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RE: RFL Kitties
My recommendation for normal starters, and Specials, like the RFL Cats, which are normal starters with a paint job:
Use a fair-to-mid'lin 9-trait cat and save your deeply-recessive cats for other projects. If you don't have a 9-trait, it's OK to cover the main features: fur, eye color, tail, ears and whiskers color and shape. The other three traits (shade, eye shape and pupil size) have fewer values. Eye shape and pupil size, with only two values each, are easiest to cross into the line later. Shade, while it has several values, is of lesser importance because, for many people, it's problematic because they simply can't see the differences.
Retired trait values are best. They can't be in the starter, so if they appear, you know, right away, that both the starter and the offspring hide something more recessive.
The idea is, all things being equal, normal starters are as likely to hide the more-dominant half of the value list as they are to hide the more-recessive half. By using a mid'lin mate, half the time you'll find out just the same information, in the same time, as if you'd used a deeply-recessive mate .. and your deep mate can be off working on something else like the other half offspring from earlier starters, or crossing traits into other lines.
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