Views on whether it's become difficult to find a nice moggy

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I'm a fairly recent cat convert, of the evangelical kind and I've been so lucky to find a brother and sister kitten for adoption via a local free ads page. They are adorable, so friendly, purr like mad and so calm and accepting of my kids, particularly of my two year old who doesn't quite get the gentle-with-animals thing.

Anyway, to the point of my post; when I was at the vets he said it's almost impossible to get a nice moggy like you could years ago. (In our naice middle class area) people have become almost too sensible, neutering all their pets and now we're only left with ferals/semi-ferals and overbred pedigrees. I was a bit taken aback by his comments but I can see where he's coming from, in order to get my kitties i had to have an alert set up and move quickly, the list interested was insanely long!

Is there a possibility that the lovely handreared mog, born in someone's kitchen is becoming extinct?

Not rtft but the reason people don't want to rescue older cats is because they are difficult to insure. A 7 year old cat is considered old. My cat is much older than that and is in excellent health.
He's only nice when it suits him though.

We adopted our extremely tolerant ginger tom 16 months ago when he was 11. He is a very affectionate cat who was homeless for 6 months before we were lucky enough to find him at the Blue Cross. He is by far the greediest cat I've ever met but is much loved by many especially us. I especially adore that he responds when I blow him a kiss with a long slow blink which I believe is the cat equivalent of a kiss back.

The real oldies get rehomed fairly easily at my CP centre. It's sometimes the ones around 10 who prove trickier.
There were some stats that the longest staying cats in the centre last year were the "cow cats"-white and black. Our lad was one of the many white and black but he was only there a few days.

In our area in the South East there aren't that many kittens. No strays at all. None of the cat rescues would give us a cat because we had children, flatly refused to consider us at all, couldn't put our name down for anything (including RSPCA who were upset that we then cancelled our monthly donation). I was hoping for a pair, would happily have taken a mother and kitten, but nope, nothing. So we bought a pair of kittens.

This is a nice moggie, in fact he's a glorious moggie! Considered almost unadoptable, as he hid in his bed and hissed. He's the best cat I have ever had, a couple of months of hiding and skulking about the house, decided to brush him and he collapsed in ecstasy. He's now the most friendly, purry, playful cay you can imagine. Guestimates at 1 or 2 when adopted.

Him nice boy! Him gorgeous!

Sometimes it takes time for cats to settle in and then they go all sappy.

I have a special knack for picking out nice cats.