The Scottish and British cat breeds dough are connected among themselves. The Scottish cats can be considered one of branches of the British breed. But after the lop-eared mutation was fixed, knittings between these animals are forbidden, and the difference between Scots and the British became obvious.
From the history of breedsThe British cats conduct the history with the beginning of the last century. In Great Britain the manufacturers-selectors by crossing of various European short-haired breeds brought essentially new cats. The main difference of the British - their dense, dense wool reminding fur of valuable fur small animals. Such texture is caused by the fact that ostevy hair and an underfur have identical length. The British cats differ in the impressive weight, a dense constitution and powerful frame. They have round muzzles with strongly developed cheeks and the small, widely put ears, not too long and quite thick tails. The color can be various, but blue is especially popular.
In the sixties in Scotland, in one of a dung of the British cat the kitten with the strange hung ears was found. The owner did not discard the baby, and, on the contrary, decided to fix this mutation. As a result of systematic crossing the hung ears were fixed. After a while the breed was officially recognized and received the name "The Scottish Lop-eared".
However the problem was found - it was impossible to knit lop-eared animals with each other - kittens were born weak, ugly, and even impractical. Therefore the British cats were involved in knitting. Kittens with direct ears wrote down British short-haired, and lop-eared became Scottish. This practice continued about two-thousand years, so far, at last, in 2004 was not forbidden. Today thoroughbred Scottish cats cannot have the British in the ancestors, and all knittings are carried out between lop-eared skotish-folda and pryamoukhmy skotish-strighta.
There is one more kind of the Scottish breed - Highland - folda and Highland-strighty. They differ in long wool, but for the rest completely conform to standards short-haired skotishy.
Differences of the British and ScotsTo the unsophisticated person to distinguish little kittens of the British and Scottish breeds can be difficult. However the expert will notice a difference at once. The little British remind teddy bears - they shchekasty, well-fed, korotkolapy. Scots are more graceful. They are distinguished by a pretty "children's" muzzle with big, ideally round eyes and small ears. With age distinctions become more noticeable. By three months at skotish-fold ears fall. But pryamoukhy Scots are not similar to the British too. Their body more harmonious, is longer than a leg, the short tail typical for the British is considered defect, as well as excessively developed cheeks. Adult Scottish cats on weight are equal to the British cats females, they never reach the sizes of the manufacturing British.
The British cats are a little phlegmatic, very sustained. Scottish are more friendly and sociable. Both breeds perfectly give in to education, differ in good health and good appetite.
Differences are noticeable also in texture of wool. At the Scottish cats it silkier, an underfur is shorter than an ostevy hair therefore the effect of "plyushevost" is not so noticeable. Adult skotish-folda and skotish-strighta have to keep "a children's muzzle" that is one of differences of this breed. Color of eyes at the British usually bright orange or copper, the iris of Scots can have a different shade - it depends on a wool color. For example, light-brown eyes are characteristic of black-and-white cats.