Reply #7: Poke around at breeder's sites in your state

[Lorien]

sometimes they'll give an adult away for free if they really like the person wishing to adopt him/ her (especially if they are placing a kitty that came to them from another owner who could no longer care for it for whatever reason). $500 is pretty steep (that's what some breeders charge for a kitten)! The customary charge is $150; this covers the shots and altering. Another reason to charge a bit for adults is to keep them out of the hands of "bundlers". Bundlers are middlemen who look for adult dogs and cats to sell to research facilities, which buy 90,000 animals from them Nationally every year! They can get up to $250 per healthy adult, so it's no surprise that a reputable breeder would charge up to that amount to ensure that their health guaranteed kitty didn't end up in a laboratory. :-(