Hi Clare,

It is all very fishy...and i don`t understand it either .....although i must admit it was the `pedigree` that attracted me to them when i saw the advert cos i thought that would mean they were healthy kittens, so these people are preying on naive people like me who don`t understand the cat breeding world.
I thought pedigree and registered were the same thing.....and it looks like my kitty probably has neither!
She is lovely though..... even if she (and her adopted sisters) have cost me all my holiday money for this year!

Thanks for your kind words.
She is much better now, although it has been a very long road to recovery for her.

Hello Kelly.
Yes, it has been an ordeal, i just wish i had known about this forum before i jumped in and bought from a newspaper! (Although i`m glad really cos she is a gorgeous cheeky little thing.)
I think there should be laws for this sort of stuff, cos these are living creatures we are dealing with....not blooming second hand cars!
You definitely live and learn!

Hello there
I`m not sure what to say to the gccf because there isn`t any reg number for her on the pedigree...i think its just a pedigree sheet that you can probably buy....its got `iams and Eukanuba` printed on the top. So i don`t think she is registered, and the names of the other cats on the pedigree may not even be related to her.
The vet mentioned `stress` so i suppose there is no way of knowing is there, whether my cats already had this and it `came out` because of the stress of introducing a new cat into the household?

I think that the fact that her telelphone number is now `unobtainable` when i ring it and there was no answer at her home when i called means she knew that this kitten wasn`t well and just wanted to get rid of it before it cost her money at the vets.
And she had another for sale too, so it isn`t just me that she has done this too. It makes me wonder how many people have experienced the same?
Oooo it makes my blood boil!!!

i'd be furious!

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She may well be an unregistered pedigree cat, there are plenty of those about. The fact that she isn't registered doesn't necessarily mean the pedigree is inaccurate.

Liz

She is a beauty so i think that is probably right and i don`t suppose it matters really as she is a pet.
Thanks Liz

I have googled some of the prefixes that are on the pedigree and i have found a couple of websites where breeders have had cats with the same prefix....but it looks like they bought these cats legitimately and have then bred from them and had kittens which have had their own prefix.... if that makes sense.....so i think i could be going all round the houses if my cat came from one of these cats three or four generations ago. The only prefix that keeps coming up has no website for it!
I suppose i will have to put it down to experience and bad luck...
Thank you for your advice and your time....i really appreciate it...

Why not find a Yahoo group for the relevant breed and ask on there? Someone will know who that prefix belongs to. Not that there will be anything much you can do, of course.

Liz