Devaluing problem within selling kittycats

[Draco Nacht]

I'll add to this as an auctioneer and a KC breeder, I don't say "breed what you love" to be politically correct. I say it because of the huge number of times I've seen people make what they think is a business decision to buy a 30k cat with many recessive traits that they don't necessarily love only to find even by the next week those cats are going for 10k because of overbreeding. So people have a cat who isn't even of breeding age who has had their value cut by 2/3s and the argument is that breeding for what you love is going to be a credit card heavy endeavor?

What we usually say is that chasing the market is likely to be frustrating. Cats do not have an inherent value, but as you say, a market value based on what people think they are worth. Therefore, if you're breeding cats you love, they have value to *you.* Since no one can entirely predict what the market as a whole is going to want or need on any given night (as Theo says, sometimes a snowshoe lilac can go for 9k, the next week it might no sale for 500L) usually you're better off breeding a cat you will be happy looking at than one you don't really care about that you thought would sell for 10k and can't unload. To me, that is a bigger credit card drain and one I'd be more likely to resent.

p.s. I'm making decent bank off of Confettis and considering my initial investment was just menagerie points, it's pretty much win.