(03-16-2023 06:57 AM)Shamu077 Resident Wrote: One way to fix this is for the public pedigrees to show the actual breeder. This was once the case, but KC removed that option because a few influential breeders or auctioneers didn't want the breeder name revealed. That was about 10 years ago, and the hide the breeder rule seems to be fixed in stone now. Callie can you comment on this?
A possible fix for this, would be when you are in the pedigree, the cats would show "Same breeder" or "Different breeder" in relevance to the cat. That would be a way to show everybody who the breeder is without showing who the breeder is?
On a similar point though, at CatTales, if you are breeding with someone else you just have to tell us that you are breeding with the person who happens to own the grandparent and it counts as having grandparents.
We had someone come to auction and it looked like they didn't even own the parents of the kitten in question. When asked about it, we found out it was bred by their breeding partner, and they do all of the breeding on their account rather than her's. So this still counts as having grandparents.
Supporting other breeders versus grandparent rule at auctions
