Cat stud service

[kitn]

I have a beautiful white mixed female cat that I am interested in breading with someone just one time to let my kids expierence having kittens. I will keep a few and then fix all of the cats. I am just wondering what the best way is to find a male stud service. I looked on the internet but I could not find any cats anywhere near Memphis. I am not really interested in buying a male cat because I am planning on keeping some of the kittens and I do not want too many cats. Does anyone have any expierence with this? Thank you.

 

[Pugdog007]

Please don't breed your cat just so your kids can "experience" having kittens.

 

[Aimeedyan]

You're not serious, are you?

 

[Planogirl]

I personally wouldn't breed a mixed cat. There are tons of kittens in need of a home and you might even be able to find a homeless pregnant female. But just adding more mixed breed kittens seems kind of pointless to be honest.

Besides I don't believe that you'd find any mixed males being used as studs nor do I think that a reputable breeder would allow their male to breed with a mixed breed.

 

[Tiffann4k]

If you cant even spell what you intend on doing then you probably shouldnt be doing it its BREEDING.

I agree with what everyone else said. If you want your children to experience it rent a video, dont bring another litter of kittens into this world irresponsibly just to give your children a few minutes of watching something they may not even get to see to begin with.

Backyard breeders give responsible breeders( cat, dog, rabbit etc) such a bad name and this is why

( sorry to be so harsh)

 

[In a hurry]

So, are you just going to dump the rest of the litter by the road as a part of the experience? We found 3 litters of kittens last year, and on litter of puppies tossed out. There videos of births. Even Mr. Rogers did one of a cat's birth.

 

[Equidae]

Can you maybe instead have your kids spend some time at the local animal shelter or humane society? They have plenty of kittens there already and sometimes even pregnant cats. This way you wouldn't have to bring more kittens into the world when many, many cats are put down every year due to overpopulation (it's really sad, actually. I was at our local shelter last month and they have this board saying how many cats were brought in, adopted, or put down last year. Over several thousand had been put down in 2005.).

 

[luvmydogs]

As a volunteer who's worked in animal rescue for 14 years, I am begging you not to do this. The USHS estiamates that 6-8 *million* homeless animals are euthanized each year because of pet overpopulation--and that does not include those pets that are no longer wanted and just dumped on the side of the road. It is irresponsible pet ownership (at the very least) to breed your cat so that your children may "experience having kittens"--you can see that on Animal Planet for free.

Visit your local animal shelter with your children and teach them how they can help the pet overpopulation problem--not be a part of it.

 

[MinnieMe2]

I'm always fascinated that when people want their children to 'experience the miracle' of birth, they rely on an animal for it. If you're so h*ll-bent on doing this for your children -- have another baby!

 

[mommaU4]

I have a beautiful white mixed female cat that I am interested in breading with someone just one time to let my kids expierence having kittens. I will keep a few and then fix all of the cats. I am just wondering what the best way is to find a male stud service. I looked on the internet but I could not find any cats anywhere near Memphis. I am not really interested in buying a male cat because I am planning on keeping some of the kittens and I do not want too many cats. Does anyone have any expierence with this? Thank you.

As soon as I read your post I just knew what the responses would be without even reading them.

I hope you don't get upset but obviously this is something people feel strongly about. And I have to say I agree. There are just too many that need homes. I think the idea of maybe finding a pregnant cat is a good one. Or just letting the kids go to the library and see if there is a video they can watch or books to look at.

Do what you feel is right, but I think a better lesson to show your kids would be to take them to a local shelter and show them just how many cats/kittens are unwanted and why it is so important to "fix" your animals. Then if you want more kittens let them adopt one or two from there.

They can even get involved and do little fund-raisers to raise money to buy things (food, toys, etc) for the shelter. My sons class this year for Christmas decided against doing the annual class gift exchange and instead each student brought in a gift for the animal shelter.

 

[MzDiz]

Contact a local, no-kill shelter about fostering a pregnant cat. They'd love the help and are always looking for foster homes.

 

[Michie]

Do cat and stud do those 2 words even belong together?

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Contact a local, no-kill shelter about fostering a pregnant cat. They'd love the help and are always looking for foster homes.

Great idea!!! Talk about a win/win situation.

Yes, birth is a miracle for sure, but I am not a better person because I grew up in a household with a mother who let our cat have litter after litter of kittens. As a matter of fact, I got to shed tears with every litter because I wanted to keep all the kittens and we couldn't and some had to be brought to the shelter.

It might seem that I got to experience the miracle of birth, but the reality is that I got to experience the heartache of loss. And even if we had of only had one litter and found homes for all those kittens, I would have grown up with the knowledge that those kittens would likely to have gone on to breed and some of those kittens would have been put down for lack of homes. Not what I would ever want to teach my children.

What I do teach my children is that we adopt cats and they have an operation so they can't make kittens because there are too many cats and kittens. Yes, my 6yo knows this. No, I don't think this will affect his decision to father children in the future.

 

[pearlieq]

Contact a local, no-kill shelter about fostering a pregnant cat. They'd love the help and are always looking for foster homes.

What a great idea!

The world certainly doesn't need more kittens. There are plenty of ways for your kids to experience the miracle of birth without bringing 4-8 kittens into the world. For every cat you intentionally create, even if you can re-home it, you're partially responsible for the death of a shelter cat waiting for a home.

Please don't give this idea another thought. Go get your cat spayed!

 

[Virgo10]

You really need to read this!


The Miracle Of Life

by Barry N. Taylor, DVM

"Come quick, come quick", their mother said, "The time is getting near".
She feels that when the kittens come the children should be here.
She told them that a big orange Tom took "Kitty" as is wife.
"It's wonderful, a gift from God, the miracle of life".

At half a year young "Kitty" feels too painful and too scared
To appreciate six miracles, blind-eyed and yellow haired.
But she knows these lives depend on her and nature tells her how
And as she cleans them, children ask, "Mom, can we go now?"

But now and then for six more weeks, the children visit her
To play with six new magic toys made of life and fur.
The six weeks pass, the newness gone and new homes yet unfound,
Mom bundles up six miracles and takes them to the pound,

Where lovingly, with gentle hands and no tears left to cry,
The shelter workers kiss them once and take them off to die.
And "Momma Kitty" now she's called mourns her loss and then,
She's put outside and, of course, she's pregnant once again.

Dad tells "Kitty" STOP THIS NOW or you won't live here long!
But deep inside of Momma Cat, this time something's wrong.
Too young, too small, too often bred, now nature's gone awry.
Momma Kitty feels it too and she crawls off to die.
She too is freed from this cruel world, and from her time of strife.
How harsh the truth, how high the price, this "Miracle of Life"?

~*~*~*~Spay and Neuter your pets for their sake~*~*~*~

 

[Nana Annie]

My guess is that she won't be able to find a pregnant female to foster. At least around here, most shelters will spay a pregnant female, no matter how far along she is.

OP..
Please, please follow the advice of the others on this board. Teach your children to be responsible pet owners, not irresponsible. There is a thread here on feral cats. And many, many more on backyard breeders. The internet is littered with horrible stories of overburdened shelters, of what happens when there are too many dogs/cats/pets in this world. Bringing another litter into this world is being part of the problem. Teach your children to be part of the solution.

Unless you have a waiting list for the kittens, with twice as many on the list to back it up in case your primary homes back out; can state why the genetics, conformation and health of your current cat complements the sire's; have had independent cat experts (includes showing) tell you that your cat is the best of the best of cat specimens; and you have done extensive research on the backgrounds of inheritable diseases (along with all the expensive testing that goes with it) carried by both parents so that you know that you won't be perpetuating an undesirable genetic trait - don't even think about bringing another litter into this world.

I like the idea of having your children volunteer at a shelter. They will get a much better "life" lesson than watching a litter being born, knowing that the chance of those kittens being euthanized sometime in their life is huge.

Of course, if this is a troll post - you sure did pick a great topic for riling up the DIS

 

[lulugirl]

You're not serious, are you?

I was wondering the same thing.

 

[MzDiz]

Oh no, that poem! I lost two of my cats over the summer within three weeks. One of them did "crawl off to die" under our deck. We didn't find her for two days, it was really one of the most horrible things...
The other one escaped and was struck by a car. She was my baby. It was a terrible month.
Most of my cats are ex-strays (we have eight). The thought of someone purposely breeding a cat and dumping more kittens at a shelter turns my stomach. We have so many feral cats around here and I can only care for so many of them.

 

[Equidae]

You really need to read this!


The Miracle Of Life

by Barry N. Taylor, DVM

"Come quick, come quick", their mother said, "The time is getting near".
She feels that when the kittens come the children should be here.
She told them that a big orange Tom took "Kitty" as is wife.
"It's wonderful, a gift from God, the miracle of life".

At half a year young "Kitty" feels too painful and too scared
To appreciate six miracles, blind-eyed and yellow haired.
But she knows these lives depend on her and nature tells her how
And as she cleans them, children ask, "Mom, can we go now?"

But now and then for six more weeks, the children visit her
To play with six new magic toys made of life and fur.
The six weeks pass, the newness gone and new homes yet unfound,
Mom bundles up six miracles and takes them to the pound,

Where lovingly, with gentle hands and no tears left to cry,
The shelter workers kiss them once and take them off to die.
And "Momma Kitty" now she's called mourns her loss and then,
She's put outside and, of course, she's pregnant once again.

Dad tells "Kitty" STOP THIS NOW or you won't live here long!
But deep inside of Momma Cat, this time something's wrong.
Too young, too small, too often bred, now nature's gone awry.
Momma Kitty feels it too and she crawls off to die.
She too is freed from this cruel world, and from her time of strife.
How harsh the truth, how high the price, this "Miracle of Life"?

~*~*~*~Spay and Neuter your pets for their sake~*~*~*~

Oh WOW.

Recently one of our loved cats ran away from home. Luckily she's home safe now, but while she was missing DH and I went to the pound everyday looking for her. It got to the point where I couldn't go in anymore because it was so sad in there. All these cats and little kittens in cages. Some would reach out or meow as you walked by. So very sad.
And then there was the purebred pug, papers and all, that someone just dumped at the pound. As DH and I were frantically searching for our cat (one of three kittens--all of whom we adopted -- that a coworker found dumped on his lawn) it was so distressing to see animals that someone felt was no longer worth loving and derseved to be discarded.

 

[vhoffman]

I agree with everyone here that you shouldn't bring more kittens into the world when there's so many homeless cats and overcrowd shelters. We recently acquired a half-grown kitten (read about it on my thread--How Much Would You do to Return a Lost Kitty?). Basically, we found a stray kitty who had an ID chip, but the owners refused to contact us. Apparently they just didn't want the poor little thing. This kitty came from a shelter, had all his shots, was neutered and an ID chip. The shelter must have thought they placed it in a loving home. Then look what happened--it was just dumped, for reasons unknown. I took the cat, hoping to contact its owners. When they refused to call back, I tried looking for a shelter. Most of the good, no-kill shelters have waiting lists, and they usually charge a fee when you take an animal to them. We decided to keep the "lost kitty", even though we have three other cats (all strays we rescued). If you're thinking you can just take the kittens to a shelter when they are weaned, well, good luck even finding a shelter with space available, then calculate the cost. Also, even the best of shelters can't guarantee a loving home.

However, I do understand the OP's intent. Watching a mama cat give birth to her kittens and care for them is truly witnessing one of life's miracles. I had two pregnant cats give birth while I was a child and I remember just being in awe. Several years ago we found a stray,pregnant cat that we took in. Watching the kittens being born and watching mama care for them was truly awsome. However, we did have difficulty finding homes for the kittens. We kept one, know we found good homes for two others, but we will never know the fate of the remaining three. I could never purposely breed kittens for my kids entertainment with no responsible plan for the kittens. It would be great to contact a shelter for a pregnant cat to adopt. Those kittens would be born anyways, you didn't plan the pregnancy, and they would probably have a better chance of finding a home if fostered in a loving environment from birth. Just remember, they're living creatures, not kids' toys!