Re: [PER] throw away breed Exotic Long Hair prevented from breeding to persian male inCFA

I don't know many breeders who are using PKD cats very much if at all.  I have one myself and would like to get a negative kitten from her, but she only had 2 litters.   Most breeders I know don't have whole PKD cats anymore.  Those that do are like me and either don't breed them at all or breed them on a VERY limited bases only to preserve a line for themselves.  When my PKD cat had her last litter 4 years ago I tested both kittens.  One was negative, which I kept and the other was positive and was neutered.  I absolutely WILL NOT pass on a PKD cat to be used for breeding.  But then my one and only positive cat is 9 years old, so I likely won't get any more kittens from her at all.  I just like having her around because she is beautiful and no trouble.

I hate to even address this issue because it has only been a few weeks ago that we had this discussion.  

Dawna

 

On Mar 9, 2010, at 11:42 PM, pea422000@yahoo.com wrote:

I think it's a great point.  Why are people concerned about "muddying the water" with unpure kittens that need to be petted out but they're not concerned about PKD kittens needing to be petted out.  Don't the PKD kittens increase the petted kittens? --- On Wed, 3/10/10, jer dawn <jerdawn@gmail.com> wrote: From: jer dawn <jerdawn@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PER] throw away breed Exotic Long Hair prevented from breeding to persian male inCFA To: "Klaus and Lisa Jackson" <akaranapersians@hotmail.com> Cc: persian-fanciers@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 1:15 AM I'm not sure what you mean by PKD causing problems unless you mean that so many good cats were put down because of PKD, but let's not get into that subject again.  It's been beat to pieces.  I agree that idiotic and unrealistic contracts did it's share of damage, and I would say the glory days of the Fancy are over.  Not just the Persian breed.  Too many people bought Persians thinking they would make a lot of money.  Too many breeders have sold pet quality kittens with breeding rights just so they could get a few bucks more for them.  And too many breeders were unwilling to help newbies because they were too busy trying to sell them poor quality cats for breeding.   I could go on and on with the list, but everyone gets the idea.  I still feel that adding a look alike breed will only add to the problems. Dawna On Mar 9, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Klaus and Lisa Jackson wrote: The glory days of the persian breed are over, not because of impure look-alikes but because of PKD and idiotic contracts that breeders impose on people that try to get a foothold in the breed.

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