How to buy a pedigree cat

[Snog]

I need some help here about how to buy a pedigree cat!
I am interested in buying 2 GCCF registered cats being rehomed age 8 months. The price is half the going rate for 2 kittens.
I asked the owner to see the GCCF registration papers and vet records before travelling 1 hour to see the cats.
She sent me photos of part of each document and when I asked for copies of the full documents she said they would be available to me only at the viewing because otherwise I would be able to "transfer ownership to myself using the documents "

I am trying to make sure that the cats really are owned by the person selling them and really are GCCF registered bona fide and have had the health checks that the seller says they have had.

Am I being unreasonable?

@Snog

I've given up on this seller but now having issues with the next one too... This one is advertising 3 GCCF registered kittens at £900 and is saying all the right things in the ad but takes days to reply to messages - having arranged a Sunday morning viewing on Wednesday the seller has been very unresponsive to emails requesting her address. Finally she got back to me late last night and sent her postcode saying she would text me the actual address in the morning.

WTF with the secrecy over the address?
Once again I have alarm bells ringing.

Dd bought a pedigree kitten a couple of years ago and there was the same address secrecy. Dd had paid a deposit without seeing the kittens! On the morning we went to pick him up Dd said she didn’t have the address and I was thinking it was all a scam. Eventually got texted the address and it was fine. Think some breeders have a worry about kittens being stolen.

You have no idea if the person you’re dealing with via an advert is legit. I would see if there is a breed group for the breed you want and contact breeders like that.

The address issue could be because many kitten/puppy farms stage "family homes" at random addresses to make it appear as though the kittens come from a certain type of environment.

When in reality, they are from queens that are overbred and kept in really poor conditions. Maybe she doesn't know which "home" she'll be able to borrow that far in advance...

It's definitely common for breeders not to immediately hand over addresses both for cats and dogs. Thefts are so common

@icedcoffees that was my thinking too.