So, the decision is accepted – you buy a kitten! Beautiful. As in advertising on the TV, remember, recently showed. Thoroughbred, with the passport, forgive – from a family tree, on all 12 knees. And, of course, healthy, with ветпаспортом, with marks about the made inoculations.
You dial an advertising phone number of nursery, learn cost of a kitten and … Yes are not present, money, basically, it is not a pity, but is somehow not clear – for what such money?
The pricing question in all areas of human activity always caused, causes and will cause, most likely, puzzled questions answers on which were, is and, most likely, will be ambiguous. And article which you now read, one of the next attempts to answer those puzzled questions on formation of the price for kittens. Not the scientific article, everyday.
We Will begin that you have not gone for a kitten to a pet-shop or on "poultry market", have not bought it in underground transition (that in itself very competent decision). You have addressed in nursery. You have addressed to professionals, people who know that as when and how many it is necessary to buy, give, make that you enjoyed beauty, charm, caress and attachment of the favourite. It is often possible to hear that domestic cats seldom are ill, long live. Probably it so. Probably, but:
– It is not necessary to forget that so it is possible to speak about cats is more senior one year, only these cats have already passed severe natural selection; and if to a kitten of less than two months (namely sell such kittens on "birdie" and in the underground) it is not known, whether it lives about one year;
– Whether buying a kitten «on the party» you never learn »pure it of blood» what at it can be character and habits;
– The inquiry on health of your kitten, and, especially, ветпаспорт you do not receive, data on the made inoculations too.
People, who are engaged in cultivation (notice cultivation, instead of reproduction) still name "factory owners". In my opinion it is correct. The nursery is some kind of factory. Factory with the manufacture, with the laboratories, with the economy and the accounts department. Factory with the rules of work which are called «the international standard on breed». Each factory owner is obliged to know the standard on the breed, only then it is possible to speak about cultivation, instead of about reproduction. If you do not know the standard you do not know lacks of own kittens, you do not know as as at them it is necessary to improve. Even the most perfect cat has lacks and, therefore, always there is a field for selection work. Careful planning it is viscous, laborious selection of manufacturers, attentive studying of family trees, merits and demerits, selection of genetic lines – all it very much reminds researches in factory laboratories.
If you have thought that I have forgotten about a main objective of given article you were mistaken. Very shortly I have tried to inform to you one of components of the price for a kitten – level of professionalism and popularity of nursery . And let you are not surprised with a component which, at first sight, cannot be felt, and, especially, to estimate. Market economy laws operate everywhere where there are concepts of the price, costs, expenses, etc. After all does not surprise you that the price for firm Bosch production at other equal parametres on ~ 20-40 % above, than similar production of other firms. It is result of long, faultless and highly professional work of firm Bosch.
The Following component of the price is very closely connected with the first, even it is possible to tell that it follows from the first component – level of professionalism of the factory owner. It – breeding quality . Level of breeding quality depends from a phenotype and a genotype .
the Phenotype reflects conformity of an animal to the international standard of breed. If to speak about pricing (and to it