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RE: A Thought on Retiring of Furs
But... Retiring a fur does NOT mean it goes away, on the contrary! Rather, it becomes more popular, more people will breed it.
This is especially true for the Bengal Snow, as it is the most recessive retired fur, and hence extremely useful in breeding vs. starters. In my auctions, I have promoted Bengal Snows quite a bit since they were retired, and given an example on why this is a very good thing:
At one point, I mated a starter with a Bengal Snow, and got a... Bengal Snow! "Whoa!" I thought - "This means the starter hides something gooood!" and I kept breeding the starter + all it's fur-carrying offspring, and a friend got some of the offspring and also bred those to even more recessive furs. -All to no avail... Several months later, I finally had to realise the ugly truth: I had been breeding and feeding all these cats for months in the hope they carried some recessive fur, but actually the hidden fur of the starter was... Yes, you guessed it: Bengal Snow. And while Bengal Snow is all nice and good, the "old" Bengal Snows I already had were of course showing more and better traits than those coming from the starter - so yeps, it was all for absolutely nothing. The whole family now enjoys their days in the Menagerie.
Since Bengal Snow is now retired, it simply means this particular can never be the hidden fur of a starter again - and that also means that if you mate your starter with Bengal Snow and get a Bengal Snow kitten, the starter's hidden fur WILL be more recessive. This is a brilliant way of figuring out how dominant new furs are, since then you will always know: More or less recessive than Bengal Snow?
So, I am most definitely not sorry that the Bengal Snows are retired - on the contrary. They are now more useful than ever, and I will absolutely both continue and expand my Bengal Snow breeding projects. Bengal Snows may be retired, but they will NOT disappear :-)
Saga
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