Reserve a kitten

Fill in the reservation form on this site and you'll immediately get a customer number on screen: something like HCM-2607-4H2K. Canan then calls or emails you within 24 hours to talk through which kitten suits your household. If it's a good fit, a deposit of half the kitten's price holds that specific kitten, and the remaining half is due when it goes home. You do not need Instagram or any social media account to reserve; phone and email work perfectly well.

It's your reference for everything that follows. Quote it when you call, text or email and Canan can pull up your enquiry, which kitten you're interested in and where your reservation stands, instead of trying to work out which of several Sarahs you are. Write it down or keep the confirmation email.

Half the kitten's price. It is not a flat fee, so it moves with the kitten: a $3,000 kitten takes a $1,500 deposit and a $4,200 kitten takes $2,100. The remaining half is due at homecoming. Each kitten's own page shows its price, and Canan will confirm the exact deposit figure in writing before you send anything.

The deposit is non-refundable if you simply change your mind, because holding a kitten means turning other families away. It is fully refundable if anything happens on our side: if the kitten becomes unwell, fails its final vet check, or we cannot deliver the kitten you reserved for any reason. It can also be transferred to a future litter if your circumstances change and you talk to us early.

Pet kittens generally run between $2,200 and $4,500. Price is set per kitten on three things: its color, its exact color code on the pedigree, and its type — modern, baby face, bear face or classic. Traditional blues sit at the lower end. Golden shaded and golden chinchilla sit above them. Our lilac and pink coats sit at the top, because very few of them exist anywhere. Every listed kitten shows its own price. Breeding rights are priced separately and are only ever sold to established, registered catteries.

Because they are not the same cat. Littermates can differ in color, in the color code that ends up on the pedigree, and in how strongly they express their type — a bear face either has the wide cheek pads or it doesn't. On top of that, some pairings take years of breeding decisions to arrive at, and the rarer the result, the higher the price. The types and colors page on this site explains what to look for so the difference is visible to you and not just to us.

Join the waitlist through the same reservation form: pick 'Join the waitlist' and tell us what you're hoping for. Waitlisted families hear about a litter before it's published on the site, which in practice is how most of our golden kittens get placed. There is no charge to be on the list.

Yes, by appointment, and we encourage it. You'll meet the kittens' mother and usually the father too. We ask visitors not to come straight from another cattery, shelter or pet store on the same day. Young kittens have immature immune systems and diseases like panleukopenia travel on clothing and shoes.