Thread: New Owners what do you Expect-- Breeders what do you give

sounds bad but did my best no to get too interested ,as kit was for fugde my old cat , the ony reason we got kit 2. found out fudge has heart problems. was not sure how she would be with them.,,, if she was not ,,then they would have to go, but she is ok so we can keep them and love them to bits
had not expected anything with them but we had papers ,a tin of cat food, RC in a tub, blanket ,a toy. as i paid £775 for 2 kits think it takes the piss....but i am happy to pay for the kits which is what i wanted ... not a bag of stuff ,, the one thing i will say is they look a lot bigger in the pics,when i saw anna thought you dont get much for your money lol we did not see them until collected them ,they are now part of the family would never be without them

Originally Posted by mollyanna

sounds bad but did my best no to get too interested ,as kit was for fugde my old cat , the ony reason we got kit 2. found out fudge has heart problems. was not sure how she would be with them.,,, if she was not ,,then they would have to go, but she is ok so we can keep them and love them to bits
had not expected anything with them but we had papers ,a tin of cat food, RC in a tub, blanket ,a toy. as i paid £775 for 2 kits think it takes the piss....but i am happy to pay for the kits which is what i wanted ... not a bag of stuff ,, the one thing i will say is they look a lot bigger in the pics,when i saw anna thought you dont get much for your money lol we did not see them until collected them ,they are now part of the family would never be without them

Wow not a lot really, I charge for a pet kitten across all the breeds!! around 400 euros..


Maybe not sure but people should have a weight chart around so that when new owners ask they can have an idea of the weight of the kitten....

Why did you not go before to see... them and if you ever though of a kitten in the future would you do things differently??

When I got Freyja, the breeder quite rightly wouldn't let me visit until she'd had her first jab, but allowed me to option her on the strength of a photo. So I saw immediately after she'd been jabbed and got to spend a good hour with her and her siblings - there were two litters born at the same time so 11 kittens to fawn over! And I got to meet Freyja's mum, her nan and the mum for the other litter. Also spend another hour or so with the breeder getting to know each other. Between my first visit and final collection, I had heaps of email correspondence with the breeder - I wanted to make sure I'd got all the bases covered, and despite the banality of some of my questions, Catherine was brilliant - good advice, always answering more fully than my original question required and I learnt heaps. When I picked Freyja up, I had another hour at the house and got to play with Freyja away from the kitten room before we took her away, and Catherine was great about me dragging my pa along. Since then, whilst most of the contact has been driven from my end, I've had lots of communication with Catherine - again, she's given me advice, encouragement, and confidence that I'm handling Freyja in the best way I can. She's always delighted to get pictures of her and is encouraging me to show her now.

In terms of the other stuff, I got a nice little wallet to keep her pedigree receipts in, and a booklet of RC vouchers that gave me a free bag of Kitten 36 and a discount on a second bag. I got a provisional certificate for Freyja's pedigree but the official one will provided once Freyja was spayed. And I got some simple instructions to follow for feeding, worming, flea prevention, and the jab record. I was offered copious amounts of tea/ coffee (no cake, but I've got a fat bum so probably no bad thing!!) and was made to feel incredibly welcome. I also got to meet a number of other pets and could see how happy and healthy they all were.

All in all, a great first experience of buying a pedigree kitten and Catherine would be one of my two first points of contact in the event I decide to get Freyja a playmate. Whilst there might not have been blankets and cat litter provided, the after care support and encouragement has been priceless and I wouldn't trade.