Originally Posted by lizward

By the same token, I have a Tonkinese, a Burmese and a Norwegian Forest all looking for new homes. The Norwegian Forest could be used for breeding bringing in large amounts of money and the Burmese would make an excellent stud of the preloved unregistered variety. Papers? What are they? You didn't think I bred Norwegian Forests? Well, she looks like a Norwegian Forest doesn't she? OK her Mum is a Tiffanie and her Dad is half Burmese but so what? The Tonkinese is a bit small for breeding (though the buyers would be unlikely to worry too much about that little detail) but hey perhaps she would pass for six weeks rather than 14 weeks, in fact I'm sure she would.

Liz

Originally Posted by The_Infamous_Mr_B

There's also someone supposedly selling "the most titled Scottish Fold in the UK" at 4 years old for only £200...because she needs to cut down on the number of cats she has

Originally Posted by The_Infamous_Mr_B

There's also someone supposedly selling "the most titled Scottish Fold in the UK" at 4 years old for only £200...because she needs to cut down on the number of cats she has

Laura x

Originally Posted by lizward

This is normal practice. The alternative is that breeders either give up completely, continue breeding but never ever keep a kitten, or end up with so many cats that the council gets involved and probably the RSPCA too.

Liz

Originally Posted by lizward

Someone on P4H is advertising a 6 week old black kitten as a Burmese. I mailed politely and said that Burmese did not come in black and asked why she thought the kitten was Burmese. She replied with a picture from wikipedia showing two American Burmese one of which was very dark brown and she took it to be black. She told me to visit any website that deals with cat breeds (so presumably I would then realise her kitten is Burmese)

I did reply describing the action of the Cb gene and pointing out that a pedigree kitten has two pedigree parents.

I reported the ad but it is still there. I hope that is simply because my complaint has not yet been seen. Asking £250 for a 6 week old black moggy when you have been told that it cannot possibly be Burmese is nothing short of dishonest. Though I suppose if anyone is daft enough to buy it then they probably desrve what they get.

Liz