Please Be Carefull !!

[Nocshadue Balbozar]

I'm kind of glad you woke up this thread anna. I haven't been wandering the markets lately but what has disturbed me is stuff I hear sometimes in KC chat. A phrase I hear a lot is "carry the genes". The mistaken assumption is that a cat can "carry the genes" of multiple hiddens. I don't know where this came from but its very confusing to new breeders. This is something I have also heard at some auctions I've popped into and that really infuriates me. New breeders look to auctioneers to know their stuff and be able to advise them. When we have auctioneers telling their audience that a dominant trait CAN be hiding behind something KNOWN to be more recessive, it hurts everyone.

Another point of confusion with new people seems to be that a cat CAN pass a hidden. I've been seeing MANY people posting a new kitten and having NO idea why they got say a bali lilac when they were expecting a bengal snow. If you can get them to gyazo the pedi for you, its usually easy to tell, but I've noticed many new people just starting to breed have no idea how to access a pedigree. They've never heard of the forums, never been to an auction, so the only resource they've been using is chat and/or other people they may know who also breed, many of which are new themselves.

I usually don't mention hiddens anymore in boxes I have for sale. I let buyers perv the pedi and draw their own conclusions. Mainly because I don't want anyone to be dissappointed if a kitty with a CHANCE to hide something didn't hide it. So it's touchy there, labeling cats or boxes for sale.

There is always a learning curve. I was completely clueless when I started breeding and it took me a few months and help from Draco and Theo, who stated in KC chat one day that they were happy to be IM'd with questions. I took them up on that offer and have bugged them with questions ever since =op. Now, I'm a pretty good trait detective lol, and am also happy to be IM'd if anyone would like some help. Its a lot easier to figure things out now than it was back in the olden days when I was new and we didn't have a pedigree website, or trait charts and...I had to walk to auctions uphill bothways too! =op