• jet@hackertalks.com
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    1 year ago

    Any of the free cats in your local newspaper, marketplace, craigslist… or just contact your local animal shelters - they will be overjoyed to give you a cat.

    Genetically diverse, free-range, cats tend to be healthier than purebred cats anyway. So from a maintenance perspective, a free-range cat is much more cost effective.

    Purebred breeds are just another way of saying inbred, which means lots of health complications

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      1 year ago

      My least expensive option was the local cat shelter. They have a ton of cats and the small fee I paid was to cover sterilization, mainly. It was actually cheaper than it would have been to get a free cat off a marketplace and get it sterilized.