I guess every breed is different. With Mau's for instance it's standard to ban putting male progeny on the active though I'm yet to see one with any restriction on female kittens and that's mostly because right now no stud in the country is related to any other stud, they essentially force anyone wanting a stud to import one. Good for the gene pool, a right bastard for those wanting to do it. Lucky for us there's a fair handful of brave souls prepared to do it! Makes the stud fees a ballache though - £450 pretty standard

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Lily - silver Egyptian Mau
Jasper - Burmese X moggy - missing!
Electra - silver Egyptian Mau
(Truffles - chocolate tortie syrian hammy - bye little one, I miss you)
And 6 little balls of silver spotty fluff! OMG KITTENZ etc

I don't have a contract.

All I ask is that vaccinations are up to date and the female is in good health and registered with a governing body.

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Our darling Foxy is now at Rainbow Bridge. R.I.P. little one, you'll always be loved.

The reason for the blood test would be to make sure that they're the same blood group.

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Our darling Foxy is now at Rainbow Bridge. R.I.P. little one, you'll always be loved.

Every Mau stud I've contacted demands within-24-hour snap tests for flu and FIV, plus your vaccination cert to say she couldn't have them anyway

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Lily - silver Egyptian Mau
Jasper - Burmese X moggy - missing!
Electra - silver Egyptian Mau
(Truffles - chocolate tortie syrian hammy - bye little one, I miss you)
And 6 little balls of silver spotty fluff! OMG KITTENZ etc

It entirely depends on the stud owner. One common practice is (or at least was) that if the cat tested negative before vaccination, that certificate plus the vaccination certificate would suffice. The FeLV vaccine (unlike, for example, the flu and chlamtydia vaccines) is very effective and the chances of a vaccinated stud catching it from a visitng queen are very low. The chances are even lower if the queen is negative and vaccinated and can be reduced to effectively zero if matings are controlled. As for FIV, there is not one single recorded case of that being spread by sexual contact, the queen would have to bite the stud to give it to him, and first she has to catch it herself. O yes, and the incubation period is a lot longer than 24 hours and the vet test is only 90% reliable anyway.

Liz

How can you say hiv/filv blood test is not worth the paper its written on i dont understand,if an outside queen has got something,shell pass it on to all my queens! which i would have to spay!??

Any ways back to the question in hand lol.thank you so much for all of you posting good comments.Im liking that contract allthough slightly heavy but will deff use some of it in my contract,i will have no restrictions on the kittens and hope to keep one for myself new lines for next year with my new stud boy,who i wont be open studding him out lol.Once again thank you so much everyone.

Aren't all cats vaccinated against this?

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Our darling Foxy is now at Rainbow Bridge. R.I.P. little one, you'll always be loved.

Just had a look a your beautiful bengals.x

how do you know the paper work you are given is for the cat coming into stud?