So recently I posted a forum about my suspicions that my "himalayan" girl was not actually himalayan. Well, of course my suspicions were bothering me so bad that I decided to have my girl DNA tested (my cousin works for the VT veterinary school so she was overly excited for this and it didn't cost me anything) and it turns out my girl is a Balinese/Siamese 100%. This is EXACTLY what I thought she was, the older she gets, the lankier and she has silky/flowy medium length hair that doesn't even need to be brushed with a huge plumed tail rather than the thick grove of fur that a himalayan has.
Now for the drama with the breeder! I of course felt the need to confront her over this odd circumstance of selling a purebred cat as another purebred cat (i could see trying to sell a moggie this way but she could have profited just as well with a balinese??) and she of course gave me a sob story over how she couldn't sell them and she had, had her himalayans fixed but she used them as the parents I met and blah blah short story i was scammed into fake papers and something i SHOULD have seen coming a mile away. Needless to say I was given a full refund in attempts for her to avoid law charges. I was furious more so at myself than anything for giving into an elaborate scam like this, I should have known better when she said my girl was the only one from the litter, in reality i figure she was the fuzziest kitten and the only one that could have passed as a himmie. It was my first time buying a "purebred" cat and I didn't know what to expect or look for, or what the red flags were-- but i guess i'm writing this both to rant and to warn people that people will lie about the most ridiculous things to sell animals; even though this woman had purebred cats she didn't even have to lie about!!!! So just be warned people, there is a database with CFA of reputable breeders, and if they aren't on there I would not trust them, because just about anybody can fake papers these days.
Luckily I did get a beloved pet out of this whole thing, and she means the world to me.
she for sure passed as a Himmie here.
But here, she is very obviously a balinese.
Now for the drama with the breeder! I of course felt the need to confront her over this odd circumstance of selling a purebred cat as another purebred cat (i could see trying to sell a moggie this way but she could have profited just as well with a balinese??) and she of course gave me a sob story over how she couldn't sell them and she had, had her himalayans fixed but she used them as the parents I met and blah blah short story i was scammed into fake papers and something i SHOULD have seen coming a mile away. Needless to say I was given a full refund in attempts for her to avoid law charges. I was furious more so at myself than anything for giving into an elaborate scam like this, I should have known better when she said my girl was the only one from the litter, in reality i figure she was the fuzziest kitten and the only one that could have passed as a himmie. It was my first time buying a "purebred" cat and I didn't know what to expect or look for, or what the red flags were-- but i guess i'm writing this both to rant and to warn people that people will lie about the most ridiculous things to sell animals; even though this woman had purebred cats she didn't even have to lie about!!!! So just be warned people, there is a database with CFA of reputable breeders, and if they aren't on there I would not trust them, because just about anybody can fake papers these days.
Luckily I did get a beloved pet out of this whole thing, and she means the world to me.
she for sure passed as a Himmie here.
But here, she is very obviously a balinese.
and I agree that was definitely unnecessary on her part. She could have just told the truth and sold the kitten as a balinese.
