Some Thoughts on Advertising Terminology

[Liriel Garnet]

I actually use a slightly different definition for hiding -- it has to be either shown directly from a parent or can be proven via dominance analysis of the shown trait. I'm also careful to list xxx+ if I'm not 100 percent sure whether the trait i mention is hiding or a more recessive might be hiding.

'in the background' is actually quite useful, assuming, as you said, that the claim isn't made for a trait that cannot possibly be hidden in the OS. Any hidden trait from a parent is 50% likely to be passed to a box. So if one parent hides a myst eye, the other is pure curious, then the box is 50% to hide myst eye. It's a toss up, but it's there. If *both* parents have a curious eye hiding myst and the curious shows, it's actually a 2/3 chance for the myst to be hiding, which is significant. Personally when labelling boxes like this, i will use a ? to denote a trait that is 2/3 likely to hide and ?? to denote a trait that is 50% to hide, but i do *not* count those as 'for sure' when assessing known potential of a cat.

I use siblings only to prove that a parent hides a particular trait. I have a cat for example, that I know is hiding sublime behind her shown Ody Dream, but you can't see that in the pedigree, because mom and her parents all show grass eyes. So I'll post a pedigree from one of the mom's OS to show that she indeed hides the sublime behind the grass.