Catherine: "The people who have bred the terracotta, or the Azure or any other meeroo, their history can be traced back to common starters - not "Rare Lottery Meeroos." Also, more people have found Snowpaws, Painteds, Jubilees and every other kind of Meeroo currenty out there by doing it organically... these results were not from a lottery."

Would it be possible for you to provide meeroo id numbers as examples of some of these bred out rares? Every single rare I have seen for sale in markets has in its line somewhere a rare coat that came from a starter trunk. I recently saw you praise someone for their hard work in breeding an azure, yet checking its history - voila a rare starter coat in its line. I really hate to be a skeptic, but I am having a hard time accepting this as fact. Maybe proof will lend some advice/clues for the many of us who seem to be stuck in autumn/sierra/red mode and terribly frustrated and discouraged. Thanks Catherine!