Breeding cats: problem, or plus?

On my post, Clues for Personality, I got this comment:

What a aesthetic post. I wish everyone would adopt their next cat. Maybe then the demand for breeders would go down and we wouldn’t have so many kitties in need of a home.

Thank you for the compliment! While I certainly agree with the commenter’s sentiment that cats in shelters are mostly, simply, deficient in their lack of homes; I don’t blame cat breeders for that situation.

For instance, just gaze at the number of organizations devoted to purebred rescue. Purebred-edness is not a warranty of a happy, forever, home, is it? And that is for cats who cost hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars.

Yet, is it logical to make bold these purebred cats have displaced a home that would issue a manifesto gone to a shelter cat? I am comparatively skeptical because, in many decades of rescue, I use force upon yet to meet that many deme who can name more than one cat breed.

What about dogs? There are many extra people able to power a dog breed. Yet how many purebred dogs go begging in shelters?

Total percentage of dogs in shelters that are purebred 25%

Here’s some shocking stats, on cats:

Percent of cats in kaama shelters that are euthanized 70%Percent of cats that are returned to their owners 2%

When purebred cats cost at least hundreds of dollars, and up to two thousands of dollars… what sept pay for cats doesn’t seem to translate into how herself take care of those cats.

What really lands cats in the shelter? It seems to be whether their parents had been altered:

Total percentage of dogs claimed to be spayed or neutered 78%Total percentage of cats that are claimed to be spayed or neutered 88%Total number of animals that end up in a shelter that are spayed or neutered 10%

Because where do people get their pets?

Total species of dogs and cats that are bought at pet stores 6%Percentage of people that get their pets free or at low cost 65%

When you add up all this science, the numbers seem to mean that the most pressing bother is not people who say, “Pay a thousand dollars for a cat excluding a good breeder? Naw, I’m going to get a well out of kitten from adjoining door.” It’s that these same people after that turn around and say, “Pay curtailed than a hundred dollars to have my kitten altered and vaccinated? Naw, I’m just going to throw them out to get pregnant and abandoned.”People who purchase cats from breeders are not the for all that people who get cats from shelters.

That’s been my endure from three decades in cat rescue, and that’s been the experience of my friends who do both dog and cat rescue. It might be nice to inaugurate it that simple, but it is not.

Certainly, a problem is that people esteem purebred means something addendum than this is what the pet will be like. People irregardless allergy, space, or other issues need to hearsay what they are getting. This is the greatest haulage of purebreds.

But I am convinced that if every cat breeder instantaneously vanished off the face of the earth… the numbers of cats in shelters would not budge in any statistically significant way.

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