Persian Cat Breeders -
"Hobby vs. Commercial or Wholesale Persian Cat Breeders"

Hobby Persian Cat Breeders

Persian cat breeders who are hobby breeders or catteries are those individuals who have devoted their time, financial resources, their homes, and have sacrificed time spent with their family and children for their love and devotion of the Persian cat through showing their cats, educating the public, researching pedigrees, and much more. The hours spent bathing, grooming, traveling, packing their and their cats' belongings and grooming supplies, in order to attend cat shows whether locally or on a national scale are incalculable and not recouped through the breeding of their cats.

Hobby breeders are usually people who are active or members in a cat registry (such as the Cat Fanciers Association), may be members of a local cat club, and may show their Persian cats. A hobby breeder is one who takes the time to educate themselves and to share their knowledge with others about Persian cats. A hobby breeder tests/screens their cats for known health problems in Persians (i.e., polycystic kidney disease - PKD).

A hobby breeder may or may not be licensed by the USDA depending on how many litters or transfers of individual kittens are done in a single year.

A hobby breeder does not plan a breeding based on the goal of selling the kittens. A hobby breeder plans a breeding on many reasons, here are a just a few: continuing their line, to eradicate a genetic problem, to improve on a fault - but most importantly they always keep an eye on "the betterment of the breed". They cannot achieve these goals without knowing their cats, the Persian breed standard, their cat's pedigree, and the health or genetic problems in their cat or its' ancestors.

A hobby breeder spends many hours educating themselves about Persian cats, pedigrees, the Persian cat breed standard, answering questions from people interested in Persians, and mentoring new Persian cat enthusiasts. They spend enormous amounts of money on purchasing the finest quality Persian cats they can, cat toys, food, vitamin/mineral supplements, crates, grooming products, vaccinations, veterinarian bills and other medical treatments, having their cats DNA tested for PKD, and much more.

A hobby breeder does not breed their Persian cats for the purpose of producing income. Most hobby breeders are lucky to break even on their costs of producing healthy, well-adjusted, socialized kittens. Hobby breeders breed their Persian cats because they love them and it shows in everything that they do on a day in and day out basis.

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