Balinese, and the secondary market. Can we *avoid* having a round 2 of this?

[Kayleigh McMillan]

(06-20-2012 11:10 AM)Mirsoul Resident Wrote:  I am really very new to the KittyCats community and when first started told myself....30 kitties is my limit. LOL well here I am at over 100 and I find it mind boggling that just when a project really starts to come together, BAM, it becomes reletively worthless.

Traits are more important to me on a kitty, I like to breed the traits in and see what I get. Now don't get me wrong, I have purchased high traited kitties to help me in this endeavor, but most of them I still have. Some have reached their age limit and I have given them away as pets, or sent them to the menagerie. i guess my point here is, the traits come out, whether it be fur, eyes, ears...etc. the market goes crazy over it, regardless of secondary traits that may be lacking. So it is not so much KittyCats releasing new traits, it is the greed of the market that drives the low traited Balinese, or the kitties with great eyes and nothing else to back them up. It has become a market of mass production for the highest amount of lindens regardless of secondary traits. For me personally, I take pride in knowing that the 9T boxes in my cattery, are a product of my research and work. And that those kitties that helped me get there, I can have again in their off spring. As for the 5-8T kitties i do sell, I can only hope that they will help somone else enjoy the breeding process.

I so agree with you in all aspects!