Bambino Cat

Origin

The Bambino Cat is a short legged hairless cat (in fact there is usually a very fine down). The breed was deliberately created by crossing the Sphynx cat and a Munchkin cat. The Munchkin is the founding breed of the dwarf cats and imports the dwarf gene into this breed. The breed was created very recently, in 2005.

Stephanie and Pat Osborne of the HolyMoly cattery organised the breed. As Pat is of Italian extraction and as the cat keeps its kitten like appearance and character throughout its life they named the breed "Bambino".

The picture of the Bambino cat on the black background is of "Willie" and is copyright SOSborne. The other 2 pictures of the Bambino Cat on the blue background is HoBBiTcaTs' Hadrian's Wall.

Appearance and Character

The Bambino likes to interact with humans and is friendly and intelligent.

Breeding produces both long and short (dwarfed) legs. The photograph above illustrates (beautifully) the cat's features. The only difference between the short legged type and his/her taller siblings is leg length.

Registration

Currently the Bambino is registered in the Rare and Exotic Feline Registry (REFR) and as an experimental new breed with TICA (2006).

This cat has all the characteristics of dwarf cats in general including considerations regarding health. You should explore the other dwarf cat pages starting from the dwarf cat page.

Photographs

Appearance

Clearly the skin texture and feel is all important as this is a hairless cat. In any event the feel of a cat hairless (or not hairless) is important as there is a lot of stroking to do .

The skin should feel like touching warm suede. The founders emphasize the importance of the texture of the coat. If the cat is entirely hairless (i.e. no downy hair at all) then they are referring to the texture of the skin.

The goal is for a muscular and stocky body as opposed to slender or thin. Although, the tail should be slender and whip like with a tuft of hair on the end like a lion!

Breeders

The Bambino Cat is a USA breed. The Dwarf Cat Association is based in the USA.

Hobbitcats
This is a well established website with a Pagerank and traffic rank. The cattery also breed other breeds of dwarf cat.

MalheurButte
Munchkins, LaPerms, Skookums and soon, Bambinos (but check on Bambinos as these were projected to be breed at the time the website was built). Based in Eastern Oregon in the City of Ontario,USA.