Yeah... well, there are two cats, the elder was named after this fella which means that we normally call him either Leo or Leopold or various Russian diminutives such as Leopoldik. He was the runt of the litter and even now his younger brother will push him out of the way with ease and take his food unless we watch them at mealtimes. Leo also runs like fuck from the doorbell, the hoover, cars going past etc etc and so the picture below does not inaccurately represent his demeanour.
A couple of times we went out all night and then felt guilty on our return. Then one time we out for two full nights on the trot and we got in and felt really bad and decided that we must get him a companion before we next went out on a three day bender, it just wouldn't be fair to leave him totally on his own for that long. So we went back to the woman who sold us Leo and she had a new litter coming along which would be full brothers and sisters to Leopold - ie same mother and father - and we grabbed one of them randomly* and selected a name for him that sounded as though it was sort of in keeping with that of his older brother - so now we have Leopold and Karl.
The woman who sells them is from Ukraine. When we bought our flat in Portugal the estate agent was from Ukraine and she kept trying to make common cause with Liza in various ways including adding her to millions of expat type groups on FB etc for Russians and/or Ukrainians. Liza pretty much immediately left them all but not before noticing that there was this woman who was illegally breeding and selling cats all the time and getting her details.
*Or not entirely randomly. The breed is Scottish Fold crossed with British Short-hair. Scottish Folds have a weird folded ear which apparently makes them more desirable and expensive. However you cannot breed two folds together or there is potential for the weakness in the bone that causes the ears to fold to also occur in the legs making them crippled from birth. So the standard procedure is always to breed Scottish Fold with British Short-hair in which case approximately half of the litter will have the desired and lucrative folded ears. So our only specification was "please don't give us an expensive one with a folded ear".
It seems very odd to me to attach value to this genetic mutation. Scottish Folds have only existed since 1961 and some have suggested that with shorter ears a cat looks more like a person and that trait is what people subconsciously like hence their extra cost.