I have to agree with this!
For obvious reasons I kept my bengal snow line pure even before all the new more recessive furs were introduced just because they are so useful to try starters I wanted, even before they were retired, to keep at least one bengal line pure as a convenient breeders tool.
A happy surprise therefore was the retirement of the Bengal Snow because this gave my pure line even more value.
But this is basically the only fur I claim to be pure as I know for a fact it is.
And yes this is something I hope I have a good enough reputation in for people to trust this
It seems in the future important as well with the variety of Balineses.
In other cases such as with my ody sublime eyes, in which I created many generations which could be pure but we all know we never know this to be a fact, I advertice them as i.e 4-th generation sublime.
I see false adverticements in what you mentioned above as well but I like to believe, maybe I'm a softy here, people don't do this on purpose and if they do I think this is not even close to smart for their own future reputation.
It can have a problematic outcome though especially for the reputation of the breeder in question and ofcourse for the budget of the not well informed customer.
But learning about genes has a huge learning curve and as the amount of people who breed grows every day I think they deserve the time to learn more about it.
Yesterday I saw someone who claimed a cat did hide both a siamese flame and a snowshoe red such is obviously something the breeder will learn in time to be impossible.
I think the explanation you gave above is very valuable for new and some older breeders as this explains everything really, thank you!
Therefore I like to vote for this to be a sticky post and some other posts, Miss Callie *Gives the strickt look*
Some Thoughts on Advertising Terminology
