Cat Breed With Folded Down Ears
Scottish Folds are well-known for having forward-facing folded-down ears.
Cat breed with folded down ears. There are self-coloured Scottish Folds that are white blue red black and cream. Jump to navigation Jump to search. The entire breed stems from a single cat named Susie from the McRae farm in Perth Scotland.
Im wondering how serious this is because we are leaving for vacation in 2 days. From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia. The Scottish fold is a medium-sized well-muscled cat with a heavy bone structure.
We brought him to the vet two weeks ago for another minor issue and she checked out his ears and everything looked good. The Scottish Fold cat can trace its origins back to a cat named Susie. Different cat registries have named the folded ear cat differently.
Again they can be different depending on the breed. Its normal for poorly bred kittens to have their ears come back up and are usually then mistaken as Scottish Straights which can cause lots of problems because when two cats with the fold-gene are mated they may get sick kittens because they get double amount of the. The Scottish Folds the American Curls the Highlander cats and the Ukrainian Levkoy.
This breed of cat was named Scottish Folded in the year 1966. These cats with folded ears are bred to cats that do not display the folded ear trait to ensure none of the litter receive two copies of the gene. Originally named Lops after the lop-eared rabbit the breed was renamed as the Scottish Fold in 1966 in honor of the country the breed started in and their folded-over ears.
This is a very. This backwards flattening of the ears of non-Scottish Folds transmits to other cats that they are in fight mode and that the other cat should take heed and beware. From the cats point of view the folded ears are unable to communicate the usual mood signals seen when a cat becoming angry or scared starts to flatten its ears for fighting.