Kitty pricing!

[CarlottaAdagio Resident]

Hi, I am one of the persons that breeders might not consider one of the "community members". But I would like to add something to this post to show that there is not just the "breeding community" there but also a lot of other people who just happen to love and adore KittyCats.

Me and two of my friends were hooked around last year in December or so. I always saw KittyCats cats everywhere and desperately wanted one but did not understand this whole breeding pet thing (maybe partly because I am not a native english speaker).

So I read and read and gathered information and ended up buying a flair white Russian Kitty on a secondary market. I rezzed her and was sooo happy ..... until my friend brought home her first kitty. A black & white Chateau cat with natural fur! Her Kitty did not shine like a lamp but looked like a real cat.

We digged deeper into the information about KittyCats and - to cut a long story short - we got addicted badly and we ended up until today with about 300 to 400 cats (live & boxed) each.

We just adore and love our kitties with all our love and soul and we always picked them very carefully according to what we loved and to what we could afford. Me - for example - think there is no sweeter and more adorable kitty than a Genesis Smokey III with a natural coat and whatever mysterious eye color.

My one friend and I we are breeding together our beloved cats. But always only those cats that we know we will keep and love and would problably permapet if we could pay the ridiculously high price for it. We don't like very many of the newer traits and we hate cats that are lighted like lamps. We only breed our natural coated darlings with "these special eyes we adore".

All cats that come out with a non natural fur and all cats of which we know we would never permapet them, we put in our little shop and sell them for a price from 30 to 500 Lindens. We want people to be able to afford one or more kitties without spending hundreds or even thousands of Lindens that they might not have. And this is an important thing to think about. A lot of people maybe would really like to spend more Lindens but they simply don't have that kind of money.

We also see - for many months - kitties in shops that cost a few thousand Lindens and never get bought. So what is the use of paying the shop rent for?

We are absolutely not prepared to put a kitty in the Menagerie again. We did that in the beginning and these sad and abandoned kitties haunt us in our Pedigree lists all the time (and now please don't tell me about those kitties who play and eat and sleep all day in a kind of kitty paradies...).

So we sell them. We hope that the people who buy them will either have use of them breeding the kitties they love or just love and cuddle them or even put in the menagerie to get a Menagerie tiger they dream of.

But we never sell them for profit. We are very thankful to our buyers for buying our kitties. It is a little money to help us cope with our costs but we do never think other people should be made responsible for our costs. We think that if someone wants to breed kitties for thousands of Lindens to breed out special traits and so on.. that's ok - but don't think that makes other people responsible to get you back the costs. We think all this is a hobby or - ok - even an addiction. So everybody must be able to cover all the costs this hobby takes. After all, everything and every pixel cat can be lost tomorrow by LL.

So this whole high cost breeding and high price selling thing we don't understand. We also don't feel and accept everything else about markets and traits...and so on. Why the hell should I pay a lot of lindens for a cat that has a lot of traits that maybe I consider not very nice? Only because the breeder has spent a lot of money in breeding that out? Is this not just the breeders own personal problem if they like to breed these cats?

And is it not even in KC's philosophy that EVERY kitty is a nice and beautiful and lovable kitty? So I heard members of the staff repeating over and over again when it comes to pricing and worth questions in the chat.

All you breeders out there: Please realize that there are a lot of people like us on the secondary markets and that we really don't care for profits and reputation and all this. We just care for our very personal likes in kitties. In kitties that we adore and want to be around us.

If we had the money we would permapet every single of our 300 kitties and just be happy with them. Nothing else matters for us.

And I think it is quite arrogant to ignore our kind of breeders and KC addicts.

WE ALL are the market.

Thank you for reading this.