{"id":2257,"date":"2012-06-02T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:20:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:20:57","slug":"scottish-fold-cats-and-feline-origami-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=2257","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Fold Cats and Feline Origami, maybe…."},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, I know that I don’t know everything, even though I often suggest to my children and my husband that I at least know more then they do….ahem. Anyway I was surfing around on my trusty MAC this morning looking for something of interest, since I had just finished a photography challenge and it looked like rain outside anyway and I didn’t really want to do any work…you know how it goes – using a time waster to find something to waste time on….anything.<\/p>\n

Well I came across this neat site  – http:\/\/www.squidoo.com – the object of the site is to have you create pages or “lenses,” as they call them about anything you please.  I guess it’s a lot like blogging, but on a larger site and it maybe has more esoteric material than others or something.  Anyway, I liked the idea of having a source of random – there’s that word again – topics at my fingertips.<\/p>\n

I had just started the introduction to the site which included some suggestions on topics, when I read this sentence – “Go ahead and write extensively on Scottish Fold Cats, if you like.”  Well I had never heard of Scottish Fold Cats and my interest was piqued.<\/p>\n

I did a quick google search and found out that all Scottish Fold cats are descended from a white barn cat named “Susie,” who was discovered on a farm in Perthshire Scotland in 1961.  She was distinctive because her ears folded forward giving her an “owlish” looking face.<\/p>\n

A neighbour decided to breed her and follow the genetic patterns.  That story is covered in Wikipedia<\/a>. Briefly, the fold is due to a dominant gene and through selective breeding, breeders have been able to increase the single fold to two or three folds – a cat called “Origami” – maybe.<\/p>\n

Scottish Fold Cats also like to lie on their backs – I have one like that – and to sit up with their front paws across their stomachs – something known as the Buddha position.<\/p>\n

In this position they could perhaps be taught to knit.  Gotta get me a Scottish Fold Cat and I thought that I would never have another cat – but the possibility of teaching a cat to knit – well it’s so random as my daughter would say!!!<\/p>\n

Have a dominant day!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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