Please Be Carefull !!

[Nocshadue Balbozar]

Just a few thoughts about listing hiddens. While it's true that traits shown in grandparents etc, can be lurking still, the farther away you get from a trait being shown..the more likely it is to no longer be there in my experience.

I've been seeing some boxes that say "Fussy Tail Hidden" for example, and when I look in pedi I see maybe 1 grandparent had fussy and all other cats show gen tails. The kitten, in my experience, is most likely, showing and hiding a gen tail.

Naming the box "Fussy in BG" would be accurate, but in the nuts and bolts of breeding...should be a mild consideration.

It takes some time to learn how to read and understand pedigrees and the trait charts. And when someone is new and excited about breeding, its hard to resist buying kitteh.

That's why I'd rather err on the side of caution when naming boxes. If an experienced breeder wants to take time to check pedigrees, which I do enable on boxes, they can draw their own conclusion about what is possibly hiding. So I usually don't list hidden at all, but I think it's fine if others choose to list hiddens in name, and I do see where it can be helpful.

Piper said: 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"

But that is what people often think, especially new breeders, and why I think it pays to use caution when naming.