24/06/2025
Our Arche is dying.
SMOKEY UA*LORENS&ARCHE GRAY
MCO ns 22 Blue Silver Blotched Tabby
Born December 20, 2018
UA.FAU.01.98874.19
UKRAINE CATTERY ORIGIN
Arche is the foundation male for our Canadian cattery - Riverdale Maine C***s.
We got Arche along with two females from a cattery in Ontario to start our program. His cost was $2,500.00 plus $409.75 shipping = $2909.75, and oddly, he is listed as "for breeding only" on his EU registration. (This, now, sends out red flashing lights and flags, but that's for another post.)
Right away, he was seen by our vet for a full physical exam, blood work (Chem 10, CBC, Lytes 4), and FIV/FeLV SNAP.
Then, like the good little doobies (do you remember Romper Room?) that we were in those days, we added a dewormer, FeLV booster (even though his results for FeLV/FIV were negative), FRCP/C booster, AND a 3-year Rabies booster.
Plus - he had all those shots and chemicals stuffed into him to be exported from Ukraine. I have his papers/records to show this.
OMG! My stomach is SICK just thinking about what we did to him!
Once he was cleared physically and filled full of pharma and other untold chemicals and crap, we had him swabbed by the vet and sent off a sample to a company called Basepaws, a brand new company in those days (that we were already using for our Catchakatcan line of cats), now purchased by the billionaire Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary, consequently bought by Zoetis,
"It was such a crazy pitch, I bought it anyway," O'Leary said. "We just sold the company at such a crazy price that I had to sign a NDA," he added, referring to a non-disclosure agreement.
O'Leary — whose nickname is "Mr. Wonderful" — noted an official announcement had pegged the deal price at over $50 million. "It wasn't even close to that," he said, gesturing upward.
Zoetis, an animal-health company with a $80 billion market capitalization, completed its purchase of Basepaws in the second quarter of 2022. Its earnings report for that period shows it spent $93 million of cash on acquisitions, and Basepaws was the only takeover it disclosed."
Big Money and Big Pharma hand in hand, and there is MONEY, lots and lots of money, to be made off our pets!!!!! Especially the unhealthy ones!
We did everything right, and now he is dying at only seven years old.
I don't do anything "right" anymore!!!!
I don't feed any of my animals garbage big-money pet "food" products.
I don't inject them with big-pharma products or give them pesticides produced by big-pesticide companies.
(Question: If these products and pharma are so great, why aren't they available to people? Just think - Complete and Balanced food in a bag would solve our malnutrition problems - around the world - saving BILLIONS of lives. Pesticides we could just rub onto our necks would kill all the unwanted worms and ticks (I hate ticks!!!). We would be worry-free! But they are not available to the human race. Curious, don't you think???)
I don't play the Pedigree/Purebred/Show World game.
When I see what these people are doing - it makes me sick.
Raise a cat, take him/her to shows, get lots of accolades and titles, use them for breeding to make more kittens that you can charge more money for and take to shows and use for breeding for more kittens you can charge more money for and to take to shows and use for breeding ...
Then - sell them 'cause you have new and wonderful toys to take to shows, get accolades and titles, and breed to sell for lots of money, and round and round and round we go.
They are products that elite and self-important people use to build their ego and self-value.
BUT --- I'm the bad guy. I don't follow the rules, and I don't live in those boxes created by the aristocracy. I am to be frowned upon and devalued by the elites.
I don't "rescue" anymore. Rescues are an absolute necessity in our pathetic life because there are too many human beings willing to cause harm to animals, and those animals need to be saved by someone. But, on the other hand, they are also supporting the backyard and for-profit-only breeders by going to their 'rescue', taking over the responsibility, picking up the tab, and finding homes for SOME of the production line these irresponsible and selfish people bring into the world. I am to be frowned upon and devalued by the rescuers.
My only goal with our program is to produce physically and psychologically healthy kittens and cats to be friends and companions to nice people. Some happen to have the breed title of Maine C**n and fancy pieces of paper to "prove" it.
(By the way, Basepaws tell me that Arche is:
Maine C**n 75.42%, Russian Blue 5.48%, Ragdoll 4.36%, American Shorthair 2.02%, Siberian 0.74%, Broadly Western 4.13%, and Polycat 7.83%.)
Thank you, Arche, for giving us the amazing babies to start our work - bucking the system, with.
There are many, many people and families out there with amazing companions and best friends because of you.
Heaven will hold on to you and wrap you in love when the time comes. In the meantime, I'll happily take on that job until you're ready to move on, my boy, my mentor, my FRIEND.
