Scottish Fold Cat Images Collection

Scottish Fold Cat images - 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 their head, which gives the cat what is often described as an "owl-like" appearance.
Originally called lop-eared or lops after the lop-eared rabbit, Scottish Fold became the breed's name in 1966. Depending on registries, longhaired Scottish Folds are varyingly known as Highland Fold, Scottish Fold Longhair, Longhair Fold and Coupari. (Wikipedia)

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Scottish Fold Cat Images

By Psihopat - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12724979

By Psihopat - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9492430

By Gothicrococo - Own work http://www.basilfarrow.com, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4451391

By SolnishkoA - photographPreviously published: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=506892356037831&set=pb.253960734664329.-2207520000.1366740020.&type=3&theater, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25729853

Images of Scottish Fold Cat

All Folds are born with straight, unfolded ears, and those with the Fold gene will begin to show the fold usually within about 21 days. The kittens that do not develop folded ears are known as Straights.The original cats only had one fold in their ears, but due to selective breeding, breeders have increased the fold to a double or triple crease that causes the ear to lie totally flat against the head.
The breed's distinctive folded ears are produced by an incompletely dominant gene that affects the cartilage of the ears, causing the ears to fold forward and downward, giving a cap-like appearance to the head. Smaller, tightly folded ears set in a cap-like fashion are preferred to a loose fold and larger ear. The large, round eyes and rounded head, cheeks, and whisker pads add to the overall rounded appearance. Despite the folded ears, folds still use their aural appendages to express themselves—the ears swivel to listen, lay back in anger and prick up when the treat bag rustles.

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