Flor121 - I do beg to differ on the buyers being mostly expats, if my experience yesterday was anything to go by.

As I waited in the vets for a while with my sick cat yesterday, every single cat that was brought in for treatment was a pedigree and owned by a local (about 6 or so in the space of 30 mins), they were very cute cats but I cannot imagine a local adopting a sorry old moggy.

I just think that people should be more aware that there are a lot of needy cats that need a home, not the pampered pedigrees