Since I was a lil girl I already was madly in love with animals, specially with felines. While my parents prevent me from have pets due to my asthma, I read and my personal library grew.
The "grow ups" were all amused by my knowledge and great dedication to animals. Was precisely this empathy and caretake vocation that lead me to my 1st rescue: a cat mommy and her 2 newborn kittens when I was just 10 y'old. Gosh, it was hard to get my mother to allow it! But there it started beneath a simple tiled roof where was a laundry sink at the backyard, inside a cardboard box full of shredded newspappers...
What a wonderful feeling to nurture and help, to assist, to watch them grow and learn, to construct friendship and trust! The feral mother and I became close, we were best friends. From that small success on I had many many times more fullfilled such missions, and always enjoyed all the noise, work, love spent, even when the results weren't so positive, thru tears, because I could not turn my back on them.
This Crazy Cat Lady's dream
Unfortunatedly I have asthma since 4 years old and the allergic reactions progressively went worst. Our last rescue attempt showed me it would be impossible to be in the same apartment with a single kitten: acute shortness of air and chest tightness even after medication, swollen watery eyes, runny nose, sneezing attacks and sore itchying skin ... The symptons were so loud we had to give up.
When we feel this connection with animals, it is impossible just drop it forever. We went to visit my Grandma and all her 12 cats and there we go: all drooling around them. We spent a weekend at my brother house, I already know I would be very sick, but could I refuse to play with his cats?...
For years I hesitated between bring or not a cat to our family again. I made my research, spent hours and hours talking to breeders, exchanged emails, and then I quitted - all times. One day I re-discovered this breed, Cornish Rex, and the hope came when I read it could be classified as near as hypoallergenic as a cat could be. There were long years trying to get a kitten to us, I understood how rare is this breed in South America and how expensive is to import a pet from Europe or USA. Alltogether it was this that made me chase my childhood dream - so, at our Carnaval holliday in 2015, we flied to bring home not 1 single kitten, but our 3 Russian beauties!
Why do you are now a breeder instead of
continuing with the rescues?!
How your cats are raised and managed?!
Breeders turn animals into birth machines!
Our queens and stud are our pets, they are like my children, before all things they are part of the family. They do not live away from us: they run thru our apartment fulling it with movement, laughs and in exchange they are spoiled with pampering, cuddling and lots of love! The babies receive from this Grandma all attention and care since their mommy's belly, with prenatal screening and proper diet, lots of chit chat and petting. And they will have millk bottle feed in my lap, they will learn to play without hurting their humans, to visit the Vet... We do not have cages and our two mommies will never have more than 3 litters each 2 years (at least 8 months to rest between pregnancies).
This is a relevant issue, and it should be questioned and checked by the new tutor (buyer), with a visit to the breeder facility and inspection of the kitten's parents on-site.