1. We do not take reservations on kittens until they are at least 10-12 weeks of age. And, depending on whether the kittens appear to be show quality, that may delay a decision about placement until their show potential can be evaluated.
    
2. Our cats are very social creatures and are particularly needy of cat companionship. Therefore, any potential adopter must either have (at least) one other cat.
    
3. Only after they have had their first shots do we allow supervised visits and only then will we take a deposit to hold the kitten. 
    
4. We do NOT ship any our kittens in airplane cargo hold! Breeder/show or pet kittens must either be picked up in person or delivered by one of us using the pet-in-cabin option available on almost every airlines or be picked up by a courier that we know and trust. Even then, potential out-of-area breeders must meet stringent requirements before we will agree to place a MetatronEyes kitten in a breeder/ show alter home. 
    
5. The final decision to place a cat with a new family can be as late as the actual delivery. In addition to potential owners coming to our home for a visit, we may require a home inspection prior to delivering our cat/kitten. If we find at the time of delivery that the home is not a good match for our cats, we will not place the cat and will return any deposit(s). 
    
6. Our kittens go ONLY to pet homes, very few are going to registered catteries.

The most important part of raising up a litter is socializing the kittens at a very young age. This way, when they grow up, they develop a loving temperament and trust towards humans and other animals (dogs etc) that might live in your household. 
Here you can see how we socialize our MetatronEyes kittens and some videos of our past and current litters.
 

The period of socialization starts from three to eight weeks of age. If the kittens during this period do not have any contact with humans, they will never be truly tame. Similarly they will be afraid of sounds if they live isolated in a quiet room.
Therefor, we make sure to be there for them, not only during this period but in any period of their life till they move out to their new home. 

SHOW TRAINING 

It is very important for our kittens that will be going to catteries and will have a show carrier, to be used to bathing and blow drying from a very early age. It is not torture, it is helping them to accept it and have no problems with it in the future. 

So from a very early age we start training our kittens, here you can see a couple of examples. 

SHOW VIDEOS

We would like to address first of all, that if you are looking for a cat as a companion, you should adopt and rescue a stray, absolutely. We have two stray cats that we've rescued years ago, living with us as pets and they are very lovable. 

If though, you absolutely want a specific breed for whatever reason, we would like to advice you NOT to buy from a pet store or backyard breeder or a non registered breeder and research instead a reputable, ethical and responsible registered breeder.
Backyard breeders and pet stores are very cruel businesses.
Please read these articles to find out more about "kitty mills" and backyard breeders.

Now that we have that covered and you have an idea of what a responsible breeder is versus a backyard breeder, we can explain to you why the kitten you are wanting to adopt from us, has an adoption fee. 

On our Pawpeds G2 course, we were asked to fill out an Excel table that shows all our expenses per cat and litter. We would like to share this with you. 

As you can see, having a hobby like that and being ethical and responsible about it, is not going to make us any profit. However, it is going to help us provide our kittens and cats the best quality of necessities so we can continue producing healthy, lovely tempered and type-full kittens. 

We completely understand that you don't want to pay an adoption fee for just a beautiful cat. The adoption fee will be for : 

• a pedigreed – registered kitten
• an up to date vaccinated and dewormed healthy kitten
• kitten with a loving temper
• a socialized kitten 
• a kitten out of DNA, ECHO and X-Ray tested and titled parents
• microchipped kitten

We want to note though, that we are very particular about our kittens and the way we raise them up, which cats we choose for our breeding program and everything we put into this hobby; it takes time, patience, responsibility and a lot of expenses. But the most important thing, is that it takes a lot of love. Our kittens and cats are our children and we treat them like that and we expect you to treat them like this as well. Breeding is not always a beautiful world and throughout our experiences we have learned a lot that we can advise you to do or prevent doing for the best of your kitten which we will be very glad and happy to do for you. We request news and pictures from our kittens very often as well, so we hope you won't get annoyed by that ha-ha. 

Also, when you will adopt your kitten you will also receive these :

• a record with all titles and health certificates from its' parents
• its' passport, which includes all health records 
• a bag full of toys
• a bag full of treats and food that the kitten is used to
• its' pedigree
• its' contract of adoption