So not only did she want to sue the charity that saved the life of her cat, she wanted to carry on putting the cat at the same risk - for money. She agreed but then tried to sue us for spaying without consent. We explained that, a condition of saving the cat was that we would spay her at the same time.

She wouldn't pay for a private vet to help so brought the cat to us. Another recent one - a breeder had a cat which got a kitten stuck giving birth.

And as I'm on a roll - we currently have a pedigree that was given to the rescue by a breeder as he was too old now for breeding and was on the brink of death - again from neglect - starvation and muscle wastage from having spent ten years of his life in a cage. I have hundreds of stories about cruel breeders. We won, but as we were legally on shaky ground a condition of keeping the cats was that we wouldn't publicise what had happened nor try to stop her breeding /keeping animals. After saving their lives and nursing them back to health we refused to give them back and so she took us to court. The breeder had brought a load of her persians to us for treatment as they were suffering from appalling neglect (and some had died) and she didn't want to pay a vet to treat them so brought them to us for treatment(as a charity vet clinic). The rescue I'm with ended up with a load of persians from a breeder cruelty case and he had so many issues (and so little brain:) ) that I sort of got stuck with him. OP that pedigree you mentioned, Ali was his name, was a persian. I have no idea why half the cats in my house suddenly decided to sit on the stairs (and I wish they'd given me notice so I could tidy for the photo!) and it's never happened before or since. That photo was taken so long ago I've forgotten who most of those cats are.

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