What are the genetic diseases of folded-ear cats?

The folded-ear cat is cute and lovely, with a soft, cute and gentle personality, with a pitiful feeling, and many people will be confused by its appearance when choosing pets. In fact, folded-ear cats usually have genetic diseases, so they should be carefully considered when choosing. Next, I will introduce to you what genetic diseases do folding-ear cats have?

Bone hereditary diseases

The folding ear of the folding-ear cat is the most obvious feature of bone inheritance, because the chondromalacia of the body is not well developed, which makes the folding-ear cat's ears droop, the joint function gradually deteriorates over time, and the limbs become stiff. There will be movement disorders at a later stage. For example, some sick cats cannot swing their tails.

II. Respiratory diseases

Folded-ear cats have genetic diseases on bones, which affect not only the movement of the limbs, but also the respiratory tract. Due to chondrodysplasia, it is squeezed into the respiratory tract, which narrows, making it difficult for cats to breathe. Serious respiratory diseases need to go to the hospital to dilate the respiratory tract. In addition, folded-ear cats may cause nosebleeds due to sneezing with a cold, so we must be careful when taking care of them.

III. Heart disease

Folding cats will also have heart disease, because of their own bone reasons, it is not convenient to move, the amount of exercise is also very small, otherwise it will cause heart disease. Heart disease in folding cats, which is similar to human cancer, is usually found at an advanced stage and begins to threaten their lives. And once you have a heart attack, folded-ear cats need to take medication for life.

Fourth, physical weakness

Folding-ear cats have so many diseases and are genetic in nature. their physique is very weak, their resistance is low, they are very easy to get sick, and their weight is only 2/3 of that of normal cats, so it is not easy for each broken-ear cat to survive. especially newborn kittens, all need to be taken good care of so that they can grow up healthily.

Most of the folded-ear cats are docile and suitable for domestic use. Therefore, there are still a lot of people who buy it, because of the great demand, many businesses seize this opportunity to make money and breed a large number of folded-ear cats. In fact, folded-ear cats have many genetic diseases, and most of them live in pain. The best way to love broken-eared cats is to stop breeding folded-eared cats.