This suggestions comes in a few parts:
1: Remove owner's name from pedigree page.
-Why? - It's really none of my business who owns the grandparent of the cat whose pedigree-panel I just clicked. -And maybe that person is not keen on having their breeding projects made more or less public because he/she once sold an offspring whose offspring is now for sale or at auction or whatever.
Also, if I sell a cat, it's none of my business if the next owner later gives it away or re-sells it - and it is most definitely not my business who then gets it.
I could go on and on - but bottom line is that several privacy issues can arise from us being able to see owner's names of all cats 3 generations back.
2: Make pedigree-pages viewable for anyone.
-Why? If owner's names are no longer listed on the pedigree-page, this does not result in privacy-issues. Instead, it makes it a LOT easier to track your cat's "genes" back in time. -I can imagine how much fun we'd have with this when we can see the entire family-tree - maybe this cat is actually a descendant of the cat we sold a year ago?
-Also, and maybe most importantly: This would mean that we can continue to track back our cat's pedigree even if we sold one or more of it's parents or grandparents... and that would be SO awesome!
3: In-build "pedigree-button" in cats.
The pedigree-buttons are nice and all, but they're tedious. -And new cat-owners don't automatically know how to get it, use it, and pass on the info. Instead, make it so that anyone can click a cat and load the pedigree-page - so that if you have access to a cat, you also have access to it's lineage. It would make things SO much easier at shops, sales, auctions etc.
If all this was done, people could share their cat's pedigree-page simply by posting a link to whoever they want to share it with. -A link that would NOT expire like the links from the current pedigree-buttons do.
-This would be nothing short of... excuse me... FREAKIN' AWESOME in my view, since I struggle each and every day with explaining to people how they need to share their pedigree-info with me in order to prove stuff for the Dominance-charts I made.
Right now, sharing your cat's pedigree with someone is not very easy, and it becomes rather difficult if that someone should be able to access the info for more than a few minutes into the future.
-But besides that, simply being able to browse pedigree-pages would make a fun activity for many eager KittyCatS-breeders
It is possible to do with other breedables I know of, without having ever resulted in privacy-issues - as long as the owner-names go, of course
Hope to see this happen some time <3
-Saga
