Menagerie & Supply & Demand

[Ivy Norsk]

Once upon a time, somewhere on this forum, I remember Tad saying that the average breeder had 12 live cats. I don't know how he got the data and I don't know if it would still hold today. It would be good to know. Still, that would put one in the shooting range of the average person getting a cat a day as Jwenting has said.
I think that any reduction in supply is good. I think it is probably not achievable to have supply meet demand precisely. But I also think that it isn't a high stakes thing to try. Ultimately, who cares if it's precisely tailored as long as it moves in the right direction? Maybe Headquarters should try varying the number of boxes charged in order to find a sweetspot (though I'm not sure how they would measure success exactly in a specific way). 98% menagerie rate?- that isn't going to happen, people love their cats too much - nor do I think that we need to see a total turnover of kitties every year. But any improvement would be good.

And as jwenting says, there's a psychology of new breeders involved. People get into kittycats, put cats out for sale (not necessarily for 2000L), and then realize that cats with gen traits don't sell. I can remember being excited with my first little cart of 6Ts. Eventually I DID menagerie every single one of those cats. It's a very common learning curve that definitely affects what we see in markets and experienced breeders just need to be very gentle and patient with newer breeders in this stage.

The thing about all of it is that it would require significant new work at HQ to produce the LEs.