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Now the really hard work begins of spending time with the people who call and making sure that they are suitable owners with good homes for your kittens. You have a great deal of emotional, financial, time, and energy investment in these kittens and should want to ensure that they go to the best possible homes. You carefully word your advertisements for the various cat papers and, perhaps, the cat magazines or internet, if you can financially afford the investment. As the phone calls come in, there are definitely questions that you will want to ask the prospective buyers and questions that you should look for them to be asking you. Are you determined enough and able to turn away people from who you don’t get a good feeling? Can you continue to look for good, responsible homes even when the kittens may be 14 weeks old, eating you out of house and literally home, as their little teeth tear into the woodwork, leave little stains on the carpet, and snag your best curtains? Your responsibility continues even when the little imps are not quite so cute any more because the strain of late nights and extra work has worn you to a frazzle.

During this period of time, you will also spend time on the telephone with those people who have reserved kittenss and people who want information about kittenss that you may have available. This can be from fifteen minutes a day to several hours, dependent upon the people. You will also need to budget money to return phone calls that you may miss. and if you have 5 kittens be prepared to allow one hour per visit for each kitten, some new owners like weekly visit and some stay over 2 hours so plan your day well and avoid cooking 2 hours either side of each appointment. If you prefer only two people attending please tell them as it is not uncommon for whole families to come even with grandparents and aunties etc. it is not fair on the kittens to have large amounts of people looking at the litter at the same time, not only can it worry the kitten but you can not talk to that many at same time and at the same time making sure no one drops the kittens or stands on him/her, its just not practiacal,  so be honest,  remember its your private home they are in and the kittens are your responsibility. If I have whole familes round I ask they remain seated and only one at a time to pick the kitten up and to talk sofly. its lovely meeting the familes and you do make some wonderful friends. Its like parents trying to take their children to an interview!! so be prepared and dont be afraid to tell the children to behave if they start jumping on your furniture which happens, I can vouch for that. Have plenty of tea and biscuits, box of toys for small children who cant sit still, cartoons on and a games station for the naughty ones, it works everytime-haha

"What are the questions I should be asking the people who call?"

You should find out as much as possible about the people who want to purchase one of the kittenss. Consider it a job interview for the life of and responsibility for the kitten. Some of the questions that you should ask are:

A good breeder, concerned with the welfare of their kittens, will make the buyer feel as if they are adopting one of the breeder’s children. Any breeder who will sell kittens without asking questions and doing all possible to guarantee that the buyer knows about

If the answers to any of these questions are vague or not to your liking, you should either decline selling them a kitten or talk to them in person and then make your decision. Remember that if they are not willing to work with you now, it is likely that they will not follow your guidelines in the future, contract or not.

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