Any of the free cats in your local newspaper, marketplace, craigslist… or just contact your local animal shelters - they will be overjoyed to give you a cat.
Genetically diverse, free-range, cats tend to be healthier than purebred cats anyway. So from a maintenance perspective, a free-range cat is much more cost effective.
Purebred breeds are just another way of saying inbred, which means lots of health complications
My least expensive option was the local cat shelter. They have a ton of cats and the small fee I paid was to cover sterilization, mainly. It was actually cheaper than it would have been to get a free cat off a marketplace and get it sterilized.
I had 3 purebreed Devon Rexes. One died of a sudden heart failure, due to undiagnosed HCM, one has kidney problems and will be on special diet for the rest of his life and third has intestine problems, so that food doesn't absorb properly. We feed him douple dose of best high meat content cat food we can find and he just barely keeps his minimum weight.
Any of the free cats in your local newspaper, marketplace, craigslist… or just contact your local animal shelters - they will be overjoyed to give you a cat.
Genetically diverse, free-range, cats tend to be healthier than purebred cats anyway. So from a maintenance perspective, a free-range cat is much more cost effective.
Purebred breeds are just another way of saying inbred, which means lots of health complications
My least expensive option was the local cat shelter. They have a ton of cats and the small fee I paid was to cover sterilization, mainly. It was actually cheaper than it would have been to get a free cat off a marketplace and get it sterilized.
I had 3 purebreed Devon Rexes. One died of a sudden heart failure, due to undiagnosed HCM, one has kidney problems and will be on special diet for the rest of his life and third has intestine problems, so that food doesn't absorb properly. We feed him douple dose of best high meat content cat food we can find and he just barely keeps his minimum weight.
So yeah purebreeds have problems.