Tom Cat won't breed with in-season queen!??

"Janet Boss" wrote in message

> In article , "Phil P."
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Yeah- I'm a fanatic- I'm fanatical about preventing as many deaths as I
>> can.
>>
>
> But your "logic" is illogical. If someone wants a well bred and well
> socialized animal of a specific breed, they are NOT necessarily (in
> fact, rarely) going to go to a shelter and adopt cat or dog "x".
>>
>> You need to take your head out of your ass and take a walk through a kill
>> shelter on kill day- then see if you still think there's nothing wrong
>> with
>> breeding more animals.
>
> I've been spending many years in "kill" shelters TYVM. What do I see?
> The castoff of the IRRESPONSIBLE. Education, education, education,
> low-cost S/N, TNR, training, counseling. These are things that stop
> filling shelters, not banning RESPONSIBLE breeding.
>
> --
> Janet Boss
> www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

A while back on this thread I asked, very innocently, if there were
generally understood "rules" for responsible cat breeders the way there are
for dog breeders. You know, spay/neuter contracts, rehoming, health
testings, etc.

To date, no one has answered my question.

At this point I'm assuming that it is because either there are no such cat
breeders, or that anyone who dares to answer the question will be flamed
within an inch of their lives by some of the posters here.

BTW, IMHO Janet Boss is correct: that the people to go after and try hard to
change are the people who randomly let their cats breed and do nothing to
ensure that they have good lifetime homes and don't produce more cats. The
public needs to be taught what a responsible breeder is, the importance of
dealing only with such an individual or a shelter, and how to find one. I
also agree that people who want a pet with a certain appearance and a
certain temperament--ie, a recognizable "breed"--are not necessarily going
to adopt a shelter animal of unknown provenance and breeding if the desired
animal is not available. They MAY go to the breed rescue organization and
adopt there instead. (Of course, the breed rescues are usually run by
responsible breeders....at least in the dog world.)

Before you leap on me, I have a [spayed, not declawed, indoor] cat found by
me as a stray and subsequently adopted through our local cat rescue
organization, and a [spayed] "purebred"--read puppymill product bought by
ignoramuses and dumped in a shelter--dog adopted through breed rescue.

In article ,
"Janet" wrote:

>
> A while back on this thread I asked, very innocently, if there were
> generally understood "rules" for responsible cat breeders the way there are
> for dog breeders. You know, spay/neuter contracts, rehoming, health
> testings, etc.
>
> To date, no one has answered my question.
>
> At this point I'm assuming that it is because either there are no such cat
> breeders, or that anyone who dares to answer the question will be flamed
> within an inch of their lives by some of the posters here.

Cat breed clubs appear to have very similar COEs to dog breed clubs, so
I venture to say that the answer is yes.

As far as anyone answering your question without using expletives and
offering breeder bashing, good luck on that!

I have 2 more dogs than you do, but my cat is indoor (welcome to be out
with us, but he prefers indoors), not declawed, shelter adoptee. My one
purebred dog is puppymill breeding through a breed rescue (after failure
in 2 homes and 2 shelters stays at the tender age of 5.5 months), and my
oldest dog is a mixed breed, surrendered to the shelter by her first
owner at 20 months, and she's 11.5 years old now. My youngest is a
purebred, responsibly bred dog of a breed that TG, is extremely rare to
find in a shelter or rescue. A breed not without health problems, but
breeders are working hard to eliminate those. It's not a simple task,
but a worthwhile one.

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com