Please Be Carefull !!

[Liriel Garnet]

Re naming boxes: I label all my boxes with shown, hidden, and potential hidden via my own 'code' LOL ... This is one from this morning, for example:

9T - BaliChoccy/MidSkPrf/Twink/BooT/RndE/WhMyW - hid OciES,OdyRn+,unkT,PSF,Blk+W,??PlshW

it's hiding the following for sure: Oci Ebony/Silver, Ody Rainbow or better (all i know about the 'or better' is that it's at least Ody Kaleidoscope, parents first breeding), an unknown tail to let the BooBoo out (I didn't know mom had anything beyond frisky), Pointed Soft Fold ears, Black 'or better' whiskers. It's 50/50 to hide plush whiskers as dad hides them.

I use this for my OWN purposes, it allows me to find boxes quickly in inventory. It does however provide a handy guide for anyone looking at my boxes.

Re: Auctioneers knowing their stuff.. OMG YES!!! This is absolutely critical. Everyone is human and makes mistakes, but a good auctioneer will know their stuff about each of the cats for sale and will have tried their best to know what is potentially hiding in order to best sell the cats. If a mistake is made, a good auctioneer is quick to acknowledge and correct their mistakes. This is why, as a patron, if you think something *isn't* right about a claim on a cat, you should ALWAYS speak up and ask for an explanation.

My current pet peeve: People who claim that a cat definitely hides something when it's only a chance. Just because a full sibling got something, doesn't mean that the parents passed it to the baby, unless at least one SHOWS it. For example, even if a full sibling of and offspring of two Apple-eyed parents shows Ody Bellini (meaning both hide it), there is NO guarantee that a box from that same pair showing Apple hides the Ody Bellini. Both parents could have passed their Apple eye, in which case it's pure Apple, nothing else hiding.