Yep, and the rest of us ... ... still, you all did your best to advise ....

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Ra

http://www.bobergsiamese.co.uk/

Could well be an unregistered stud.

Liz

eek:eek:OH MY GOD,THE SHOCK,THE HORROR!!!!eek:rolleyes:

Sorry but buy yourself a cat on the active register if you are wanting to breed, no sympathy whatsoever

OR just a case of another backyarder !! xx

does my head in really xx

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To be fair I think probably a lot of novices just don't realise that there is any such thing as an active register - I certainly didn't when I started, in fact I didn't even go asking for a breeding queen, it just never occured to me that there would be a problem - and fortunately for me, there wasn't a problem.

It seems to me that the onus is on the seller to make it very clear to the buyer that the kitten is on the non-active register and what that means - in fact the GCCF requires this.

Buying a "no papers" kitten, however, is another matter. Anyone buying a kitten with no papers will surely be aware that the price is reduced because there are no papers (in fact the adverts generally say "no papers hence price". And it should be fairly obvious, I would have thought, that no papers means you are going to have a great deal of difficulty breeding kittens with papers.

Now, I think the OP could do something that would be helpful to her, would get a slightly higher price for the kittens, and would allow her access to registered studs. I think she could register her cat as "siamese type". The cat could go on the active register and after a certain number of generations the kittens themselves could go onto the full or supplemntary register. It's a long process of course, but it is possible. It would of course be quicker to just start again and buy an active register queen.

Liz

I agree - think it is a case of someone thinking that having a few kittens running about will be really cute and fun. Not someone who is looking into being a serious breeder I'm afraid

Lou

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