Devaluing problem within selling kittycats

[Wendi Lavendel]

This has been a debate off and on for years. I agree that a breeders should be discouraged from selling "copycat" work and instead encouraged to try the challenge of taking traits they like from 2 different breeders and coming up with their own combination (a hobby of mine actually, when I have the time, and I don't hesitate to sell the duds of such projects if I think people might want them) and selling those offspring, or perhaps coming up with a completely different combination.

However.. we've had this debate SEVERAL times before. Most of the people that you wish would read your posts will likely not read them, and will continue to do what they're doing. And they do have the freedom to do this. Everyone has the right to attempt to sell what they like. All you can do is refuse to buy (or as auctioneer, politely suggest they provide a different cat and explain why as diplomatically as possible). And who are we to say what is and is not acceptable, anyway? None of us are the KittyCatS Merchant police (although several unsuccessful attempts have been made to set up groups of "ethical sellers").

Don't read crap that isn't here: I'm not saying that anyone is upset or unhappy or doesn't have the right to complain blah blah blah. I'm just sayin' that we're rehashing an old argument that's probably never going to go away because people do have the right to do what they want, whether we agree with it or not, and there's not much we can do about it.