10/14/2025
We could not have stated this any better. Our adoptions/visits occur at a safe public place, after a successful phone interview and after someone has convinced us that they are responsible and serious. Our adoption-related “labor” is unpaid and we therefore must be judicious with our time. Please understand that a single visitor can unknowingly infect animals with ringworm or (potentially deadly) parasites. We maintain practices intended to protect animals and people.
CATTERY VISITS
In this day and age, inviting people into your home can be quite dangerous. We take the safety of our Devon Rex seriously. There are many anti-breeder and animal rights activists out there. We do not want to risk the safety of our family or pets. We limit visits as much as possible for several reasons. Breeding is not our job. It’s a getaway from dealing with the criminals in our community while working in Law Enforcement.
We do not provide allergy visits, as each cat/kitten has their own level of dander, and you may be allergic to one cat over another. Nor do we allow visits to come to pick out a kitten or just to come to look at the cats. When you’re asking to visit, our “cattery” you are asking to visit our home, where we live with our family and children.
Visitors are pretty invasive in our daily life and strangers in the house can be extremely stressful. Young kittens are extremely vulnerable to airborne diseases and their mother’s stress. Therefore, we limit visitors to people who come pick their kitten up. That doesn’t mean we have anything to hide, it means we take the utmost precautions for our own and our cats and kitten’s sake.
References are available from people who have been at our house and from vet techs and friends and fellow breeders if you have any doubts regarding how our cats live and are treated.