The hereditary skeletal disease of folded-ear cats is called "dysplasia of cartilage ossification", and the onset age is generally from two months to six months. A recent case shows that adult folding cats also have the opportunity to get sick.
At the beginning of the disease, cats will show inactivity, and then there will be obstacles in their movements. The obvious symptoms include limping on the hind legs, raising hands frequently, hunchback, walking like walking on stilts, etc.
However, ears with folded ears and drooping ears are a congenital genetic defect. They often stand, neither because they like it, nor because they are exquisite, but to alleviate the pain when they are sick.
197 1 year, GCCF, the largest cat club in Britain, banned the registration of folded-ear cats because of the genetic disease of serious bone lesions found in folded-ear cats.
Obvious symptoms of skeletal genetic diseases:
1. The tail is short and stiff and cannot be bent. Some sick cats can't wag their tails.
2. The hind limbs are too short, with abnormal bending, growth or lump;
3. swelling of joints of limbs;
4. The hind paws are unusually thick. If you look closely, when the cat sits up straight, the pillow on its hind paw can't touch the ground;
5, abnormal nail growth.
In some cats with serious illness, bone lesions will slowly spread to the spine, paralyzing the cat and causing great pain. When the cat can't bear the pain, the owner will bear the pain and let the cat be euthanized.