Thank you for the well-thought out and heartfelt post on this Rayne. And you are welcome. I am happiest when teaching others and sharing the knowledge I have learned from other people through my past year in KittyCats. As for the menagerie cats... well, I have a few thoughts on them myself. LOL
I am glad that KC's finally decided to release a BIG ticket item to use your K$, because up to this point I think I've bought 6 scratchy posts and a permapet bottle with my K$. I was hoarding them and not willing to spend them, but also had no clue this was in the works. However, this really makes it worthwhile. When you think about all the effort that you put into breeding your cats, time, expenses, etc, its really really rewarding to be able to get a kitty like this from the menagerie K$. I wish they had made them no transfer, but we can't get everything we want.
I'd love to get one of every color that Callie releases - I have an RL love affair with tigers so I had a catgasm when I saw the release poster for these. (Callie - you are FREAKING AWESOME!!!) But its going to take time and work and patience. And it hugely benefits the secondary market when people use this properly, which I love, and I know other serious breeders appreciate. As Sanura said, we really have to think twice about whether we want to keep that cat, sell it, or just send it to the M, because its just not worth flooding the market with mediocre cats when you can work your way toward a fantastic reward.
A lot of folks have been complaining about the "unachievable" goal of 10K or 12K K$. But its not unachievable, and the point is to make it an amount that requires some effort but is not impossible to reach. (The jewels on the other hand...) As with anything else in a breedable, you always have the option to buy what you need to get there.
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