Why are pet shops and private ads sellers charging so much for a kitten? - as much as £100-£150 each!" We are often asked this question by people contacting us enquiring to adopt cats and kittens.

The fact that cats are seasonal breeders giving birth to a litter in Spring and another later in the Summer, means that in the first few months of the year there are not so many kittens around so people wanting to profit from any kittens available sell them for as much as they can. Further into the Summer months there will be too many kittens around and prices sharply fall. By mid Summer kittens cannot easily be sold at all and many more unwanted kittens are taken into rescue centres (often under threat of abandonment or harm) adding to the numbers of cats and kittens for whom there just are not enough good homes to go round.

Having rescued our cats we will not put healthy cats to sleep to make room for more. We tend to assume that most people do not agree with destroying healthy cats and dogs. The reality is that every day in the U.K. hundreds of healthy animals are destroyed because there are not enough homes to go round. In order to achieve a future where healthy animals are not routinely destroyed not only is intensive neutering required but for people who are able to offer homes to less than perfect cats do so.