I guess working in telesales I don't mind talking over the phone! Well I ignored the text I got last night and she rung today and to be honest she sounded lovely and had had a cat before and had done her research on the breed too so she's coming over to meet the kittens and if she likes one is happy to wait untill they are ready, don't want to get my hopes up but it sounded like a perfect home!

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But please take into account people like me

I am severely deaf and don't do telephones. I don't speak textese either lol
So my communication of choice is email, I would be lost without it.
If a phone call is essential then I will get my husband to ring for me, but that results in a really complicated 3 way conversation as I try to tell him what I need to say lol

That's why emails are good - you can explain your deafness in one and then contact can be taken from there. I like emails.

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Which you would presumably let me know in either your initial enquiry or in response to my subsequent request by email that we chat on the phone. I'm not anti emails, more trying to make the point that people shouldn't be frightened of picking up the phone to a breeder.

I much prefer e-mailing, you can end up getting lots of texts and answering them all using your credit up just for them to decide they don't really want one anyway...you do get a lot of timewasters and people just wanting to come and look, treating your home as a family outing, we do state 'only two visitors at any one time'. Might sound harsh but kittens are so young it isn't fair to subject them to loads of kids all screaching with excitement...anyway I am going off topic a bit so to your question ...No I don't like texting potential customers.

£250 is a lot if the cat isn't registered and also if it isn't registered on the active register the breeder you bought her from would have had a contract for you to sign saying you wouldn't breed from her I would have thought? Not sure if you meant your queen isn't registered or the kittens she has had aren't registered. If it is just the kittens that are not registered I guess people will pay that as some wont mind not having papers if they are going to be bought as pets. I personally prefer to register them for the sake of £9 per kitten.

We charge £350 for ours on the non active register or £450 on the active, they come with pink slips, contracts, pedigree papers, they are vaccinated, wormed and micro chipped and come with kitten packs containing food, toys and a cat book.

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https://sites.google.com/site/daintipawz/home

The OP bought a cat and then it turned out it was pregnant - all the cats in the house she got it from were siamese but no papers - so don't worry she didn't breed them deliberately just wondered why her girl was getting SO tubby! But that's why they aren't registered.

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just read the money part, you dont actually know if the dad is a siamese, could be a cross so Id think that £250 is well over priced, no papers, are you vac'ing and neutering them? micro-chipped, contracts? most pedigrees are about £350-450 so for another £100 could get a paper'd one with health tested parents etc.

personally I wouldnt pay it, Im sure people do but for a cross and you dont know what breed the dad is no papers id be thinking about £150-175, just my thoughts on it though

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Responding to texts or emails, you can only go on gut feeling on each individual.

What you need to remember is not everyone likes to talk on the telephone, to people they do not know.

I have been a breeder for many years, as many on here have too, and over the years I have sold Kittens all over the Uk and have even exported 2 to Portugal, and 1 to France at times dealing with different accents and language barriers a Telephone can be more of a hinderance.

Although I insist of meeting all new owners and them meeting the Kittens before, they commence to purchase an actual Kitten, I communicate alot via texts and emails to perspective new owners. I get alot of texts that simply say Seen your Kittens are they still available. When I first started out breeding I used to think , the cheek could not even be bothered to ring. However over the years I have come to realise there are many reasons for this, and I have even had apolagies afterwards when I have met people and the reasons have been simple ones like, I was at work and was quickly looking when I should not have been, so sent a quick text without the boss looking

Recently I was contacted by a lady called Samantha via email, telling me how much she wanted a pair of Siamese and loved the ones I was advertising, she asked alot of questions via her email, I replied and exchanged several emails over the next week. She lived in London and I live in Newcastle. I put my number on the emails and said if she had any further questions she could call and she never did, she agreed to travel up to meet myself and my wife and meet the Kittens all done via an email no phone calls what so ever. Not even a call for directions anything.

On meeting Samantha for the first time, it was clearly evident why she did not call, she was in the process of trans gender operations etc, she explained that she never uses the phone because she fears people judge her by her voice, her name says Samatha but her voice says Sam, she has turned out to be one of our Favourite owners and she took a Blue Point Male and a Red Point Male, she is on our Facebook and regularly sends Photos of the Cats who have grown up beautifully, you could not ask for a nicer owner.

Being a breeder you have to have a very open mind, you meet alot of different people, and all you can do is go on your instincts by talking, texting and emailing, answering all their questions and asking your own questions. Trying to establish what the person is really like, you also have to learn how to read between the lines because there are some people who will try to tell you what they think you want to hear.

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I once made a first inquiry by text (can't even do texts now!) and I was certainly genuine. I much prefer email but many breeders won't give their email address for some reason - or never seem to read their emails.

Liz