{"id":812,"date":"2018-07-12T12:25:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T02:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catloversfestival.com.au\/directory\/?post_type=dmc-breeds&#038;p=812"},"modified":"2018-07-12T12:25:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T02:25:40","slug":"scottish-fold","status":"publish","type":"dmc-breeds","link":"https:\/\/catloversfestival.com.au\/directory\/breeds\/scottish-fold\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Fold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The original Scottish Fold was a white barn cat named Susie, who was found at a farm near\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coupar_Angus\">Coupar Angus<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perthshire\">Perthshire<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scotland\">Scotland<\/a>, in 1961. Susie&#8217;s ears had an unusual fold in their middle, making her resemble an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Owl\">owl<\/a>. When Susie had kittens, two of them were born with folded ears, and one was acquired by William Ross, a neighbouring farmer and cat-fancier.<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scottish_Fold#cite_note-3\"><sup>[3]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0Ross registered the breed with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Governing_Council_of_the_Cat_Fancy\">Governing Council of the Cat Fancy<\/a>\u00a0(GCCF) in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Britain\">Great Britain<\/a>\u00a0in 1966 and started to breed Scottish Fold kittens with the help of geneticist Pat Turner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Fold is a breed of domestic cat with a natural dominant-gene mutation that affects cartilage throughout the body, causing the ears to &#8220;fold, \u201d bending forward and down towards the front<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":813,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catloversfestival.com.au\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dmc-breeds\/812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catloversfestival.com.au\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dmc-breeds"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catloversfestival.com.au\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dmc-breeds"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catloversfestival.com.au\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catloversfestival.com.au\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}