The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #99910   Message #3309411
Posted By: GUEST
16-Feb-12 - 08:17 AM
Thread Name: BS: I need a good lawyer
Subject: RE: BS: I need a good lawyer
Richard Bridge.
Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this. To be honest, it is causing me some annoyance.
The lady advertised the kittens in local press in UK. I rang her and in the course of the conversation I asked were they registered, she said no, hence the price of £300.00, but assured me they were pure pedigree British Blues. I explained that suited me as I wanted a pet and companion, not a show cat or premier league breeding queen.

When I saw the kittens at her home, they were without doubt full bred (I grew up next door to a renowned breeder of British Blues and know the breed quite well).

I fully understood the terms, not a registered kitten, price £300.00 cash (she gave me a vets card showing it's date of birth and date of full inoculations without request from me).

After I gave her the £300.00, she asked to take it to a vet in a few weeks and have it neutered, I agreed verbally to this. Thinking about it now, what right had she to dictate terms to me, I paid her the asking price and entered into no written contract, to be honest, if she had asked me to sign anything before receiving the cat I would not have done it. I looked up cat contracts on the web and the seller basically owns the cat until death, not you.

Yes I verbally agreed to have the cat neutered, but now she is here, I would dearly love to allow her a litter, I am not making a career move to breeding perigee cats , allow her a litter with a suitable pedigree stud and then have her neutered.

As I left, the lady asked me for my full name and home address so she could forward the cats pedigree, I was surprised at this as I was under the impression she had no papers, she possibly meant no registration papers.

She phoned my home last night while I was out, she spoke with my husband, asking how it was settling in, then she told him she forgot to get me to sign a piece of paper agreeing to send her a document signed by my vet that the cat had been neutered.

She told my husband she may call to my home at some stage to see the kitten.

I don't want her calling to my home, I don't even care if she ever sends me the pedigree papers, at the same time I don't want to have a fall out with this lady and her creating problems for me.

Again thank you for your time Mr. Bridge.