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 seemingly all r in my cats' ancestries, e.g. Oriental b/c lines have rare/unusual "caramel" color; Snowshoe (American Shorthair X Siamese) due 2 mitted colorpoints; Havana due 2 chocolate; Ragdoll, etc. American Ringtail cats (not 2 b confused w/the wild Ringtail cat) have curly tails, usually expressing @6 wks. They r skeletally normal, but have a curled tail that curls tightest when active/excited & uncurls at rest/relaxation. 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/misnomer "brown" tabbies (genetically black), which r actually a mix of black, grey, & light brown. "Cinnamon" (reddish light 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", aka "dilute modifier", is double dilute, & rarely seen outside of oriental (Siamese NOT of acceptable breed color standard &/or hair length) cats. It's based off dilute colors (blue, lilac, fawn, cream), which then turn in2 blue based caramel, lilac based caramel (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/bi color 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" (aka "tonkinese", between colorpoint & sepia) & "sepias" (aka "burmese", darkest). Due 2 albinism, EYES STAY BLUE. Deafness is NOT in colorpoint genetics, but IS in piebald/bi color. Lynxpoint is tabby (ticked, mackeral, marble, spotted) patterned colorpoint normal @points & lighter on body.