Stop the big kitten con
26 April 2022
With the UK due to enter a kitten breeding season, Cats Protection has released a documentary to highlight the potentially tragic risks of buying an underage kitten online.
The Big Kitten Con features traumatic accounts from two women who were duped into purchasing kittens at less than the legal age for commercial sale which is eight weeks old. Sadly, both kittens died from debilitating illnesses. A third person talks about battling to save the life of a four-week-old blind kitten that was purchased over the Internet.
The video coincides with a Cats Protection survey of over 2,000 people which shows that around a quarter of respondents (23 per cent) are not confident knowing what questions to ask if they were to purchase a kitten online.