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RE: Hidden vs hidden
Random is random.
The goal of breeding it to control random until it's constant.
Often you can't get directly from point A to point B.
If you have a cat with a hidden, and nothing deeper to push that hidden you, you're forced to use something more dominant to pick it up. Which dominant you use limits your choices later on. If you can breed the child back to the parent, fine. That's a way to reduce the random effect. But if you can't do that, then the dominant on the child is important. You're going to have to make another child. And the dominant you choose there matters even more. What you want to do is set it up so not only can you tell WITH CERTAINTY that your dominant picked up the hidden .. you want to be able to tell WITH CERTAINTY when you cross the kids together, which of the grandkids have that hidden you're looking for because .. random IS random .. and you want to be prepared not only for that 1 in 4 grandkid which finally shows the hidden, but the very real chance NONE will and you'll have to go to another generation and, if you do, you want to be DARNED SURE you still have that hidden!!!
I know, I know, it's confusing. Charm goes crazy every time I tell her that Smokey/Pink Ice is PERFECT! She should keep it .. just in case. But every now and then the parents age out, the kids age out and she's at a loss .. and THEN I pull out that Pink Ice and tell her .. with certainty .. that it carries the Rainbow Prism she wants and, if she can just wait another week, she can re-boot the program and finally get her Pure Prism eyes without going to market and paying for the genes all over again!
Good breeding is like good chess. The better players think several moves ahead and keep options open .. just in case their opponent .. randomness .. makes a surprise move and ruins their carefully laid plans.
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