17/07/2025
Do not own the rights to the photo or text but wanted to share as it’s well written and so true x
Breeding primarily teaches humbleness, empathy, love and understanding 😍❤️ And if someone thinks that he already knows everything and eaten all the blushes, nature can quickly bring to earth 🙂
🐾 Do you know how many sacrifices it costs to be a breeder?
Being a breeder is not only photos of sweet kittens and pride in beautiful cats.
It is also the whole ocean of sacrifices that are invisible to someone from the outside.
🕰️ Time? There is no "free"
You forget about weekends, trips, holidays. If it's already for a few hours.
You won't go to the cinema when newborns are lying in the pen.
You won't sleep peacefully, if a pregnant kitty is worried.
You will not leave the incubator when one kitten is fighting for life.
Breeding has no "pause". Every minute counts here.
💸 Money? You invest endlessly
💰 Good cats cost - and that's a lot.
💰 Research, genetic tests, exhibitions, travel, food, supplements, emperors, medicines, accessories - are thousands of zlotys.
💰 income? Sometimes he is not there. It happens that you stay with a debt and ... an empty pen.
💔 Emotions? You learn patience and pain
➡️ When the kitten dies in your hands and you are powerless.
➡️ when the kitty does not experience delivery despite your efforts.
➡️ When you have to refuse a person who "just wants one kitty" because you see that it will not be a good home.
➡️ When you devote everything - and in return you get hate, jealousy, slander.
👩⚕️ No routine - you are a breeder, but also:
🩺 nurse
🍼 A replacement mother
📖 geneticist
📦 Logistics
📷 photographer
🧹 with a cleaner
🧠 psychologist
💬 Advisor for his clients, often for years
👨👩👧👦 Family and friends? It happens hard
- "We can't meet because the kitty is born."
- "I will not come, because kittens have diarrhea and I have to watch."
- "No, I won't leave them with anyone. It's my responsibility."
Not everyone will understand. Not everyone will stay.
❤️ But in all this ... there is love
Love for animals, for their lives, for the development of the race.
Love that tells you to get up 10 times at night.
Love that does not allow shortcuts.
Love, thanks to which toddlers grow healthy, and you - despite fatigue - are happy.
🐶 The breeder is not a "cat woman" or "cat man"
He is someone who gives up their own comfort for the good of animals.
he is someone who does not convert love into money.
he is someone who lives between joy and pain, and he would still not exchange it for anything else.
❤️ respect breeders with passion. They give their best every day, although nobody sees it .❤️
Photo - one of the previous litters 😻
