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About the Scottish Straight

Scottish Straight cat
Photo by Heikki Siltala, CC BY 3.0
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No breeder is on record here yet. Portugal’s FIFe member club does not list this breed in its breeder directory at all, so an absence here says nothing about whether anyone breeds it in Portugal.

Registry status
Recognised by TICA
Known hereditary risks
1 documented condition, with the test for each

About

Nothing written about this breed yet. The hereditary risks are sourced — read those.

Pros & cons

Pros & cons for the Scottish Straight

What you get with the Scottish Straight

Nobody has written this side yet. It is a judgement rather than data, so it waits for a person — not for a missing source.

What you are taking on

  • One serious inherited condition is documented, in kidneys & urinary. The health guide tab has the test to ask a breeder for.

Drawn from sources rather than written as an opinion — cited health research, the registry’s own standard, and peer-reviewed longevity. UC Davis VGL — Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD1). One breeder’s animals can differ from any of it, and an empty column means we hold nothing for that side rather than that there is nothing to say.

Characteristics

TICA divisions

TICA lists the Scottish Straight in these divisions. They are the registry's own groupings — usually hair length — not a list of colours: no registry we hold publishes one. Ask a breeder what colours their line produces.

  • Longhair

Breed-level information from The Cat API. It describes the Scottish Straight in general; any individual animal can differ.

Health guide

Health & screening guide for the Scottish Straight

Known hereditary risks for the Scottish Straight breed, and the specific documentation to request from any breeder before paying a deposit. A responsible breeder will have these readily available; deflection is a red flag.

1 condition documented

Health checklist (PDF)

Kidneys & urinary

Polycystic kidney disease (PKD1)

Serious

Polycystic kidney disease causes fluid-filled cysts to form in the kidneys from a young age, usually leading to kidney failure later in life. The mutation traces back to Persian ancestry, and UC Davis's genetics laboratory lists Scottish Straight (alongside Scottish Fold) among the breeds it recommends testing because of shared foundation ancestry with Persian and British Shorthair lines — this is unrelated to the fold-ear gene.

What to ask for

PKD1 DNA test result for both parents (UC Davis VGL or an equivalent laboratory)

2 sources

Gallery

No photographs yet

This is where Scottish Straight owners’ own photographs will go, from the pet profiles they keep here. Nobody has added one to a public page yet.

A photograph in a pet profile stays private to its owner. We will not put one here unless they ask us to.

Kittens

No kittens listed right now

No Scottish Straight breeder has a record on this platform yet, so there is nothing to list. That is a gap in our coverage, not a fact about the breed.

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