Please Be Carefull !!

[Dario Maesar]

(10-27-2012 12:04 PM)Kayleigh McMillan Wrote:  Yes reputation is very important because a seller can, if intentionally, make a good sale by a false claim but these rumors go fast.
And we all know new people make mistakes as for what a cat can hide that is forgivable I think.
Yes, it is either KC comes with an official dominance order list which sure would damage some of the game element or we need to make sure new people feel free to ask our opinion about a cat before they buy.
I'm very happy so much initiatives are taken to educate people I'm so amazed how fast newer people learn to breed.
You new breeders out there can't stop to amaze me, seriously!
That was way different in our days

Yes.... I totally agree with you... but on a site note... you can be having trouble like that one I had... I had a little obstacle that made me look like one of those stupids that tell people something is hidding when it's not...

I sold this cat on an auction a Siamese Chocolate that was hidding Balinese Seal Lynx. The cat sold quite well and the person was happy with it at first. After a couple of breeds, I met that person on an auction again and they messaged me something like "Hey, the cat you sold me, it does not hide Balinese Seal Lynx. It is probably Siamese Chocolate on Siamese Chocolate, but I am not faulting you". I was like "HUH? One second!" and went to IM with Saga. Saga also said the Balinese Seal is hidding... just that althought the new owner put my cat with a Balinese Seal Lynx, he fur didn't came out. She obviously only ever got Siamese Chocolates. I talked to her and could rest her assure the Balinese Seal Lynx is in there. Mom was a Balinese Seal Lynx, dad was a Siamese Chocolate, it is impossible to be Siamese Chocolate on Siamese Cholate. Sometimes, even IF something is hidding, it still is no garantuee that you breed that cat with that hiding and get that hiddings to pop from it. That's my experience and all the more you should consider as buyer, how much afford it might cost you to breed with an offspring toward your goal. Sure, the offspring of a, lets say Ocicat Ebony Silver, might be cheaper as the Ocicat Ebony Silver directly... one has the fur shown the other has it hidden... but you might put much more afford into the offspring trying to get it give out the damn hiddings than having breeded with the direct shown trait you wished for in the first place.

Which makes me think that it is not always cool to look for a cheap kitty (cheap as in -I take the offspring is make my wallet less cry than buy the direct fur or trait-)... and from the sellers point of view it is not good to sell an cat as offspring of something that is much asked at the market... even if you can tell 100% sure that something hides inside. You do have to count on a newbie thinking it out too easily and then picking up on you and telling you something about your cat not giving what you sold it as...

In the end, MY personal reason to buy offsprings and breed with them is to kill my boredome. Sometimes I get bored, then I buy such cats and see what I can do to it... just to be busy with some new project somehow... other than that, I learned the hard way that luck makes a big part of breeding... I have tried to breed cats that made no good results for me in my cattery, selling them off and their new owner has a great result BAM with them. Makes me hammer my face against the wall thinking "Dooh, why not with me?!" On the other hands, cats that have bought no luck to their owners giving me great results sometimes...

*cought* Before I drift away more... LOL I will stop it at this point

I breed for fun, I sell the cats I have left over from my breeding try, I keep breeding the best offsprings again and pair in new blood from other peoples rather great breeding results... KittyCatS is nontheless fun.... just be watchful is never wrong as seller as well as as buyer

Happy Breeding