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Re: pet kittens and neutering them
We are fairly new breeders, and we learnt from the breeders that provided us with our cats to put contracts on our cats to stop them being used for breeding.
However - I know some BYBs will think nothing of breaking contracts. We try to vet our prospective kitten owners properly to ensure this doesn't happen.
Our Savannahs will be a different matter. We have arranged to have the boys neutered at around 12 weeks, ready to be rehomed at the usual 13 weeks.
The girls will be spayed at 15 weeks, and we'll have to take advice on how long they will need to recover - perhaps another 2 weeks.
The cost of the operation to the pet owner is nothing. It is worth paying the neuter/spaying costs to protect our breed, but that's because it's brand new to the UK.
With paperwork, it is against the law to sell a pedigree cat and not provide the pedigree, and it is against GCCF regulations not to provide a pink slip when the cat leaves (though this isn't always possible as the GCCF can take a long time to register a cat). I know some people withhold paperwork, but what does that mean in the scheme of things? If a cat is registered as non-active and people breed that cat, their kittens cannot be registered anyway so they won't care about having a registered cat and the pink slip that comes with it - the pink slip will even say that the cat cannot be bred from!
The money thing sounds like a fun idea. Pay the breeding price and get it returned once the cat has been spayed. But you would have to be very disciplined about the use of that money and have it available to pay back.
Neutering/spaying is the only certain answer in my opinion.
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