My comments earlier were, correctly, interpreted to mean I, too, and a bit disgusted with the whole '9T tyranny' thing.
I do, however, want to clarify Kayla's statement above:
Quote: The more dominant a trait is, the more likely it will show if thrown on a kittybox and the more of them there are.
Dominance has no relationship to the odds. For each parent, the chance that the dominant trait value is passed is exactly equal to the chance the recessive value is passed. Both are exactly 50% (1-in-2).
Nor does dominance dictate rate of appearance in the population: PEOPLE determine that. The reason you see so many highly dominant specimen is, quite simply, people are pack-rats. If EVERYONE would send ALL of the most-dominant values they own to the Menagerie, the trait value COULD be eliminated from the breeding population.
There is ONE condition where dominance CAN have an effect: genetic drift. And there is ONE area of KittyCatS where we can expect this to appear: the fur shown on Confetti Cats non-Confetti offspring. Here, over the coming years, we can expect to see the emergence of one non-Confetti fur as being the ONLY non-Confetti fur. If everyone were to stop purchasing Confetti Starters, which fur would become the only non-Confetti fur in the Confetti population would be random. But, with a continuous stream of Confetti Starters, the players are shifting the odds toward Confetti offspring hiding, mainly, Genesis furs. [Note that the stream of Confetti Starters always ensures there will be SOME non-Genesis furs out there; but, over the coming decades, their rate of appearance will decline.]
Silver Whiskers and Natural Shade as traits
