What is a good Re-Home Fee? Update

[phesina]

Another reason to ask for a fee when you adopt out any kitten or cat is because there are too many bad people out there looking for the "Free to good home" animals.. to use in experiments or as bait for training their fighting dogs.

[catmandu]

Well the Animal Welfare Association charges 150 Dollars and the Cats that they adopt out are 100 % Guaranteed to be heathy Cats!
Spaying and neutering is expensive, for neuteringand needles its about 250 dollars in Hamilton and about 350 for spaying which is more complicated.

If people are not willing to pay for a Cat whos already neutered or spayed what sory of Cat Guardians will they be when thier Cat needs Vet Care??

I paid 150 dollars more than the 350 the Lady at the Cattery asked for Pouncierge and Miquelito as 500 Dollars to me was a very very fair price for Two Healthy Pure Bred Oriental Shorthairs!!!
For the love they brought us 5000 would have been a fair price as Pouncierge was being curling up with Michael making My Owesome Orange Senior Kittyzen A Very Happy Cat.

[aTailOf2Kitties]

I believe that Craigslist requires that you charge some sort of a "rehoming fee", but then they say that pet "sales" are prohibited. In between those is a huge gray area. Honestly most people looking for a cat on CL aren't going to pay much for one, because there are always tons of free ones in the newspaper. If you have a purebred or otherwise desirable breed you might be able to get $50-100 which is still less than a shelter would charge normally, but there's a real good chance that some jerk or nosy nancy is gonna flag your ad before a serious adoptee even sees it. Pets cost money to maintain that's for sure, but any time you advertise to the general public, they're gonna want something for as close to nothing as you'll let them get away with paying.

Most people who have spent the time and $ to properly vet an animal aren't going to recover that amount on Craigslist. I know this and most people reading the ads know this, but some folks who post animals for adoption still want to break even and it's probably not gonna happen.

As far as CL goes.... if it was me, and I had a litter of run-of-the-mill kittens that needed a good home, I probably would do one of 2 things (1)worm and vaccinate them, adopt them for maybe $10 apiece and hope and pray that the future owners get them spayed/neutered later. or (2) Charge a higher adoption fee, but promise to refund the $ as soon as proof was provided that the animal was spayed or neutered. I suppose in essence that the animal would then have been adopted for free in the long run, but the new owner would have to initially come up with some money (which weeds out the total dead-beats) and then spend whatever other $ the animal needed for routine care.

It's a slippery slope when you ask for money in return for a pet, especially via Craigslist. Some would say a particular rehoming fee is reasonable while yet another person would say that you are selling the animal if you get any money at all for it.

[GILL]

First off I would NEVER use Craigslist too find a home for an animal, too many animal brokers lark there.
As to a fee most shelters and agencies I work with charge from $ 100 - 200. per cat. Higher for pure bred kittens and lower for older. This also eliminates the animal brokers. Some even require you to bring the animal in 2-3 months after adoption. Just so they can be checked.
Over the last 8 weeks I have moved 37 cats & kittens, including 1 EX grand champion. So far all have been placed except 2. I have even meet some of the adopter’s.
All I can say is be very careful.

[Tora Oni]

Thanks everyone, for those who couldn't understand the thread, which I can't blame you I read it myself seemed kinda foggy...guess ranting more less.

Thanks Sasvermont: As for my cat Stormy if he was still around I probably only asked 20-45 since his shots cost that yearly. Depends on who I go to. I think a basic Domestic cat would probably be decent price.

Phesina: yeah that is why I think there should be some fee.

Catmandu: Totally agree with you, I thought about getting 2 cats one from pure breed rescue and another Domestic Longhair since I really like to have something like a ragdoll but I also love Domestic Longhair.

aTailof2Kitties: Don't you think that it is weird they require a small re-home fee but they don't specify what small is? I mean I saw a chinchilla for 300 but if you saw a dog on there for 300 oh boy it was going to get flagged. Its just weird.

GILL: I don't get pets from craigslist but that is how we got Chi. As for myself I've only got a motorcycle from there...looking for yard sales and what not. The pet section I might just not look at any more. After all its just depressing.

[catmandu]

I was fotunate Tora , in that the Lady who has Balinese and Siamese Cats was having trouble selling her Two Oriental Shorthairs as they dont really look like the pure breds that they are.
And Hamiltons a poor working class city where people arent as interested in pure bred Cats.
She knew I would take good care of Her Babies as I have with BJ and John Hancock.
I love Miquelito My Little Orange Lion and Pounciege the Precious.

[katladyd]

Gee, I loved them both when I thought they were just regular ol' cats you had saved. Now that I look at pictures of them both, I can see it in their faces. A very pretty breed. I know you would love them both no matter what their breeding. All of us would.