Dear KittyCatS Resident

[Tad Carlucci]

This is a fine point. Many won't see it as an issue because few (if any) breeders, generally, fall into the effected class.

When they do special offspring which also gave a new trait value (Lucky Irish Clover, for example), those breeders who are working on values more recessive than that new one (which could be quite a number, if the trait is relatively quite dominant) have NO change of receiving it.

As I said, it was unintentional: it arises solely from the very fact that there is a dominance order to trait values. There is little KittyCatS can do to correct it. They could introduce it as a new most-recessive, which is an unacceptable solution; or they can have special offspring without introducing new trait values. So, the World Cup specials CAN NOT show this bias, but the Saint Patrick's specials do.

Now that they are giving at least a week's warning of special offspring, and running the program for at least a full week, those of us who might be effected can re-arrange our breeding programs to avoid it.

To date, this is the only systemic bias I've been able to show in KittyCatS.