#Are highland lynx nice cats plus

If you want a placid, docile cat then another breed might be preferable (e.g. The only slight concern I have is that there is some wild blood in this cat which normally makes domestic cats slightly less domesticated. There is a chemistry thing going just the same as for humans.Īs to being gentle with children, once again the answer is yes they can and should be gentle with children but it does depend on how gentle the child is with the cat. Also it depends in the individual cat to a large extent whether they get along with any individual dog. All cats of any breed should be fine with dogs and children but you should check with the breeder. The Highlander is a rare cat breed and like all cat breeds the main factor as to whether the cat is friendly with dogs is how the cat was raised – socialised. Hi Pauline, thanks for visiting and asking. I shouldn’t forget that the tail is “short and thick”. It is believed that the curl originates in the mutated gene carried by the Hemingway Curl cat mentioned above. The curl affects the top third of the ear. The curl of the ears is not usually as tight apparently but can range from tight to loose.

Breeders say that the curled ears are different to the American Curl cat. As is the case for the American Curl the ears curl during the early days of the kittens growth. The cat’s profile is “boxy” (blunt) and the ears are as you can see curled.

This cat breed has short or long hair and belly spots are de rigueur. Compare cat weights (opens a new page dedicated to domestic comparison and domestic cat to wild cat comparisons). This puts Highlander cats in a similar bracket to a Ragdoll or RagaMuffin cats in terms of size (but not in terms of temperament). On my calculation the average weight between males and females would be in the order of 14 lbs (based on Magic Whiskers cattery figures). With a wild cat in the Highlander ancestry, it is no surprise that this is a bigger than average cat with a wild look. This is similar to other smaller wild cats such as the Serval and the Ocelot. The African Jungle cat lives off small animals such has rodents and frogs. The African Jungle cat is a medium to small wild cat found in countries such as Egypt, Asia, India and Sri Lanka (see Jungle Cat Range). Another purebred cat that is a Jungle cat hybrid is the Chausie. There are others.Īnother cat with unusual ears is the Scottish Fold (flat ear flaps or pinnae). A number of cat breeds have been created this way such as the Dwarf cats and Devon and Cornish Rex. The curled eared Hemingway cat occurred because of a spontaneous genetic mutation (naturally occurring mutation). The Hemingway Curl is curled eared version of the famous Hemingway cats a number of which had more than the usual number of toes ( polydactyl – see also American Polydactyl cat).

#Are highland lynx nice cats plus

A cross between the African Jungle cat and a curled eared domestic cat, either the American Curl or a Canadian cat called the Hemingway Curl plus a mix of other genes from outcrosses to domestic shorthair cats such as the Serengeti, Bengal cats, Abyssinians and Jungle cat hybrids. The Jungle Curl cat is a curled eared wild cat hybrid. The Desert Lynx is a wild cat hybrid, a cross between the American Bobcat and a domestic cat one of the following: American Lynx, Maine Coon, American Bobtail, Pixie-Bob or Manx. The Highland Lynx (no relation to the wild Lynx) was in turn first created on July 1st 1995 by crossing a Desert Lynx and Jungle Curl cats…. It is useful to briefly look at the history of the breeds that make up the Highlander. The development of this cat originates in the Highland Lynx and has evolved since through selective breeding.

Baby Max – the photo is strictly copyright Magic Whiskers cattery and published here with their permission 1