This is a suggestion that has already been made but not sure if it was on this forum.
With the recent tsunami of new traits many established breeders have left or are seriously thinking of leaving the kitty biz.
These are people who have contributed knowledge, time, effort and 100's and often 1000's of USDs to KittyCats, and contributed in other ways to make the biz what it is today.
Months of breeding out traits end up in the dustbin and although we have had the courage and interest to keep up with the earlier introductions it's now getting totally out of hand.
I won't bother to recap all the reasons which are mostly covered here in Malicia's thread :
http://kittycats.biz/forum/showthread.php?tid=2269
And ok, I know there are plenty more fishes like us in the sea, but for how long … ?
Critical mass is a phenomenon which touches not only the black holes in space but everything in life including collective psychism, markets, and the event horizon in this case = collapse, it has a life of it's own and and grows according to it's own equation. And raining tons of new traits every couple of months is just a way of hastening this.
Anyhow a way to rekindle the resulting waning enthusiasm for breeding would be to introduce newer traits into our older kitties, like a recessive dormant gene much in the way white, mysterious whiskers were introduced back in summer 2011.
Of course i don't mean the very latest traits being snuck in as this would probably reduce drastically the buying of specials and starters.
Maybe for example : when the xmas kitties came out, the new halloween traits and those before could have been introduced into already existing kitties.
The argument against this which comes from a few of the community is that this would scramble their "pure" breeds … well IMHO
pure is not a great way of breeding out new traits and i avoid it like the plague, it's a dead end, as do many of the really top breeders i've spoken to about this, and when i say top breeders i don't mean those who just buy the best traits and pair them and churn out identical kitties for fast bucks without making the effort (or even knowing how to) develop them further.
But in order to not downgrade the traits i'd say no introduction of anything lower than say from aby ruddy up and from grass up. This way a 9 T bengal snow won't suddenly star producing blue tabbies with forest but my 9T blue tabby with forest has a chance of starting to produce something higher, also the ben snow of giving even higher.
A delicate balance to find i know but this would surely dynamise our flagging spirits and give a whole new interest to Kittycats.
I was going to post this in the above thread but as i'd like as much feedback as poss i'm creating a new one.
Looking forward to seeing added "2 cents" from some of our great minds
Newer Traits Introduction
), PLUS they already got "mutations" implemented in the scripts. -It is a completely different system.
