Juju Maru

Breeds: American Longhair, American Ringtail, American Shorthair, Domestic, Havana Brown, Snowshoe

About:
American Ringtails & occasional rescues. Lines contain tight (profile pic) & loose tail curls, long & shorthair, & rare & unusual colors (chocolate, cinnamon, lilac, caramel, colorpoint, fawn) & patterns (marble). Multiple breeds chosen b/c I seemingly have all in my cats' ancestries, e.g. Oriental b/c lines have the rare/unusual "caramel" color; Snowshoe (Siamese X American Shorthair) due 2 mitted colorpoints; Havana due 2 chocolate/lilac, etc. American Ringtail cats (not 2 b confused w/the wild Ringtail cat) have curled tails, usually showing up @6 wks old. They r skeletally normal, but have a curled tail that curls tightest when active/excited & uncurls at rest. It's an adorable harmless recessive genetic anomaly. "Chocolate" & its dilute "Lilac/Lavender" r the 2nd rarest cat colors, rarely seen outside of a handful of specific cat breeds. Chocolate should not b confused w/"brown" tabbies (genetically black), which r actually a mix of black, grey, & light brown. "Cinnamon" (reddish chocolate) & it's dilute "Fawn" r the rarest cat colors due 2 them being the most recessive & rarely seen outside of a handful of specific cat breeds. "Caramel" is a "double dilute", aka "dilute modifier", & rarely (if ever) seen outside of oriental short/longhair cats (siamese cats NOT of acceptable breed standard colors & hair length). It's based off dilute colors (blue, lilac, fawn, cream), which then turn in2 blue based caramel, lilac based caramel (aka taupe), fawn based caramel, & apricot. C messybeast site 4 more info. "Snowshoe" (Siamese X American Shorthairs) cats r colorpoints w/white feet. RARE b/c difficult 2 achieve since white feet link 2 piebald gene. Colorpoint is a temperature sensitive form of albinism; cold=darker, warm=lighter. Kittens r born white & develop color w/maturity. Colorpoints who develop body tint beyond white/cream r "minks" (mid colorpoint & sepia) & "sepias" (darkest). Due 2 albinism, EYES STAY BLUE. Deafness is NOT part of colorpoint genetics. Lynx point cats r tabby colorpoints. Patterns r lighter on body, normal @points.