Summer...

[Devilness Chant]

I think it was 2013 when the Bengal Tawny came out? Not sure of the year, but I believe it was around the year of the love letters? Could have been 2012? Either way this was around the time I got really discouraged with breeding. And new traits stopped being all rec.

Contrary to the finders list, Rocky and I were not the first ones to find the Bengal Tawny. I was just the first one to ask about it in chat and he said something after. There was a woman that said she had a cattery full of them and had no idea they were new. Anyway.

When the Love Letter collection came out. People bought hundreds of them. I don't know if they just wanted to sell them for collectible kitties or if they were just trying to get sizes, or if they were trying to get the rare ones that could be hiding Twinkle. I remember shops filled with them. Like one shop I saw had to have over 50 boxes of them. They were around for a loooooooong time. So aaaaaaaaaaaall those boxes weren't being bred, which I think effects the odds of finding anything new. Plus there were aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall these new ppl that had no clue about how to breed out rec traits.

So of course the masses were complaining over not finding new traits, and rumors flew about favoritism and so forth, because only a few had gotten new traits in the past. I know because I was one of the few. And I've never been a fave, I had just been breeding a long time and new how. (and luck played a part in that too)(also I only bred starters for new furs) If the starters gave me old furs I tossed them and opened new ones and started over. I think that also improved my odds of finding them because I bred ALL my starters for the fur. So all the starters I bought got opened. You can tell I still sting from that time. lol But I have wondered off subject.

Back to the Tawny. In a couple days time, everyone started getting Bengal Tawnies. You could put two chickens together and get a Bengal Tawny. lol I was also told that the Tawny had been around for a long time, but no one had found it yet. That was around the time that new traits became dom and it became harder to figure out where they placed in the charts.

So yes, all those collections that sit on shelves or in catteries, could have hidden new traits. Also, unless it's a one time trait for a collection like the twinkle shade or whatever. It gets rolled over to other starters some time after the collections are gone. I had asked that about traits in the store gen starters. I don't know if that's changed since the time I asked, but that was what I was told by a KC person in chat.

Also, I have talked to ppl that have been breeding for over a year and still have no clue how to breed out rec traits. The ppl I have talked to use more rec traits to pull and not back breeding. So in those cases they may think they have a stubborn starter or that it doesn't hide anything special. I believe that to be another reason why a lot of traits have yet to be discovered.