Does anybody know where I can get a kitten for 10.00?

Question

I want a kitten under 25$ or 10$ but it needs to be short hair.

Answer 1

If you can only afford to spend $25 dollars on a kitten, how are you going afford the vet care that this kitten needs? The kitten is going to need shots, dewormer, be spayed or neutered, and this is going to cost you around $200 plus food, and litter. Then theres vet checks. That will run you $50 per year, and if your cat ever got sick, it will cost around $100 dollars (tests, medicine). Some emergencies cost 1000's of dollars.

If nothing happens to the cat, You will be spending 700 - 800 dollars a year just to take care of it.

Answer 2

Check your local paper. Most of the time people post kittens for free to a good home in them. Check the ASPCA or Humane Society. In pet stores, kittens can be a little pricey. So try local papers, local animal shelters, or just ask around first.

Answer 3

The only place would be someone who's cat has had kittens who's giving them away.

Ideally, get a cat from a shelter - but they require more than a $25 donation, it cost them more than that to take care of the animal!

Don't be stingy, cats are expensive to keep (properly) so you might as well start paying out now.

Chalice

Answer 4

I agree, the kitten will cost you a minimum of $10 for food per month, $5 worth of litter per month, and a checkup & vaccinations can add on another $50 easy. No vet care means your cat is susceptible to viruses and those are more expensive to treat if they catch one than if they had the vaccinations in the first place.

Our 5 cats eat $70 in food per month and go through $9 worth of litter, and I get the cheapest litter too! Low cost cats or even 'free' ones are not 'free' to take care of. You have to budget for them for their foods and care each month. Some of our 'free' cats we took in as strays ended up costing more than the ones we adopted at the shelter when I look at the vet care they required.

Answer 5

You can get a kitten for free out of the paper, but a "free" kitten will cost you at least $40 in shots and proper vet care just to start with. If you don't have the money to take care of one, don't adopt.

Answer 6

Get in the calssifieds in the
newspaper. they ALWAYS have
kittens and cats and most of them sell
under $20. And almost always they are
like 10 ads saying that they are free.
or try your local animal shelter or
pound. also you can try the internet.

Answer 7

Anti-Cruelty Shelter or any Humane Society shelter will have plenty of inexpensive kittens up for adoption.

Answer 8

the pound? Also, some pet stores offer them for free when you buy let's say $20-$25 worth of cat supplies. I can't tell you specifically where, but i have seen specials like that at pet stores.

Answer 9

Most kittens people sell are usually free, so i would suggest looking in your clasified ads and look for kittens there,there is normally a lot of them.

Answer 10

Maybe from someone who is giving away stray cats out their home, check the local classifieds ads ... but all the shelters in my area charge $80-100 to cover the cats' vaccinations, neutering/spaying, etc. (That is in US dollars --is that what you are talking about?)

However, I am little worried -- if you don't have much money to adopt a cat, are you going to have enough money to buy the cat healthy food, litter, toys, and take it the vet for its vaccinations and when it gets sick? What if you find out the cat needs a special kind of food or something? (For example, one of our cats has gingivitus, and even though he's young we have to feed him expensive food that's good for his teeth, to help prevent his teeth from falling out when he's older! The food is $20 for an 8-lb bag.) Raising a cat may be more expensive than you think!