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- Mar 17, 2012
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Hi everyone, As i stated in my introduction post a few weeks ago now, I am aspiring to one day become a registered breeder. Although at this point i havent really pin pointed which breed is the one for me. I wanted to do as much research into every breed as possible and attend cat shows and interact to get a feeling of which might be best suited for me. Ive been searching for breeders around australia and emailing them, introducing myself and explaing my goals and just generally asking what drew them to thier chosen breed, what kind of complications they've experienced if any with the breed and so on and so forth Am i going the wrong way about this? some of the people i have email have been nice and given me advice, but the majority of responses have been rather rude. One in particular was rather hostile, one person actually wrote "theres no place in the cat world for a dirty BYB like you". I definately understand that these people are very busy and protective of thier cats, andi dont expect novels to be written back, but this is really upsetting me, all im trying to do is get information to prepare myself to achieve my goal in a few years time. If anyone here is a breeder, would you find this approach through email from me rude? I understand that people are very protective of thier breeds with good reason. But its nots like im saying i wanna buy a breeder and make it have kittens n sell them all over town for lotsa cash. Sorry for my vent im just finding the reactions im getting very discouraging. Am i going about this the wrong way? Is what im doing offensive? should i just wait to attend cat shows to do research?Thanks guys