Breeding kittens just to make money

Potatoes don't starve to death after being dumped by owners when the novelty wears off. There are no potato shelters which I know of, where every inch of space is taken up by potatoes in cages waiting to be rehomed. Potatoes don't produce defective potatoes from too many pregnancies, and as far as I'm aware, a potato can't die from reproducing too much.

Yes she does live in a council house, she won't have to worry about vet bills though as the PDSA pays them when you're unemployed (out of other people's donations I believe). Its a tortoiseshell, so its a nice cat but not a pedigree. I just think its disgusting that she got a pet just to try to make money from it.

I forgot about the PDSA.
Kittens might fetch 20 quid each, but lets face it, anyone wanting a kitten or adult cat can get one easily enough from any amount of places, CPL etc, and cats from places like that will have been vaccinated
She might put her council tenancy at risk, hardly worth it for a few quid on the sly.

GRRRR she just makes me so ANGRY! She says I'm interfering and she doesn't want advice. I told her to give me one good reason she should go ahead and add to a problem which is out of control already... to which she replied, "how is it out of control? It isn't a problem for me, its only you who has a problem with it!" I mentioned she's really dumb, right?

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sounds to me they need to both need to be out looking for work instead of making money off of a little cat.

I dont think there is a single person on this forum who could disagree with you
You hit the nail on the head,
They need to be looking for work,

They surely do along w/a bunch more folks that sit home & not work & draw all the frrebies. This is one of my pet peeves. Thanks for your comments.

Its a tortoiseshell - but there are plenty of those in shelters as it is, so they can't be that popular can they. She's just using the poor animal as a source of income because neither of them have jobs. This is the first cat she has ever owned and she hasn't got a clue about them, but she refuses to accept that someone who has owned cats all their life might know better than her

Your cousin is foolish. you should print this thread off and show it to her. She and her hubby need to just go out and find jobs and stop relying on the poor cats. People can get ordinary cats for free anywhere. Even if she did succeed in selling a couple of them to some sucker....she is still going to get stuck with some. They are going to cost her more than she will earn. she isn't very business minded is she?

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Yeah, she's really getting on her high horse about how its nothing to do with anyone except her. But I think it is. What about the people who end up taking in the unwanted animals, and the charities which struggle to pay for their care? And all the people who donate to help these animals, it'll never be enough if stupid people keep adding to the problem. I've never bought a cat, all mine have been rescue cats because there are so many of them...

I have 2 cats (both sensibly spayed/neutered!) and I didn't buy either of them. The female is a long haired tortie, she was given to us by my daughter's Godparents - one of 2 surviving kittens from THEIR overbred cat, who they have thankfully now had spayed. Before her, they gave us a male, who died at 18 months, he was the only survivor of his litter from the same mother. The male we have now is part Siamese, he's gorgeous and friendly but has tummy problems and messes himself in the house. I suspect there may have been inbreeding in his background. I got him from a rescue centre where he had been brought as a stray, possibly someone didn't want to clean up the mess he makes:( My cousin is of the opinion that all cats in rescue centres were dumped because they were horrible, aggressive animals... I completely agree with everyone who thinks she's an idiot!

My Goldie is also a long-haired tortie, and she is high maintenance. If she is not bathed or if she does not get brushed when needed, her fur start to bunch up and it's really bad. I have to give her Nutri-Cal because of her intestine. She has to eat special food for the kind of problems she has. I love her, but she's costly.

All of my cats are spayed and neutered, they have to be in order for them to get licensed. In my area, all cats and dogs must have licenses and must be vaccinated. If you spay and neuter them the licensing fee for them is much cheaper, compared to a cat that is not spayed or neutered.

To those people who think that cats are easy to take care of and do not cost very much, I have a news flash for them. Take care of my cats for one day, and look at our bills and then tell us it is easy.

The first cat we had after our daughter was born was given to us by people we knew. They had 5 cats, dozens of rabbits, birds, and 3 dogs. The mother wanted to get rid of the cats so she could get more rabbits, which she bred to supplement her benefit money. It was quite clear when we got him that he hadn't been taken care of. He had suffered from a skin complaint for years and the woman had been treating it with tea tree oil... within weeks of living with us, it cleared up, untreated. The shine returned to his coat and he went from a scrawny, scabby creature to a perfectly healthy-looking cat. The huge mistake I made was allowing them to take care of him when we went away for 2 weeks and couldn't get anyone else to do it. On our return, he appeared and smelled as if he had had some kind of alcohol spilled on him, and it wouldn't wash off. Not long after that, he had a seizure and died. The vet told us he had internal bleeding, kidney problems, and a number of other things which we didn't know about. He was only 8 years old. How disgusting is that?

The vet also gave me a receipt for £300 for the treatment which didn't help him. Since then, all my cats have been insured from day one!

We can do that here in the United States, but it is so very expensive. It is not worth to buy it. You pay as much for the insurance as you would for the anything that you would have to pay without it. Also, if it is anything like the regular health insurance companies here in the states, if your kitty has a pre-existing medical condition, which two of mine have, then they won't insure the poor little kitty. I am going to lose my own insurance in a few months, and I will barely have the money to pay for myself let alone my kitties. I don't know how I am going to handle things when that happens. I hate living in the United States sometimes. Our health care system is crummy, and everyone has to pay the price for it.