Talk:Scottish Fold

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Basis for claim

What is the basis for saying that Scottish Folds are "not very vocal?" Ours loves to wake us up at 7 am every morning. --BrownHornet21 17:55, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ours too, she wakes us up at 6:30 every morning without fail, we don't have to use alarm clock anymore.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Desadevil (talk • contribs) 11:40, April 11, 2006.

Mine too. I had very good conversations with him. He was wise enough not to argue. His name was Devil (he was a sweetheart)Tflad (talk) 07:39, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Notes

Not test. We now have that full-body shot. Vengeance is mine, saith the Prime ^{19:39, 11 Aug 2008 (UTC)}

13:46, 11 August 2008 Ramdrake (Talk | contribs) (1,105 bytes) (Removing template by an indef-blocked user.)

Huh? Vengeance is mine, saith the Prime ^{20:51, 11 Aug 2008 (UTC)}

(Notice, NOT reverting...not worth an edit war over something trivial.)YO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Better pictures, please!

Can't we have better pictures for the Scottish fold? No offense to anyone, but, man! those cats in the article are very unattractive. Micasta (talk) 12:45, 27 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, they made me lol. Gotta love the "Winston Churchill" caption. - 60.50.244.123 (talk) 18:03, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What's with "Winston Churchill"

I seriously have no idea what's going on with that image of the cat. This page should possibly be protected from anons because I think they're the ones doing it. --Melon247 ^talk 17:43, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have edited the article a little bit. When I began I was not an registered user. Now I am and re-edited it. So now you all can find me. LOL Tflad (talk) 07:34, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Some confusion about the gene itself

The article says the gene that causes this is a dominant gene. However, in the Characteristics section, there's this line: "Because these cats [cats with straight ears with a Fold parent] are still bearers of the gene it is not recommended to use them for breeding with a Fold." These seem to contradict each other: if they had the gene, which is dominant, it would be expressed. There also seems to be no support for the second half, that those cats shouldn't be used for breeding. I'm having trouble with the source given so I can't confirm. 71.55.221.229 (talk) 09:41, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well I think nobody really knows what gene it is,which function and how it is really expressed. There is only *one* source for the dominant expression (O.Jackson: Congenital bone lesions in cats with folded ears. Bull Fel Advis Bur 1975;14:2-4). BTW not very trustworthy source because of inbred studies and breeding with obvious sick animals. No real research is done yet on the gene. Also the wp article says that all heterozygous animals get OCD. Sorry but that's nonsense.There are less than 10 publications in PubMED on OCD in SFs since the 1970s, there must be a lot more (taken in account that there a lot of SF breeders in US and Japan/East Europe).--Phaeton68 (talk) 11:53, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Pokemon Reference

There is a pokemon based on a scottish fold and it keeps being deleted in the fiction section. Stop it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.11.235.167 (talk) 20:43, 16 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Eevee 2A02:2F07:6209:9600:D895:2E7:2EB6:2367 (talk) 12:36, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And again I had to put the reference back in. Kaorichan2009 (talk) 05:08, 12 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your reference is a topic on a Pokemon wiki with no citation. The reference in its talk page reads "It's obvious to all of us that Espurr is a cat, right? Well, I've looked up some pictures of cats, and I think it may be specifically based off of the Scottish Fold." A fan assumption isn't a valid source. 31.50.232.82 (talk) 22:20, 13 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Pets

Are lions and tigers considered pets 2601:4C3:8101:55E0:75EC:BB24:24F7:DE51 (talk) 00:02, 21 January 2022 (UTC) First of all this is off topic and second of all the talk pages are for improving the pages, not for chit-chat 92.3.186.65 (talk) 15:58, 11 July 2022 (UTC) FoxGalah[reply]

Added picture of habits.

My edit of the Habits section addinga picture of the breed laying on its back was removed due to it being my file upload. I added it after figuring out that the claimed habits have no demoonstration and don't think it should be removed solely because it's my personal cat. I just used the picture because I have the rights for it. If it must be a random pet (although alot of cats are at the end, someone's cat) that's fine. but I think it adds to the breed's description since it has unique behaviours. @silvertiger12 added user for discussion. Reef Polak (talk) 20:19, 10 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Cats lying on their back like that is hardly a behavior unique to the Scottish Fold and it is inaccurate and misleading to portray it as such. SilverTiger12 (talk) 21:21, 10 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your agrument is irellevant to this edit. the fact and text regarding this statement werent made by me and it's not my place to defend them (although I think they are in place). it's a citated claim in the body of this article. I only added a picture to demonstrate it. since this is part of the article, you can either dispute the whole subject or not, that's up to another discussion. the pictures and you removing it is a different topic. I am therfor suggesting to add a photo (either the one added, or another one) of the habits of the cat, otherwise, as you say, the habits statements add nothing as they dont distinguish this breed from others. Reef Polak (talk) 04:15, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with @Reef Polak. The cited fact appears in the article and debating it is irrelevant to this image. In my opinion the image is a good addition and should be returned. סתו שר (talk) 20:07, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Misrepresentation of studies

@Phaeton1 your edit completely misinterprets what the studies say, whether this is due to malice or just incompetency I will not say.

'Overall, EPRs indicated a low prevalence of clinically diagnosed (1.1%) and clinically suspected SFOCD (5.7%) within this sample of Scottish Fold and Scottish Shorthair cats. It is possible that cases, or potential cases, were missed given that the details within EPRs are variable, and clinical information provided may have been too general for the search parameters, contained severe typographical errors, or information was not entered. Furthermore, records of individual cats may be incomplete or not available as owners may use several veterinary clinics over the lifetime of an animal and not all practices contribute their data to the VetCompass project. This may have resulted in an underrepresentation of Scottish Fold cats classified as diagnosed clinically or clinically suspected of having SFOCD ... This further supports findings that assessing skeletal changes and their clinical relevance is challenging'

this has to do with diagnosis and the study itself considers it to be underreporting the numbers. When the diagnosis is one that is expensive and costly, has little that can be done to be treated, and is an innate condition it is unlikely to test for it.

But thanks for the edit, you've motivated me to do a write up with Feline Orthopaedics as a source. Traumnovelle (talk) 20:43, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]