Editing Manx cat (section)

===Recognition as a breed===
Manx cats have been exhibited in [[cat show]]s, as a named, distinct breed (and with the modern spelling "Manx"), since the late 1800s. In that era, few shows provided a Manx division, and exhibited specimens were usually entered under the "Any Other Variety" class, where they often could not compete well unless "exceptionally good in size and markings".<ref name="Lane" /> Early pet [[Animal husbandry|breeding]] and [[Show (animal)|showing]] expert [[Charles Henry Lane]], himself the owner of a prize-winning rare white rumpy Manx named Lord Luke, published the first known (albeit informal) [[breed standard]] for the Manx in his 1903 ''Rabbits, Cats and Cavies'',<ref name="Lane" /> but noted that already by the time of his writing "if the judge understood the variety" a Manx would be clearly distinguishable from some other tailless cat being exhibited, "as the make of the animal, its movements and its general character are all distinctive."<ref name="Lane" /> Not all cat experts of the day were favourable toward the breed; in ''The Cat: Its Points and Management in Health and Disease'', Frank Townend Barton wrote in 1908: "There is nothing {{sic|hide=y|whatever}} to recommend the breed, {{sic|hide=y|whilst}} the loss of the tail in no way enhances its beauty."<ref name="Barton" />

The Manx was one of the first breeds recognised by the [[Cat Fanciers' Association]] (CFA) (the predominant United States–based pedigreed cat registry, founded in 1908), which has records on the breed in North America going back to the 1920s.<ref name="Hackett" />