Getting "pissy" about the left out older breeds of kitties

[Bea Shamrock]

(10-17-2012 04:56 PM)Rocky Balzibo Wrote:  A high end cat for me is a well-traited cat with a newer trait(s) that many people would want and is willing to pay for it. Like having a high end car in RL, say a Ferrari, the desirablity of owning one, the rarity, and the performance drives the price up for that car.
Newer traits are always in demand and desirable, atleast in the world of competitive breeding, and performance would be the actual breeding value of the cat.

Personal preference plays a lesser part when it comes to high end cats in my opinion, because to make a high end cat with both value in itself (high price) and with high breeding value (good to get into your breeding program) you are somewhat constricted to having newer traits, especially fur and eye.

I'm not against high end cats as you describe them, but there are a lot of kitties advertised and priced as high end cats which are far from meeting that criteria. A high end cat to me shows the work the breeder has put into making it -so I'm wary of the cats showing new traits soon after they've been discovered, and priced and presented (it's not just the price, it's the image projected) as high end cats.

@Wyndy : I love Sables too!!!!!!

[Kayleigh McMillan]

(10-17-2012 05:34 PM)Sanura Snowpaw Wrote:  I breed what I love but I do try to go for a unique combo, mixing new with old. As almost everyone who knows me knows and can tell you I am a sucker for soft fold ears so I put them on nearly everything I breed, luckily there are others who share a love of the cats I've bred so I am able to get a fair price.

I do think many people will overlook a cat that isn't their ideal because of one small thing, be it a fur, eye color ect. and forget that part of breeding is putting together the traits and fur combos that you want. I've bought cats who had a single trait I wanted in order to be able to push it into another line.

Amen to this!

And oh Sanura we need to talk
I desperately need a pure foldy breeding couple with a not too recessive fur so I can breed them on high as well as low furs.
Because my passion always was rounded and you see the trap right?
Behind my foldies are 9 out of 10 times rounded ears LOL
Recently I found out the curious whisker for example, I didn't like at first, do work great with foldies for me!

[Rocky Balzibo]

(10-17-2012 05:03 PM)Kayleigh McMillan Wrote:  Yes I agree, if we can have mutiple rare/new traits in one cat we have a better short cut in our breeding programs.
But for example as with whiskers I especially like plush and avoid the more recessive whisker so if a more recessive whisker is present in such trait combination I likely not buy the kitty so in such case taste matters as well.
The whiskers of the kitty have a prominent place in the expression of a kitty while a tail matters less to me eventhough I prefer a long tail over the short tails.

Well that is your personal preference, but, take a 9T cat with BooBoo whiskers and a completely similar one but with plush whisker instead. To me the booboo cat is way more high-end then the exact similar cat with plush whisker, due to rarity. That's why personal preference does not matter much when it comes to how I define a high-end cat.

[Kayleigh McMillan]

(10-17-2012 05:45 PM)Rocky Balzibo Wrote:  Well that is your personal preference, but, take a 9T cat with BooBoo whiskers and a completely similar one but with plush whisker instead. To me the booboo cat is way more high-end then the exact similar cat with plush whisker, due to rarity. That's why personal preference does not matter much when it comes to how I define a high-end cat.

I think that our vision on high end is different or high end is not really my goal because my personal preference is indeed more important for me otherwise I don't like my kitties.
And lucky enough as Sanura mentioned as well I receive a fair price for my kitties as it seems others like what I make as well and that's nice
I love the Boo Boo whisker as well btw but have you noticed they only show a whiskers in the front and not at the back of the kitty?
This concerns all the whiskers recessive to curious.
They are to fix this but until that is fixed I don't touch the recessive LOL
My boxed Boo Boo whiskers are in a safety zone with a red prim on top of it which means do not open me until this is fixed
Same goes for my boxed wavy's I have them but I don't use them.

[Skippy Seminario]

I am thankful that we all have different ideas and tastes...would be rather boring if we all thought the same way on what was perfect...

[Sanura Snowpaw]

Kay lets talk and I can look and see what I might have but sometimes I have rounded hiding also it shows later and only sometimes when I didn't even know it was there.

I have to admit I hadn't noticed the Boo Boo or Wavy whiskers not having a back side to them. LOL I guess I spend to much time staring at their little faces to see the back HAHAHA

[Kayleigh McMillan]

(10-17-2012 10:09 PM)Sanura Snowpaw Wrote:  Kay lets talk and I can look and see what I might have but sometimes I have rounded hiding also it shows later and only sometimes when I didn't even know it was there.

I have to admit I hadn't noticed the Boo Boo or Wavy whiskers not having a back side to them. LOL I guess I spend to much time staring at their little faces to see the back HAHAHA

Cool thanks Sanura
And I know I'm an insane mouselook user because I'm used to make jewelry so to me this problem is huge with the whiskers
Especially now after they realeased the roll over animation it has become even more obvious to me when we look at their faces LOL