On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, BarB wrote:
|But are there enough usenet readers? That's all that really
|matters. Why aren't the current r.p.cats.* groups satisfying
|breeders as forums for their discussions? What are the problems
|with those forums, and how will the proposed group help? What
|kinds of problems might the proposed group create and how will
|they be mitigated?
|
|Some users believe all breeding of animals is immoral, not just
|the back-yard breeder cranking out litter after litter for a quick
|profit, but also the breeder working to improve the breed.

How on earth is it possible to improve a breed without hybridizing?

Is the breeder going to induce mutations instead?

This is more than a rhetorical question, it's a quandary, because
it requires someone, somewhere, to decide which set of cat genes,
properly concentrated, constitute an approved 'breed.'