Welcome to the homepage for DP�s Selective Breeding Project! I�ve toyed with selective breeding projects o�er the years but I�ve always given up because frankly, they�re a lot of work. But what seems a lot of work to one person would not be a lot of work to a large group of people. Which is why I�m asking for all of your help.
Lately people have been focusing on hexing and sort of pushing breeding and selective breeding projects to the wayside. I personally have always enjoyed working with the original breeds and I want breeding to make a comeback in the PC.
This Selective Breeding Project is designed to include as many PCers as want to participate. Basically, everyone will breed a few petz, send me their pictures, I�ll look for trends and post some pictures here, and we�ll decide which traits we want to continue breeding into the next generations. It�s just like a normal selective breeding project, but on a much larger scale. And at the end, we will have a new, non-hexed and non-inbred selective breed all our own.
The first step is to get people involved. Why should you join? First of all, it�s not very time consuming. Each person would only have to breed about 10-20 petz per two weeks or so, which is nothing, especially if you�re a PetzA user. Secondly, it�s a great way to meet new people and get involved in the PC. Thirdly, I will post all members here, so you get some site exposure. Lastly, you just should because it�s a rockin� good time.
Once we have a decently strong membership, we�ll decide what breeds we want to start with and what traits we�ll try to achieve in our breed. Do we want to breed catz or dogz? What do we want to breed? Miniature dalmatians? Poof-tailed tabbies? Alley-marked meezers? Fuzzy bulldogs? We�ll decide together where we�re going to start.
As soon as we have an idea for a breed, I will send out to members and also post here rules for breeding to avoid inbreeding in our lines. The general idea is that after everyone has bred about 10-20 (or more, if you have time) second generation petz, everyone will send me pictures of them as adults. I will look for trends in what we have and post a few pictures of possible traits we can pursue here. The members of the group will vote, and then I�ll redistribute the petz that we�ll use for the third generation. Everyone will be able to keep their own �reject petz.� We�ll repeat until we have a 10-12 generation, true-breeding selective breed.
What we need now are members and ideas. The only restriction is that all breeding must be done in Petz 3/4, since that is the program I have. If you want to be a member and/or you have an idea for a selective breed, by all means, e-mail me at [email protected].
When this project gets off the ground, I�ll post more information on selective breeding in general and our project specifically here, as well as member info and project progress. If everyone pitches in a little bit, we�ll have a full selective breed in no time!
