Cat breeds do not cease to surprise and please with the variety. Very refined choice: this is a Scottish Fold - the Scottish lop-eared kitten. Cats of this breed differ in unusual appearance: the lowered ears give to a cat's muzzle a touching and expressive look. What needs to be considered, choosing for itself a kitten of such breed?
Instruction
1. The Scottish kitten - the more at you is more senior than chances to appreciate him, especially if you choose future producer. At the age of 1-2.5 months - all kittens are touching and charming and to estimate their merits and demerits extremely difficult. And here the cat's teenager aged from 3 months can already be a worthy object for study. After 3 months the kittens lose an infantile charm, are extended, and possible shortcomings become especially noticeable.
2. Ideal Scottish kitten has to have a thick shchekasty muzzle with widely placed eyes. As for a constitution, lop-eared "Scot" is distinguished by a wide thorax, strong pads, thick and not too long tail. A hair at Scottish Folds dense and short. And, of course, such kitten has to have the small lowered ears. Remember that ears at a kitten can rise over time, and fall here - by no means.
3. Check whether is not present on a nose of a Scottish Fold of a small hump. Visually it is difficult to define it - at early age the nose with future small hump just looks shorter. But check can be made, having run a finger over a kitten nose from a forehead to a lobe. If the small hump is not expected, you feel absolutely smooth surface. Probe a tail to check whether there are on it no knots and zalom. Pay attention to teeth: the correct bite has to be nozhnitseobrazny. However, if you want to take a kitten as an ordinary pet and do not plan to participate in exhibitions, can take any kid who was pleasant to you at the age of about 2 months.
4. Do not forget as well about the signs distinguishing a healthy kitten. It is free, dense, dense and brilliant wool, clear eyes without allocations. Be not ashamed to glance to a kitten in ears and under a tail, to check whether there is no inflammation of mucous membranes, pollution. Pay attention also to a tummy of the kid: it has to be soft even if the kitten ate recently. The dense and hard stomach can be sign of a helminthic invasion. The healthy kitten is active and playful, with curiosity reacts to everything that occurs around.