Bombay cat cost calculator

A Bombay is a cross between a sable Burmese and a black American Shorthair, bred to look like a small black panther with copper eyes. The look is what people search for; the Burmese side of the pedigree is what they take home. This is a cat that follows a person from room to room, talks, and takes an empty house badly. On a budget that turns into two lines an easier cat would not generate: paid cover every time you travel, and the real chance you end up adopting a companion. Both are on the ledger above rather than left as a footnote.

Every figure here is priced by somebody: a breeder's terms, a sitter's day rate, a clinic's exam and dental fees, an insurer's premium, a pet shop shelf. Where you live moves all of them. We have put in figures we think are reasonable starting points and made every one editable, because your quotes beat our defaults. Nothing on this page is drawn from a federal statistic, and this page takes no position either way on what statistics are out there, because we have not gone looking for one.

Adding a companion is often described as the easy fix for a lonely cat, and on a budget it is not easy at all. A second cat eats, uses litter, is insured and sees a vet on the same numbers you typed in above, so the page calculates her share directly from those lines and adds an adoption fee, then scales the result by the odds box. At our defaults that comes to $9,503, which is why the line sits on the ledger instead of in a footnote. Type 100 into the odds box to see the two-cat household in full.

Elsewhere a low and a high usually mean the shoppable lines were flexed by some multiplier to show a spread. Here it means something narrower and more useful: the low is the ledger with the second-cat line struck out, which is a household home enough that one cat stays content, and the high is the ledger exactly as you entered it. Every other line is held still between them. Type 0 into the odds box and the two ends become one figure. No budget is ever billed an expected value: either the second cat arrives or she does not.

The asking price is whatever the breeder in front of you quotes, and it swings on their reputation, the line, whether the kitten goes on a pet or a breeding contract, and how far you travel. Our default is a starting point and it is ours rather than a market figure. The more useful number is the one underneath it: at our defaults the price is about 2.7 percent of what the cat costs across fifteen years, with food, litter, insurance, vet care and sitter days carrying the rest. The calculator above puts both in front of you at once.

This is the question that decides the budget, so answer it before you pay a deposit. The breed carries Burmese temperament: sociable, vocal and attached to its people, which is exactly why owners describe them as following you from room to room. A cat like that generally does not do well alone all day, and the two lines on our ledger that other cats would not generate both come out of that. If your household is empty from morning to evening, read this page with the odds box set high, because either you will pay for company or the cat will go without it.

The coat is solid black and the eyes are copper, and a black shorthair with no papers is a very different purchase at a very different price. What the breeder's cheque buys is the Burmese-derived build and temperament, a known parentage, and someone who can tell you what runs in their lines. Whether that is worth four figures to you is a judgement rather than a calculation, and this page does not make it for you. It does show you that the judgement is worth about 2.7 percent of the total, which is a smaller share of the decision than it feels like at the door.

The Burmese ancestry is the part to ask a breeder about: Burmese lines are associated with a craniofacial defect, and pedigree cats generally can carry hereditary conditions that a policy may exclude. Costs depend entirely on what turns up and on your clinic, which is why this page has no chronic-condition box asserting a figure we do not hold. Ask a breeder what they screen for and what they have seen in their own lines, raise the routine vet box if you want a cushion in it, and read the hereditary-condition exclusions on any insurance policy before the kitten comes home rather than after.