KittyCatS! Market Improvement Suggestions

[Rala Huckleberry]

Hello all,
Thank you for this thread, which touches a very basic problem of the Kittycats markets an with this also of the breeders, which in short or longer terms will fall back on KC itself as well. And to be honest, I am very much astonished, how few people are participating in this discussion. I hear the complaints every day by so many people.....where are they when there is to talk openly and in public? Even if we , who write here, don't have all the same opinion, thanks to ALL who are not afraid to tell it!
Some of you know, that I am a Co Owner of UKF, but today I write in first line as a breeder, and I am sure, that there are many breeders who are going through the same situation.
I am breeding since Xmas 2012, started with a starterpack and learned most of how to breed from other breeders in the secondary markets. It was a bit of work, but it was fun, and how happy I was, when I started out to get nice kitties, and people came and bought them. It was not so much the money, but a sale is always the appreciation of the "work" or/and the ideas. This motivates to get better cats and to invest in good traits, which keeps the economy moving, and encourages others to get into breeding as well. They will have cats and BUY FOOD AND MILK......so we do something good for KC as well.
All went well until approximately May-June this year, the period when the traits of the LEs of Valentines Day and Easter were about to be bred out well.... and there are still some people who say that the situation has nothing to do with the number of the sold LE kitties...which is so high, that the "limited" is to justify only with the fact, that they are not available anymore, after having made sure, that all have had the possibility to buy as many as possible....On my opinion this is a point worth to think about a bit.
Since this time the kittyboxes stay in the shops like rocks. And what beautiful boxes I see!!!! The only way to sell something is...no, WAS!....to go to auctions. Who wonders why the number of the auctions increased?
I will not talk about this viscious circle....we all know how it is going. I just say, that I am at a point, that I often look at my cattery and am thinking about sending all to the menagery, taking a Tiger as a nice souvenir in memory of KittyCats. And I never had so good kitties as I do at the moment. For now my heart has been bleeding strong enough that I did not do this step....but how long? I know several good breeders who have given up....what a pity.
Some cynical fellows might say now : OK....BETTER!! So there is one breeder less who is spamming the market with his/her cats.....and KC does not seem to be interested to hold the experienced breeders......the starterpacks, LEs and food keeps the business going.This is right! But only until the frustration is so big, that nobody is motivated to breed anymore.
We all will stay healthy if we work together. So I think we should really but REALLY collaborate and not just enter a group and hope in silence that there will be one or two who will find the miracoulous solution and save the KC-world
There are some very nice suggestions:
Re-limitation of the Limited Editions
Promotional periods for food and milk
A new Menagery Tiger
More Kitty Dollars for a sent in box or cat
What about marketwide hunts which go over all the marketplaces
Restrictive auction rules which look on quality!
And much more.....
I come to an end now......but I really hope that KittyCatS! will not end so soon.....let us work on it TOGETHER!
Rala Huckleberry