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OCICAT

Appearance
Thanks to their eyecatching coats, ocicats are certainly not hard to … spot. (sorry.) These cats are blessed with brown or gold thumbshaped spots all over their torsos. In rare instances, ocicat kittens will be born with solid colors, pointed coats, or even classic tabby patterns, but by and large, this breed features those unique spots.
Ocicats come in a dozen color variations, including tawny, chocolate, cinnamon, blue, lavender, and fawn. Regardless of color, ocicats are wellmuscled, athletic cats. The breed is normally a little larger than the typical house cat, with males getting up to 15 pounds. They have wedgeshaped heads, large oval paws, and triangleshaped ears set at a 45degree angle.

Health
Ocicats are a fairly healthy breed and have relatively long lifespans of 12–18 years. Still, there are some common ailments to be aware of, most notably liver or renal amyloidosis, pyruvate kinase deficiency, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
"Any time a cat has been custom bred for specific, 'designer' traits, you are definitely opening up that potential [for health issues]," says Lin Kauffman, DVM, of Prairie View Animal Hospital in Grimes, Iowa. "And, of course, the smaller your gene pool, the more common hereditary diseases can be."

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), which causes thickening (hypertrophy) of the heart muscle, is the most common form of heart disease in cats and is seen in some ocicats. An echocardiogram can confirm whether your cat has HCM.

"Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can be manageable, but at some point a cat that has [it] is probably going to go into heart failure," says Michelle Beck, DVM, CCRT, CVA, of the Backlund Animal Clinic in Omaha, Neb. "Life expectancy after diagnosis is usually about a year or so."

Amyloidosis, meanwhile, is a disease that occurs when a substance called amyloid, an insoluble protein, is deposited in organs such as the kidneys or liver. It results in lesions, dysfunction, and, eventually, organ failure.

Pyruvate kinase is a regulatory enzyme in red blood cells, and cats deficient in this enzyme can develop anemia.


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