Since the death of Lady Magick I’ve been reminiscing a great deal about how we met and the group Cattery Chatter. I could put this post in the Lady Magick thread or here; I think I’ll just write it. It fits either place (with a few modifications).
Once upon a time, around 2015
there were no profilers, or they were just getting started. It was much harder to shop for the cat that you wanted. There was more competition among the market sims and some ill-feeling as well because there were some fundamentally different theories about how cats should be priced. In the face of the glut of cats on the market, one set thought that price controls were needed and another set felt that one could never control the market anyway and lower cost but higher volume and/or intrinsic charm would work. (Both sets agreed that most cats wouldn’t sell.)
Ms Magick and I met on the forum. We realized during these debates that both of us were adamantly against price controls which were futile and counter-productive. We set out to form a group, which became Cattery Chatter, which would function like the Kitty Addicts group but have open discussion about pricing. We wanted it to encourage heavy auction attendance, with members letting other members know what other cats had gone for. In the meantime we would teach breeding and pedigree reading.
Ms Magick was ideal to moderate this group because of her unfailing logic, sense of organization, practicality, skill with breeding and also her friendly and gentle speech. It was a fun chat group for awhile. Eventually the group closed; we never got enough members to create the kind of critical mass that was needed. MsMagick and I stayed in touch, but she was more into the auction scene and I moved into heavy-duty dominance testing. And now we have profilers and comparison shopping is pretty much automatic - which is a benefit to everybody. You can find the cat you want, with the traits that suit your needs, in less than 5 minutes and I suspect that not only have sales gone up, but the quality of cats on the grid has never been higher (in terms of variety of cats, matchy cats, availability of recessive cats).
All of which is to say that nobody in this thead has ever been on the price controls/ cat controls side of things. On the contrary, we were on the other side.
What is a Good Cat?
