Information on Line Breeding

[carolina]

By the way, breeding non-pedigree cats, or breeding by a non-professional breeder is against TCS principles, as shown on the rules - see below:

2. Please make sure to spay and neuter your cats. Unless you are a professional breeder and your cat is part of a professional breeding program, please educate yourself to the importance of spaying and neutering by the time your cat is 4-6 months old. If you take care of a feral colony, please make sure to do so responsibly by practicing TNR (Trap, Neuter, Release) protocols within the colony. By spaying and neutering, you enhance a cat's quality of life and improve their longterm health. You are also proving your love for cats because in acting as a responsible pet owner/caregiver you are minimizing the problem of cat overpopulation.

http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15184

While we most definitely welcome you and your kitties to the forum, and want you to stick around, many TCS members work directly with the consequences of the type of breeding you want to do, and you won't find much support for your breeding practices in here.
Many of us volunteer in shelters and rescue groups, and see many many kitties being put to sleep because of over population. In the US alone, 6-8 million cats are euthanized per year!
Please. please spay/neuter your kitties - they will be happy, and you will save many cats lives in the long run.

 

[goldenkitty45]

AND spayed/neutered barn cats make far better mousers as they don't have to have their mind on breeding and fighting!

 

[srrh]

Please take heed in what the other posters have said, especially Carolinalima. I volunteer at a no-kill cat shelter, and one of the cats has been there 19 years. 19! Due to people either not neutering their cats out of apathy, or deliberately breeding them, more and more cats are bought from ads in the paper or on Craigslist or what-have-you, rather than being adopted. And for every cat that's not adopted from a no-kill shelter, there is less space, and those cats turned in have to be taken to kill shelters, and.. you know what happens from there. Can you imagine how many cats have had to have been turned away from my shelter in the past 19 years because people were irresponsibly breeding rather than neutering and adopting?

Please, please neuter your pets.