Why does the Scottish Fold Straight exist?
The Scottish Fold Straight should not exist. It only exists as a by-product of the need to avoid creating horribly unhealthy Scottish Fold cats which have both copies (Fd/Fd) of the gene (Fd) which...
Category: inbreeding
Inbreeding of wild cats can lead to extinctions in the wild due to unviable population sizes
I feel that humankind is gradually approaching the time when we could argue that the inbreeding of some wild cat species might effectively extinguish them in the wild. Through human activity we have brought...
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