NEW Faux Puff - Perfect Storm

[Eiji Kokorin]

(Yesterday 07:36 AM)Songdog Woolley Wrote:  

(Yesterday 06:42 AM)Eiji Kokorin Wrote:  I have a perhaps strange question...

I'm a bit puzzled by the difficulty breeding Perfect Storms.
I'm getting very few Storm offspring, compared to others. So much so, that it almost doesn't seem 'bad luck with random', but could there be something else?
This week again, out of 4 offspring, I had 0 Perfect Storms. My oldest PStorm cat has had 8 offspring so far, with only 1 of them being a Perfect Storm.
Out of 18 offspring that my 4 Storm cats have had, only 4 were Perfect Storms.

I'm breeding them to Maltese Black Chinchilla, or more recessive.

Is any other Perfect Storm breeder experiencing such very low offspring numbers? Or I'm just being very unlucky?

Oh Eiji, I feel your frustration. It IS just "bad luck with random". Your (visible fur) Perfect Storm cats each have ONE Perfect Storm trait and ONE more recessive hidden fur trait (unless you have a pure Perfect Storm fur, which means that both fur traits are Perfect Storm - assume they're not unless you have proof) . Each breeding for each cat is 50/50: either your kitty will pass its Perfect Storm fur OR its hidden recessive. As long as you are using mates showing fur that is known to be recessive to Perfect Storm, every time the Perfect Storm trait passes, it will show. Currently we know it to be dominant to Cheetah! - Maltese Black Chinchilla, so if you use Malty or more recessive mates, that will work. If you have used mates more dominant to Malty, the PS might be hiding under the visible trait (again, a 50% chance). Pull the hidden to find out! :-)
There are no traits that are harder to breed than other traits - they all work the same with the caveat that most-recessives require a different approach. Sometimes you get a trait that "likes" you (statistically falls the way you want more often), and sometimes traits that "hate" you - but that's just chance, really!

Thanks Songdog, I've had traits that 'hated' me in the past, but this is getting so extreme, I just had to ask about others' Perfect Storm experiences.

I know how the breeding is supposed to work out, but hey, who knows KittyCats may have throw in a surprise head scratcher.

Yeah, I may try it with a Scottish Fold Champagne next time, even though Perfect Storm seems pretty solidly proven to be dominant to Maltese Black Chinchilla.

[Songdog Woolley]

(Yesterday 08:37 AM)Eiji Kokorin Wrote:  

(Yesterday 07:36 AM)Songdog Woolley Wrote:  

(Yesterday 06:42 AM)Eiji Kokorin Wrote:  I have a perhaps strange question...

I'm a bit puzzled by the difficulty breeding Perfect Storms.
I'm getting very few Storm offspring, compared to others. So much so, that it almost doesn't seem 'bad luck with random', but could there be something else?
This week again, out of 4 offspring, I had 0 Perfect Storms. My oldest PStorm cat has had 8 offspring so far, with only 1 of them being a Perfect Storm.
Out of 18 offspring that my 4 Storm cats have had, only 4 were Perfect Storms.

I'm breeding them to Maltese Black Chinchilla, or more recessive.

Is any other Perfect Storm breeder experiencing such very low offspring numbers? Or I'm just being very unlucky?

Oh Eiji, I feel your frustration. It IS just "bad luck with random". Your (visible fur) Perfect Storm cats each have ONE Perfect Storm trait and ONE more recessive hidden fur trait (unless you have a pure Perfect Storm fur, which means that both fur traits are Perfect Storm - assume they're not unless you have proof) . Each breeding for each cat is 50/50: either your kitty will pass its Perfect Storm fur OR its hidden recessive. As long as you are using mates showing fur that is known to be recessive to Perfect Storm, every time the Perfect Storm trait passes, it will show. Currently we know it to be dominant to Cheetah! - Maltese Black Chinchilla, so if you use Malty or more recessive mates, that will work. If you have used mates more dominant to Malty, the PS might be hiding under the visible trait (again, a 50% chance). Pull the hidden to find out! :-)
There are no traits that are harder to breed than other traits - they all work the same with the caveat that most-recessives require a different approach. Sometimes you get a trait that "likes" you (statistically falls the way you want more often), and sometimes traits that "hate" you - but that's just chance, really!

Thanks Songdog, I've had traits that 'hated' me in the past, but this is getting so extreme, I just had to ask about others' Perfect Storm experiences.

I know how the breeding is supposed to work out, but hey, who knows KittyCats may have throw in a surprise head scratcher.

Yeah, I may try it with a Scottish Fold Champagne next time, even though Perfect Storm seems pretty solidly proven to be dominant to Maltese Black Chinchilla.

Yeah, I get that. Just to let you know, Perfect Storm likes me a lot, and I've used Malties and Tuscan Terras. I suspect messing with the coded behavior of a single trait used with certain other traits only would be pretty complex for the coder/scripter, and unlikely. I also think that if KC wants to mess with us, they'll make it in a way that makes breeders happy, rather than frustrated. Well. Other than Confetti breeding, but we volunteer for that frustration ;-D