how much to pay for a kitten

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My friend's cat has had kittens. I said I was interested in having the girl one but it turns out a family member is having that one, so I have a boy one. My friend had said she was thinking of selling them which is fine. But I thought they would cost around £10-£20, and she has told me she would like £40. I have to pay for the injections, the neutering and the microchipping. I feel cross and have a sneaking suspiscion that the family members probably won't have to pay. What do you think I should do?

Just had our 6 month old kitten neutered today, poor wee soul feeling very sorry for himself.
DH paid £40 for him, was my xmas present (don't usually agree on animals for xmas, birthdays etc).
He had tried shelters but there wasn't any going. Being so close to xmas many people had been in with their kids.
I saw quite a few notices up in vets today so could be worth having a look.

Got our 9 wk old kitten last week from local branch of Battersea. He was £60 which included 4 weeks pet insurance, first set of vacs, £10 castration discount voucher, microchipping and a few days' food. Happy to pay as its a great place.

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My cat is having kittens and I plan to sell them (probably for about £25).They will be house trained, de-wormed and flea treated.

I am selling them because I think that they are more likely to go to a good home. Last time I offered for free I had all sorts of druggies asking for them and I wouldn't let them go.

I will not be buying a wii with the money but getting her spayed.

You know what .... I'd be tempted to pay for that kitten alright, on the proviso that my money went straight to the vet spaying the mother cat.

I paid 35 for mine because I wanted a ginger might I think nowadays you have to make a 'voluntary' donation to charities for a cat (cheeky!) have you tried just offering twenty? If you don't ask you don't get!

Nice idea Geordieminx, but when you are deliberately breeding your cats, to have them spayed would be somewhat counter productive don't you think?
Feeding the queens was 'an overhead' and all businesses recoup their overheads by adding
a charge to their customers. All of our litters have been adopted within days of birth and deposits paid and each time we had a waiting list.
Our local charitable place to find a cat, The Blue Cross make it incredibly difficult to adopt a cat, refusing
those who work, don't have catflaps or those
with children. I fulfilled a need that people told me they had. My initial queen and best Mama was a rescue kitten from a farm and she's now matriarch of a wonderful and much loved family of children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.

I offered £30 but still haven't heard back. I wish I hadn't bothered in offering to have one and just gone to the cats protection league in the first place! Much less hassle. Thankyou to everyone who has replied I feel much better for the support.

It's virtually impossible to get a kitten free round here!!

Even the cat charities insist on a 'donation' of around £50 and didn't mention that that includes neutering or anything. And I object to the idea that they can 'insist' on a donation, so we got two privately and paid £20 each for them. Most of the ads on the board at the pet shop were charging £40+ for ordinary moggies. But when people know that charities are charging, they know they don't need to give them away!

I got our two from Freecycle. Had them neutered, microchipped & inoculated at reduced rates through the RSPCA who do 'responsible owner' deals in our area

my aunty now has 14 cats, started off as 1... she would happily give the allaway for free

Was impossible to get a kitten free (and not that easy even for money!) when we got our cats - success of the RSPCA and CPL speying campaigns meant that demand > supply. Different story with older cats of course. We got a 12 month old in the end from the RSPCA but since both work full time it sounds like we would not be eligible any more. On that basis I don't think the amount charged sounds that unreasonable (maybe a bit).

The RSPCA near us charge £53 for a kitten, which will have been given worming and flea treatment, its first set of vax and will be microchipped.

Seems fair enough to me.

Why on earth should they give them away free, Tinuviel?

Hi 3 cats, I understand where you are coming from completely, and as myself a responsible pet owner, our cat will not go outdoors until he is done, just like our previous cat.

The mother was I think 9 months old and this was her first litter, I didn't question why she had not been done, but it was explained that the mother was a house cat, and at some point had got outside and was found an hour later......then of course kittens arrived.

We bought the kitten (perhaps in haste) following our cats death by a car, my oldest DD was in such a state we were advised to get another to direct the focus elsewhere.

Mind you, he is a right little handful !