British Shorthair - one of the oldest breeds of cat, always noticed by strength and good health. It gotten to know that the British lines contain two blood types: A and B. With this in mind, breeders can avoid problems with diseases of the blood, which has now become a common practice of breeding.
All Britons, regardless of color, size and structure of the body must meet certain standards.
Body - from medium to large, muscular, with a broad chest, shoulders, and large massive and dense.
Limbs - short and tight.
Paws - round and firm.
Tail - a short (no more than 2/3 of the body length), thick with a rounded tip.
Head - a round, massive, with a broad skull, the well developed short and strong neck. Filled cheeks. The chin is strong.
Nose - a short, broad and straight with a slight indentation in the transition to the forehead, but without the explicit "stop", characteristic of exotic breeds.
Ears - short and wide at the base, slightly rounded. Set well, emphasizing rounded contours of the head.
Eyes - big, round, open, wide apart. Color to match the color of hair. As a rule, the majority of colors - it's orange or copper color of the eye, cold silver and golden shaded colors - the color of the eyes of emerald green, all main colors should have blue eyes. The white cats may be blue, copper, or different colored eyes.
Hair - short, dense, fine texture, adjoining, with a thick underhair.
In any color, except silver and Smoke, the hair must be evenly colored to the root.
Care. Hair does not require frequent brushing. Unpretentious and easily adaptable to the conditions of life.
Cats of Highland Fold breed are long-wool breed variety of Scottish Fold.
Currently, the vast majority of catteries are working with the Scottish shorthair variations. Longhair Scottish fold option are only beginning to go on the stage of breeding and the show rings.
Highlands are extraordinarily charming and original. Rather, they can be attributed to the group of semi-longhair cats. They have a hair texture very distinctive - volume, silky, does not fall down, and requires minimal maintenance.
The History of the Highland Fold starts from the very first Fold cat Susie. Judging by the pedigree of her descendants, she was a carrier of long hair and mating with normal household cats, her long-haired kittens were born.
Of course, in the mass they recessive of longhair gene wes passed by Scots exotic cats, which were tied up to the fold, mainly to the introduction of new colors in the breed. Thus, many of the Scottish lines have in recessive the longhair gene and when breeding two shorthair animals, the kittens are born with long hair.
Until now, all the breeders of the debate concerning the development of Scots Highland been unfairly relegated to the side of the planned work. Now very few nurseries boast quality manufacturers of Highlands. However, the situation is changing rapidly.
Earlier woolly folds and straights appeared occasionally in litters of short-Scots. Many long-haired offspring, even short-quality manufacturers have features showing cast-Persian blood. Typically, it is expressed in smoothed profile, "lowered" muzzle, as well as changes in the texture of wool, more reminiscent of Persian. Now that the critical moments of the breed scottish fold is complete, the number of quality animals has increased significantly, exactly like the professional kennels and breeders, breed enthusiasts and hone its nuances, the views of professionals turned, finally, to the Highlands.
Given the momentum of development, one can expect in a year and a half to see the quality Highland at shows, even back in much smaller proportions than the short-Scots.
Highland is certainly worthy of attention and purposeful breeding!
Highlander (SFL71)
Body: Medium-sized, medium length with rounded contours, the same width from shoulder to rump. Dense, muscular, medium boned, standing firmly on short legs. Legs with tightly clenched fingers. Movement of the free and flexible in all joints. Females are somewhat smaller cats.
Tail: long and medium length in proportion to the body (mid shoulder), flexible in all sochlineniyah. Long tail prepochtitelnee.
Head: Round, with raised skull and forehead, round cheeks and muzzle. The transition to a broad bridge of the nose slightly arched without stop and gray. The upper line of the profile is smooth, bridge of the nose of moderate length. Cheeks round, full cheeks. Full cheeks are especially noticeable in cats. The chin is well decorated. round, strong, but not protruding. Width and roundness faces highlighted round and full pads under-viskepardami whiskers. Spuskaetya head to a short neck.
Ears: Small and medium size, narrowly open, standing up with a slightly pointed tip, but wide at the base, set wide and high. The tips just divorced. The outer surfaces of the ears are well covered with hair. Inside the dense and lush brush.
Eyes: Large round, split wide nose, wide open with a sweet expression. Meets the eye color coat color.
Coat: Medium and long. Has acquired full face and body is desirable, but possible shortening of hair on the face and extremities. Pants, Suspension / Suspension on the tail, tufts between the toes and tufts of hair out of the ears and bryzhzhi be well marked.
Nose: A little soft deflection. Easy feet is acceptable. Profile moderate lines.
Scottish Fold is breed of cat with has a distinctive structure of the ears, which are folded forward and down.
Brreding of the first cats of this breed became in Scotland, where on one of the farms in 1961, was born tight pussy with against the head ears named Susie. In turn, Susie was born a few kittens with similar ears. These cats started a new breed - Scottish Fold.
The original species of animals has caused great interest, as the breeders as ordinary cat lovers. Since Fold enjoys high demand, although the number Fold kittens in a litter is rarely more than half. In England, this breed is not recognized at first, and even banned. But in America, where appeared several fold cats, started a boom that led to the successful development of the breed. In Europe, the Fold has reappeared from the ocean, and the official status of the breed had only at the end of 80's. In our country, Scottish Fold cats appeared, less than 20 years ago.
The colors Scottish fold are very diverse - from plain black, white, blue and so on, until patterned: marble, tortoise, tiger. The fur of the Scottish Fold cats silky, rather short, pleasant to the touch, its density and thickness reminds plush. Eye color corresponds to coat color, but mostly - bright amber.
In fact, the external data in Scottish is not the main thing in these unique cats, their character and manners are much more beautiful. "Scottish cat" at the same time show high intelligence and incredible intuition. They are easily teachable, rapidly getting to unfamiliar surroundings, very unobtrusive and always feel the mood of the owner. Your plush Scottish baby immediately find its box and understand with what he can play, and with what not. A distinctive feature of the breed scottish-fold, is the lack of aggression and revenge. Even if foldik somewhat disagree with you, it will never tear the corners and mark your slippers - it is higher than this, when you take him in your arms, he would still be tender and calmn. Scottish Fold has a balanced character, great affection to the house and the man. This cats are ideal for those who like calm animals with unusual appearance.
Over the past four decades, Scottish Fold became its own recognizable style. Cross-breeding of cats of this breed with each other resulted in disorders of the musculoskeletal system. So bred this breed can only in the heterozygous form, that is, at constant crosses with 'normal', without pendant ears, individuals, ie with scottish-straight (from the word "straight" - a straight line). European and Russian breeders allow binding not only on the straights, but also to the American Shorthair, British and Exotic. Therefore Scottish Fold European type is massive physique, broad bones and ears pressed tightly, in fact they are different from the British just folded ears. While folds American breeding are more harmonious: densely pressed ears, a round head, fine bone and a long tail, as American breeders used to breed only straights that phenotypically have much in common with the American Shorthair (representatives of this species have been actively involved in improving the image of Scottish cats in America).
Kittens
Kittens of Scottish Fold are very playful and tame, like spending time with children, but can not tolerate too noisy company - so if you have children, then you should move to have adapted to the social interaction and independence pussies. They respond well to training and quickly become accustomed to the toilet and scratching posts, so will not deliver special efforts.
Skottish Fold kittens are born with straight ears, and only after three to four weeks, it is clear whether they will remain so, or "will fall." At twelve weeks can be made the class definition of kitten - whether it's exhibition «show», tribal «breed» or home «pet».
Who are the kittens with straight ears, born by Fold, no one knew, and suggest that this Scottish kittens did not occur. For a long time these kittens were recorded as British than made the confusion in the British breed. Today, kittens with straight eyers borned by Scottish Fold are called "Scottish Straight" or Scottish shorthair breed. And in many feline systems breeding of Scottish Fold is permitted only with Scottish straights. Kittens from mating with other breeds are considered purebred.
How do you know that before you is Scottish Straight, and not a British?
First, on family trees necessary to ensure that one of the parents was a kitten Scottish Fold, and the second - Straight. This rule is a must!
Secondly, there is a Scottish shorthair breed standart. Scottish Straight noticeably lighter than the British cat, ie Scottish common type should not be weighted. Scottish tail is preferencely long, and the longer tail has the more promising kitten. The British cat tail, on the contrary, is short and thick, like sausage.
Scottish kittens must have a rounded shape of the head, and a violation of the standard will be saggy fat cheeks, like the British. The head should be rounded-graceful. Scot eyes are wide open and widely planted as a surprised child is looking at you. Ears at the Scot is not widely spread, like a kitten. In general, small Scotsman is a neat and elegant kitten.
Unfortunately, the long-term mating, and failure of the recognizing of the breed Scottish Straight, suffered amazingly beautiful cat breeds: Scottish and British. Today, breeders are working hard to Scottish breed, seeking proximity to the standard, as the Scottish Fold kittens and Scottish straights. A British cat is the one who has the pedigree no other species than the British.
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My cattery is in TALLINN, ESTONIA. My cattery was founded in2004 and is aprivate,to guaranteethe healthof offspring!
We are specializing on the creating of cats of Scottish Fold breed, Scottish Straight breed, Highland Fold breed, Highlander breed, and also British Shorthair breed.
All these breeds have gain edimmense popularity among the fans because they have a great look, a gentle calm character and are particularly easy to care.
We ad here to a professional approach to breeding Scottish Strait and Scottish Fold cats , based on modern knowledge of genetics and veterinary medicine.
Each breeding is planned in advance and the selection of pairs based on the analysis of the genotype and phenotype of our manufacturers.
The main purpose of the cattery is getting the most relevant standard of the breed kittens. We work both with solid classic colors (purple, blue, tortoise), and color with a pattern (silvertabby, blue tabby, purplemarble, blue marble, redmarble, red silvermarble, silvertortietabby).
Our cats are full-fledged members of our family, and live in love and comfort!They receive timely veterinary care and eat the first class food! Also we regularly visite xhibitions and replenish our knowledge!
If you decide to purchase the Scottish kitten from us, we will be happy to provide expert assistance in selecting a pet,and the future manufacturer! We hope that this plush ball will bring a into your home the warm and living love. He will give you another chance to learn to love and open your heart.
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