The Cruel Reality of Persian Tea Cup Kittens

Dwarfism in any animal should be seen as a fault, not an asset, but it seems more and more people are asking for this kind of deviation in breed standard. Persian cats on the whole are already only about five or six pounds, and having one any smaller in your home would mean you had to keep it in a hamster cage! There are many reasons to avoid this kind of disaster, and I implore anyone who does love animals to say no to tea cup persian kittens.

The health of animals affected by dwarfism is usually extremely poor, these animals live life suffering from one ailment after the next, and how you create these animals is usually through extreme inbreeding.  That does not help the high incidence of congenital disease and dystocia in the females.  Mutations of all varieties should be discouraged in breeding programs, and dwarfism is also a mutation, but it seems to be tolerated and encouraged by some people, who, in my opinion, are nothing other than kitten mills looking to harvest as much money as possible.  Even if a breeder has the animals in the home, I still think they are woefully under educated as to breeding technique and really just in business for the money, without concern as to the quality of the products that they produce.  They are in most cases liars, and will tell you that their cats are as healthy as anyone else’s, but that is simply not the case.  They lie about the ages of the females, they have no breed standard to hold them accountable, and you will find out that life expectancy of your new pet is dramatically lower than that of a normal Persian or other breed would be. 

Also figure that house pets in America are a factor in over eighty six thousand falls per year, how do you think that works out for a teacup animal with brittle bones and poor movement capability?  You are going to have a wealth of issues with your vet, and are frankly going to be judged fairly harshly by about anyone who knows anything about animals at all.  Any vet is going to tell you that teacup toys are a bad idea, and they see all manner of breeds “miniaturized” into ridiculous proportion and many vets in my area don’t even want to treat these animals.  Take this into account when you are looking at these poor kittens, and don’t support the breeding of tea cup kittens.