Thread: Sueragdandy in Cardiff, South Wales

I def agree we had our little boy gary from susan....he,s a stunnig boy ,and susan is there whenever needed,...

Sounds as if she is what you would expect from a good breeder I wouldn't expect or settle for less from any breeder I bought from,haven't been let down yet & have been involved with three....

I feel it only fair to add on a minor note of caution in that Susan has been great for everything except GCCF registration. Rasputin is a fantastic cat and I'm really pleased with him and Susan has given me loads of great advice.

She will provide you with the paperwork to register your cat (after neutering) but if you wish to have them registered with her prefix, you will need to pay the full cost rather than just transfer cost as she doesn't register non-breeding kittens. Also, when we registered Rasputin, she filled out the paperwork to have him registered under her prefix but registered him as blue silver rather than silver (and I did say I thought he was a silver). This then meant we were wrong coloured at the show we went to so I not only lost the show entry money but then had to pay to have his registration amended (Susan did not agree to pay).

In all other respects I would recommend her however if you even have the vaguest inkling you may want to show, just make sure this is very clear up front and you agree who will pay the registration and who is responsible if there is an error in the part of the registration forms she fills out or the information she gives you.

Having accidently come across this site, I would like to thank everyone for their friendly, positive posts concerning my kittens, however I would just like to say to pralinehalo, Rasputin was actually sold on the contract as a silver tabby, not a blue silver tabby, her post is misleading and unfair of the true facts of how he finally became registered as a blue silver tabby.

I have made it very clear that in all other ways you were fantastic, that I would recommend you as a breeder and that I think Rasputin is a great cat.

However, it was not my suggestion that he should be registered as a blue silver, it was yours.

I keep all important correspondence and would not post a comment on a public forum that I could not back up; I also have your email saying he is a blue silver and to quote my email to you on 12th June:

From: (name redacted) [mailto:pralinehalo@hotmail.com]
Sent: 12 June 2011 16:27
To: Susan Heames [email redacted]
Subject: RE: Registration stuff

PS glad you’re doing the paperwork, I’d have registered him as a classic silver rather than blue silver!

Regretfully photos can be misleading as is the case here and i apologise for any expense you have incurred concerning Rasputin's registration, however with reference to your latest post, i actually said "I think he is a blue silver", i then asked you to take a look at his father on my site to compare the colour, to which you agreed his colouring was the same (his father being blue silver tabby). When you emailed to say you would have registered him as a silver classic tabby you were refering to what he was recorded as on his pedigree and contract, not that you were in disagreement with what we were both at the time agreeing to. As i have already mentioned in my first post, your statement is misleading and unfair as to the actual events leading up to Rasputin being registered as a blue silver tabby. I do not wish to continue this pointless discussion, however i hope you will carry on to keep me updated on Rasputin's health, development and any future concerns you may have.

Having read all this could I suggest a bit of mediation and that perhaps an agreement could be reached with regards to costs as a gesture of goodwill? As the breeder I believe that you should really have known the colour of you own kitten and registered as such; colour of parents is not really a good indicator so this should have been checked properly.

This is just my opinion but given the previous great comments before this incident I think it would help x