Spencer I want you to know that if you thought I was targeting you at all I was not. None of your messages offended me. I'm not offended that people choose to rescue cats or choose to promote shelter cats. This time around, however, I did not want to adopt a homeless cat I wanted to try out a purebred instead because of my last bad experiences. I had such a bond with my first cat who was a DMH and I did not find a bond even slightly similar with another cat, until now. I searched for a good breeder for 1 1/2 years before finding one. I'm just sick of reading from people all over the web, not just here, about how I'm such a bad person and my cats are inferior.

I do believe you that 25% of cats in shelters resemble a breed. My boyfriends mother had a male Himalayan which she let roam. She did not neuter him. He "disappeared" after a year of living outside, being fed cheap dog food. She got him from a friend for $10. I don't believe that this friend was a responsible person because if they were they would NOT have given a cat to this woman. My bfs mother also wanted us to ignore the contract that we signed and let our cats roam and have a litter because all females need one litter. Uggg! We spayed them promptly at six months old.

Needless to say her cat probably helped to create some litters which may have been dumped at a shelter. I don't doubt that the babies could have resembled Himalayans or that the babies babies could also resemble Himalayans.

Also one of my parents cats looked just like a Mainecoon even though her mother was definately a DSH.