Please Be Carefull !!

[Piper Rowley]

Quite honestly, this thread had made me go rename all my boxes in my shops to say nothing about hiding anything. I name some boxes with what they could be hiding but I don't specify *could*. Example:

? 3T:: Hiding StrawBellini/Twinkly/Ody1/PerfPlushWhisk

Fur: Siamese - Blue
Eyes: Passion (Shape: Curious | Pupil: Big)
Shade: Natural
Tail: Genesis
Ears: Genesis
Whiskers: White (Shape: Guitar)
Size: Normal

Pedigree: http://kittycats.biz/p.php?e24a5a5b-983690-51282
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MOM: Rose
Fur: Siamese - Blue
Eyes: Changing Leaf (Shape: Curious | Pupil: Small)
Shade: Natural
Tail: Genesis
Ears: Odyssey No. 1
Whiskers: Silver (Shape: Plush)

DAD: Derrick
Fur: Russian - Black
Eyes: Passion (Shape: Curious | Pupil: Big)
Shade: Natural
Tail: Genesis
Ears: Genesis
Whiskers: White (Shape: Guitar)

Baby is showing Dad's eye, Mom's hidden is Strawberry Bellini. Dad has no shade but Mom has Twinkle in the BG. Baby has gen ears like Dad but Mom has Ody 1 ears. Mom has Plush Whiskers and Dad/Baby have the same. Does this mean I'm wrong? The kitty could be hiding Changing Leaf as it is more dom than the Strawberry Bellini but I picked to put that there cause if someone has a S.Bellini and wants to pair it with that kitty above, there's a chance it will come out. I try to go back to the grandparents of the Mom/Dad to see what they have or what they could have passed before I name my boxes. If it's a kitty I bought and then bred with another, I honestly think pedigrees should be automatically enabled. That way, if I want to look at one of the kitties I bought great-grandpa, I can to determine what *might* be there. It would be easier. I have encountered people who refused to enable those pedigrees. They flat out told me "No". I want to see what a kitties great-grandparent has, what it passed to the kitty or what it *could* have passed.

I'm not trying to mislead anyone here. I look at back pedigrees (if I can) and the dom/rec order. I put what they are hiding cause they are potentially hiding it. When I am looking around at boxes and I see the word "Hiding" I don't instantaneously think "OMG! If I pair this with this then I'll get that" and people need to realize this. There's the potential for it and I don't always go back to the great-grandparents because a lot of people don't enable pedigrees on their kitties so it's hard to determine sometimes. I try to make sure ALL my kitties have them enabled. If someone wants to look, I have no problem with them looking. If they see something wrong, please tell me. I'm a new breeder and I WILL make mistakes but that doesn't mean I'm trying to bamboozle a noobie. I'm just stating what *could* be there.

With that book written (lol), if anyone wants to take the time to help me and look through my boxes so I'm not "misleading" anyone...by all means, please, but for now, I will be renaming my boxes to not show hiding anymore or at least say "in BG". The kitty above is now named: ? 3T:: StrawBellini/Twinkle/Ody1/PlushWhisk in BG.