My cattery is called Danlowe. I raise short hair Scottish folds. My primary queen is a brown patch tabby and white (I call her calico but CFA has their own way of naming colors). Her name is Darleramos Sweetheart of Danlowe. We call her Sweetie, Momcat and B*tch cat. She has gold eyes and folded ears. She has had several litters. Her mate is Darleramos Frisco Kid, better known as Frisco. He is a smoke gray and white with gold eyes and straight ears. Frisco and Momcat have produced seven folds and four straight ear folds. Colors have ranged from dark tabby to white. Two of her daughters have just had their first litters. Lady Chloe is a dilute calico with gold eyes and folded ears. Her mate is Pippy and he is a smoke gray and white straight ear with gold eyes. They produced four babies this summer - two folds and two straights. Cinderella is white with smoke gray tail, ear and back patch, odd eyes (one blue and one gold - no deafness) and straight ears. Her mate is Studley Elvis who is cameo and white with folded ears and copper eyes. Cindy's first litter was a single kitten - a carbon copy of her (except eyes). Waylin has been raised with Chloe's kittens (both moms nurse each other's babies) and even though there is a two week age difference, he is quite able to hold his own in the most serious wrestling matches.

I don't have the personality needed to show cats.

We are registered in CFA, TICA and members of the International Scottish Fold Association.

I have a partner in Baltimore, MD. Her cattery is Darleramos. She raises both short and long hair and is associated with CFA and TICA. She shows her cats. She can be reached at Edie P O Box 5152, Baltimore MD 21224.

The following information is quoted extensively from "The Complete Cat Book" by Richard H. Gebhardt, Howell Book House: New York, 1991.

The mother of all Scottish Folds was Susie who was born in 1961 near the village of Coupar Angus in east central Scotland. Her parents were both straight-eared farm cats and her folded ears had been produced by a spontaneous mutation. She was owned by a family named McCrae and admired by a neighboring family named Ross. When Susie had her own folded ear kittens, the McCraes gave one to the Rosses. The Rosses purchased a British short hair to mate with Snowball and the pair produced more folds. They began to visit cat shows to see if anyone else would be interested in these unusual cats. An English woman named Pat Turner who was interested in both cats and genetics did some experimental breeding and discovered that the gene responsible for folded ears is an incomplete dominant which means if a kitten has one gene for folded ears and one gene for straight ears, it will always develop folded ears. Over the years, it has been determined that the healthiest breeding program is to cross a folded ear with a straight ear. Breeding fold to fold may produce short, inflexible tails and hocks that curve like the rockers on a rocking chair. While this in not a life threatening problem, why consciously breed for a possible defect?

Folds are truly neat to look at - a good fold will have ears folded tight to the head - making for a very rounded look. They have short necks adding to the roundness with rounded whisker pads with whiskers that are full and bend forward. Their eyes are interesting in that they dilate the pupils most of the time, making an owl-like, round look. This gives them a sweet, innocent appearance. They have plush, very soft coats. They come in all colors and long and short hair. They are quiet cats. Mine have very small voices and more often than not, they won't cry or yelp even when someone walks on their tails or feet! I really wish they would because there have been times when I have stepped on tails longer than necessary not knowing and I hate to hurt them! They frequently resemble meercats or prairie dogs when they sit up on their haunches to look at something that intrigues them. They also leap into the air when in a playful mood which is often. They love catnip toys, pipe cleaner "spiders", a trac ball and bags and boxes of all kinds as well as pure catnip. They are very accepting of additional cats to the family and are not afraid of strangers who visit our home.