Pet Forums Community - View Single Post - Responsible or Irresponsible Breeder, please help!!

Saikou · #3 (**permalink**) 06-04-2009, 03:50 PM

I think you need another burmese breeder to comment on whether the cat is too small to breed. I breed siamese and orientals and that does seem quite light for an adult girl, but then I have heard alot of established breeders say that the best girls they have ever had have been very small, they pop them out like peas and its the bigger girls that struggle. I personally wouldn't use a small girl to breed from but thats personal preferance.

I would have thought if the pelvic opening was too small, then the kittens would not have been born. You don't say whether the 2 that took a long time to be born were dead or not. They may well have been dead before hand and they do take longer to be born, because the queen has to do all the work. If she was a maiden as well, then the first one always takes longer. Normal birth of a few contractions and kittens pop out within 20mins like the books suggest doesn't always happen, but then it also doesn't mean that anything is wrong.

The sound of a distressed kitten doesn't sound too good, and I have to say that if it was mine in obvious distress then a trip to the vet to be pts would have been the kindest thing, but thats without knowing the full details. With each litter you do get to know what you can save and what you can not. It doesn't stop you trying, but when you know in your heart of hearts that there is very little you can do then being pts is the kindest thing

Alot of people in general, do not understand antibiotics and the way they work, especially those of a certain generation that view them as miracle drugs. Even vets to a certain extent will do the same, how often do you take a cat to the vet for something minor and get routinely administered with an anti inflammatory and an antibiotic injection ?

Inbreeding is very common, and I have my own views on that - which I will refrain from standing on my soap box about

It is common practice across the CF and as such viewed as acceptable, which I would disagree with, but I am avoiding the soap box. At any rate, until the registering bodies do something to control it by placing a max inbreeding coefficient to any kitten registered then the practice will continue. All you can do is pick outcrossed peds, although in some breeds those are probably few and far between.

I am not saying whether I agree or disagree, but there is always another side to the story, and things may not be as they appear.