Independent guide · Updated November 2026
Getting a cat? Start with real numbers
Adopt or buy, choose a breeder, spot a scam, and know what the first year costs. We collect and date the prices ourselves, and every health or safety point links to a vet or official source.
- Prices we collect and date ourselves
- Vet and official sources, linked
- No sponsored rankings
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Supplies
Covered vs uncovered litter box
Covered vs uncovered litter box: vets lean open, but the one controlled study found no average preference. What Cornell, the ASPCA and iCatCare say, what two studies found, and when a hood can work.
Kitten care
How to trim kitten nails
How to trim kitten nails at home: get your kitten used to paw handling first, use a guillotine clipper, cut only the sharp tip well clear of the pink quick, and stop after a claw or two, per the ASPCA and WSU vets.
Supplies
Best cat nail clippers
Guillotine or scissor? What the ASPCA and a veterinary teaching hospital say about cat nail clippers, and two guillotine clippers plus a styptic powder compared from the makers’ specs. Not a hands-on test.
Kitten care
How to cat-proof a Christmas tree
How to cat-proof a Christmas tree: anchor it, skip the tinsel, cover the water and cords, and hang only unbreakable ornaments low, from the ASPCA, Cornell, Cats Protection and Pet Poison Helpline.
Supplies
Best cat litter for kittens
What vets advise for a kitten’s litter (unscented, fine, shallow, the one it knows) and five unscented litters that fit, from clumping clay to paper and pine pellets.
Costs
How much a Siamese cat costs
What 15 registered US Siamese catteries charge for a pet kitten (median $1,500, checked Nov 4, 2026), plus what the price includes, deposits, old-style Siamese, health tests and first-year costs.
How we research
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Collect real prices
Breeder prices from public listings, shelter adoption fees, insurers’ published prices and retail prices, each one dated, with the raw data kept.
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Check expert sources
Health, age, safety and the law come from vets and official bodies: Cornell, AAFP, ASPCA, International Cat Care, CFA, TICA, the FTC and the BBB.
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Show the method
Every guide says where its numbers come from, when they were checked and what we left out. We don’t test products or pets hands-on, and we say so.
Who’s behind Cat Buyer Guide
Cat Buyer Guide is edited by Anisur Rahman and published by PPC Optimizer Pro LLC. We don’t own a cat, so we don’t pretend to review pets or products hands-on: our value is careful, dated research you can check. More about us
Looking for the old Cat Buyer Guide?
This domain changed hands in 2026. The cat breeders who ran the old site, its forum and its cattery lists are not part of this site, and we can’t help with their kittens or accounts. Old links now lead to new guides on the same topics. More about the change