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SCOTTISH FOLD
The Scottish Fold, also known as Highland Fold, is a breed of cat with a natural mutation to its ears. Scottish Folds can be either long or short-haired, and they may have any coat color combination except for Siamese-style points. Pointed Folds have been bred but they are not eligible for showing. The ear cartilage contains a fold so the ears bend forward and down towards the front of their head. The original cats only had one fold in their ears, but due to selective breeding they have increased the fold to a double or triple crease that lies the ear totally flat against the head. The Scottish Fold is a medium sized cat with a rounded, well-padded body and a short, dense, and resilient coat. Many people compare them to the Scots themselves as they are robust, strong and seemingly impervious to the cold. They have large, round, broadly spaced eyes full of sweetness; well-rounded whisker pads and a short nose with a gentle curve in profile. Scottish Fold is not demanding cat. They just need proper nutrition and some attention. They adapt to all kind of surroundings. They can play with loud children, or be quiet pet for lonely old lady. They even play with dogs. That makes them excellent choice for any situation, especially if you don't known what you want. But there are some medical issues that must be observed. Scottish Folds must be mated to cats with normal ears otherwise any homozygous (Fold-to-Fold) offspring may suffer from deformities of the joints and cartilage. That becomes evident when the kitten reaches four to six month old. The cause for these deformities is genetic but not exactly known yet. Sometimes even heterozygous (Fold-to-Other breed) cats can be affected. In longhaired Folds are deformities more common and not visible because of so much fur, so frequent checking cats' tail with gentle, slightly upward-arching movement is very important.
ORIGIN: The very first longhaired Scottish Fold was Susie, farm cat born in Tayside, Scotland in 1961. Two years later, Susie had kittens. Two of them had the same folded ears, and one, white female, was given to a local breeder William Ross who named her Snooks. He started the breeding program with help from two geneticists, Pat Turner and Pete Dyte. Crossbreeding was between British Shorthair and Fold. The breeding program produced 76 kittens in the first three years - 42 with folded ears and 34 with straight ears. The conclusion from this was that the ear mutation is due to a simple dominant gene. If one parent provides the gene for straight ears, and one parent provides the gene for folded ears, the kittens will be Folds. One of the kittens was Snowball, shorthair white male. Today every pedigreed fold must trace their origin to either Susie if it is a longhair or Snowball if it is a shorthair. In 1971, Mary Ross, Williams' wife, sent some of her Folds to geneticist Neil Todd in Newtonville , Massachusetts . Folds were cross-breeded there with both British and American Shorthairs, and thus making gene pool for Folds much bigger.
STANDARD:
HEAD 50 Points
Shape (15)
Ears (20)
Eyes (15)
BODY/TAIL 25 Points
Shape/Size (10)
Tail (15)
COAT 15 Points
COLOR 10 Points
Accepted Colors:
| Blue-Eyed White Orange-Eyed White Odd-Eyed White Blue Black Cream Red Blue Tabby Cream Tabby Red Tabby Brown Tabby |
Silver Tabby Cameo Tabby Mackerel Tabby } Spotted Tabby } Ticked Tabby } Same colors as Classic Tabby Blue Patched Tabby Brown Patched Tabby Silver Patched Tabby |
Patched McTabby } Patched Spotted Tabby } Patched Ticked Tabby } Same colors as Patched Classic Tabby Bluecream Tortoiseshell Shell Cameo Shaded Cameo Smoke Cameo |
Chinchilla Silver Shaded Silver Blue Smoke Black Smoke All recognized patterns/colors with White are accepted. All recognized patterns/colors in the Harlequin Pattern are accepted. |
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