Cat Breeding for Beginners

When someone asks me what they have to consider if they want to breed cats, I always say: "Get a thick skin! Breeding cats is not just fun, as many people think, but you also take on a lot of responsibility. This starts with the selection of the parents, whose origin from healthy catteries must be guaranteed, continues with the question whether the pedigrees can be traced back, whether there are known hereditary diseases and how old cats from related litters became, to name just a few examples.