(02-04-2013 09:57 PM)Sanura Snowpaw Wrote: Personally I think showing the breeder is only going to lead to more elitist attitudes that if you haven't bred out a certain amount of that line you aren't a so called "good breeder". Which has already caused people to feel badly for what they breed and sell and made them rethink what they buy because they aren't willing to spend thousands of lindens on something they won't be allowed to sell until they have owned and bred the line enough for those buyers to consider them an actual breeder. This attitude also has caused many new people to KittyCatS to feel badly because they don't own the grandparents or whatever, to me the thing I love about KittyCatS is the community and I just see this making the community more bitter and elitist which isn't something that sounds like fun in the least for me.
Personally I have to disagree. Seeing who bred the original box will let you know if that person was really breeding the line to keep or to sell. I know some of my lines I only breed them to sell, and I rarely do more than 2 or 3 generations of inbreeding to get what I really want out of a cat (most times I'm mixing it in with otherlines not going for purebreds). Having the option to see who bred the cat is a perk not a con. If people are so worried about the elitist opinions out there, they need to realize that the people who feel like they're elite often have worked their arshes off to get the best cats possible. So yeah maybe not all of us can afford to work with stellar lines, but at least we'll know where the lines we buy came from so we can look at others from those lines and know what to expect as possible hiddens. I know from my experience as well that breeders don't always *gasp* keep their live cats....some of us loan them or give them to friends, pass them to someone we knows loves that fur when they retire. Being able to still access our bred cats lets us see who likes our lines as well, so we know what groups to target our advertising to.
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