Devaluing problem within selling kittycats
There is a present problem I am noticing more often lately of people reselling other's lines of breeding. So here is my concern.
When you take two kitties from the same breeder and you pair them together and then sell the offspring, are we in a mutual understanding as a breeding community that this is acceptable?
If you take two cats, from two separate breeders and then pair them, get an offspring and sell this.. this is more of an acceptable pairing and sell because the breeder has added something unique to this line that they just created.
Why then are we allowing breeders (that are obviously not new to the breeding game) to sell other people's hard work so they make a quick buck?
For example, to make it more clear.. Breeder A has set for sale two kitties that are almost identical in trait value and have either the same grandparents or grandparents from the same line. Breeder B buys both kitties and them breeds them. Breeder B then goes to an auction or a bidboard and resells this kitty as if they added any value to this kitty and the line that Breeder A created.
How can we, as a breeding community, monitor this "copycat reselling"? Or is it something we are all okay with, excluding me? I put hard work into the kittycats that I breed and place out there and I expect the same from other breeders when I type out my sniper bid at our auctions.
Lets not devalue our work and effort.
Thoughts?
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