Skinny Ethel
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A cat running at full pelt on a wheel , makes me cringe about safety what if they go too fast. Scared to even search for a video.
Many Happy Returns Lillith!
RubyToogood Scottish fold just landed at WAR
I know. I had my WAR home check on Friday and the guy told me her back story. Although she has a beautiful coat I looked up the breed, and the likelihood of joint problems and other health conditions is very high and could be expensive I imagine.RubyToogood Scottish fold just landed at WAR
I know. I had my WAR home check on Friday and the guy told me her back story. Although she has a beautiful coat I looked up the breed, and the likelihood of joint problems and other health conditions is very high and could be expensive I imagine.
The ear thing is basically a cartilage defect. It's like dogs that can't breathe properly.
I'm hoping to meet Kerry next week. She looked scruffy and terrified in her website pics but has come on a lot in foster care. Half siamese do we think?
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Our part feral cat is very much at home now. Seems to have moved in permanently.
My OH says we need to to ration the Dreamies. I've got her on some decent food but she still craves the Dreamies.
OH thinks she might get over weight. She has got bigger. But she was very thin when first turned up hanging around my courtyard. So Im not so sure she is overweight.
Definitely if one is in a shelter it needs a good home though, and getting one from a shelter is not encouraging breeding them, they are nice cats, and I think similar in personality to British Shorthairs?
Also apparently all their hedgehogs go to the big prison in Banstead
where there's a thriving colony cared for by the prisoners.
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Scottish Fold cats are also very prone to ear infections which could make them grumpy. As the ears are folded down, the cat can't clean them properly so they get a build up of wax and all sorts of other nasty stuff. It's probably difficult for the vet to give the ears a good clean as well and may have to be done under anaesthetic which is another big expense.i don't think i've ever met a scottish fold (i knew a kitty with one floppy ear, but that was only after a battle injury got infected)
i have read they can be a bit grumpy, but this could be due to painful joints
free the innocent hedgehogs!
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This is my semi-feral visitor who popped in for a meal yesterday. He's most definitely a tom so at least I don't have to worry about kittens.View attachment 436455View attachment 436456
Our part feral cat is very much at home now. Seems to have moved in permanently.
My OH says we need to to ration the Dreamies. I've got her on some decent food but she still craves the Dreamies.
OH thinks she might get over weight. She has got bigger. But she was very thin when first turned up hanging around my courtyard. So Im not so sure she is overweight.
That's fascinating!Oh and btw if you were wondering about the darker strip of fur on Kerry's side, that will be due to her having a flank incision for a spay probably within the last year.
Colourpoint cats (whether Siamese, Burmese, Tonkinese, Balinese, or Domestic cat) are caused by a form of albinism whereby a mutated gene makes melanin unstable at body temperature and upwards. In the Siamese, melanin is unstable at a relatively low temperature and this tends to result in a cream coloured torso that darkens as they age and depending upon ambient environment, and unpigmented blue irises. Burmese have a different gene that does a similar thing but melanin is stable until a bit higher temperature, which results in an overall darker coat with lightly pigmented green or gold eyes. Tonkinese are a mix of the 2 breeds so have 2 different genes with incomplete dominance that result in a coat between the two and dark blue/aqua/amber eyes.
They get darker skin and fur on their cooler extremities than their warm torso.
Also on areas of the body where they have been shaved for an investigation or surgical procedure - that strip where they have been shaved is cooler than the surrounding furry body when they start to regrow fur, and it grows back darker than the surrounding fur. It can take a while to grow out paler again to match the rest of the surrounding fur.
Some people who show female neutered colourpoint cats will request a midline spay so the part that was shaved is less obvious, but it's quicker for the vet to do a flank spay so for cats that aren't being shown they will do that regardless and you just have to wait for the fur to grow out to all the same colour again.
It doesn't matter in the slightest of course and isn't at all relevant to the health or wellbeing of a cat and just wanted to explain the reason for her having an odd looking patch of different coloured fur on her side
Sorry for babbling on, I find cat coat genetics endlessly fascinating, it's one of my ND "specialist subjects"