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Tämä lähdeluettelo kuuluu lyhytraajaisuutta, kissan hännättömyyttä ja häntänikamapuutoksia, sekä suurikokoisuutta käsittelevään Kissojen ääripiirteet – kun toivottu ominaisuus heikentää eläimen hyvinvointia tietosivuun. 

Tietosivun on koostanut: Eläinlähtöisen viestinnän asiantuntija Sari Toivola.

Kissan FDD – lyhyitä, käyristyneitä ja asentovirheisiä jalkoja

Lähdetiedot: 

Animal Welfare Committee AWC (2024). Opinion on the welfare implications of current and emergent feline breeding practices
https://www.gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2025-01/animal-welfare-committee-opinion-on-the-welfare-implications-of-current-and-emergent-feline-breeding-practices.pdf

Anderson LM, Fox DB, Chesney KL, Coates JR, Torres BT, Lyons LA. (2021). Skeletal Manifestations of Heritable Disproportionate Dwarfism in Cats as Determined by Radiography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology 34:327–337. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1730355.

Elizabeth Claire Alberts – dodo.org (2017). People Are Breeding Cats To Have Too-Short Legs. https://www.thedodo.com/munchkin-cat-breed-2231333420.html

Julia Haukilintu (2023). Kissojen hyvinvointi ja jalostuksen ongelmat. https://www.elainsuojeluasiamies.fi/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Kissojen-hyvinvointi-ja-jalostuksen-ongelmat.pdf

kb.rspca.org.au (2024). What are the health and welfare issues associated with exaggerated physical features in cats? https://kb.rspca.org.au/categories/companion-animals/cats/health-issues/what-are-the-health-and-welfare-issues-associated-with-exaggerated-physical-features-in-cats

Lunde ym. (2025). Radial head subluxation in a chondrodystrophic cat: aetiology, surgical treatment and outcome. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/20551169251366438

Lyons ym. (2019, preprint). Localization of a feline autosomal dominant dwarfism locus: a novel model of chondrodysplasia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/687210

Qualzucht-datenbank.eu (2026). Fact Sheet Feline disproportionate dwarfism. https://qualzucht-datenbank.eu/fact-sheet-feline-disproportionate-dwarfism/

Roberts ym. (2025). A framework to refocus the conversation around the welfare of UK purebred cats. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/animal-welfare/article/framework-to-refocus-the-conversation-around-the-welfare-of-uk-purebred-cats/CBD28A8813FD504552FE6965AF4C234B

scienceforanimalwelfare.org (2026). Genetic Welfare Problems of Companion Animals: Munchkin limb deformity. https://scienceforanimalwelfare.org/species/cat/munchkin/limb-deformity/

Becks Shepherd – yahoo.com (2025). Vet shares 'ethical reasons' for not recommending munchkin cats as pets. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/vet-shares-ethical-reasons-not-121500381.html

Struck ym. (2020). A structural UGDH variant associated with standard Munchkin cats. DOI: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12863-020-00875-x

Kissan hännättömyys ja häntänikamapuutokset – epämuodostuneita selkäytimiä ja inkontinenssia

Lähdetiedot: 

Tuulia Aherikko (2021). Koiran ja kissan perinnöllinen lyhythäntäisyys sekä niiden terveysvaikutukset – kirjallisuuskatsaus. https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/corebitstreams/7bd0da5c-7874-4ddc-9f47-8a8ccb052cb3/content 

Animal Welfare Committee AWC (2024). Opinion on the welfare implications of current and emergent feline breeding practices. https://www.gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2025-01/animal-welfare-committee-opinion-on-the-welfare-implications-of-current-and-emergent-feline-breeding-practices.pdf

Buckingham ym. (2013). Multiple mutant T alleles cause haploinsufficiency of Brachyury and short tails in Manx cats. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00335-013-9471-1

Julia Haukilintu (2023). Kissojen hyvinvointi ja jalostuksen ongelmat. https://www.elainsuojeluasiamies.fi/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Kissojen-hyvinvointi-ja-jalostuksen-ongelmat.pdf

kb.rspca.org.au (2024). What are the health and welfare issues associated with exaggerated physical features in cats? https://kb.rspca.org.au/categories/companion-animals/cats/health-issues/what-are-the-health-and-welfare-issues-associated-with-exaggerated-physical-features-in-cats

Neuroliitto.fi (n.d.) Syringomyelia. https://neuroliitto.fi/tieto-tuki/tietoa-sairauksista/harvinaiset-neurologiset-sairaudet/diagnoosit/syringomyelia/

Roberts ym. (2025). A framework to refocus the conversation around the welfare of UK purebred cats. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/animal-welfare/article/framework-to-refocus-the-conversation-around-the-welfare-of-uk-purebred-cats/CBD28A8813FD504552FE6965AF4C234B 

scienceforanimalwelfare.org (2026). Genetic Welfare Problems of Companion Animals: Manx syndrome. https://scienceforanimalwelfare.org/species/cat/manx/manx-syndrome/

Suurikokoisuus – näyttävää kokoa ja heikentynyttä lonkkaterveyttä

Lähdetiedot:

Julia Haukilintu (2023). Kissojen hyvinvointi ja jalostuksen ongelmat. https://www.elainsuojeluasiamies.fi/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Kissojen-hyvinvointi-ja-jalostuksen-ongelmat.pdf

internet.slu.se (2019). Hip dysplasia in cats is hereditary and more common in bigger individuals. https://internt.slu.se/en/news-originals/2019/11/hip-dysplasia-in-cats-is-hereditary-and-more-common-in-bigger-individuals/

Keller ym. (1999). HIP DYSPLASIA: A FELINE POPULATION STUDY. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-8261.1999.tb00375.x

Low ym. (2019). Demography, heritability and genetic correlation of feline hip dysplasia and response to selection in a health screening programme. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-53904-w

Karen Perry (2016). Feline hip dysplasia: A challenge to recognise and treat. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1098612X16631227

Roberts ym. (2025). A framework to refocus the conversation around the welfare of UK purebred cats.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/animal-welfare/article/framework-to-refocus-the-conversation-around-the-welfare-of-uk-purebred-cats/CBD28A8813FD504552FE6965AF4C234B

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