Scottish Fold Pet Cat

Friday, March 25, 2011

Scottish Fold Pet Cat

Scottish Fold cat is the type known as a bent or drooping ears forward and down toward the front of the head and have hair that thick and dense, so the Scottish Fold cat is often described as "owls" because of head shape similar to owls .

Body shape Scottish Fold

Ears

At first Scottish Fold cat species are born with straight ears or open, but with gene Fold Scottish Fold cat will begin to show the flip usually within about 21 days. The original cats only had one fold in their ears, but due to selective breeding farmers have increased the fold to double or triple crease that causes the ear to lie totally flat against the head.

"Typical of the breed's ears folded produced by incomplete dominant gene that affects the ear cartilage, causing the ears to fold forward and downward, giving the appearance that such a cap to the head. The smaller, tightly folded ears set in a cap-like more preferred to fold and larger ear loose. That is, large round eyes and rounded heads, cheeks, and add whiskers bearing rounded appearance overall. Although the folded ears, folds still use their aural complement to express themselves around the ears to hear, lie in anger and prick when treat bag rustles.

Body

Scottish Fold cat species has a medium body size. Scottish Fold For males may reach 9 to 13 lbs and for females 6-9 lbs. The structure of the whole body of Scottish Fold cats, especially the head and face, usually round, and big eyes and round. The nose will be short with a gentle curve, so the cat looks adorable.

Hair

Scottish Fold has a thick coat and dense and sepertikucing on uumnya, Scottish Fold also has a lot of color combinations, among others; white,

black, yellow, brown, so dapt produce gray, yellow gold, cream and others.

Habits Scottish Fold

This cat is very quiet not much noise so it is not noisy, the Scottish Fold tend to give voice softer than with cats in general. Although the type of Scottish Fold cats calm, they also loved to play, very nice fatherly maintained.

Health

Solid White Scottish Fold

The typical lifespan of a Scottish Fold is 15 years. Scottish folds are susceptible to polycystic kidney disease (PKD), and cardiomyopathy.

Osteochondrodysplasia is believed to be caused by or linked to the dominant (folded-ear) gene. If both parents have folded ears, their kittens will be extremely likely (1:4 ratio, virtually guaranteeing at least one per litter) to be affected by malformed bone structures and develop severe painful degenerative joint diseases. This condition can also affect Scottish Folds with one copy of the gene, but usually to a much lesser extent. While ethical breeders breed Fold/non-fold and not Fold/Fold (in the same way Munchkins are bred) to reduce the problem,even those with one copy of the gene develop progressive arthritis of varying severity, leading one vet to recommend abandoning the breeding of folded cats entirely. For this reason the breed is not accepted by either the Governing Council of the Cat Fancy or the Federation Internationale Feline.

Saverel Picture of Scottish Fold