I think peoples opinions are always coloured by their own experiences. You get anti breeder vibes from some vets, but again like rescue centres they probably more often see and are affected by the unscrupulous kitten farmers out there over breeding and selling small sickly kittens with no particular care where the kitten goes or in what condition they leave their house as long as they have full payment in their hand. In reality those people are hopefully in the minority in the big scheme of things but like anything mud sticks and for those people who have come into contact with individuals like that they tar all breeders with the same brush.

It's freedom of choice at the end of the day, if you particularly want an Oriental kitten to love your first port of call would not be a rescue centre. So any breeder with oriental kittens for adoption are not taking away a potential adoptee from a rescue.

Just to be very controversial there are loads of kids out there waiting for loving homes, why doesn’t anyone say to people wanting a family that they shouldn’t be having kids of their own they should be adopting one of those kids first ?