Scottish Fold – Cat Breed

Scottish Fold is a breed of cat easily distinguished by its folded ears. These ears point forward and paired with its characteristically round face gives these cats an owl look that can look mean or intrigue most of the time. This cat breed was first discovered in 1961 and of course it was in Scotland (otherwise it wouldn’t be have “Scottish” on its name right?).

The folded ears on the Scottish Fold are a result of a dominant gene as was observed by the first breeding program for the breed back in 1966.

These cats come in a lot of fur color possibilities with Lilac, solid cream, and solid white among the most desirable.

These cats usually live up to 15 years and are considered medium-sized cats with adults weighing around 4-6 kilos.

Scottish Fold Temperament

Scottish Folds come with a very affectionate behavior towards their humans. Add a whole lot of playfulness, high intelligence and impeccable grooming and you have got yourself the perfect cat for any home regardless if there are other animals on it as they tend to have no problems with co-existing at all. So long as you give Scottish Folds some attention, the food it deserves and leave it to enjoy its slumber, you are in great shape with these cats.

To boot to the uber cuddliness features of Scottish Folds, these cats are known to sleep on their backs as if they have been shot dead with arms and legs spread out! They even love sitting with their legs stretched out while keeping their paws on their bellies as if saying, “I’ve had a great meal”. Lying tummy down with their arms and legs spread out are common as well.

And if you are a fan of Maru, you will notice him pushing his entire body while laying on his back by kicking other things with his hind legs. Now that’s intelligence in a cat at its best! More on Maru below.

Maru – Scottish Fold Youtube Sensation

Maru is probably the most popular Scottish Fold the world has known thanks to Youtube. In fact, Maru’s videos is one of the most popular Youtube videos around with Maru’s channel being the 7th most subscribed channel in Youtube Japan as of December, 2011! Think of all the wacky Japanese prank shows and game shows around just so you’d begin to understand how difficult it is to be on the top 10 of most popular Youtube channels in said country.

Maru’s Youtube videos have already been watched one hundred million (100,000,000) times already with an average video view of a staggering 100,000!

With that, it’s only natural that Maru has mentions from all over the internet and print media including mentions from Entertainment Weekly and the New York Times! Commercials? Naturally, his videos have been featured in advertisements as well.

That said, I’ll leave you in peace to check out these images of Scottish Folds and some of the videos of Maru to enjoy. Don’t you just wish you can give this cat a good squeezy someday?!

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Scottish Fold Cats

Scottish Fold cat has ears that folded so it looks funny and unique. This cat is the result of mutation, which makes her ears folded forward and down, making it resemble a cat's face like an owl. Typical ear is produced by incomplete dominant gene that affects the cartilage of the ear, causing the ears to fold forward and downward, giving the appearance that such a cap to the head. Scottish Fold cat is probably one of the sweetest because small ears that make them look like kittens their entire life. Rounded head, cheeks, and add whiskers bearing the overall look round. Scottish Fold has a great eye, round, with a sweet facial expression, eye color matches the color of hair. Although the folded ears, do not affect the functioning of the ear itu.Struktur Scottish Fold Cat body, especially the head and face, usually round. Short nose with gentle curves and rounded body with the look-coated cats and middle legs slightly to short. Head of Scottish Fold Cats like dome on top, and the neck is very short. Wide-spaced eyes that make the Scottish Fold cat has a sweet expression. Scottish Fold cat is benign in nature, bonding with his employer, and like to sleep in a supine position. When you sleep on your back, sometimes Scottish Fold cat is purring like a human. Scottish folds are very friendly, love to setiaporang, other cats, and even friendly with the dog. Scottish Fold is a cat who rarely speak out. Communication done and realized denganperbuatan. Just a voice in urgent circumstances.

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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

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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.

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