Cat Breed With Ears Folded Back
The Scottish Fold cat breed is known for the natural mutation that causes their ears to fold.
Cat breed with ears folded back. This category is for fold and curl cat breeds with bent ears. 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. They bend forward towards the top of their head which results in the fold.
Different cat registries have named the folded ear cat differently. Nevertheless the creator of the Scottish breed is William Ross who in 1961 saw and bought from a farm owner in Scotland a fold kitten white kitten one of two kittens born to a Scottish cat with fold ears named Susie. This breed of cat was named Scottish Folded in the year 1966.
Most of them eventually develop mobility issues. Members of the breed today can all trace their heritage back to Susie a white cat with unusual folded ears who earned her keep as a mouser in a barn in Scotlands Tayside. In this year an English sailor brought back one of these cats when he returned from China.
The Scottish Fold is a breed of domestic cat with a natural dominant-gene mutation that affects cartilage throughout the body causing the ears to fold bending forward and down towards the front of the head which gives the cat what is often described as an owl-like appearance. Some of these alterations will affect solely the size of the ears. Susie was a barn cat living on the McRae farm who was born with a genetic mutation that produced her unusual folded ears.
Thinking of buying a Scottish Fold and wondering about. They are very different cats but they do share this characteristic. Again they can be different depending on the breed.
It was developed initially in Germany where its future is threatened by rulings prohibiting the breeding of cats with harmful defects. Jump to navigation Jump to search. William Ross asked the McRae couple if they knew the history of the cat which they did not.