I feel like a chinese dictator

[Nynaveve Wirefly]

*chuckles* I laugh not at you, Mal, but at this issue in general, because every time I see it pop up on the forums I happily chime in with my sympathies and a response. I am afraid to birth boxes for most of my project lines because I know I will get the wrong gender. It just flat pisses me off. What the heck am I supposed to do with those cats? I am *not* going to sell them, because they are smack in the middle of a project, so there is no point in putting a half-finished line on the market. And while they have heaps of potential in them, I can't use them! So what do I do? Waste it in the menagerie for a measly 50K$ when it could have produced an epic line of kitties if it had been the right gender?

EVERY serious breeder goes through this on a regular basis. Its absolutely beyond maddening. I have just flat stopped working on a few lines because of the lack of the correct gender. KittyCats will never give us gender on boxes, I am sure of it, but I have not the faintest idea what they have in mind that could even come close to a substitute for it. I pray its *not* a gender change potion, because no matter how you look at that, its going to completely screw up the market and breeding process.

Right now we have to wait and see. In the meantime, I completely 100% share your frustration.