Our Kitten Reservation Process

1. Application & Approval

All prospective families are required to complete our kitten application to be considered for placement with Nautilus Persians.

Once reviewed, applicants will receive either an approval email or a courteous notification if we are unable to proceed at this time.

This process allows us to thoughtfully place each kitten into a carefully selected and appropriate home.

2. Reserve Your Kitten

Kittens are not made available for reservation until they are approximately six weeks of age.

About two weeks before becoming available for reservation, kittens are added to our available kittens page for viewing. Each individual kitten’s profile will note the date and time they will be made available for reservation. 

This preview period allows potential families opportunity to become familiar with each kitten before reservations open.

At the date and time mentioned on their profile, kittens will become available for reservation. A $500 non-refundable reservation fee is required to reserve your chosen kitten until their go home date.

Once a kitten is reserved, it will be placed on our reserved kitten page where updated photos and videos will posted to the kittens bio as it matures. 

Please do not pay the non-refundable reservation fee until your Application has been vetted and approved.  

3. After Reservation

Once your reservation is complete, you will receive:

• Your kitten contract for signature
• A personal confirmation call
• Ongoing updates, including photos and videos, posted regularly to your kitten’s profile until their go-home date

4. Bringing Your Kitten Home

Our kittens typically go home between 13–16 weeks of age, depending on individual development, health, and readiness.

During this time, we focus on continued socialization, care, and preparation to ensure each kitten transitions confidently into their new home.

Final Payment

The remaining balance is due prior to departure:

• For in-person pickup: due at the time of pickup
• For travel arrangements: due at least 5 days prior to travel

For local pickups, cash payment is also accepted at the time of pickup.

Pickup & Delivery Options

For the safety and security of our Persians and our family, we do not offer in-person visits. For local families, we can instead meet at a mutually convenient location within approximately two hours of Ocean Shores.

For families outside driving distance, we offer safe nationwide delivery via trusted flight nanny services. Delivery costs vary depending on destination and season.

We do not ship kittens as cargo under any circumstances.

For families who prefer to accompany their kitten’s travel, we can also coordinate airport meetups at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport or Portland International Airport.

**Littermate Placement Preference**

At Nautilus Persians, we strongly value the long-term benefits of littermate companionship and often encourage kittens to go home in pairs when appropriate.

Raising two kittens together can provide enhanced confidence, companionship, and enrichment as they grow, and many families find it creates a smoother transition into the home environment.

Families interested in adopting a pair are placed on a priority selection list, allowing early access to available littermates prior to general reservation day.

We often hear the saying, “you get what you pay for,” and this is especially true when selecting a Persian kitten.

A responsibly bred Persian from health-tested, preservation-focused lines offers long-term value through reduced health risks, better temperament, and easier maintenance compared to lower-quality or unverified breeding programs.

While the initial investment may be higher, families often find it results in fewer veterinary concerns, more predictable grooming needs, and a more stable lifelong companion.

All Nautilus Persians kittens are placed at $1,500 regardless of gender, color, or parentage.

Washington State sales tax is included for in-state buyers.

We believe every kitten deserves equal value and care. Each baby is raised with the same level of dedication, health testing, nutrition, socialization, and daily attention, and all breeding cats are held to the same preservation and wellness standards. Because of this, we do not adjust pricing based solely on gender, color, or pedigree.

A non-refundable reservation fee of $500 is required to reserve a kitten. The remaining balance is due at the time of pickup, or two weeks prior to transport for kittens traveling by air.

We do not offer a discount when adopting more then one kitten at a time, we do however offer a different benefit if you chose to bring two of our kittens home together because we love to see our kittens go home with their siblings, and grow into adult cats together. The benefits of adopting two kittens simultaneously are immense. The two will keep each other entertained and be a source of companionship for each other. It is also said that two kittens are more confident when raised together. They can learn from each other's behavior and will be a constant source of entertainment for everyone around! 

If you are interested in adopting a pair of siblings/littermates from us, you will be placed on a priority list. This means you can avoid the hustle of trying to be the lucky person to get the kittens of your choice on reservation day. Instead, you will be able to choose your two kittens a few days before our typical reservation day.

Nautilus Persians is located in beautiful Ocean Shores, Washington.

We can hand deliver your Nautilus Persian to your local US airport. The cost varies depending on your location and the time of year. We never ship our kittens cargo. We also can meet you at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport or Portland International if you want to be the one to fly.

While we understand the desire to visit our cattery to meet our beautiful Persians, we are a closed cattery, which means that we do not allow visitors in our home to meet cats and kittens. We take very good care of our cats and kittens and put their health at the top of our priority list

We are a closed cattery for the health of your chosen cat/kitten as well as all other cats and kittens in our cattery. We are however more then happy to share photos, videos, and updates to help you feel confident in selecting your kitten.

Illness and disease can spread very fast in catteries. While breeders can control the cats they bring in through testing, that is much harder with potential families and their pets. If the family has visited another cattery, shelter or rescue recently, or somehow picked up something elsewhere, that can bring in unwanted illness and disease. Our cattery often has newborn, unvaccinated kittens and pregnant girls who are especially vulnerable to illness. Even a single introduced virus could spread rapidly, posing severe risks to both mothers and babies. Our kittens and cats are super healthy and we try everything in our power to keep them that way. Our cattery (which is also our home) is kept super clean for the same reason.

To further help protect our our cats and kittens they do not leave our cattery except for when they need to see a vet or are attending a cat show. After attending cat shows we have very strict quarantine procedures and keep recently shown cats quarantined from our cattery for a minimum of a week after attending a show to ensure that they do not bring any diseases they potentially picked up at shows into the cattery. The first time kittens leave our cattery is at 12 weeks when they receive their FVRCP and Rabies vaccinations. We do not vaccinate until 12 weeks old because studies show that because of maternal antibody interference vaccines are worthless until at LEAST 12 weeks of age .

We accept payments through our website which accepts major debit and credit cards, Shop Pay, Apple Pay, and other popular payment methods.

Your cat/kitten must be paid in full the day of, if picking up in person, or 5 days prior to leaving with a flight nanny. If picking up in person you may pay your remaining balance in cash at the time that you pickup your cat/kitten.

Nautilus Persians is registered with both The Cat Fanciers Association (CFA) and The International Cat Association (TICA).

All of our breeding cats have been tested using Optical Selection Feline and are 100% clear.

We actively show our Nautilus Persians in CFA's Region 2 and TICA's Northwest Region. We often post show achievements on our Facebook page.

We are a preservation breeder of Persians, and believe that the only way to ethically breed cats is to breed to the breed standard. You can not ethically breed without preserving the look and temperament of your chosen breed. The only way to truly ensure that you are doing that is to have an unbiased educated 3rd party evaluate your cats (a judge).

Some closed catteries do not how their cats due to the risk of picking up disease and infection at shows. Since we find showing to be essential to our role as Persian preservation breeders, we have established strict quarantine procedures for after attending shows to eliminate the risks.

We believe that Balanced Homemade Food is the best food option for cats and kittens. Historically we fed raw food to our cats, but due to contamination fears we switched to homemade cooked food, and the results have been fabulous.

We make our cats and delicious and nutritious Homemade Food using EzComplete Fur Cats. It is a Premix / Supplement that you mix with your own cooked meat to make a Homemade Cat Food Diet. You can use Any meat appropriate for cat consumption can be used with this premix, such as Chicken, Beef, Buffalo, Turkey, pork rabbit and more. Our favorite protein to use is boneless, skinless chicken thighs.

To make your cats nutritious raw add boneless meat and 1/4 cup of water per pound to a slow cooker. Cook on low for 4 to 6 hours if you choose to cook the meat to well done. Do not cook on the high setting unless you're in a real bind time-wise. Remember: if cooking for concerns due to bacteria, the meat does not need to be cooked to well done.

Allow the meat to cool, then shred with a fork, chop, cut, shred, or use a food processor to chop/grind to a consistency you (and your cat) like. Using a food processor will increase the chances of texture changes when prepared food is refrigerated.

In a mixing bowl, add the cooked boneless meat and ALL the water from cooking. Once the meat and water have cooled, add the appropriate amount of EzComplete Fur Cat Premix into the bowl (1/2 cup EzComplete per two pounds of raw meat). Mix thoroughly. You can add more water if your cat prefers the food a little soupier or if it is needed to distribute the premix evenly. You can portion your batch of food made with cooked meat into meal size portions for freezer storage and then thaw overnight in the refrigerator.

Kittens should be fed as much as they want to eat.Until they are 12 - 14 weeks old, they should be fed many small meals a day. Once they are 12 - 14 weeks old, their stomachs are large enough to be fed at least four meals a day, but they should not be moved to fewer meals until they are 6 to 9 months of age. At about a year old they can be fed as adult cats.

The average adult cat will eat about 4.5 ounces (125g) a day– but how much food a cat needs daily is dependent on age, individual metabolism, activity level, and health.

The typical guideline is that cats eating raw will consume between 2% and 4% of their body weight. Unless a cat isveryactive (or suffers from a gastrointestinal disease that causes malabsorption), eating 4% is quite unusual. Generally speaking, cats eating raw food will consume between 2% - 3% of their body weight to maintain their current weight. A typical indoor-only (adult) house cat will most often eat close to 2%. It is recommend to divide the food needed into three portions, usually fed AM, PM and before bed.

We guarantee that our cats and kittens will be free of any life-threatening genetic defects for a period of 2 years from the sale date of.

Yes, absolutely. Our kittens leave our care having received exactly ONE core FVRCP (Feline Rhinotracheitis, Calicivirus, and Panleukopenia) vaccine, administered at a minimum of 12 weeks of age.

Not only do we vaccinate our kittens, we practice Mandatory Post-Vaccination Monitoring. Kittens do not leave immediately after receiving their shots at 12 weeks of age. The 3 to 10 days following a vaccine require an immense amount of cellular energy as the body builds antibodies, temporarily dipping their defenses.

This monitoring period helps with:

• Preventing Vaccine Failure: The stress of moving to a new environment triggers a massive cortisol spike. Because cortisol is a natural immunosuppressant, moving a kitten too soon after vaccinating can blunt their immune response, causing the vaccine to fail.
• Ensuring Baseline Stability: Keeping kittens in a stable, familiar environment allows us to monitor their physical, structural, and behavioral resilience. Every kitten leaves our care only after they have successfully cleared this physiological milestone, passed a short post-vaccination monitoring period, and returned to a perfect health baseline.

Why do we wait until 12 weeks?

The Science of Maternal Antibody Interference

We understand that traditional veterinary schedules often suggest starting vaccinations at 8 weeks. However, clinical immunology demonstrates that early vaccines face severe maternal antibody interference.

Kittens receive temporary passive immunity from their mother’s colostrum. If a vaccine is administered too early while these maternal antibodies are still active, the kitten’s system simply neutralizes the vaccine, rendering it ineffective until at LEAST 12 weeks of age.

Long-Term Health Risks of Over-Vaccination

Delivering a single, properly timed core vaccine to a mature immune system can provide robust, lifelong active immunity. Avoiding a heavy booster schedule directly prevents the well-documented long-term health risks of over-vaccination:

• Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD): Feline vaccines are cultured on feline kidney cell lines. Research indicates that every time a cat is injected with these foreign proteins, their body creates autoantibodies against its own kidney cells. This hyper-reactive immune response is a primary consideration in why chronic kidney disease is so devastatingly prevalent in aging cats.
• Injection-Site Sarcomas: Feline subcutaneous tissue is highly reactive to localized trauma. Minimizing the total number of injections a cat receives over its lifetime drastically reduces the risk of chronic tissue inflammation and vaccine-associated sarcomas.
• Systemic Inflammation: Limiting the biological burden prevents hyper-reactivity, protecting your kitten from modern feline sensitivities like chronic asthma, severe allergies, and contact dermatitis.

We Strongly Recommend Lifetime Maintenance via Titer Testing

Because this protocol establishes an incredibly strong foundation of immunity without overloading the filtration organs, we do not advocate for automatic, blind re-vaccination throughout adulthood.

At pickup, you will receive your kitten's complete medical records along with our recommended titer testing protocol. This allows your veterinarian to easily measure active blood antibodies, ensuring your cat remains fully protected without introducing unnecessary booster stress down the road.

It is a common misconception that kittens can be separated from their mothers as early as 8 weeks old. However, kittens separated at this time are still at risk for developmental, social, and health issues. Instead, kittens should remain with their mothers until they are 12-16 weeks old. By this age (and with proper human interaction and training), kittens should be able to go to the bathroom in an appropriate place (i.e. the litter box), play on their own instead of needing other littermates, they will have a fully developed immune system, will be vaccinated, and will not be a victim of unnecessary stress that comes from weaning too early.

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Yes, we are a PKD/FELV/FIV and parasite free cattery. All of breeding cats are also genetically screened using Optimal Selection and are 100% genetically clear.

All of our cats live in our home and are not kept in cages. We keep our intact males in our bedroom and the girls/retired cats have free roam of the rest of the house.  Our kittens are kept in a clear acrylic enclosure in our living room until they are old enough to safely roam the house with the girls/retired cats.  Our kittens spoiled members of our family. All of our cats and kittens go home well socialized. They experience all the sights and sounds of a normal home environment: people, music, TV, the vacuum, the sound of pots and pans, the toilet flushing, and other pets (under supervision).

Our kittens will be introduced to grooming and given weekly baths and blow-dried starting at 6 weeks to ensure that they are easy to groom when they go to their forever homes. Our adults are bathed and blow-dried at least monthly and are all easy to groom.

Here at Nautilus Persians, we do not allow declawing of our cats or kittens. Our contractual agreement on no declawing is enforceable. We recommend monthly nail trims on the kittens and as needed on adults, or nail caps to be applied.  

Declawing is the amputation of the last bone of each toe. It would be like cutting off your fingers at the last knuckle. 

Declawing can cause paw pain, back pain, infection, tissue necrosis (tissue death) and lameness. Removing claws changes the way a cat's foot meets the ground and can cause pain. Improperly removed claws can regrow, causing nerve damage and bone spurs.  Declawing also can cause behavioral issues such as litter box aversion.

All too often we hear the myth that Persians have breathing difficulties, and find it important to help squash this lie. Persians, when responsibly bred to the CFA established Persian Breed Standard, have no breathing difficulties at all.

The CFA show standards exist for a reason, to protect the health of the breed. Persians with a properly placed break and big open nares are just as healthy if not healthier than any other breed. It is Persians with breaks that are placed too high and that hive pinched nares that have breathing difficulties. It is important to breed Persians with properly placed breaks and large open nares. In doing so the cats will be happy and healthy. Problems only arise when breeding Persians with poor breaks and small nares.

As a Persian Preservation Breeder I am amused that so many people are so uneducated about Persians and just believe blatant lies about the breed.

When faced with these people I often ask them to please educate themselves and to attend a few CFA cat shows so they can experience a true quality preservation bred Persian. Anyone who has spent time around well bred Persian cats and kittens knows that they are perfectly healthy and happy kitties.

Checkout this page to learn more about grooming and bathing your Persian!

Also, I’ll let you in on a little secret.  If you are not worried about maintaining a full show coat, and just want a beautiful pet, Persians actually do not require that much maintenance other than their daily/twice daily eye cleaning. Persians have greasy skin and coats. Grease causes the hair to stick together rather than fall away during the shedding process. Grease and dead coat combine to create mats, which lead to pelts. It then follows that regular removal of grease and dead coat prevents tangles, which prevents mats, which prevents pelting. If a good degreasing bath is done on a regular basis (4-6 weeks for most cats) and the coat is thoroughly blown out with a high velocity dryer, matting becomes a thing of the past. It is important to also comb out the coat thoroughly once it is dry, to remove any loose hair that is still hanging around.

Many professional cat groomers have a guarantee that they offer to all clients: if they allow them to groom their cat on the prescribed frequency (normally 4-6 weeks), they guarantee their cat never gets matted or pelted.

If the spacing between grooms is appropriate and the groomer does their job correctly, a cat owner will not have to do any at-home “grooming” besides eye maintenance in between grooming sessions.

Simply combing or brushing a cat’s coat out does nothing to remove the mat-causing factors (grease and loose hair). combing or brushing a greasy, icky coat simply moves the grease and ick all over, creating an even bigger problem in time.  The key to having a mat free Persian is having a properly clean Persian.

If you can learn to give your Persian a proper degreasing bath on a routine schedule followed by a good blowout and combing, you’ll honestly have no need to take them to a groomer and they should stay mat free. 

Checkout this page to learn more about grooming and bathing your Persian!

Also, Persians are prone to excessive tearing. If their eye area is not cleaned regularly, not only will they develop unsightly tear stains, discharge can build up in the creases below the eye and along the nose break causing their skin to become red and irritated underneath. It is important to gently cleanse their eye area at least once daily to prevent tear staining and buildup of irritating discharge.

1. Use cotton make-up pads soaked in saline solution to clean the eye area. Saline solution is found at any grocery store or pharmacy in the same aisle as the contact lens solution. Use one cotton ball per eye and gently wipe around the eye and nose break to get rid of any crusties or discharge.
2. Pat the eye area dry with a tissue or piece of toilet paper. 
3. Use a soft makeup brush to apply a small amount of grooming eye powder to keep the area from staining.

Spay and Neuter Policy

We do not offer breeding rights on pet quality kittens/kittens placed in companion homes. They are sold strictly as pets and must be spayed or neutered between 4 and 8 months of age by a licensed veterinarian at the buyer’s expense.

Spaying and neutering is not optional—it is a requirement for all pet kittens. By purchasing a kitten, buyers agree that the cat is sold strictly as a pet with no breeding rights.

We use SpaySecure to ensure that our kittens are altered between 4 and 8 months of age.

SpaySecure tracks compliance and confirms sterilization. SpaySecure will pursue legal mediation/arbitration if a buyer is found to be in breach of the contract. Please visit their website for more information.​

Exceptions to Our Spay/Neuter Policy

While our standard policy is to place all Nautilus Persians on spay/neuter agreements or pre-altered, we occasionally offer select opportunities to established Persian show and preservation catteries whose ethics, breeding practices, and long-term goals align with our own. These placements are made thoughtfully, as well-placed cats contribute to the continued preservation of the Persian breed.

Since we prioritize genetic diversity, long-term program balance, and responsible population management, we do not retain every outstanding kitten or adult and are selective about which cats remain in our program.

We do not sell kittens as “show quality.” Any cat we believe has true exceptional potential is retained and shown by us, ideally to the title of Grand Champion. We believe the only reliable measure of quality is proven performance in the show ring over time.

After a cat has been fully evaluated and titled, we may occasionally offer select individuals to breeders. This ensures any cat placed has already proven its quality in competition and provides a strong, established foundation for a breeding program.

Breeding outcomes are never guaranteed. Once a cat leaves our program, many factors—genetics, compatibility, development, and environment—are beyond our control. No breeder can guarantee show success or specific breeding results.

We aim to set new breeders up for success when possible, offering thoughtful guidance and considering each placement carefully based on program structure and experience level.

If you are an established Persian show or preservation breeder interested in breeding rights or bloodline collaboration, you are welcome to reach out. This is a selective process that may include detailed questions, reference checks, and a video interview.

If you are new to breeding but serious about developing a preservation program, we also welcome respectful inquiries from those committed to learning ethical breeding practices.

Checkout this page for tips and info on bringing your kitten home.

Checkout this page for supplies we recommend for your Persian kitten.

Sales Contract:

You can view a blank copy of our Sales Contract Here.

SpaySecure Spay and Neuter Agreement:

We use a company called SpaySecure to protect your kitten’s health and
hormones and let them grow to a healthy age before being spayed/neutered.
SpaySecure uses binding contracts to ensure cat sterilization at a healthy
age. They’ll follow up with you to provide advice and reminders, ensuring
your kitten gets spayed or neutered safely. You can visit their website for
more information here.

You can view a summery of the
SpaySecure Spay and Neuter Agreement here.