How do you manage to keep breeding without going broke

[Vrem Vaniva]

Thank you, everyone, for taking the time to write out the strategies you have developed through your experience! Many of your replies need to be printed out and taped to my computer monitor.

I have named my system for not going broke. My kitties are sustained "On a Wing and a Prayer."

Some helps to the Wing&Prayer system, for me, have been ...
*getting a shop in an excellent location. (I've tried many locations: if your cats are not seen, the person who wants them won't be able to find them. Advertising could compensate for a poor location, I guess.)
* paying attention to ears, whiskers, tails, and shade (so the cat has more than furs and eyes)
* setting a few cats on Marketplace -- it's work to prepare them and make the listing, but they do sometimes send you a few lindens just in time
* attending auctions and buying there as well as selling. (As was said earlier, a great cat is worth 50 mediocre cats -- I guess this comes under the heading, "shopping carefully." Careful shopping can also be done in the secondary markets.)

I vow to try harder to follow the guidelines so thoughtfully set out in earlier posts, Mellyn's and Miu's and others'.
My practice of keeping them all breeding for the full 120 days is not smart ... best to do as recommended and remove the ones that are not helping with your goals.

I don't menagerize them any more, at 120 days. I take them into inventory instead. Then, they at least can potentially get Permapet vitamin. One thing for sure: don't spend your Menagerie Kitty $ on food. Never touch that unless you are really getting lots of menagerie boxes ... save for a tiger instead.

You can sell menagerie kitten boxes in a Gatcha -- to people who are trying to get a tiger -- for more than the 20L worth of kitty bucks that you would get by actually menagerizing your bad boxes.