Sueragdandy in Cardiff, South Wales

My two boys Iggie and Ted came from Susan at Sueragdandy. I am very pleased with all the 'no nonsense' advice Susan gave and continues to give. Both kittens were very confident, healthy and obviously extremly well looked after and settled in to their new home with me within hours. I highly recommend Sueragdandy as a breeder and the website is very informative, with lots of lovely pictures. When you visit Susan to view a kitten, you'll also find that she is nice and friendly and puts you at ease straight away, if you are a nervous first timer as I was.

We have had 2 of our 3 cats from Susan and our 4th is also coming from Susan next week!
Agree with Helen, Susan is a very helpful breeder and her kittens are very healthy and confident when you pick them up.

100% agree with this too - our stud boy Storm is from Susan and he is the most gorgeous, friendly, chilled out boy ever! Susan responds to all of our emails and loves hearing updates on how he is getting on as well as offering advice when we ask.

I concur too, Rasputin came from Susan and she's been great throughout (despite having a kitchen fitted at the same time as the kittens!). He settled in within about 5 minutes and Susan's been great at getting back to me with my innumerable pre and post-arrival questions.

I can also agree with this, I have had 2 cats from Susan. Bitsie was an absolute Star when she got here, she was so confident after travelling from Wales to my home in North East of Scotland it was as though she owned the place. Phoenix too was very confident, and Susan's advice is brilliant. :smile:

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

Thanks catslave :)

Sueragdandy, thank you for your apology. I appreciate that you do not wish to continue this discussion however I do have to add that when I asked you the difference between silver and blue silver you said, "The markings will be black, he is like his dad, take a look at his dad."

I really don't think that particularly as a first time owner, the onus should've been on me to actively disagree with an experienced breeder.

I very much appreciate that the difference between blue silver and silver can be difficult to tell, particularly from photos however I would not have had an issue with the registration being the wrong colour had I not then been put in a position where I had to pay for the correction.

As I said in my earlier post, in all other ways you've been great however I think it may be beneficial to avoid future issues that you make it clearer on your site that you don't register the cats with any approved body, just provide the pedigree and signed certificate of mating so that a new owner car register if they choose and that you will not be held responsible for any registration errors should the new owner choose to register their cat, either under your prefix or not.

We purchased Loki, a silver tabby from this breeder - sadly we found him listless approx 2 months ago and after an emergency trip to the vets, he was diagnosed with heart failure due to cardiomyopathy and was prescribed pretty much everything. He recovered to an extent, but sadly passed away a few days ago at the not so grand age of 2 and a half. We are devastated and I am merely putting this note on here as a word of caution for other prospective buyers. We certainly never want to go through this experience again.

Petea, I am sorry to hear if your loss :( It is hard to have your baby go so young.

thanks for your kind words...we've heard that another kitten from the same litter has/had the same problem but not had it confirmed. Either way I wouldn't want anyone else to go through this and just want people to be aware

Oh dear......so very sorry for your loss, I was so panic stricken earlier this year because Mischa had a reaction to her Rabies injection and developed a rather large lump which we were advised to have removed which we did ....... unfortunately, she then went on to develop an infection in the area, wasn't eating nor drinking, and was going to be admitted again as she was really really poorly and dehydrated, but luckily the vet decided to risk giving her an injection of antibiotics to get into her system quicker than drops etc. and slowly but surely she did pick up.....I never want to go there again.

Dot, Poor Mischa, that had to be terrifying for you all! I can not imagine. We give them shots to keep them healthy and to have that happen. I am so glad to hear that she did recover! I wonder how often cats have reaction to shots? Ginger got a shot when she was a kitten and she was in so much pain the next day, she hissed at the OH when he tried to feed her. I don't remember what is was, but we opted not to get the booster shot. She is not around other cats, so the vet said she could go with out it.

I adopted one of Susan's adult cats last year, and is been a brilliant experience!

Kat (formally Tourmaline. ...sorry Susan) was two when I adopted her. I was was impressed by her knowledge and passion for her cats.

I'm hoping to have another cat from Susan in the near future.