Todavía no hay ningún criador en el registro aquí. El club portugués miembro de la FIFe no lista esta raza en su directorio de criadores, así que una ausencia aquí no dice nada sobre si alguien la cría en Portugal.
Medium to large muscular cat with curled ears and often a bobbed tail. Unique wild appearance with gentle personality.
Developed starting in 2004 by crossing Desert Lynx and Jungle Curl cats. Originally called Highland Lynx. TICA recognized breed with distinctive curled ears and often bobtail.
Typically 4.5-9.1 kg and 30-41 cm at the shoulder — published as one range rather than separately for males and females.
Generally described as affectionate, gentle, social, playful, confident and loving.
That is the breed in general, not a promise about one animal. Ask the breeder what their own line is like, and meet the parents before you decide.
Referencia de la raza de The Cat API.
Extraído de fuentes y no escrito como opinión — investigación de salud citada, el estándar del propio registro, y estudios de longevidad revisados por pares. The Cat API; UC Davis VGL — PRA rdAc (Abyssinian), breed list includes Highlander. Los animales de un criador pueden diferir de todo esto, y una columna vacía significa que no tenemos nada de ese lado, no que no haya nada que decir.
TICA lists the Highlander 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.
Información a nivel de raza, de The Cat API. Describe la raza Highlander en general; cualquier animal concreto puede ser distinto.
Riesgos hereditarios conocidos en la raza Highlander, y la documentación concreta que hay que pedir a cualquier criador antes de pagar una señal. Un criador responsable tiene esta documentación a mano; esquivar la pregunta es mala señal.
3 enfermedades documentadasEsto es literatura a nivel de raza, no asesoramiento veterinario sobre un animal concreto — tu veterinario conoce al animal.
Health checklist (PDF)A recessive CEP290 mutation causes late-onset, progressive blindness, usually starting around seven months of age and reaching blindness by three to five years. First characterised in the Abyssinian and Somali; UC Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory's test page states the variant has also been detected directly in the Highlander.
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PRA-rdAc (CEP290) DNA test on both parents
A separate, Bengal-derived recessive mutation causes photoreceptor loss from around seven weeks of age, leading to substantially compromised vision by about two years old. UC Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory lists Highlander directly among the breeds this test applies to, alongside Bengal, Savannah and Toyger.
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PRA-b (Bengal-type progressive retinal atrophy) DNA test on both parents
A specific mutation in the cardiac gene MYBPC3 (R820W), first identified in the Ragdoll, thickens the heart muscle; cats with two copies are at high risk of severe disease and early cardiac death, usually between one and two years old. UC Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory states this variant has also been detected in the Highlander (as well as the American Bobtail Longhair and Munchkin).
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Ragdoll-type HCM (MYBPC3 R820W) DNA test on both parents
Aquí es donde irán las fotografías de los propios dueños de Highlander, desde los perfiles de sus animales que mantienen aquí. Nadie ha añadido ninguna a una página pública todavía.
Una fotografía en un perfil de animal queda privada de su dueño. No pondremos ninguna aquí a menos que nos lo pidan.
No Highlander 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.
