The Waiting List
To read the waiting list:
The 1st column indicates the colour and sex combinations we produce.
The 2nd column indicates who we are currently offering kittens to based on what month and year they joined our waiting list.
The 3rd column indicates the approximate waiting time for that colour and sex combination.
The 4th column shows when this was last updated. I usually try to update this waiting list every month or two.
NOTE: We would like to hear from L. Steven that paid a waiting list deposit in Feb 2021 as we are having trouble making contact with you. THANKS
| MALES | Helping people that joined our waiting list in… | Approximate waiting time | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red | Jan 2024 | 3 – 5 Months | April 2024 |
| Cream | Jan 2024 | 3 – 5 months | April 2024 |
| Brown | November 2023 | 6 – 9 months | April 2024 |
| Chocolate | November 2023 | 6 – 9 Months | April 2024 |
| Blue | December 2023 | 5 – 7 Months | April 2024 |
| Lilac | September 2023 | 7 -9 Months | April 2024 |
| FEMALES | Helping people that joined our waiting list in… | Approximate waiting time | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | June 2023 | 10 – 12 months | April 2024 |
| Blue Tortie | Jan 2024 | 3 – 5 months | April 2024 |
| Brown | September 2023 | 7 – 9 months | April 2024 |
| Brown Tortie | Jan 2024 | 3 – 5 months | April 2024 |
| Chocolate | December 2023 | 5 – 7 Month | April 2024 |
| Chocolate Tortie | Jan 2024 | 3 – 5 Months | April 2024 |
| Lilac | September 2023 | 7 – 9 months | April 2024 |
| Lilac Tortie | January 2024 | 3 – 5 months | April 2024 |
| Red | (Special order only) | 7 – 9 Months | April 2024 |
| Cream | (Special order only) | 7 – 9 Months | April 2024 |
Benefits of purchasing a Suchi Burmese
Here at Suchi Burmese and Catatonia we offer a number of services to our customers who have purchased a kitten from us that other breeders don’t offer, such as exclusive boarding services, health guarantees, cheap pet products and much more (please email us for further information). Consequently, our kittens are in high demand and there is a waiting list for all colour/sex combinations. We have kittens all year round and our waiting list often moves relatively quickly, so when I am likely to be able to help you will depend on what colour/sex combination you are after. If you are interested in a kitten in any of the above mentioned colours and you are happy to wait, I can put you on our waiting list and get in touch with you when I am able to offer you the colour and sex combination you are after.
Most people that contact me want a kitten as soon as possible. If you are also wanting to meet your new furry family member as soon as possible, I would strongly suggest you tell me as many colour and sex combinations that you want on your application to the waiting list. The more specific you are with colours, the longer the wait is likely to be.
We are unlikely to be producing Red and Cream females in the near future, so if you are specifically interested in these options I would suggest that you contact the Burmese Association or other breeders.
If you wish to put your name on our waiting list for a kitten from any of our future litters, we do have a $40 (non-refundable) waiting list fee. Please note that this is not a deposit. We take deposits on kittens once they have been vet checked and you have been offered a specific kitten.
To join the waiting list, please contact us on [email protected] with the information described below, and once the waiting list fee has been received we will be happy to put you on our waiting list. Once I have the below information I will send you an invoice with my account details on it (so you can arrange an internet banking direct deposit) and I will inform you that you have been placed on our waiting list once the funds have cleared.
Information We Require to Add You to the Waiting List
1) The full name of the person to contact. We will need to know the full name of the person applying for ownership of the cat who we can contact. This person must be 18 years of age or above, for reasons listed below.
2) Phone number and address. We request this information so that once you have met your kitten and decide to proceed we can register your kitten’s microchip information in your name/at your address and set up your Pet Insurance. The more points of contact you provide, the better e.g. work, home, mobile number, PO Box address etc.
3) Do you own your home? If not have you confirmed with the Landlord/Strata/Owner that you are allowed to own a cat?
4) Have you owned a Burmese before? If not, what made you choose this breed to be your next family member?
5) Please tell us a little bit about your family, home, and lifestyle. Specifically, how many children live in the home and their ages, and if there are other pets in the home. We request this information so that we can hopefully match you with the right cat from the right bloodlines to suit your family, lifestyle and needs. Burmese generally love company and it is important to get a kitten that will fit in with your schedule and have the right temperament to adjust to how you and your family live.
6) Your Date of Birth (must be 18 years or over). The registered owner of any kitten purchased through us must be 18 years or older for the purposes of the included pet insurance and microchip registration.
7) The colour and sex combinations of interest to you.
8) If you are interested in a pet kitten only, the above information should be sufficient. However, if you are interested in a a desexed show kitten, see 9). If you are interested in a show quality breeding kitten, see 10).
9) We are unable to guarantee the success of any kitten on the show bench. We obviously want kittens of a very high standard representing us at shows and will do our best to offer you a kitten that we would be proud to see on the show bench, but we are unable to guarantee awards or points. Waiting for a show quality kitten may mean you wait longer for your kitten, and additional fees are likely to apply.
10) If you are interested in a show quality kitten for breeding purposes you will likely have an extensive wait until we feel that we can offer you a kitten of exceptional type and personality that would be suitable as a breeding cat. You must be a registered breeder – no exceptions. If you are seeking a show quality breeding kitten, you must provide:
- Your Name.
- Address.
- How long you have been a registered breeder for.
- Prefix.
- Registration number.
- Which association you are registered with.
- Pedigree papers of your existing breeding cats if any and who you purchased them from.
- Information on your facilities and how you operate/intend to operate.
What Happens When We Offer You a Kitten
When we can offer you a kitten of the colour and sex combinations that you are interested in, we will send you an email notifying you. If we do not receive a reply within 24 hours, we will either email you again or try calling you. If we can’t get a hold you you, we will assume that the timing isn’t right for you, and send an email confirming that we have tried to make contact. Then, we will give you a window in which to confirm that you want to remain on our waiting list. If we do not receive a reply to that email, we will remove your details from our waiting list. If you are going away or won’t be able to access your emails at any time, it is your responsibility to inform us of this via email.
We let potential new owners view the kittens once the kittens have been vet checked and vaccinated. If the vet is happy with their health and progress we then arrange for people to come and meet their new kitten when the kitten is approximately 8 – 10 weeks old. Please note that we will not discuss specific kittens, colour and sex combinations produced, dates of birth, or allow any visitors until the colour and sex combinations have been confirmed, the individual client has reached the top of our waiting list and is therefore being offered a specific kitten, and the kittens have been vet checked, vaccinated, and are ready for visitors. Please understand that I will contact any potential new owner once I can confirm all of the above. We respectfully ask that people be patient. We have a waiting list, and if you do not feel that you can be patient in waiting for our kittens to be ready and to have their required vet checks, we suggest you purchase your kitten through another breeder.
After we have contacted you, we can arrange visits to meet and pick up your kitten. We allow customers two free visits, which usually are for the initial meeting and for collection. We allocate 20 minutes for the initial meeting. The initial meeting is for people who have made their way to the top of our waiting list to choose to meet any kitten that I can offer them, and to decide if they wish to go ahead with the purchase of that kitten. The collection visit is allocated 1 hour and 15 minutes to ensure that we cover all relevant topics, answer any questions, and to complete the necessary paperwork for the kitten and any package items that they have been selected. If you choose to visit us and your kitten beyond these two allocated visits, we are happy to arrange dates and times with you, at a rate of $15 per 20 minute appointment.
Please Keep in Mind
- Our kittens are usually ready for their new homes by 12 weeks of age. We hold the kittens for free until they are 12 weeks old. For every day over 12 weeks, we charge a small daily fee to cover the cost of food, litter, cleaning, staff wages etc. If additional treatments such as vaccination, flea treatment and worming are due during this time these will be administered and the cost added to your invoice accordingly.
- Our kittens are sold with a 4 month health guarantee and we do expect buyers to sign a Kitten Purchase Contract. We will show you these documents at the time you come to visit your kitten.
- Depending on what package you choose, the items your kitten comes with will differ. For more details on packages, please refer to Kitten Costs and Packages in the Owner’s Content section of the website to see the packages available (after you have been offered a kitten, we will upgrade your account so it can access these sections). However, all kittens are sold with some food that the kitten is familiar with.
- Our kittens are all microchipped, wormed, vaccinated and have been vet checked. If required, we can offer test results for FIV, FeLv etc. for which additional costs will apply.
- As part of our Kitten Purchase Contract which all customers must sign, you agree that you will care for the cat for its entire life. The kitten is not to be on-sold. If you can’t care for the cat for any reason, it is to be returned to us, no questions asked and no exceptions.
- Unless you have purchased a breeding cat (and you are a registered breeder and have signed a Breeding Cat Contract), our kittens are sold desexed.
- Our kittens and cats are sold to people willing to offer them a loving, indoor home. They are not to be confined to cages unless under vet instruction, which should only be for short periods for healing from a surgery or injury.
- If you have purchased a breeding cat for breeding purposes, any offspring produced directly from our lines are to be sold as neuter/spay only. With, and only with, our written permission you can keep a female produced from our lines. No kittens produced directly from a cat we have sold you are to be sold to other breeders.
- Any male cats sold for breeding purposes are for your use only. They are not available for Stud service and are not to be leased, on-sold or gifted to anyone else. We may agree to a mating for a breeder we know and/or work with. You must put any mating requests for other breeders in writing via email and wait for a response in writing before proceeding. Studs are not to be re-homed entire. Once you have finished with him, he is to be offered back to us first and if don’t wish to use him ourselves he is to be desexed.
- Any cats sold for breeding purposes are for your use only. They are not to be leased to another person/breeder and they are not to be sold or re-homed entire. Any queen sold is for you use only and not to be leased, on-sold or gifted to any breeder. Once you have finished with her, she is to be offered back to us first and if don’t wish to use her ourselves she is to be desexed.
- Any cats sold for breeding purposes are to be bred with registered pure Burmese only. The breeder must be registered and raise their cats indoors. Cats will be sold to only one owner and must be desexed before going to any other owner other than us.
- We retain the right to take back a cat should any owner/breeder break our purchase contract.
FAQs
Q: What if I can’t collect my kitten when it is ready to go?
A: We are happy to hold onto the kitten until you return from your holiday, finish your renovations or whatever reason would delay you from collecting your kitten when it is ready. We charge a small daily boarding fee of $14/day for kittens that stay past 12 weeks old and are ready to leave at 12 weeks or earlier. This fee covers the cost of the food, litter and upkeep of the kitten until you are ready to collect him/her. Please note that if your kitten is due flea/worming treatments, vaccinations etc during this time, we will organise to have them administered to ensure that all your records are up to date. Certificates for the vaccinations administered during this time will be provided and the costs of relevant treatments will be invoiced accordingly.
Q: How long is the waiting list?
A: I have done my best to list the approximate waiting time in the above tables. Please note, however, that it is difficult to estimate a specific time because there are so many varying factors which influence when the kittens will be ready and how many kittens are produced. These include how many kittens are produced in our coming litters and the sexes and colours of the kittens produced. Unfortunately for the people who are waiting for a specific sex and colour combination, I am unable to predict what our pregnant mothers are carrying and how many people on our waiting list this will cater for.
Most people that contact me are wanting a kitten as soon as possible. If you are also this keen to get a kitten from us as soon as possible, I would strongly suggest that in the email to join the waiting list, you give me as many colour and sex combinations as possible options for your new furry family member. The more specific you are with colour and sex combinations, the longer the wait is likely to be. If you are happy to wait and are interested in putting your name down for a kitten from any of our future litters please let me know and I will discuss this with you further.
Q: When I am offered a kitten, can I view the litter and choose my kitten?
A: We honour the order of our waiting list. If we produce 6 chocolate male kittens in one litter, the person highest on our waiting list for a chocolate male will have first choice of all 6 kittens. The next person on our waiting list who has an option for a chocolate male will have a choice of the remaining 5, and so on. While this means that one person on the waiting list will not have a choice, we have never had a customer decide that that didn’t want the remaining kitten; if someone did decide that they did not want that kitten, then we would move through our waiting list until we find someone who is interested, and the customer who decided they did not want that kitten would have first choice of any kittens of their preferred sex/colour combination produced in the next litter.
However, we do have some people on our waiting list who are after a kitten from a particular mating or are interested for a particular time of year such as Christmas, School holidays, after a renovation is complete, birthdays, etc., so depending on where these people are placed on the waiting list, it may also affect what choices others have. There may also be only one kitten of a specific sex/colour combination in the litter, in which case we contact the person highest on our waiting list interested in that sex/colour combination, which would mean that they cannot choose between kittens as there is only one to offer.
Please be aware that all our kittens are handled the same no matter which sex/colour combination, and are all given plenty of attention, effort, and socialisation. I strongly believe that where and how a kitten is raised will have much more effect on his or her personality than his or her genetics. If they have time and effort put into them when they are little, and they have been handled regularly, they are bound to be very affectionate and love your company, which is what the Burmese breed is all about. This is why we are firmly committed to raising all our kittens with plenty of socialisation, attention, care, and exposure to domestic life, including the kinds of noises that they will be exposed to in their new homes; TVs, radios, door bells, people walking and talking, and even the vacuum cleaner. This is why we recommend in our article Tips for Buying a Kitten that you ask the breeder to see where the kittens are kept. If the kittens are raised in a cattery down the back of the property, how much time is the breeder going to have spent with them? Will the breeder have paid them the attention that they need, or would they have only seen them when feeding them and changing their litter trays? Are they going to be used to domestic life that way? This is why we make sure that all of our kittens are given plenty of attention and familiarity with domestic indoor life. This is the reason we believe that you are not going to get a more friendly and affectionate kitten by choosing one breed of kitten over another, or even one kitten over another, because how the kitten grows and develops will depend on how he or she is raised.
I always have a bit of a giggle when people come and choose one chocolate male out of a litter that has 3 other chocolate male kittens purely because the kitten they have chosen is the most affectionate, the most playful, or the quiet one. Kittens are like people: they aren’t playful all the time and they certainly aren’t quiet all the time. Chances are that the most playful kitten during your visit may be the “quiet one” an hour later when someone else is visiting because they wore themself out; but by then, another kitten will probably have taken over the “playful” role. In general, if all the kittens in the litter are well socialised, happy to be held, healthy and playful (read the Tips for Buying a Kitten for further suggestions), no matter which kitten you get you will probably have a gorgeous kitten. As I said above, where and how a kitten is raised makes the long-term difference.
Q: Do I have to put down a deposit to go on the waiting list for a Suchi Burmese kitten? If I go on the waiting list, do I have to buy a kitten?
A: We like to keep our waiting list up-to-date, and if there are “tyre kickers” on there the waiting time can be a little misleading, so we have a $40 (non-refundable) waiting list fee. By doing this we are trying to refine our waiting list to people that are serious about purchasing a Suchi Burmese and reduce the tyre kickers. We spend considerable time contacting people when we are able to offer them a kitten and if people aren’t serious, don’t reply to my emails, repeatedly change their mind or don’t know what they are after, it becomes a waste of both my time and theirs.
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