Price in USD: Retired breeding cat about $500. Cat bought from breeder around $1,200-$1,600.
Although this is a popular cat breed there appears not to be that many breeders in the US. Breeders retire-off their breeding cats. They are purebred, of course, and of good quality but they are adult cats that have probably been stuck in an enclosure most of their life. They may not be the best socialized cats in the world.
Normally purebred cats sell from around $500-$1500 depending on quality.
As for the UK you can nearly always put a pound sign in front of the US dollar figures. I am sure the price is similar across Europe if you can find a breeder.
See a page on the Egyptian Mau.
The Better Answer
The above is the conventional answer. You want to know what the better answer is, don’t you?
Forget about buying a fancy pedigree cat and find a cat that really needs you instead; a cat that lives in a shelter waiting to be euthanised unless you come along.
As we all know, there are hundreds of thousands of shelter cats looking for homes. A lot of people who care about cats find it very difficult to accept the breeding of cats when there is already a sizeable number that are being euthanised. Actually that is the wrong word because these are healthy cats. They’ll make superb companions.
A intermediate solution is to see whether you can get lucky and find a purebred cat at a cat shelter. It does happen. People do occasionally relinquish their purebred cat to a cat shelter. However, I think you’ll be extremely lucky to find an Egyptian Mau at a cat shelter.
VG, a friend of mine, found her Maine Coon, Tootsie, at a shelter through an online search.
Thanks for commenting. It is appreciated. I don’t believe you will find uneducated viewpoints on this website. Also I don’t believe you are keeping the Egyptian Mau breed alive. The feral cats of Egypt are truer Egyptian Maus than the cat fancy breed in the US. A lot the mainstream cat breeds bear no resemblance to the original. The Persian is an example and so is the Turkish Angora. I would doubt the USA Egyptian Mau has any connection to the original Egyptian Mau from Egypt so what are keeping alive exactly? A US invention/creation.
I do understand that there are a lot of decent people who are breeders and they are caring and I also understand that most don’t make much money. I just question whether we need more cats when so many are unwanted in shelters.
Without responsible breeders many types of cats would disappear. We believe in spaying and neutering all cats that are not used in keeping a breed alive. The Egyptian Mau is a special very loving cat that is not common in the United States. We spent a years salary building a cattery with central heat and air and spacious rooms. We love our cats. I do understand that some people will always have issue with breeders and make rude, uneducated, unnecessary comments , what they don’t understand is that responsible breeders don’t make a lot of money and that keeping special breeds alive takes effort. Soldierfire Ranch in Oklahoma even escorts kittens in the cabin of a plane to insure they don’t ride in cargo.
Harvey, Michael, Ruth, Marc,
We are all one and the same. I do not like the CFA nor TICA. Never have, never will. Where do their monies go? exactly.
But I DO appreciate hybrid breeders of the Serval with the domestic. I cannot help it. Does A1 need recognition with either of these organizations who like their deviated persians? No, they do not. They are doing the right thing. Intuitively, I know this to be true.
Yes, we are truly concerned about cat welfare worldwide. Lots of people don’t think about it and I don’t understand why. It is not hard to think about animal welfare. I feel out of place in the world.
I don’t know why we are different Michael but I’m glad to have PoC to come to where most of us are like minded and only want cats worldwide to be appreciated and properly cared for and the senseless killing of so many of them to stop.
It’s a matter of emapthy and beauty lying in the eye of the beholder.
People who want accessory cats are not beautiful inside.