Well, I don't know about the brownie points. This was no kitten mill, they were a 1st class cattery. I got to play with the kittens in the kitten room the day I picked up Roxy and they definitely spared no expense to make it clean and comfortable. Roxy was actually a cat they bought from another cattery for breeding in order to make sure they didn't get too genetically narrow. Sometimes I feel guilty that I didn't get a shelter cat.

But I've never had a cat before. And haven't had any pet at all since I was a kid...and like most kids my parents did all the work on that. So I thought if I got Roxy, I'd know she wasn't being given up for behavioral issues that I didn't know how to cope with. And she'd be used to being regularly groomed....basically a cat with the training wheels on. And so far she's been perfect for that.