boy, did I start a storm
some clarification:
a costume fur cannot pass. Think like mardigras -- even if you paint yourself green, you aren't going to have a green baby. Your baby will have the same color skin as at least one of your ancestors. So it is with kittycats. Costume furs don't pass.
a collection special baby is one time event -- two collection cats bred together for the first time to create a special costumed baby. This is a costume fur that the parents don't have and does not get passed on.
a special event special babies -- during a specified time period usually a week, any two cats can birth a special costumed baby, usually one to an avatar. Again his is a costume fur that the parents don't have and does not get passed on.
confetti cats are not a costume fur. They can pass. They have 4 furs that passes.
The new tiger collection, while the parents have a costume fur showing, they also have 3 furs that pass: a genesis, a regular non genesis and a tiger fur. Their baby's shown tiger fur is not a costume. They can pass it. A passing fur is not a costume fur.
From the lavendar tiger thread
https://kittycats.ws/forum/showthread.php?tid=31644&page=5
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Because the tiger collection has 3 furs, it is significantly different than any other collection previously. Now it may be that some tigers from that collection only have 2 furs and others have 3 furs, I don't know. Certainly none of my tigers have produced a tiger yet. (very frustrating) However there are enough people showing that their collection cats have produced tiger babies who go on to produce other tiger babies to prove that some of them at least have 3 furs.
The tiger collection is a new paradigm. Kittycats did something completely different with them. Hopefully they will do it again. Having a special new fur that can reproduce is fun. But pretending the original parents only have 2 furs when their children show 3 different furs and can reproduce those 3 different furs along with furs from their latest partners and on down the generations shows that the original collection cats have 3 reproducable furs. Since I don't have a tiger baby grown up (or any tiger baby), I don't know if their tiger children have 3 furs meaning their babies show two regs and one tiger fur or if those tiger children have only two furs their tiger and one reg. I don't see charts proving it either way on the tiger children but people are only posting when they pop a tiger, not when they fail to pop a tiger so we don't see the other furs they pop. I assume that question has been answered already just I don't see it on a thread and honestly, I don't count an answer until I see it on a thread.
So yes I meant what I said. I was not counting the costumes on the parents. They don't pass. I was only counting the passing furs.
I also think since KC made a new paradigm we should find a new word for babies that can pass their cool furs. Not "costume" as they don't pass or "special" because that has it's own meaning too. If "couture" cat wasn't already taken, I'd go for that. Begowned, liveried, outfitted? No they don't fit either as they don't have that special feel that "costume" does. But darn it folks we do need a new word because we have something new here. Bedazzled? too bad that's trademarked
