Fanciers Breeder Referral List

10/11/2024

Letting my breeders know to be on the lookout for a scammer who is now making the rounds on the FBRL. He sends a boilerplate letter asking about a specific kitten, but there were enough suspicious things about the email forwarded to me by one of the listers that I did a little checking. Looks like he's making the rounds on cat breeder sites now; a dog breeder flagged him on another site sending identical correspondence but with "kitten" substituting "puppy" and the breed tailored to the person he talked to. Posting the warning page from GunDogCentral.com posted in mid-September with identical wording. https://gundogcentral.com/articles/5737/scammer---mike-sleeth

The scammer Mike Sleeth wrote: > > ?Good afternoon, my name is Mike Sleeth, thanks you for the response, sorry for the late respond. am interested in immidiate purchase one of your Puppy for my family. > My family are so much care and friendlly with all our pet. I am ready to make instant purchase a...

18/10/2024

Voodoo, an ebony shorthaired girl in the Fort Worth area, Texas posted today

Cats registered name: Grand Champion Elegants Voodoo Child (CFA) Cats call name: Voodoo Color: Ebony S*x: Female; spayed Date of Birth: November 20, 2020 Cats l

22/07/2024

Sally, a blue girl in Shepherdsville, Kentucky posted today

Cats registered name: Ch Red Ferne Mustang Sally (CFA) Cats call name: Sally Color: Blue S*x: Female; spayed Date of Birth: April 24, 2019 Cats location: Shephe

22/07/2024

Tali, a red silver classic tabby with white **n girl in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania posted today

Cats registered name: Rickooncattery Talizea of Kennebec (TICA) Cats call name: Tali Color: Red Silver Classic Tabby with white S*x: Female; spayed Date of Birt

22/07/2024

Kona, a blue girl in Minnesota posted today

Cats registered name: Kona of Windansea (TICA) Cats call name: Kona Color: Blue S*x: Female; spayed Date of Birth: August 9, 2023 Cats location: Minnesota Home

23/05/2024

If you have received spam emails from Viva Raw (pet food) and CatBreederHub (rival site) as a result of your FBRL listings, I apologize. I have asked them to stop sending emails to listers as I have not given them permission to use my site for marketing purposes.

Since I don't expect this will have any impact on their activity, just judge their motivations accordingly, please.

12/05/2024

I apologize for another delay. My mother passed away a week ago Friday. I spent most of last week out of town for her funeral and am now just getting back into the swing of things. I’ll get to every outstanding thing, I promise.

Stephanie Steve Mider, 82, formerly of Sackets Harbor, NY, passed away on May 3, 2024 at Samaritan-Keep Nursing Home in Watertown, NY after a long battle with vascular dementia. Steve was born in Watertown, New York on November 9, 1941, daughter of William and Jean Kenyon Wells. She attended Alexand...

30/04/2024

So I realize I'm quite behind on updates right now; I'm dealing with a personal situation: my mother is in a nursing home in year 7 of vascular dementia, and she's dying. This may be hours, or days, or possibly even weeks, depending on how things are going, so I've been making trips up and back (150 miles one way) as developments occur. I plan to get some updates done tomorrow, but I appreciate any patience everyone has at this time.

25/04/2024

So I've just put a request in to the web developers to add listing banners for every year, not just for the "5" years. I don't know exactly when this will go live as there needs to be some graphic development time, but shortly you'll see how many years breeders have been listed in years other than just 5, 10, 15, etc.

18/02/2024

Natsu, a Fawn Spotted boy in Jacksonville, Florida posted today https://www.breedlist.com/index.cfm?Page=Retired-Natsu0218

Cats registered name: Dynamicat Natsu (CFA) Cats call name: Natsu Color: Fawn Spotted S*x: Male; neutered Date of Birth: July 18, 2021 Cats location: Jacksonvil

18/02/2024

Astaire, a silver boy in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania posted today https://www.breedlist.com/index.cfm?Page=Retired-Astaire0218

Cats registered name: CH Maujik s A Fine Romance (CFA) Cats call name: Astaire Color: Silver S*x: Male; neutered Date of Birth: July 22, 2021 Cats location: Har

09/01/2024

Still recovering from COVID. The stunning calico is Chromie, the former feral who hasn’t let me pet her more than a dozen times in 22 months. Today, this happened. I’m resisting petting her because I want her to get comfortable with this major breakthrough with no pressure. I hope we have rounded a big corner. Cats are an advanced lesson in consent and patience.

03/01/2024

Just letting folks know that I was diagnosed with COVID this morning, so updates and other requests are going to be delayed for a bit. Thankfully Nurse Clive is on the job.

22/10/2023

Just a heads up - in November or December, I'm very likely going to need to change payment processors. The one I'm with has been buggy at best. The last straw was that my payment system is down this weekend, and they have NO one minding their system over the weekends.

So while this will be a big hassle, I hope to find a system that isn't so frustrating to deal with and offers more options to all of you.

08/08/2023

Devonrexbreeder in West Palm Beach, Florida is pleased to announce a litter of Rex https://www.breedlist.com/index.cfm?Page=Litter-Devonrexbreeder0808

Breeder Name: Helen Fradelakis Cattery: Devonrexbreeder Cattery Location: West Palm Beach, Florida Litter born: July 8, 2023 Sire: SI Cats Coco (Black) Dam: Ath

19/06/2023

The FBRL has changed its logo!

As many of you are aware, CFA recently introduced a logo which was functionally similar to the one I had been using over the past few years. I will admit I was less than pleased with the development at the time, but I chose to remain silent on the subject publicly and things eventually got worked out behind the scenes. As a long-term contributor to the cat fancy, I did not want a battle in the court of public opinion.

To make a very long and convoluted story short, given the generally negative press this whole episode generated, I decided that I didn't even want my old logo anymore. Instead, I commissioned a new one. I hope you are as pleased with it as I am! The site has been rebranded with the new logo as of this afternoon. It will take a little while to get all my various social media and print converted. If you see my old logo hanging around anywhere, please let me know so I can change it to the new one.

CFA and I came to private terms over the logo issue and we're friendly again. I would greatly appreciate it if we can put this whole episode behind all of us.

17/05/2023

It's finally happened: I got my first scammer trying to change a customer's information to theirs. I always look carefully at changes before I make them, and I'm glad I did because I instantly spotted this website as a classic kitten scam - https://www.friendlyrussianblue.com/. I have alerted the targeted customer as well as the Russian Blue Breed Council/Committee secretaries for CFA and TICA, since these often contain stolen pictures. I will also be reporting this site to various cat scam places I know about.

26/01/2023

I apologize to my customers for being slow on updates this week. My family has been hit with a double whammy this week: my mother (who is in a nursing home with advanced dementia) contracted COVID, and my nephew passed away unexpectedly. I expect to get back on track this weekend.