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recently i've seen an uptick in demonizing scottish fold breeding, due to FOCD (feline osteochondrodysplasia), the gene variant that gives folds their iconic ears. im very sleep deprived so im only going to give a basic rundown that i will hopefully word correctly but if anyone is genuinely interested i can go more into it,
FOCD is caused by a single gene variant in TRPV4, which causes the cartilage to change, giving the ears their fold.
a lot of the discourse i've seen is very surface level, showing xrays of homozygous cats with malicious FOCD, as all homozygous folds have, and acting as if all scottish folds will end up that way.
they won't, right? well, no, not necessarily. but it is true every scottish fold has FOCD, or else they wouldn't be scottish folds, and would be classified as scottish straights which i will get into later. also, homozygous means having 2 copies of the same allele for a trait, with heterozygous meaning you have 2 different alleles for it.
despite every fold having it, there are 3 "variants" of fold i will use to explain the situation. straights, as in scottish straights that do not have FOCD, homozygous folds, which i suppose you can compare to a double merle dog. if 2 folds are bred, the kittens will be homozygous, which causes malicious FOCD, which is extremely painful and can warrant euthanasia, and then there are heterozygous folds, which come from a fold x straight cat, or just any cat that isn't a fold. heterozygous folds have been shown to have much lower chances of developing malicious FOCD, but it does still happen. about that,
there have been very few studies with proven wellbred purebred folds, i can only think of one close right now, "Osteochondrodysplasia in Scottish Fold cats" R MALIK, GS ALLAN, CR HOWLETT, DE THOMPSON, G JAMES, C McWHIRTER and K KENDALL (1999).
pedigree information was available for nine of the ten cats studied, all should have been heterozygous based on their parentage. 8 were from fold x scottish matings but one was from a fold x british mating. all ten folds showed some degree of FOCD on xray but there was wide variation in the severity and rate of progress of the condition, ranging from two cats euthanized at 6 and 21 months, to the cats aged 4, 5, and 11 years who were from the breeding cattery and were reportedly asymptomatic. the 11 year old had milder changes on xray than the 4 year old.
this study, being 25 years old, obviously doesn't fit today's standards i would say. it needs to be redone, with proven cats from well known responsible catteries. i have a couple more off the top of my head that aren't nearly as in depth, but provide useful information
what is the solution, and conclusion? are scottish folds inherently bad? well, as much as i hate to say it, we don't know. there isn't enough evidence to say yes, and not enough to say no for absolute certain. another study NEEDS to be done, preferably with CFA or TICA champions which definitely would weed out 99% of byb cats, although studying them aswell to compare is also crucial. i would say, the outlook is good, but rocky. the study has proven difficult to make happen, and i believe that ties into the overall attitude of most of the cat show world, but i may get into that some other time. in the meantime, responsible breeders should continue rigorous health testing before breeding, never breeding 2 folds together (including being wary of straights, as if you don't know the exact background of it, it may be a fold genetically that had it's ears stand back up in kittenhood), and soft-culling any cats that show any signs of FOCD that go past the ears. sillysealfan OUT
#researching for this got me so worked up i started my period for the first time in 6+ months#that or i need to go to the emergency room#special interest#zoology#animal science#animal husbandry#scottish fold#scottish straight#zoology talk#cat breed#misinformation education#zoology discourse#ethical breeding#important#scottish fold talk#scottish straight talk#british shorthair/longhair talk#british shorthair#british longhair#felis domesticus#house cat#british shorthair talk#british longhair talk#oh yeah it wasnt my period i had a yeast infection for like 2 weeks#felid talk#house cat talk#unfinished#DONT FORGET TO UPDATE
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Danny moved to Gotham.
Freakshow is touring in Gotham.
Freakshow knows Danny is in Gotham.
Danny knows Freakshow is still after him.
Danny's faith in heroes has been shattered.
Danny turns to the only person powerful enough to run Freakshow out of town, hopefully for good.
Danny turns to the Joker for help.
The Joker is looking for a new punching bag sidekick after Harley Quinn left him.
Danny is just the perfect person to be shaped by the Joker's hands.
Danny becomes the new Joker Junior.
#pondhead blurbs#dpxdc#how we feeling about this fellas#i think it's an ideal angst fic#but i don't wanna write it lol#the younger danny is the worse it gets#someone said that danny shouldn't be afraid of the joker because he's a clown and freakshow is a ringmaster. not a clown#if i find that post i'll tag the creator cause i can't remember rn#but i'm imagining danny who is heavily traumatized and scared and lonely#finding out that one of his worst enemies he hoped to never see again is hunting him and is so close danny has to check his eyes every day#just to make sure they haven't turned red#his anxiety is out of control and he's not about to go find a Bat or Bird to talk to#who would believe him anyways? he's a monster#but danny needs help cause he will not survive this on his own and he knows it#freakshow haunts his every waking dream#but freakshow isn't from gotham. he doesn't have the city's curses engraved into his blood. he never died and he's not truly teasing death#so danny chooses to plead for help from the only predator bigger than freakshow (in his eyes) who IS from gotham#danny goes to the Joker. prepared to offer everything but his free will and free mind. he can't give those up. it's all he has.#danny is a feral house cat asking a tiger to take care of a mountain lion for him by offering the tiger his own liver on a silver platter#joker is...delighted? maybe? no one is quite sure. but he takes what danny offers.#here is this little boy. almost the same age as the second robin when he died. pleading for the JOKER to be his savior. this will be fun
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I can't stop fucking cry laughing at these pictures of Neil with his cat(s?)
#he talks about taking inspiration for astarion from a stray black cat that comes into his house#but these are clearly two different cats so#does he just have multiple strays coming into his house? lmaooo
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*with tears in my eyes* I think I'm coping pretty well
#I'd like to think the CATS will change name again. Another animal themed one drop your suggestions in the comments hfhdh#Anyways it's my fav headcanon that Hunter will still be able to talk to Flapjack and keep the hyperspeed powers!! He deserves to be HAPPY#FOR FUCKS SAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LET HIM HAVE SOME KIND OF HAPPINESS#I just thought. He carves himself a wolf Palisman. Good for him#toh spoilers#toh#the owl house spoilers#the owl house#thanks to them#toh hunter#hunter noceda#Flapjack#The owl house season 3#LOVE LOVE LOVE the mullet tho. Fuck you belos for growing his hair back out but. It's also a Look.
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Kirby deals with existential crisis and Bandana is a good friend
#kirby#kots#kirby of the stars#kirby fanart#hoshi no kirby#king dedede#bandana waddle dee#gooey#i like the fact that gooey is canonically Kirby's roomie and we never see him therr#i don't think even Kirby knows where he goes#he's like a wild cat you let live in your house but still manages to go out and returns when it wants#did you know gooey means everything to me#everyone's pal gooey#enough about gooey let's talk trauma#Kirby's existential crisis is my favorite subtextual overall narrative from the kirby novels#it's so good how Kirby is always a bit uncomfortable every time they find someone who looks like them#and no one makes them feel worse than void#i think Kirby understood more about void than we give them credit for#and if you ask me why does Kirby have nightmares despite being inside of Dreamland and around the fountain of dreams#the answer is idk#anyway bandana is really perceptive about it#marx is an asshole as always#i wish Kirby's fear and inadequacy could be explored more#they're only hinted at by the novels#but i know Kirby saw themselves in Galacta Knight#the novels confirmed Galacta used the allies sparkler when defeating void termina and the sparkler represents something objectively pure#so my favorite hc is that Kirby was born after the heroes of yore defeated void and star allies draws parallels to that giving you og Kirby#Kirby defeated void and got friends Galacta got imprisoned for eternity#i wonder if Galacta went through the same identity crisis Kirby went through but Galacta sealed with it worse#anyway nothing bad will happen to Kirby after all they have tons of friends to rely on
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wait but i just realised jesper is absolutely gonna tell wylan all about milo and wylan is gonna be so hype about it when all the other crows were telling him to get over it
#wesper#they are MY idiots in love#shadow and bone#cant u imagine them in wylan’s house after ck like adopting a cat and some dogs#and they are both just obsessed with the pets and come home to find each other like talking to the cat about their day
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@neilimfinejosten requested cats/cuddles and. I got one of those things
shout out to getting me to decide on my Sir and King designs!!
(Requests have since been closed - I’m here to post the ones I got over the holidays 😊)
#the first panel was part of a joke#Andrew tells Neil#why are you talking to the cats they do not understand you#but the second Neil leaves the house -#anyway#fan art#my art#aftg#all for the game#neil josten#andrew minyard#andreil#sir fat cat mccatterson#king fluffkins#requests#holiday requests 22/23#tw sh#self harm#tw scars
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Honestly just wanted to say that when we talk about Wilson being cute and baby girl ppl always bring up s1-3 Wilson WHICH ISBLIKE...YEAH..FAIR B U T s7-8 Wilson is so underrated like the seasons suck but he is soooo extra babygirlfied and cute in them (they had to shorten his appearance because they couldn't stand old man moe) that is all thank you for reading
you understand. s8 is the babygirlification of wilson
#house md#james wilson#video#hilson#cat talks#asks#i have always been a firm believer that s8 is a very good season for babygirl wilson#looks wise. not based on anything else. there was the whole cancer thing
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#EXCUSE ME BUT THE NOSE™#Andrew Lincoln#*#andygifs#your bone structure my dude#shoutout to nigel and laura for giving their son his face#his n e c k#ouija board party at my house#bram stoker wants to talk#STUBBLE#why is his nose so beautiful#one day your lips will not make me want to bust through a wall like the koolaid man#but today is not that day#EYE CRINKLES#there's that urge to rub up against something like a cat
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Can we just talk about the Mentor Figure Who Becomes Parental Figure trope? Because it’s just super heart warming. Like a character decided to train or teach this other character and ending up becoming their lifeline? Perfection. Just perfection.
Or the character was forced to train or teach said other character? Even better because now, we get to see the apprentice character slowly break down their mentor’s walls and them become a family.
#fanfic#fanfiction#ao3#trope talks#essentially its a hyperspecific form of found family#and i love it#sing#sing 2#warrior cats#avatar the last airbender#avatar the legend of korra#the last of us#the owl house#spider man#scythe#percy jackson#the kane chronicles#supernatural#the dragon prince#found family#found family things
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your honour theyre FAMILY
#qsmp#mishapen sketches#THE queers of all time#jaiden and cellbit matching explosion scars on different sides? yes plase#cellbit and jaiden number 1 roier fans#roier number 1 jaiden and cellbit fan#theyd kill for him he'd stop them from spiralling into insanity via self-imposed exile#i am SO happy that jaiden and cellbit are getting along#they love roier and he loves them so they love each other#but they're getting along outside of that too and ghghgh#jaiden choosing to trust cucurucho and cellbit telling her there will still be people there for her if she regrets anything she does.......#her giving him Hot Tips about what roier likes and showing him her house at bobby fields#id kill for them id die for them etc etc#tangentially related but what the fuck is up with their old lady who swallowed a fly motifs#spider bird and cat??#theyre each others predators but none of them are prey#last thing: jaiden and cellbit matching explosion scars#i said it before and it always needs to be said again#matching explosion scars!!!!!#ty for coming to my ted talk as you can see i am once again normaln't about some block people
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Returning the Favor
Sterek | 5k | T
Stiles pays a nighttime visit to his boyfriend in secret, or so he thinks. Unfortunately, the Hale family has keener ears than he realizes.
It’s late when Derek hears the noise at the side of the house. A creak of siding that cuts through the backdrop of cricket song. Just one lone sound, but there’s something cautious about it. Probing.
He lowers the book he’s reading, but no other sounds follow. Derek has been lying sprawled across his bed, drowsy and warm and comfortable, sweatpant-clad legs resting against the wall—but now that he’s conscious of the sound, his focus sharpening, he thinks he’s been hearing quiet noises grow nearer for some time without quite comprehending them. A wild animal outside, maybe, creeping slowly around the foundation of the house. Something large enough that the mulch in the flower bed crunches beneath its weight.
It’s not often that a solitary animal grows bold enough to venture this close to a werewolf pack—the scent always scares them off first. They don’t even get raccoons out here, especially not with the cold this time of year. It could always be their cousin Warren, who’s always thought it funny to startle his relatives with unexpected visits in the dead of night. Or any one of the nasty things in Uncle Peter’s wild stories, supernatural things that creep into the house come dark.
Derek glances at the window, book still resting on his chest, but the house is still.
Maybe it’s gone. That’s just as well: he’s too comfortable to drag himself over to the window to look.
And then another sound comes, an unmistakable creak. Heavy weight settling into place.
Downstairs, his mother sighs. “What was that?” she demands, her voice faint with distance. She and his dad are likely out on the porch swing at this time of evening, even though it’s nearly winter, lunatics that they are. “If Laura and Cora are at it again—”
“I’m sure they aren’t, Tal,” Derek’s father replies, sounding amused. “You put the fear of god in them.”
Mom scoffs. “If we have to repair another door, it’s coming out of their pockets.”
“Not everything is my fault, Mom,” Cora mutters pointedly from down the hall. There’s heavy metal coming from the vicinity of Laura’s bedroom, just low enough to be blasting from her headphones, and she doesn’t pipe up to defend herself.
The thing hasn’t gone away. Metal squeaks a moment later, and then the scrabbling returns, punctuated by a thump and a muffled grunt.
Annoyed, Derek tosses the book aside and clambers to his feet, crossing over to the window. When he hoists up the sash, letting the night chill waft in, he peers down into the dark and finds that the source is worse than anything he could have imagined.
It’s his boyfriend, scaling the side of the house like some deranged cat burglar.
Stiles is hanging onto the drainpipe, having managed to hoist himself several feet off the ground. He’s leaning against the metal awning over the kitchen window, one foot atop the shutter and the other scrabbling for purchase against the siding. At the clatter of Derek’s opening window, he looks up, startled, and nearly loses his balance.
“What are you doing here?” Derek hisses.
“Just returning the favor.” With a moment to catch himself against the awning, Stiles gets his bearing and grins. “What? Don’t make that face. C’mon, you can show up at all hours of the night, but turnabout isn’t fair play?”
With that, he sticks his tongue between his teeth, which he sometimes does unconsciously when something demands his full attention. And the perilous task of climbing should get his full attention, given how often he stumbles when both of his feet are on the ground. God, Derek is about to witness his idiot boyfriend fall to his death or something.
Stiles heaves himself mostly onto the awning, clawing for purchase with a grunt. When he reaches for the window, he loses his grip, nearly sliding backward onto the grass; in a flash of panic, Derek grabs him by his shirt and yanks him forward.
“Are you trying to get yourself killed?” he demands, aware of their volume and even more aware of their audience.
The awning rattles as Stiles draws up his long legs to slip inside the window feet first, ducking under the sash. He’s panting a little as he pulls himself upright, though he bats his eyes sweetly in the face of Derek’s scowl. “Oh, please. I knew you’d catch me. ‘My hero,’ and all that.”
“Should have let you fall and die,” Derek retorts, shutting the window.
“Probably. Oh man, that was so athletic. Sometimes, I amaze myself.”
Derek doesn’t have anything smart to say to that. He’s only half paying attention, too busy bracing for the discussion sure to follow.
He and Stiles may as well have stomped up and down the stairs blowing air horns as far as the rest of the house goes. Everyone will have heard. Derek is absolutely sure because you can hear a pin drop, like no one’s even moving, like everyone’s waiting with bated breath—either gleeful or judgmental or both—to hear what comes next. Even Laura’s deafening headphones have gone silent. Fuck.
Worst of all…Stiles doesn’t know any of this. He doesn’t yet know about the secret the Hale family hides, or how keenly they can hear, or that every word he says will be seized up and cheerfully dissected and gossiped about in real time.
Read the rest on AO3
#sterek#sterek fic#mine#vaguely inspired by a tumblr post i have been unable to find after multiple searches in the month+ it took me to write this#i think it was a pic of two cats falling off a roof??#and whoever posted it was basically like 'haha this is stiles-coded after he tries to climb derek's window and pulls derek down with him'#i'm pretty sure i even reblogged it and yet where is it??#if you know what i'm talking about let me know lmao#anyway#this is only a little bit about stiles struggling through the window#mostly it's about how i think werewolf hearing would upgrade the sibling-on-sibling crime possibilities in any given household#and the fact that you could not get away with ANYTHING noisy without every other person in the house knowing about it#so having blabbermouth stiles stilinski pop into said household while being totally ignorant of the existence of werewolves...#let's just say 'poor derek' and leave it at that lmao
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Shoutout to cats fr, she tries her fluffy little best to make me feel better.
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WILL WOOD WILL WOOD WILL WOOD WILL WOOD WILL WOOD WILL WOOD WILL WOOD WILL WOOD WILL WOOD WILL WOOD WILL WOOD WILL WOOD WILL WOOD WILL WO
#im actually LOSING MY MIND /pos#so ive had a bit of a will wood hyperfixation lately#and i was on call with my friend and mentioned i listen to him (we were talking about my search history. dont ask) and it was casually and#then my friend starts calling me out for listening to him by (just gently) teasing me on my mental state for listening to him and how his#music is mostly just screaming (sorta true)#so then i go on a rant#40 mins later ive played I/Me/Myself (a beginner will wood staple) AND skeleton appreciation day (one of my faves) also done the dishes#and made a 1hr 28min playlist made of entirely will wood/will wood and the tapeworms for my friend#and info dumped A LOT#so uh yeah#autism moment#will wood#will wood and the tapeworms#wee woo#im literally lying against the kitchen floor#i’ve encountered a second hand vanity#im an autistic baby strapped to a ceiling fan#and ive learnt to torture house cats like vultures
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@gecko-in-a-can THIS ABSOLUTELY
Resentment is such a big part of Benny’s motives towards House, feeling he’s underserving to rule and shouldn’t have the right to keep the title of Vegas just because he claimed it first long ago. Say what you will, Benny puts the effort in, through honest and dishonest work albeit, but he puts in the effort. Not saying House didn’t but House had the luxury of having a lot of that effort done before the war and subordinates to do so after. House is untouchable, something everyone wants in the Mojave, if not for the power, but because of the security. House takes that for granted seeing how easy he thinks it is to buy people. Benny, a Mojave native, has to be irate about that seeing how he has seen the heights and slums of both lives.
Also with the AIs it’s so telling because in a lot of ways, Yes Man has more autonomy than House’s major personality securitrons. Yeah, Yes Man has to be helpful but he’s aware and able to be snarky and coy. Benny has an issue with not being listened to but that’s the only perimeter Yes Man needs to act on. He can’t condescend but lord you can tell when he wants to. House’s AIs serves specific and highly detailed functions but are confined to act in accordance. They are subservient to a T and are extensions of House while Yes Man really is a creation that adapts further, hence his desire for the assertive upgrade. Benny made something, or at least was okay with a helper, that can progress for itself. House made things that replicate or facilitate an era of the past and don’t hold the power to contest it.
#for all the focus on Vegas Vegas itself in the game is not discussed enough#like I want to know more about the families relationships with each other#how Tommy and swank really feel#a meeting with all the heads of the casinos must be a major cat fight let’s talk about how like fiends are just right outside????#but let’s talk about the favoritism house has to the tops and how the other families must resent that only for the chairmen to be like#these high strung former warrior nomads cause they got big brother right on their asses cause boss man is his special boy#like no one but swank and the chairmen really complain about house in the strip so the chairmen have to have a unique perspective#but back to Benny and house it’s like a weird you owe me thing where house 100 believe Benny and the chairmen are beyond grateful and are#down to do whatever he says cause it’s like he controls your basic needs now and the culture of the boot riders is one of pride and honor#and by extension helping your own and houses capitalist ideology is alien and isolating to them socially#that it would be an insult because their relationship is already mutually beneficial and now your taking so much more that they are now#getting less than what house is giving#enough tag talking I should focus on another post but first i need to brainstorm#fallout new vegas#fallout#benny gecko#robert edwin house#mr house fnv#Benny fnv#rebloggin#gecko-in-a-can
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Do you think that when Fabian isn’t riding the hangman he’s in puppy mode chilling in seacaster manor?
#no because listen I’m home alone a lot and I talk to my cat A LOT#he likes watching/listening to shows or music with me and he needs kisses daily#like Fabiannnnn you can talk to and vibe with the hangman at all times he’s such a good boy :#let him in the house Fabian PLSSSSSS#dimension 20#fantasy high junior year#fhjy#d20 fhjy
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