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Unfortunately we have had a bad experience with this breeder where she was unable to provide paperwork to prove pedigree despite numerous attempts to contact her, both via phone and email. Additionally we were not allowed to see the parents of our kitten. This is strongly suspicious and we will be referring our complaint formally to the GCCF. We still love our cat, and our other 2 maine coons, but wanted to warn other potential customers to be very wary.
Doesn't suprise me, it took us 12 months and an official complaint to the GCCF to get the reg docs for a stud boy we paid her £850 for. I won't go into details here as i am unsure about the regulations but that is the least heartbreaking of the dealings we had with her.
We've had 3 breeding Queens from her in the last 2 years, please check out my website and see if you can see any Palmaine cats in our Queens section...enough said!
My advice to you would be to put in the complaint ASAP, as even once she's recieved the 28 days notice she still delays by waiting until the very last minute and even sending in false pedigrees (amazingly my stud boy with white bib and paws came from parents without any white at all...cough!!) She got it right the second time though but it still took just under 4 months from the date of the official complaint until we got the correct reg doc.
Feel free to PM me.
Shocking indeed, how the might have fallen!!
I would have said many years ago she was one of the nicest ladies in Mainecoons, helpful and seemingly dedicated to her cats...
Seems she is another to add to the list along with Tigerstars/Goldkrystals and Tipzntails/Zecoona... The horror stories on these two continue... AND its only the KITTEN people buyers out there that get stung!!!
SAD SAD SAD!!
Sadly, I'm sure It's all about the money Debbie. That £9 per kitten registration fee really eats into the profits. I can't see any other logical explanation for it.
My litter from saffi have just turned 11 weeks old and their Registration Docs will be here waiting for the new owners when they come to collect the kittens. It really isn't that hard to do is it?
I know it is, but in some cases its just about how many litter they can get from the queen, in a year so not to register is better.... so that no one knows what they are up too..... MIND they will soon!! but its time the registration bodies got their acts together and worked together to stop these BSB registering one litter with TICA.. then fife then GCCF!! all from the same cat in the same year!!
Hi all; so many dodgy types out there, it really is getting harder to find a 'good' breeder, especially with three of the Westcountry 'stalwarts' giving up... Tassare, Lynxelot and Elyscats are all in the process of retiring from breeding, I will definately miss Annette and David from Tassare, and wish them both a brilliant time away from all those litter-trays!
I looked on line at a kitten from Palmaine, and had contacted the breeder but I decided against going ahead, glad I did now. I does cost a fair bit to properly produce a kitten to the piont of leaving home but I couldn't start cutting corners just to save a few measely pounds, they are precious from the day they are born and if it ever comes to the day when I don't think that then that will be the day to give up breeding!
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Originally Posted by Tivicoons
I have to agree with you, its a shame but some of the good breeders are going because the bad breeders flood the market the good breeders can not compete with someone who is churning out kittens from the same cats over and over again.. THEY do not have the same overheads as the rest of us!!
Its sad, and cutting corners should not be an option I register ALL of my kittens always have and always will... and the day I can not rear a kitten to the best of my ability like many I will also give up!!
Not sure about Palmaine, but the other two sit on their lazy backsides, doing nothing all day... well nothing productive that is just destructive!! And breed- breed- breed.
THE retiring age in the UK is 67 GET a job like the rest of us!! if you well enough to go and stand up at a 2 day show all day..... and live it up in a hotel etc etc you are well enough to go get a job!!
I had had two male kittens from her and had to hand them back after she found I was emigrating within 2years and told me she was taking me to court! She then told me I was not entitled to ship them to the states with me!! She offered to buy them back......came and took them and still owes me £400!!! Oh and guess what I NEVER got their paperwork after paying stupid money! I contacted the GCCF & they said they'd never been informed of the two litters that mine came from. I wasn't allowed to see the parents and I wasn't allowed to see their litter mates.....she brought one kitten at a time into a room for me to view!
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Originally Posted by debbie560
you should have let her take you to court, from the look of this I don't think she would have as it would have cost her money - I would actually check with a lawyer if she's allowed to do that and take HER to court...
PS: I am so sorry you are going through that - I would be absolutely crushed if anyone tried to take my pirate! don't let her do that to you!
See, this is what terrifies me about finding a suitable breeder, I'd hate to end up getting a kitten from someone who wasn't breeding for the right reasons... Btw are you allowed to "name and shame" bad breeders on here? X
Yeah if they're doing something bad we name them and we explain what they do - if they're good too. But I don't think we would advise one breeder over another, that wouldn't be fair to the others I think.....
Unfortunately she no longer goes by that name and is still breeding :( I had a bad dealing with her 2 years ago, where I never received papers and excuse after excuse, we never saw the parents and our baby has a bent tail and limp which we didn't notice when we collected her. I would never give her back we fell in love but definitely wouldn't recommend this breeder.