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Post by midnightwolf on Oct 16, 2017 11:30:48 GMT -5
I want to believe the problem isn't me, but I'm not sure why so I'm posting to confirm in case someone else has the same experience. I have this new litter of catz I'm prepping to show, but for some reason I can't get two of them to have straight eyelids and I don't know why exactly. These three from the litter have Honey Bear personalities which I haven't had issues with, like with Ed; Eyelids are straight. But with his brother and sister (HB personality as well), no matter if I mis-align them too much to the right or left, they have uneven eyelids. One eyelid always touches, even if it's decently posed or terribly posed. I tried taking before the tail aligned too but the eyelid pops down right when the cat takes a step to pose. They do have an external breedfile but that file poses fine as well. I have probably 100 more poses of these two in different angles and every single one has a lower eyelid. I'd conclude it's just the HB personality but why does Ed not have the same issue? Ratqueen , maybe you have an idea? I hope I'm not being dense and missing something obvious. I'll stop posing catz while working....
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Post by Ratqueen on Oct 16, 2017 12:30:01 GMT -5
Yep, it's a known problem, usually with large P5 breedz/mixies. It happens most often with Honey Bear mixies, but I've seen it with Desert Lynx, Scottish Folds, and Egyptian Mau mixies, too -- usually on the large size (but some, even big like my cat Honeypot, turn out just fine). I've never been able to exactly pinpoint what the cause is. I think it's a mix of personality, size, body parts put together, maybe fatness, and of course breedz... When that happens, I don't show them simply because some judges may not be familiar enough with the P5 breedz and especially this unavoidable oddity, and therefore place them low. That is annoying -- I've had to discard many beautiful kitties because of that Good thing Ed didn't inherit of this problem!
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Post by smonikkims on Oct 16, 2017 12:38:13 GMT -5
It's definitely a problem with the cat itself and nothing you're doing wrong. I've seen other people having this problem before. Since the cat will pose with its eyelids the same every time if it's trying to do straight eyelids, there's sadly nothing you can do! I still think if you get an otherwise good pose with it, it'll make it to retirement!
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Post by Ratqueen on Oct 16, 2017 13:35:34 GMT -5
I agree, and I think if the cat IS perfectly aligned, a good judge will see that (I will definitely not penalize for that in my shows). I'm just too much of a perfectionist to be able to stand it on my own cats, it drives me crazy
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Post by midnightwolf on Oct 16, 2017 14:11:51 GMT -5
ah man. Cool it's not me but sucks it's unavoidable. I'll probably still show them then even though it does annoy me when I see it haha Probably won't breed them in case it passes on.
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