Riverdale MAINE COONS

15/02/2025

I recieved this message about an ad I listed on Kijiji."Are you selling cats or watt? Because I’m not sure what your ad is about. You should never put down other breeders or try to take their business. Pure bred animals are the ones that don’t usually end up in a pound because people pay high pr...

13/02/2025

10/02/2025

And … this is how we roll here.

Riverdale Billy Bob playing and cuddling with Cachakatcan Yammer.

They do not know -- nor do they care — that one has pieces of paper behind his parents names and the other does not.

Every day we seem to be bombarded with divisiveness - in politicians, social issues, health and health care, online and on the street, and I’m sooooo completely tired of it, exhausted really.

Somebody jumped on me the other day about what I do, yet they’re flogging XXL awesome “European” lines Maine C**n kittens. (many know how I feel about XXL and the false proclamation of ‘European’ Maine C**ns, especially awesome line ones 🙄).

These animals are not products - they are living, breathing, sentient beings with feelings and emotions, and they don’t give a damn one way or another about each others size, shape, colour, or titles.

And everyday I care less and less too.

It’s all about human ego, status, and 💰💵💰💵💰

10/02/2025

Canadian.

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06/02/2025

Things that make you go 🧐🧐🧐

Now, millions of dollars are made by the allopathic medical system and pharma from fear mongering and vaccination ‘required’ for cats for calicivirus.

04/02/2025

Again, about dogs, but the principles apply to all mammals.

Diagnosing a Fart

Yup, you read that right, this was a phrase used by a good friend and colleague during a conversation yesterday and I thought it was too good not to share.

We were talking about Resource Guarding and how we both felt it was a label that is often used with an incorrect meaning attached to it.

Many people and even professionals see Resource Guarding as a dog saying " it's mine" a dog that doesn't want to lose or share something, an item, a space, themselves and that's it.

However, RG is usually the symptom.

It can be pain, gut health, boredom, conflict the list goes on and on.

It's important to not just end the diagnosis with the label.

Just like diagnosing a fart.

Why did you fart?

The fart was the symptom.

You may have felt nervous which created gas, you may have constant gut issues, an underlying health issue, have eaten something that didn't agree with you, be on medication, this list goes on.....see the link now 😅

Everyone knows my issues with labels even though i know we often need them. Labels can impact our responses, the information we share and our understanding and desire to dig deeper.

In a world where we are all looking for our own answers online, you first have to have to know how to peel that onion and understand what's actually going on, not just react to the symptom.

If you start taking pills for wind and it turns out you have a stomach ulcer, the pills could irritate the stomach ulcer and make it worse, get the idea!!!

This is why a good professional will never offer quick fixes or jump straight to " fixing" we spend time investigating and learning more, we peel the onion to try and diagnose the fart 😅

04/02/2025

Annnnd so it begins!

I have a text message thread on the go about one of our kittens, Zara, and I’d lay a hundred bucks down that the questions and replies are AI generated 😡😡😡

Another reason that I ask for a one-one telephone conversation FIRST thing!

Sadly, kittens and puppies are bought and sold everyday by text-message, e-mail, and through financial transaction websites.

One of the FIRST signs that you’re dealing with a BAD BREEDER or scam artist!

If they don’t want to talk to you - RUN FAR AND FAST!

02/02/2025

It’s funny, when I say we are a ‘natural and wholistic’ breeder people seem to instantly jump to the premise that holistic is that woo woo stuff.
Natural = Woo woo
Holistic = Woo woo

‘Holistic’ by definition is characterized by the belief that the parts of something are interconnected and can be explained only by reference to the whole.

Medically characterized by the treatment of the whole person.

Biology, the scientific study of life, tells us that life can be studied at different levels. The ‘organization’ of life, and that life is greater than the sum of its parts.

Before John D. Rockefeller and his systematic decimation of all things he couldn’t earn a profit from in the study of health, like herbalism and homeopathy, health and healing was synergistic, and no one believed that just one nut or just one bolt could repair the whole system - but that is the overwhelming belief today. A pill for this, a poke for that, and a cut for anything else.

01/02/2025

Posted • .balancedcanine ⚠️ Routine flea treatments aren’t just harming our dogs—they’re poisoning our rivers, killing wildlife, and devastating entire ecosystems. ⚠️

A shocking recent study has revealed that 100% of bird nests tested contained toxic flea and tick chemicals, with some nests contaminated by up to 11 different insecticides. Higher contamination levels were directly linked to more dead chicks and unhatched eggs, highlighting the far-reaching consequences of these pesticides.(Wood et al., 2024)

This isn’t an isolated finding. Another study in the Netherlands (Guldemond et al., 2019) identified 26 different pesticides, many of which are found in common flea and tick treatments for pets. In England, fipronil and imidacloprid—two widely used flea-killing chemicals—were detected in 99% of river samples, with fipronil found in 98% of freshwater sources.

These chemicals aren’t preventing parasites—they’re poisoning our environment. They leach into waterways, harming aquatic life, insects, and birds, disrupting fragile ecosystems, posing risks to our pets and our own health.

🔍 Now more than ever, it’s time to rethink routine chemical parasite treatments. There are safer, non-toxic alternatives that focus on prevention rather than repeated chemical exposure.

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01/02/2025

While this is focused on dogs, and there are differences with cats, the basic biology is the same. The go**ds are not just for reproduction. They provide absolutely necessary hormones for the development of the complete body, brain, bones, nervous system, etc. Paediatric neutering became popular in the rescue industry and vets jumped on board because we ALL (including breeders) don’t like seeing unwanted and suffering animals - of any description.

But, as so many things the human race does, it was taken to the extreme, and now we are seeing health and behaviour problems resulting from removing the s*x organs too early. The is irresponsible and self-centred people not being responsible with the pets they get.

NO UNWANTED LITTERS, we all agree with that goal; it's the surgical technique that should be reevaluated. Hysterectomy and vasectomy can be performed as early as 8 weeks of age with no negative side effects, rendering dogs sterile AND hormonally balanced.

25/01/2025

https://youtu.be/9CiXnoCKu6U?si=Qu1rehnu6mz1UUrF

The cost of owning a pet has skyrocketed. Independent vet clinics are being gobbled up by multinational corporations and private equity and some workers say ...

24/01/2025

24/01/2025

https://www.cbc.ca/news/marketplace/marketplace-vet-corporate-ownership-1.7438239

Marketplace reveals the growing number of vet clinics being bought up by international corporations across the country and reveals how those takeovers are driving up cost of care across Canada.

24/01/2025

Our Nevaeh and Marty litter ready for new homes January 27.❤️❤️❤️