Why this site is made with an AI
Better to say it than to let you guess
This site is written and coded four-handed: mine, and those of Claude, Anthropic’s conversational assistant. It is neither a secret nor an affectation: I prefer to write it in black and white, for the same reason I publish my official documents and say frankly what I think of a kibble or a pedigree.
Here is how it works, what it changes, and what it does not.
Why this choice
- Time. I am building a cattery, handling the paperwork, the care, the litters to come, a house move. This site runs to more than thirty pages. Writing and coding it alone would have taken me months I do not have.
- Cost. Having a site this size built by an agency represents several thousand euros, not counting maintenance. I prefer to put that budget into my breeding cats’ health tests.
- Autonomy. I can fix a comma, swap a photo or rewrite a section at eleven at night on a Sunday, without waiting on anyone’s availability. A cattery site moves all the time: a litter, a health examination, a price. If every change has to go through an intermediary, it is never up to date.
- The technical side. Caching, structured data, search-engine indexing, accessibility, redirects: subjects I did not master and would not have learned alone in a few weeks.
What the AI does not do
This is the important point, and it deserves precision. An AI writes fast and codes well; it has, on the other hand, no idea what happens in my house, and it sometimes gets things wrong with great aplomb.
- The opinions are mine. What I think of a cat’s type, a line, a kibble or a breeding practice comes from me, from my reading and from what I have seen for myself. The AI shapes the words, it does not decide.
- The photos are mine. No cat photograph on this site is generated: they are my cats, photographed at home or at their birth catteries. One exception, owned openly: the brand visuals — the home banner, the logo medallion — are illustrations I had generated by AI (ChatGPT), simply because I found them pretty and they set the mood. They are scenery, never a means of concealing or transforming anything: no illustrated cat is presented as a real cat of the cattery. And if something on this site seems inaccurate to you — an image, a figure, a phrasing — tell me: a site is built as it flows, and I correct.
- The figures are checked. It is the most serious limit of the exercise: an AI can produce a wrong figure with perfect confidence. Every price, every protein rate, every legal deadline quoted here has been cross-checked against its source, and the sources are linked so you can do the same.
- Nothing is published without proofreading. I reread every page, have rewritten what does not sound like me, and cut what rings hollow. I have been known to refuse a phrasing three times before it suits me.
- Breeding decisions are not delegated. The matings, the selection of breeding cats, the choice of whether to sell a kitten entire: that belongs to my work as a breeder, and to no tool.
A living site
This site is not a frozen brochure. It is corrected and enriched regularly: when a piece of information changes, when I realise a page is badly put together, or when someone points out a mistake. The date of last update sits at the bottom of every page.
If you spot an inaccuracy, a dead link or an ambiguous phrasing, write to me. I will correct it, and be grateful — a site people lean on to choose a cat has no right to be approximate.