Cats breeds are controlled by specific organizations, regulate, control and protect the several breeds and each one individually.

We all known that the more the breed is determined the more genetic diseases can appear.

There are rules that don't allow to breed deaf cats, and with genetic disorders, but what about crossing cats with very apart  characteristics?

TICA, The International Cat association with the website www.tica.org, has recognised the LaPerm and Munchkin as legitimate breeds, and in February 2006 TICA conceded registration status to Skookums as an experimental testing breed.

The Dwarf Cat Association and the registry Catz Inc in New Zealand recognise the breed Skookum as experimental also. .

The original crosses were carried out in the 1990s by Roy Galusha, and other breeders joined the breeding programme, with breeders in the USA, Europe, New Zealand and Australia.

But breeding a LaPerm to a Munchkin is still a non-allowed cross!

Skookums at one time were recognized in registries of other countries and a few of the lesser known registries in the USA.

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CFA does recognize LaPerms, it does not recognize Munchkins as a breed.

When the LaPerm Breed Committee reached championship status, it was very clearly stated that Munchkins and LaPerm should not be crossed, nor should any of the other rexed or hairless breeds.

In Australia the Skookum may compete at championship level and the first Skookum champion was Double Grand Champion Shortland BC Little Miss Moppet, bred by Twink McCabe and owned by David Richardson and Christine Brelsford, whose title was won in Australia's only national cat registry, the WNCA.

Non-Standard cats (that is cats that look like LaPerms, long legged and curly coated) that are being produced from the crossing of Munchkins and LaPerms should NOT be bred to LaPerms!!

None of these crosses should be bred back to the LaPerm even if they look like a LaPerm!!!

Before purchasing a LaPerm kitten from someone who breeds other breeds, besides LaPerms, ask to see the registration certificates of the parents and to see both parents. If the breeder will not allow you to see these, you should become aprehensive!

Then you deny the purchase, and ask to see the breeder conditions, alert the authoities in case of animal abuse.

If any where on that cats birth certificate you read the abbreviation EXP or MK, you are not looking at a LaPerm, you are buying an experiment that resembles a LaPerm, a non-standard fruit of trials and testes.

There are exceptions to the EXP, for a while the Cat Fancier Association, with the website www.cfainc.org, did allow Ocicats to be crossed with LaPerms, so these will be shown as EXP in The International Cat association, also LaPerms bred from their ONLY allowed out-cross, the domestic cat, will also sometime have an EXP on the certificate.

For more information contact the organizations here referred.

Besides creating the Skookums, Munchkin breeders display intent on creating a short-legged specimen of all recognized breeds and have crossed them with several other breeds, simply to produce kittens for resale, with no intent in pursuing and develop these cats as a breed.

Each recognised breed has a Breed Committee which dictates which breeds can be used as allowed out-crosses to help, protect and legislate further the development of the breed.

Laperm, a curly hair breed, long legs and elegant appearance cat.

Munchkin, a short leg cat, short hair.

The crossing of these two breeds gives birth to a new type of cat, the Skookum, a short leg cat with curly hair.

But can also born non-standard cats, like the father or the mother, but the others that don't look to neither one?

Breeding laperm also has the same problem, with both parents laperm also can born non-standard laperms.

What breed are those cats?

What is the point of having a pure laperm without the looks?

Or a supposed Skookum looking like a laperm or a slightly munchkin....?

Do you agree with breed testing?

Skookum is a fun loving and kittenish cat, playful and athletic and fond of jumping and climbing around, jumps about the same height as a domestic cat.

They can have long hair or short hair and the short coated variety has a coat which is closer to the body but still springy in feel.

The wiskers and eyebrows should be also curly.

"Skookum" means..."'good,' 'strong,' 'best,' 'powerful,' 'ultimate,' 'brave' and 'first rate.'