Shipping a cat from the Netherlands to Australia

Wanna know how much it costs to ship a little bit of feline royalty to Australia? I just submitted the receipts for reimbursement here: AUS$ 2760 (and that excludes the costs of chipping and the rabies vaccination, the petrol costs and the many things that are lost and have to be bought again). So, really, think along the lines of AUS$3000 (EUR€1785). I know I should be ashamed, but really it makes me smile; to think some people spend that kind of money on a watch, for example...