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I would like to start breeding Oriental Shorthairs and I'm interested in purchasing three starters as foundation cats. It's a breed I love, I have experience in genetics, and I have a little experience breeding as my parents bred cats, though it was a different breed. I expect to pay over $1000 per cat, and I am willing to make this huge monetary investment as well as devote a significant amount of time, effort, and money because I have always loved this breed, I know it's a breed in a little trouble because of its health issues, and I want to help. When a breed has issues, the more breeders, the greater the genetic diversity that can be maintained, the better.
I would like to avoid white spotting, pure black, and have no more than one half of one tabby total even though this will be visually one whole tabby. Other than that I'm interested in type over colour and any healthy Oriental Shorthair with high conformity to breed standards will do. (Though of course I need ones that aren't closely related, and I was hoping to go with two females and a male.)
Modern Siamese will do as well, though I would like to get at least one cat that is not colourpoint. Two if possible.
My house has a basement I can make completely separate, so I was hoping to keep males downstairs and females upstairs, so that I could get on entirely without cages and still select each mating individually. When my parents bred cats, it broke my heart a little to see them in cages.
I would like to avoid white spotting, pure black, and have no more than one half of one tabby total even though this will be visually one whole tabby. Other than that I'm interested in type over colour and any healthy Oriental Shorthair with high conformity to breed standards will do. (Though of course I need ones that aren't closely related, and I was hoping to go with two females and a male.)
Modern Siamese will do as well, though I would like to get at least one cat that is not colourpoint. Two if possible.
My house has a basement I can make completely separate, so I was hoping to keep males downstairs and females upstairs, so that I could get on entirely without cages and still select each mating individually. When my parents bred cats, it broke my heart a little to see them in cages.
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