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MOTM2 - I've just been reading about the Scottish Fold cat - never heard of it before so I thought I'd post this but maybe you know about it? I've also added the BBC article.
"History of the Scottish fold cat
Scottish fold cats originated in – you guessed it – Scotland, and to be more specific, they were discovered in the Tayside region, on a farm near Coupar Angus. They are a breed of cat with a relatively short history as this discovery only occurred as recently as 1961.
A shepherd called William Ross spotted the white farm cat, known as Susie, distinctive from all the other cats due to her unique folded ears. Incredibly all known Scottish fold cats today can be traced back to this single female cat! When Ross heard Susie was with kittens, he asked the farmers if he could have one of her babies, and set about establishing the breed, with his new pet Snooks, who was white just like her mother.
Susie carried a unique set of mutated genes which caused the folded appearance of her ears, and amazingly passed this on visibly to two of her kittens. Although not all of the litter presented with the folded ears, we know now that they still would have carried the gene.
William Ross registered the Scottish fold breed with the Governing Council of the Cat Fancy in 1966 in the UK and began breeding them. He enlisted the help ofgeneticist Pat Turner, and they concluded that the presentation of the ear mutation was due to a simple dominant gene. His breeding program produced an incredible 76 kittens in the first three year, of whom 42 had folded ears and 34 had straight ears.
Unfortunately the matriarch of the breed, Susie, was hit by a car and killed just 3 months after she produced her first and only litter. But she will forever be revered by fans of the breed, as all Scottish fold cats can trace their common ancestry back to this beautiful white barn cat."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-39717634
"History of the Scottish fold cat
Scottish fold cats originated in – you guessed it – Scotland, and to be more specific, they were discovered in the Tayside region, on a farm near Coupar Angus. They are a breed of cat with a relatively short history as this discovery only occurred as recently as 1961.
A shepherd called William Ross spotted the white farm cat, known as Susie, distinctive from all the other cats due to her unique folded ears. Incredibly all known Scottish fold cats today can be traced back to this single female cat! When Ross heard Susie was with kittens, he asked the farmers if he could have one of her babies, and set about establishing the breed, with his new pet Snooks, who was white just like her mother.
Susie carried a unique set of mutated genes which caused the folded appearance of her ears, and amazingly passed this on visibly to two of her kittens. Although not all of the litter presented with the folded ears, we know now that they still would have carried the gene.
William Ross registered the Scottish fold breed with the Governing Council of the Cat Fancy in 1966 in the UK and began breeding them. He enlisted the help ofgeneticist Pat Turner, and they concluded that the presentation of the ear mutation was due to a simple dominant gene. His breeding program produced an incredible 76 kittens in the first three year, of whom 42 had folded ears and 34 had straight ears.
Unfortunately the matriarch of the breed, Susie, was hit by a car and killed just 3 months after she produced her first and only litter. But she will forever be revered by fans of the breed, as all Scottish fold cats can trace their common ancestry back to this beautiful white barn cat."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-39717634
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