Tips, Stories & Advice for Cat Breeders

One of the questions I was asked in my Q&A post was how long after desexing a stud cat can come into the house if he’s still spraying.

This question came from Neri, who is a member of my New Cat Breeders Club. She has Burmese, and that detail matters because breed can make a difference. Some cats a...

One of the questions I get asked a lot is whether cat breeders should immunise kittens themselves or take them to the vet to be vaccinated.

My answer is easy. I take my kittens to the vet.

I’ve never done my own kitten vaccinations. I’m perfectly capable of doing it, and I could access the vaccine...

One of the questions I was asked in a recent Q&A post on my socials was what top five products, platforms or tools have been life changing or time saving in my cattery, and what I think every breeder should have from day one.

I love this question because the honest answer is probably not the answer...

Here is something a lot of new cat breeders don’t realise. Your seasonal breeding queens may start calling in the middle of winter, not because winter feels like breeding season to us, but because the cats have noticed something we haven’t really noticed yet.

In Australia, around the 21st of June, ...

Every now and then someone says something that completely changes the way you think about something you've been doing for years. That happened to me recently after another British Shorthair breeder shared an infographic showing three kittens. One represented the breed standard, one was a more modera...

When people first start thinking about becoming a cat breeder, they usually focus on one thing: finding breeding cats.

They spend hours looking at websites, searching for breeders, studying pedigrees, and trying to work out where their first breeding cat is going to come from. On the surface, that ...

Yes, you can breed a cat without registration, because any entire cat can physically reproduce if it has the opportunity. Entire simply means the cat has not been desexed, spayed, or neutered. So if you put an entire male and an entire female together, the cats are not going to stop and ask whether ...

One of the most common questions I hear from new breeders is, "What makes a good breeding cat?"

The interesting thing is that after more than 20 years of breeding cats, importing cats, showing cats, judging cats, and helping, new breeders get started my answer is probably very different from what m...

Yes, you can absolutely breed cats successfully from home. I've been doing it for more than 20 years and I've done it in two very different environments. I bred cats from a suburban house with neighbours on all sides, and I'm breeding cats from home now on a semi rural property. What I've learned ov...

One of the most common questions I get asked is, "How do I become a cat breeder?" The interesting thing is that most people who ask that question aren't really asking how to become a cat breeder at all. What they're usually asking is how to breed kittens. They love their cat and would like to have k...

This Is Where So Many New Cat Breeders Go Wrong

If you’re asking this question, I love that. It means you actually care about doing this properly. But I also know what’s probably happening. Your cat is calling, rolling around, being affectionate, maybe driving you slightly mad, and it looks very ob...

Starting out as a new cat breeder can feel overwhelming. Everywhere you look, people say you need to find a mentor before you can even begin. But how do you know who to trust? And do you really need one at all?

I want to share my personal take on how to choose the right guidance, what a mentor (or ...