A Michael Broad Blog
Flat Faced Persian Cat – “Ultra Type” – photo Stockxpert The flat faced Persian cat should follow the way of the Pekingese dog. Flat faces without a muzzle on Pekingese dogs are no longer acceptable in the UK as the Kennel Club has (under pressure) changed the breed standard for this dog and for …
This TikTok user suggests that his flat-faced, smoke, Persian cat has mated with his hamster to produce a ‘camster’ because the hamster looks a bit like the Persian cat and I have to agree that it does in terms of the coat. But definitely not in terms of the face! Nothing natural can look …
Well, this video is about people who are scared of cats or who don’t like them. They find out over the course of a week that cats can be charming and great companions. All of them were won over. BUT for me the interesting episode in the video is the flat-faced Persian eating from …
Extreme flat-face Persian cats are, according to a research paper carried out in 2017 by German scientists, equivalent to children suffering from a condition called coronal craniosynostosis. This is a rare condition where a baby’s skull does not grow properly causing an irregular head shape. I would suggest in fact that the abnormality of …
This is a classic Helmi Flick studio photograph of SC Surreal’s Trick of Treat ‘Fruit Loops’. She was 8-months-of-age at the time of the photograph. She was bred by Leesa and Mike Altschul. Apparently she behaved well in the studio (‘Gold Star Kitty’) which is at the home of Helmi and Ken Flick. I …
by Michael Spaniel photo by Shames Privacy and Persian photo © Stockxpert This sounds like an impossible comparison. In many ways it is. In one significant way it is not. I am referring to health problems due to over zealous selective breeding for appearance. Pedigree Animal Condition 1 Condition 2 Cavalier King Charles Spaniel …
There is a link, as confirmed by a study, between living in a place where the air is dirty i.e. polluted and increased veterinary visits for cats and dogs. This is unsurprising because we know that polluted air causes health problems for people so why not for pets? I guess it just needed to …
Entropion is an inherited eye condition and a logical consequence of the cat fancy’s Peke-face Persian’s breed standard, which aims to produce the extremely flat face. The infographic outlines the causes, symptoms, and treatments. Long-term prevention would be fairly straightforward: reduce the extreme selective breeding over a long time to produce cats with more …
