Cats
Rona Sandilands at a meeting at then QICC-president Pat Mercer’s home attended by
prominent Scottish Fold and British breeders, including Lillian Carter founding breeder in
Queensland. The first Scottish Shorthair exhibited was Ptah Dunstan Gold, bred by Lillian
Carter and owned by Rona Sandilands. During the 1980s he was exhibited at the Queensland
Longhair Cat Club show, achieving a Reserve in Group 3 under Victorian Judge Marie
Orchard. There is also a Scottish Longhair.
The Poodle Cat (Pudelkatze) is essentially a breed developed from the Scottish Fold and
Devon Rex to create a curly coated fold-eared cat - a curly-coated Scottish Fold or fold-eared
Devon Rex. It was developed initially in Germany where its future is threatened by rulings
prohibiting the breeding of cats with harmful defects. This ruling affects Scottish Fold cats
because of the skeletal abnormalities which can occur. The breed is attractive and if breeders