I found this article on How Stuff Works (dot) Com about hypoallergenic cats.
After the most spoiled rotten pet thread 
I reckon there are lots of people that would pay that much
By the way for those who don’t read the article. It’s done through selective breeding.
If you do read the article check out the third page with the mouse with the ear growig out of its back.
I am slightly allergic to my cats . . . and more allergic to cat’s I’m not used to. But if I were extremely allergic and could only have a hypoallergenic cat, then yeah, I’d pay that much for one (or two).
For the lifetime of the cat, you’d be paying something like a dollar a day. Worth it.
No way. Even if it doesn’t bother my allergies, it’s still going to piss all over my stuff.
When I saw the title of this thread, I thought you were testing the waters for a reasonable ransom amount.
Good lord no. Not even 600.
Hell, I wouldn’t even pay $60 to get a cat from the shelter. If I want a new kitty, all I have to do is go to work and wait for somebody to bring in a stray with some sort of minor illness or injury they don’t want to deal with. These are kitties that would wind up at the shelter anyhow, but since Tom has such limited resources, the sick and injured ones get euthanized pretty much as soon as he gets all the paperwork filled out. Works out well for everybody.
Of course, I don’t have pet allergies. If I did, I still probably wouldn’t spend that kind of money getting a cat–I’d think taking the shots would be cheaper. I’d need the shots for work, anyway.
I wouldn’t buy a cat for $6,000 but if one of my two needed, say, a surgery in order to live (assuming the quality of life afterward would likely be good) which cost that much then, yes, I’d pay it.
I wouldn’t even pay $6,000 for a surgery like Q.E.D. would.
My crazy aunt, bless her heart, paid $6,000 for a surgery for her 12-year-old deaf, diabetic, blind, crippled, gluten-intolerant cat the had to be tube-fed and taken hundreds of miles every week for special vet care! She was, uh, eccentric.
If, in four years, I’m pulling down 70+k a year and am about to marry my very cat loving but allergic girlfriend, then yes. I’d rather hope the price has come down by then though.
I’d have thought that even specialist cats couldn’t stay expensive for long. Once you’ve got the first couple it is dirt cheap to produce more. It’s not like cats are averse to popping out kittens on the regular basis. At the moment this company is restricting the supply, but perhaps that won’t last.
I thought those cats turned out to be a scam?
If I were to all of a sudden become allergic to cats I probably would, but after 44 years of cats in my life I’d say that is unlikely.
So yes, I would. I’m seriously addicted to cats. But I’d probably try a Devon Rex or even a Sphinx first.
Totally and completely OT but the ENT who did my ear surgery as a teen is the guy who grew the ear on the mouse back.
The prospective $6000 cat adopter should realize that a lot of people - even those with fairly intense cat allergies, like me - quickly build up resistance after adopting a conventional kitty. She didn’t bother me at all after about a week.
Yeah the company only sells “fixed” kittens so you can’t make your own. It’s like canaries way long ago, they were rare, then a ship carrying a bunch of them back to Europe sank and the birds all flew away and landed in Europe now, that kind of ruined the market 
(or something like that happened. I’m too lazy to look it up)
Not really – you could take anti-allergy medications for much less than that.
And there is the fact that many such allergies diminish over time – after you live with the cat for a while, your allergic reaction will be reduced, and so you can take the medication even less often.
Heh, I pissed off a few of my coworkers the other day.
The subject of conversation was how much would you spend on surgery for your cat.
I told them that cats are disposable pets. Anything over two hundred; there’re going to get thrown in the trash.
The thing about cats and dogs is, yeah sure they’re cute and they’re fun. And sure we love OUR pets to pieces. But let’s face it, there is nothing “special” or “unique” about them. If one dies, you go get another one. I guarantee you’re going to love it just as much as you did the previous pet.
abit more than that i think.
But what he says is fair dinkum. People spend obscene amounts on their pets’ health and it’s really a sad indictment on our society…when human children across the world have little to eat and suffer from all sorts of ailments that are easily treated with medicines that you and I have at our easy disposal… we’re spending thousands on our moggie’s broken leg or his cranky kidney but are loathe to help those in LDC’s get on THEIR feet.
Sure, pets are cute and loveable, but they are disposable at the end of the day. When Fido and Fluffy pass away (as all things do) another pet will fill the void. You won’t forget Fido or Fluffy, but their passing will be made easier with the advent of a new pet.
The same cannot be said of the death of a human being. They cannot be replaced, and for the loved ones left, the void will never be filled.
How did this thread turn into a ‘won’t someone think of the poor children’ thread? They always boil down to people vs pets when anyone mentions spending serious cash on animals.
Unless you spend all your extra income feeding/shoeing the children across the world (and even if you did), why does it matter how I spend mine? If I choose to spend it on my cat, so be it.
I seem to recall that the cats they sell are neutered before they’re delivered to their new homes, so producing more is NOT quite that easy. Well, the company owning the breeding stock could do so, but not the purchasers.
This company has been mentioned before. As a very cat-allergic person who would LOVE to have a cat again, I’d consider it.
Well, if I could afford it (which at this point and for the foreseeable future, I can’t). In the earlier thread, I pointed out how it actually makes sense from a financial standpoint. Cats are tremendous stress relievers - Typo Knig and I refer to a lapful of warm, purring cat as “fur therapy”. You pay a therapist 100 bucks an hour. Over a year, that’s 5200 bucks. Over 2 years, it’s 10,400 bucks. Considerably more than a measly 6 grand for a cat
