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A Scottish fold kitten. Scottish Folds can be either long- or short-haired, and they may have nearly any coat colour or combination of colours (including white). [4] Shorthair Scottish Folds have thick and soft fur, with longhair Folds having longer fur and tufts located around the extremities. [7]
The Balinese is a long-haired breed of domestic cat with Siamese-style point coloration and sapphire-blue eyes. The Balinese is also known as the purebred long-haired Siamese since it originated as a natural mutation of that breed and hence is essentially the same cat but with a medium-length silky coat and a distinctively plumed tail.
Fever coat is an effect known in domestic cats, where a pregnant female cat has a fever or is stressed, causing her unborn kittens' fur to develop a silver-type color (silver-grey, cream, or reddish) rather than what the kitten's genetics would normally cause. After birth, over some weeks the silver fur is replaced naturally by fur colors ...
Oriental Longhairs have the same wedge-shaped heads as modern Siamese cats. Oriental Longhairs feature a long, tubular, Oriental-style body with a longer silky coat.The range of possible coat colours includes everything from self-coloured (black, blue, chocolate, lilac, cinnamon, caramel, fawn, red, cream and apricot), tortoiseshell, smoke (silver undercoat), shaded or tipped, tabby or white.
Conforming Oriental Shorthairs, like any of the Siamese type, have almond-shaped eyes and a wedge-shaped head with large ears. Their bodies are typically "sleek" but muscular. [6] The long-haired version of the breed, the Oriental Longhair (recognized since 1995 by CFA [6]), simply carries a pair of the recessive long hair genes.
The cats, called Lykoi, have such wolf-like creatures that people have referred to it as a 'werewolf cats,' according to The Huffington Post. The word 'Lykoi' comes from the Greek word for 'wolf'.
The word "kitten" derives from the Middle English word kitoun, which in turn came from the Old French chitoun or cheton. [1] Juvenile big cats are called "cubs" rather than kittens; either term (but usually more commonly "kitten") may be used for the young of smaller wild felids, such as ocelots, caracals, and lynxes.
The CFA considers the Cymric to be a variety of Manx and judges it in the short-hair division even though it is long-haired, [23] while The International Cat Association (TICA) judges it in the long-hair division as a distinct Cymric breed. [32] The long-haired variety is of comparatively recent development.