All domestic cat breeds were a creation of humans. Humans find a quality they like in a cat, and find other cats that have that quality, and breed those cat together, to keep that quality, then those are bred to others like them and back into future generations, until a "breed" is born. That is how ALL cat AND dog breeds were created. There were no cat and dog breeds before humans came around and tinkered with it. There were wild dogs, like African wild dogs, and wolves, coyotes, etc, and there were wild cats like the African golden cat, or the ocelot, or the caracal. Humans used those animals to eventually create the common "domestic" cat and dog. Then some odd breeds came around from genetic abnormalities (such as the hairless breeds), while others were a direct result of humans breeding for certain qualities, such as a smushed in face (like Persian cats and Pug dogs), or for size (specifically creating smaller "lap" dogs), or for certain personality traits (like how retrievers like to fetch things, or how Siamese are very outgoing and talkative). Some very sick people even breed for deformities, like the sickos who breed "Twisty Cats" (who are born with no legs or little paddles and have to hop on their back legs or scoot on their bellies) or on a lesser level of sickness Munchkin cats, who have deformed short legs, or like Dachshund dogs (short deformed legs).
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