possible.

And it is better to buy a purebred kitten from a granny in the market than a purebred kitten from resellers. Firstly, you will know for sure that the kitten does not pretend to anything, he does not have a pedigree. His "breed" is simple - a domestic cat. Good, by the way, "breed". And even the resellers themselves do not know what they will grow from second-hand kittens. After all, they also come up with “breeds”, focusing on the appearance of a kitten. Secondly, it is more likely that the granny's kitten is healthy: unlike second-hand kittens, he does not have to sit in a common cage. He sits in the arms of a granny and does not communicate with unknown kittens. And cellular kittens from resellers are suicide bombers. They can suddenly get sick and die in a few days. After all, resellers have a real hell at home: sometimes up to a hundred kittens sit in different cages and boxes. Moreover, the kittens are all small, monthly, the most "trading" product - it looks touching. But if an infection has gone, it is unlikely that anyone will be bypassed ...

From resellers, if you liked the cat so much, it is better to buy an adult animal. At least you can see what kind of breed it is, and even an adult cat is more likely to stay healthy, even if a dozen more cats sit in the same cage with it. And even if the purchased cat gets sick, it is still easier to cure than a kitten!

Ronald Reagan was very fond of cats. In 1973, while he was Governor of California, Reagan signed a law protecting cats from cruelty. Any cat-hater who hit a cat could go straight to jail under this law. But not all US presidents treated cats so humanely. President Dwight Eisenhower hated cats so much that he ordered them not to be allowed into the White House, and if they suddenly appeared, they immediately opened fire to kill.

It was in such a market that I once bought Nora and Bartus - my old Siamese cats. They sat in a cage with other people's kittens, they were called "a married couple." I looked into Norina's blue eyes, saw the cat's cavalry gait and ... we left the market together. A few days later - already in my house - they became seriously ill. They got so sick that we almost did not hope that they would survive. But they managed, they were far from being kittens. I don't know anything about the fate of the kittens from that cage. I'm afraid they didn't make it. Still small.

Buying a sick kitten on the market is not a problem. Even the dealer may not be at fault. But next to this kitten, others are traded, and one of them can transmit the infection. It is not necessary for a sick kitten to be in direct contact. Dealers willingly allow people to iron their goods, and germs simply move from kitten to kitten on human hands. That is why shopping in the market is not safe at all.

And lately they have been doubly unsafe, because traders take into account demand very well and immediately there is an offer. Do people want to buy a Burmese cat? No problem! There was a black kitten, it will become red with a dark face, supposedly under Burmese. Want a Russian blue? A little effort - and now the fur of the necessary color. I don't know how kittens are technically colored. Of course, for the strength of the paint, no one keeps the kittens in boiling water and does not get wet in vinegar, but the paints are used so that they “do not peel off” for a longer time. Dye and means for wool, and dyes for hair, not sparing the little martyrs. Kittens after dyeing look exotic. They just don't get much joy out of it. All of them are suicide bombers. The intoxication they receive is very high. And after some time, the kittens die. You will not be able to help such a kitten, and no one will be able to. Therefore, do not buy a painted kitten in the hope that you will wash off the poisonous dye at home. Don't wash it. Yes, it's too late. The kitten has already received its dose.

Now the greatest “Popularity” is used by kittens “Burmese”, “Ragdoll”, and various exotically colored ones. Fraudsters do not think about the safety of the kitten, they strive to make it at least remotely similar to an expensive animal. For an ordinary fluffy kitten, you can charge from one hundred to five hundred rubles, and for a thoroughbred one, from one hundred to five hundred dollars! There is a difference? Eat!

But how to distinguish a painted kitten from an unpainted one? It is not difficult. Usually such a kitten is anatomically far from the standard of the breed that it supposedly represents, it is similar only in color. And that is not always the case. So you have a clear idea of ​​how a thoroughbred Burmese kitten should look like at the age of one to two months? Hardly. You expect him to have a completely black muzzle, as well as paws. But the Burmese have a lot of other colors! And little kittens can only have a slightly colored muzzle tip! They are light! Very, very light! The kittens, which are sold as Burmese, have jet-black paws and muzzles and bright orange coats. The coat is so bright, which normal kittens do not have. And all because fluffy black kittens are taken for dyeing, and with the help of a conventional hair lightener, that is, hydropyrite, the black fur becomes red ... It is enough, in addition to the unnatural color of the fur, to pay attention to the shape of the muzzle to understand that this is still that “Burmese” - the muzzles are narrow, like ordinary kittens, and the Burmese "faces", if you have ever seen, you will never forget: they are flattened and wide, which are supposed to be cats with Persians in their pedigree. Ragdoll kittens have the same wide faces and thick paws. And Burmese kittens are very similar in article and fur structure to their closest relatives - Siamese cats. So you can’t repaint the anatomy in any way, even if you managed to disguise the kitten with colors.

However, if you look closely, the dyed skin is different from the natural one. If you part the fur, you will most often see that the skin also has an unnatural color.

Once upon a time, my club friends got so burned at a serious exhibition. They had a very cute cat, white and huge, which they wanted to give "crunchy white wool." The cat had a clear yellowish tint. Therefore, they decided to slightly bluish it so that the whiteness becomes “fresher”. And they blushed. Wool became more "snowy". The only thing they did not take into account was that the skin also turned blue. So, when it came to the judicial examination, the cat was disqualified. The owners then tormented for a long time: now, they said, it was necessary not to paint the roots, then no one would have noticed. Learn these words.

A kitten can be painted and not “to the roots”. The skin will remain a normal color, but then the layer of wool above the skin itself will not be stained. This strip will be lighter or darker than the rest of the wool, depending on the dyeing technology. In general, this kitten does not care how it was poisoned - completely dipped in a bucket of paint or partially smeared with wool. It's still poison. No wonder the Moscow animal rights activists sounded the alarm. According to the results of the autopsy (alas, the usual result of the suffering of a painted kitten), the following signs were revealed: irreversible disorders in the functioning of the kidneys and liver, ulceration of the gastrointestinal tract, pulmonary edema, heart failure or myocarditis. A one-month-old kitten cannot recover from such a “bouquet” of violations, even if the necessary supportive procedures, a dropper, gastric lavage and hair cleaning are done. The kitten begins to have bloody diarrhea and vomiting, the body temperature drops sharply, he breathes with difficulty and, as a result, his heart fails. Death is painful, long and traumatic for those who brought the unfortunate to their home. Only in very rare cases, kittens survive, but for the rest of their lives they get chronic liver and kidney diseases and a sharply weakened immune system. The most dangerous dyes are aerosol. This is not henna or even perhydrol, from which some animals survive. It is a poison from which there is no escape. And if you see a killer luminous shade of wool, then most likely just such a deadly paint for all living things was used. There are slightly more chances for those kittens that were partially painted, that is, defects were “patched up” - a white spot, for example, due to which a cat can be disqualified and not recognized as a thoroughbred.

You can buy not a painted kitten, but a kitten without wool at all. Such kittens are given out as expensive hairless Sphynx cats. And ordinary short-haired kittens are being processed. They are first shaved, and then with the help of a special cream for epilation, the hair is reduced to the root. What is not a threat to health for a person is disastrous for a kitten. True, if the