i've been sick for the last few days so as a little treat I finally broke & searched the recruitment board for color density 1 solid-carrying Nestor cats, and after a couple days of checking back in semi-regularly I found one!!! WAHOO!!

this is dandelion:


Ae will be paired up with Eyes, who is here!!


I would have loved to have paired Dandelion with Mudpuddle for higher odds of getting a solid, but they're both south wind cats ah well.. 25% odds is better than nothing!! and this means I now have enough pairs of partners to cover EVERY COLOR, which is super exciting!!! yay!!!!

I've already fed them a catmint tea, and they're expecting 2 beans fingers crossed!!!!!

Yay good luck!!

@queerdeer Thank you!!!

steph and tiny's beans arrived today!!! none were solid



they're so cute though! and i don't think i had a smoke kitty before this hopefully i'll have better luck with Eyes and Dandelion in a couple days!!

Cute!!

new beans new beans!!!! I’m about to be late for work but I’m just so excited :D



as you can see, one (Goose) is albino, and the other (Quill) is solid!!!! Yay!!!!!

No idea what Goose looks like under that albino, but from a cursory glance at the sandbox they are neither solid nor do they carry solid.

YAYYY CONGRATS!!!

@queerdeer THANK YOU!! <3

allllll right!!! it's me back again with an essay length post today! time to do a bit of an overhaul on my setup for this project, for more targeted breeding to hopefully get things done faster and prevent duplicates!! also once i figure out which cats i need to keep around in my village i can send the rest travelling in order to hopefully free up some space, since i have a business card to use and no more open slots.....

first up: categorizing the adults by color density!!

color density 1:


color density 2:


color density 3:


color density 4:


this ought to be enough for 7 pairs of partners, but I doubt things will work out that way :P

in addition, i have a ton of solid/solid-carrying kittens and adolescents!


i'm trying not to pre-pair these up too much, but i'm thinking the best way to get a snow solid is with a pair of null-carrying solids, of which vanora and quill are the only 2 i have


anddd other than that, here's the newly reshuffled pairs i have my heart set on at the moment!!


tiny x february: these two have a pretty good chance of producing any color density 3 color! 50% of the time their beans will be dilute and 75% of the time their beans will be orange/cream, so hopefully that gives me a decent chance of getting a cream solid from them.


dapple x licorice: the goal from these two is to get a chocolate solid!! maybe a long haired one if i'm lucky, since i think long haired kitties are cute.


crow x dandelion: the goal here is to get the non-dilute density 1-2 colors! i don't have any density 1 solids yet because density 1 seems to be harder to get, so maybe this'll work out better. idk.

and then finally, for bounce and steph:

i'm not pairing them up, but looking for partners for each of them on the cat recruitment board! for bounce, a red or black cat that carries solid and dilute, and for steph, a tan or almond cat that carries the same. preferably g1 for both. HOPEFULLY i'll be able to nab the right kitties. crossing my fingers.

and yeah, that's it for now!! just needed to take stock of my system and figure out what's working at the moment :-)

WOOO!! snagged a couple kitties for bounce & steph!! honestly I thought that would take longer haha (technically, I bought them yesterday, but I knew I was getting a Nestor cat today and wanted to see if they carried solid first) (they did not)

for bounce: viola!!!

since they’re both heterozygous for black & orange, and viola carries dilute (giving them a 50% chance of producing dilute beans), there’s an equal chance at a solid for any given color! plus I love red/black torties :-)

for steph: percy!!!

she doesn’t carry dilute or hidden black like I wanted, but she DOES have the new white markings, and I definitely want to incorporate those into the project whenever possible!! plus she’s cute <3