blackberry and Toulouse that today's Munchkin breed is descended.

Critics predicted that the breed would develop back, hip and leg problems similar to those that plague some Dachshunds. Amidst much controversy, TICA accepted the Munchkin into its New Breed development program in September 1994.

Steve Jackson Games ' main product line, in terms of sales, is the Munchkin card game, followed by the role-playing system GURPS.

One of their numbers, a Munchkin named Bini Aru, discovered a method of transforming people and objects by merely saying the word " Pyrzqxgl ".

Like the Munchkin Country, the outer regions of the Quadling Country are rich, pleasant and beautiful, inhabited by kind and friendly people, while the areas closer to the Emerald City ( i. e. most of the regions between the mountains of the Hammer-Heads and the Forest of the Fighting Trees ) are forbidding and dangerous ( see " The Wonderful Wizard of Oz " section below ).

The Munchkins are the natives of the fictional Munchkin Country in the Oz books by L. Frank Baum.

The Munchkin Country is ruled by a king, later identified as Cheeriobed, who is revealed to be married to the Good Witch of the North, who, a spell broken, abdicates leadership of the Gillikin Country to Joe King and Queen Hyacinth of Up Town.

The Redneck Trees were also picked up by Steve Jackson Games for the " Clerical Errors " Munchkin expansion sets.

In his titular novel by Ruth Plumly Thompson, Mustafa of Mudge, a wealthy sultan at the southern tip of the Munchkin Country, kidnaps the Cowardly Lion for his large collection of lions that he feels would be incomplete without Oz's most famous lion.

He designed many of the games published by SJ Games, such as Car Wars, GURPS, Munchkin and many others.

She was originally brought to life by a magician who lived in the Munchkin Country named Dr. Pipt by means of his Powder of Life formula to be a servant for his wife.

Designed and programmed by Ed Averett, Munchkin is very heavily based on Namco's 1980 arcade game Pac-Man, but not a direct clone.

in the U. S .) which implicitly depicts the conflict between Phillips and Atari by pitting the Munchkin character against an insect-like, tree-eating opponent called the Dratapillar, which very strongly resembles the antagonist of Atari's Centipede.

In Crazy Chases maze, the Munchkin character powers up and advances not by eating pills, but by devouring the Dratapillar's segmented body.

Munchkin is a dedicated deck card game by Steve Jackson Games, written by Steve Jackson and illustrated by John Kovalic, that has a humorous take on role-playing games, based on the concept of munchkins ( immature role-players, playing " to win ").

Munchkin won the 2001 Origins Award for Best Traditional Card Game, Munchkin Fu was illustrated by Greg Hyland, ( creator of Lethargic Lad ) in a style inspired by John Kovalic, not by John Kovalic himself.

Furthermore, while achondroplasia is typically associated with an enlarged head as well as short legs, this combination of features is not seen in Munchkin cats.

" Munchkin " does not necessarily mean someone of short stature.

The legs of the Munchkin may be slightly bowed, although excessive bowing is a disqualification in the show ring.

After escaping that ordeal, Woot, the Tin Woodman as a tin owl, the Scarecrow as a straw-stuffed bear, and Polychrome as a canary turn south into the Munchkin Country and, with Polychrome's magic, reverse a spell cast on Tommy Kwikstep, a messenger boy who thoughtlessly wished himself twenty legs.

Since in oral languages the elements of sound are for the most part produced linearly in time ( that is, in a word like cat the a sound comes after the c sound, and the t sound comes after that ), they can generally be easily written in a linear ( one-dimensional ) writing system such as an alphabet.

Although the description sitting-on ( graph 1 ) is more abstract than the graphic image of a cat sitting on a mat ( picture 1 ), the delineation of abstract things from concrete things is somewhat ambiguous ; this ambiguity or vagueness is characteristic of abstraction.

The four species include the leopard snake ( locally known as Ochendra ), the Balkan whip snake ( locally called Dendrogallia ), the dice snake ( called Nerofido in Greek ), and the only venomous snake is the nocturnal cat snake which has evolved to deliver its venom in to geckos and small lizards and is not dangerous to humans.

Animal fibers include silk, but generally are long hairs of animals such as sheep ( wool ), goat ( angora, or cashmere goat ), rabbit ( angora ), llama, alpaca, dog, cat, camel, yak, and muskox ( qiviut ).

" Dora " is from " dora neko " ( brazen or stray cat, どら猫 ), and is a corruption of nora ( stray ).

Extant felids belong to one of two subfamilies: Pantherinae ( which includes the tiger, the lion, the jaguar, and the leopard ), and Felinae ( which includes the cougar, the cheetah, the lynxes, the ocelot, and the domestic cat ).

If a dog does have a benign functional carcinoma ( appears in 10 % of the cases ), treatment and prognosis are no different from those of the cat.

Throughout the 90s his papers claimed that by 2001 the ATR " Robokoneko " ( translation: kitten robot ) project would develop a billion-neuron " cellular automata machine brain " ( CAM-brain ), with " computational power equivalent to 10, 000 pentiums " that could simulate the brain of a real cat.

Apart from a known and possibly breeding population in Arizona ( southeast of Tucson ), the cat has largely been extirpated from the United States since the early 20th century.

Animal fibers include silk, but generally are long hairs of animals such as sheep ( wool ), goat ( angora, or cashmere goat ), rabbit ( angora ), llama, alpaca, dog, cat, camel, yak, and muskox ( qiviut ).

Of his many literary adaptations, works including Jun ' ichirō Tanizaki's The Key ( Kagi ), Natsume Sōseki's The Heart ( Kokoro ) and I Am a Cat ( Wagahai wa neko de aru ), in which a teacher's cat critiques the foibles of the humans surrounding him, and Yukio Mishima's Conflagration ( Enjo ), in which a priest burns down his temple to save it from spiritual pollution, were brought to the screen.

Also, like Minerva ( who had the ability to transform into an owl ), the character of McGonagall had the ability to transfigure into a cat.

For animal sounds, words like quack ( duck ), moo ( cow ), bark or woof ( dog ), roar ( lion ), miaow or purr ( cat ) and baa ( sheep ) are typically used in English.

* Oscar ( therapy cat ), cat who can purportedly predict the deaths of hospice patients