Well i have been torturing myself again looking at pet.finder.com, i cannot get over the amount of purebreds available for adoption at your shelters, you would be extremely lucky to ever find one here in new zealand in a shelter, i see bengals, which are like 800 dollars each here to buy, and main coones etc etc, tell me can you explain to me why this is so. Im just curious, and baffled, it just does not happen here. You are fortunate in one way , that you can adopt these for next to nothing, if a purebred is infact what you are after.