pamnock wrote:
Could someone post a photo of one from the site? My router isn't working and I can't access some sites. They sound incredible!
Here Pam. This has, by my opinion, the nicest mane of any. The rest, for the most part, are SM and just sort of look fuzzy.
Sorry about the size, it's what they have it set to and I don't feel like downloading, editing, and reuploading right now.
(EDIT: Okay, so that picture was over 2000 x 1500... Got unlazy and fixed it.)
And I just want to put a note out there... I feel rather upset with those of you that say this is just 'experimenting'. Let people breed for what they want to breed for, so long as they are doing it responibly.
On their about velvet lions page, they clearly state that this is not an arba recognized breed. (They do, however, say that they hope it will one day be... This frankly, is likely a false hope. Lionheads will pass their COD long before these do, and they won't have the "2 difference" rule on their side.)
Would I personally have them? No. I don't generally like lionanythings. (However, I saw ONE lionlop that I would have taken, had it been in the USA) But should people be allowed to breed for what they want to? Yes. Elsewise it opens the door to all those issues surrounding even the recognized breed breeders. If the authorities take away the right to breed "velvet lions" then whats to say that they won't take away my right to have Ermine Netherlands, or Tort Otters? Those are just as unshowable as those rexed lionheads are.
And on another note, purebred simply means that they reproduce the qualities when bred to like kind, through 3 generations. Otherwise, Netherland Dwarfs wouldn't be purebred. They'd still be a mutt cross of a dutch and a wild agouti rabbit. Lionheads would simple be a mutt cross of netherlands, and (what? jerseys? I haven't paid much attention).
Not to mention all the breeds that would be dead right now without outcrossing. I'm a firm believer that you simply HAVE to get the hybrid vigor in there at some point. Elsewise the gene pool becomes too small and you run into issues. That's why I see no harm in breeding, say, new zealands to cinnamons. How often do you see a cinnamon that doesn't look like some scary.. I'm not even sure.
Heck, I, myself, plan on breeding american sables to silver martens to create more of the sable variety of silver marten. Why? Because I've only ever seen two, and that's in /photos/... And they.. were not even close to the type of the blacks. So, why not recreate them? Obviously there was a way the shaded gene got in there in the first place... It certainly didn't just 'mutate' from blacks or blues.
Annnnd Megan's done ranting now, sorry.