2021 is the tenth year I've been breeding cats.
I still remember the summer when I first came into contact with Ying short, I sat quietly in the Shanghai Tranquil Cat House, holding a 70,000 blue cat in my hand, listening to the manager share her story.
A few years later, I also owned my own family, and a family-style cat house.
Over the years, as a slash youth who takes care of the cat house while working.
On the surface, everyone thinks that I am going well, and the side business is doing a lot of wind.
However, inner torment, confusion, contemplation, and growth are actually known only to themselves.
People will only see that you make money doing side business, but they don't know how many bricks each cook pays to move at the same time.
The cat of the Gio family is not just a cat house.
Behind every little life born is the crystallization of the 365 days of daily labor of the presiding person.
An expensive kitten, from stepping into our house, preventing disease, eating and drinking Lasa, successfully reaching adulthood, to becoming a breeding cat suitable for breeding.
What others don't see is our shoveling three times a day, several meat and bone feedings a week, from non-stop vaccines and disease prevention, regular aunt cleaning, certificate issuance arrangements, all-night delivery of pregnant mothers, and the bitterness of after-sales communication services.
What is visible is our timely feedback on parents' questions, photos, and video interactions.
And dozens of cats grow up healthy and happy, accompanied all the time.
As well as the circle of friends beautiful cat sucking cat photos.
Many parents who do not know German also know the texture of this variety through our family.
In this diary, I will sort out some of the bumps and bumps we have encountered in recent years, and share them with you, no matter what your role identity is, I hope the article can help you and take fewer detours.
First of all, let's talk about the topics that everyone cares about most:
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="19" > about the difference between a backyard and a registered cat house</h1>
Many people mistakenly think that the main difference between them is:
Whether it is cage or free range, cage is the backyard, and free range is the registered regular cat house.
Whether the cat house is registered with CFA, WCF, Tica, FIFE and other associations.
Whether the cat house often participates in competitions, gets a good ranking, and has good points.
Today I will debunk a rumor with you, the above three points are not the main means of screening these two kinds of cat houses, and if which cat house advocates that their cats are never caged, all free-range, it must be deceiving you without discussion. There are as few as three or five breeding cats in the cat house, and as many as forty or fifty, not counting the huge number of kittens. Free range and not to say that the male and female children are disorganized and difficult to manage, whose male cat and which blood line of the female cat are randomly matched with the baby, different cats with their own pathogens will also spread to each other, such as cat nose branch, cat plague, cat abdomen, milk moss These symptoms are disorderly random infection.
Some people say that they can be separated into rooms, even if they are cats of the same type, their blood line, nest, physical state, and development are completely different, and they can raise dozens of cats as breeders, do you remember the spleen of each one? Only most of the time scientific cage, a small part of the time outdoor activities, can effectively manage the situation of each litter of cats.
Professional cat house managers, receiving a new cat, must also quarantine for at least a week and more than a month to prevent disease infection. 24-hour monitoring equipment at any time to adjust the situation of cats in each room in the cage.
CFA, WCF, Tica, FIFE backyard cat house can also be registered, a few hundred dollars, do not need to mythologize these institutions, the judges of Western countries in order to uniformly manage the breeding of purebred cats this set of certification mechanisms, has long been good at exploiting the loopholes of the domestic breeding people to eat through the rotten.
Including the so-called those competitions, not to mention the wild road sub-events held by domestic institutions themselves, even the judges of regular events have long known and known many big cat house owners, and the insider trading behind them will not be elaborated, for example, the judges of a Chongqing event are actually the cat house owners themselves, so how much gold content is there for pet family buyers? How much reference value does it have for multicultural people?
A simple logic: not all cats will go to the race, and all winning cats are only survivor bias, even benefit exchange bias. Of course, I don't deny that the breeding people who spend a lot of money and sincerely chase the game, after all, the official verification of the quality of their cats can also tell parents why their cats can be sold at this price.
The reason why the regular cat house is formal is that there are not so many specific rules to limit it. Breeding space is spacious and clean, regular disinfection, air circulation; scientific isolation of male and female children, scientific cage, regular outdoor activities; breeding cats after one year old, about two litters a year and a half; no inbreeding, no mating with cats with genetic diseases, mating with cats of the same breed; female cats retired according to the maintenance situation for 5-8 years; breeding rights to sell the same concept of the main person.
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Next, we will talk about how to choose cats, and for breeders, what pits may be stepped on in terms of breeding cats.
First of all, it is not recommended to pick up cats in backyard cat houses.
Before doing German, I also saw a lot of backyard cats in Chengdu Qingshiqiao and Pengpu Flower and Bird Market, and once also took over the wrong goods Schnauzer, although the cats in the hands of these merchants hung under the name of the backyard, as soon as you go to hang around, those treasurers will tell you which cat is born of this cat, and also point to a good looking big cat for comparison. Most likely, these kittens were not born of any of his big cats, but were purchased from cat dealers at a very low price, and I have seen the cat dealers themselves trading short kittens with the store, and because I know the treasurer very well, they are not shy about it. An 800 american short sold to us for two or three thousand when it was sold to us in the hands of the store.
It is not recommended to pick up a cat in the hands of an agent.
I believe that there have been idle fish, Tieba cat selection experience buyers will often encounter some sellers in their own containers to display a large number of background painting style is not uniform cat display map, each cat cat shipping place price source is also inconsistent, this kind of seller belongs to the agent, they themselves do not have a cat on hand, due to long-term online sales of this piece, the customer information on hand is more than the small cat house that just started, so many breeding people without customers will entrust them to sell their own kittens, which originally had no problem.
But there are many cat houses will hand over the problem cats in their hands to the agent to sell, such as infertile breeding cats, deaf ears deaf blue-faced white cats, the obvious beauty of the ear gene, etc., the agent often gets the hand at a certain price after the original price rises by 10%-100%, yes, you read it correctly, I have seen the agent sell a premium of up to 100% of the adult mother, this matter has also been used by the cat circle of the main people to spit.
Agents are like a one-click middleman in a treasure, they have no problems with their own existence, but beware of individual intermediaries who seek huge profits invisibly plunder the purchase budget of parents, after all, everyone's money is not falling from the sky~
You may think that I would recommend you to pick up the cat of the regular cat house, because I am the regular cat house, sorry this is not a marketing article, and I will not make any inducing behavior to you that tries to guide you against your original wishes, so the next thing I want to say is:
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="45" > is not recommended to blindly superstitiously believe in cats in regular cat houses</h1>
Yes, you read it right, even if the CFA, WCF, Tica, FIFE four big cat houses have been registered over and over again the so-called regular cat houses, you should not blindly promote to buy, read my previous diary of children's shoes know, I often give such advice on interpersonal communication - do not Mu Qiang.
Regular cat houses do have a good breeding concept, with breeding rights of kittens are only sold to the same breeding concept of the main person, will not arbitrarily borrow their own breeding public; but no profit early, even the formal circle can not avoid the mercenary store, I have personally contacted the breeding cat about twenty thousand to buy, kitten turn around on forty or fifty thousand two or three hundred thousand a nest of selling, the use of information is not equal to the high premium to coax the price of cats.
Although I have no right to interfere with each other's pricing power, everyone's money is not blown by the wind, think more for your wallet, what kind of appearance and budget we really need. High premium kittens usually have some labels, such as "breeding grade", "race level", "high race level", "champion offspring", etc., blindly paying for the other party's blown "High Race bloodline" offspring is to spend IQ tax being cut leeks, and the stem of High Race has now been used indiscriminately.
My breeding cat is purchased in the range of 50,000, usually its kittens are sterilized for sale around 10,000, but customers often have to choose more expensive cats and cats from the left and right, and psychologically think that the expensive ones must be better.
Then talk about kitten breeding
Many parents hold a play, try the attitude, let the mother cat in heat with a litter of cubs, but because there is no experience in delivering kittens, how many days of the mother cat due date, what supplements should be fed before and after childbirth and do not do homework seriously, often occurs when the mother cat secretly finds a place at home in the middle of the night as a "delivery room" to produce, the parents sleep really soundly, the next day get up to find half a day, in their own wardrobe to find a sheet of blood in the mother cat, the kitten is not squashed, or because of breathing difficulties suffocation. When encountering a big mother who does not feed the kittens without motherhood, it is also a common tragedy to leave after giving birth, and the cubs do not drink milk in time for several hours.
Please, this kind of parent who treats childbirth as a child's play, please be sure to take every little life in your hands seriously!
Not all female cats should be mated and bred at will, nor is it any breed of cat that can extend to future generations, in addition to whether the two cats have genetic defects between each other, whether the blood type will not lead to the hemolysis of kittens, whether the big cat has stauricular diseases and other factors, as the direct person in charge of cats, even if it is with the mentality of "earning a litter of money", the most basic knowledge of delivery should be available, right? Even the nearby veterinary hospital can help you give birth to a more professional female cat, don't feel like you want to do anything.
My advice to this type of parent is always: please sterilize your cat. Please neuter your cat. Please neuter your cat.
If you really want to do breeding people, running a systematic cat house, then even if you can't get the certificate, you should act as a half veterinarian and learn some basic nursing knowledge from books, here recommend the book "Cat Disease" to children who aspire to become a breeding child shoes, many pet disease science bloggers on the Internet have drawn core knowledge from this book, and then transformed it into content exported to us.
Disease prevention is also an important part of the cat house's energy investment
There was such a thing in the cat circle, a person who came to see the cat infected all the cats in a cat house, and finally all the cats in the cat house were broken by a pot.
In the breeding link of cats, the most important thing is to prevent diseases, pets as living organisms, life and death are uncontrollable, the biggest investment risk in the early stage of the start-up cat house is that the breed cat suffers from a major disease that causes the funds to drift, this is not a small probability event, I just added a small cat house discussion group before, I heard the breeding people inside stepping on such a pit, and the breeder who received it did not take long to die.
In order to get a healthy cat, the buyer is best to buy a certain month, looks energetic and energetic, the appetite state is very sufficient kittens, the personality is best cheerful, must not be sick feeling, listless and motionless.
Although I have bought this kind of sick short-haired cat, fortunately I have experience to save it, but the parents of ordinary pet families may not be able to take good care of it, and finally if the cat dies unfortunately, in addition to the loss of money, it will also consume a lot of emotions.
In the cat medical equipment, parents need to buy some basic preventive drugs, if there is more than one cat at home, but where the newly received cat is best isolated for a week to a month to feed alone, do not have contact with other cats in the limb, in case of unfortunate encounter with cat plague cats will not be taken away by a pot.
Breeding families need more drugs and equipment, and they can buy more syringes for a few cents, whether it is for vaccination or artificial feeding. Common anti-inflammatory drugs such as sono tablets, amoxicillin; to enhance the constitution of young cubs such as heavenly power, Viyo excellent cat nutrition solution, etc., the home needs a certain amount of space for long-term reserves.
If the number of breeding cats exceeds 20 or more, it is a relatively large cat house, and many cat litter cat food are transported at the lowest wholesale price into tons and tons, in addition to a stable source of customers, cat supplies suppliers are also stable.
Finally, adoption?
We often say" "Adopt instead of buying".
Backyard cat house impulsive breeding, cats sick arbitrarily discarded, breeding grounds overbred, pets lost after the breeding of arbitrary breeding, etc., such a female dog can breed about thirty offspring a year, so there are many pet lovers in the folk call for everyone to be able to actively deal with the problem of stray animals, which I personally agree with.
Because this slogan does not conflict with the formal thoroughbred cat house management policy.
The problems mentioned above do not intersect in a truly formal breeding cat house, and unless the owner is accidentally lost, you will not accidentally pick up a German curly cat in the community, and the probability itself is negligible to non-existent.
But it is not excluded that there are a large number of cat dealers in northeastern Chinese cities, which is the super-large-scale pet breeding base of pet breeds in the country and even the world, a large number of overbred pets are sold or abandoned at low prices, and the reputation of many breeds has long been rotten.
In the market, you can often see those who are not in good shape, and at first glance, they are cross-bred cats and dogs with strings, which are the consequences of the indiscriminate development of the industry by mercenary peddlers.
The threshold of the cat house is very low, and anyone without culture can step on it, so there will be a large number of uneven operators like the fitness personal training circle.
Whether to adopt this matter is for the breed you want to choose, such as the pastoral cat, the Siamese cat that has been flooded, the standard American short, the English short blue cat, and now it can be obtained at a very low or even free price.
But like the ocelot, Maine cat, toy tiger, gold gradient, and Devon and other niche and low popularity of breeds, parents or honestly buy it, don't adopt a hairless hybrid when Devon raised for many years before shouting deceived.
There is no free lunch in the world, Baidu pet bar those greedy cheap buyers to ask everyone whether their cats, dogs and dogs are strings this question has lasted for more than a decade.
There are many things in the operation of the cat house that I have not elaborated on, and I will add it later, if there is any interest in the question I want to know, I also welcome private messages, but I currently only breed the Devon breed, due to limited energy and time, I do not make any answers to the short-haired cats and other types of cats that have been bred.
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