| Hi Mike.
I will write this in here then extract it to a file and mail it to you
so all bases are covered.
Connie Schmitter has some incredible Ragdolls. She is very reputable
and her cats are VERY large! Some of her males average 18 pounds and
they are not fat cats. The Ragdoll breed has a limited genepool but
Connie seems to have gotten the best of two bloodlines and it shows in
what she produces. She works hard to improve the breed and help
make it more genetically sound. She is an active participant in the
breed club newsletter and from the pictures I have seen published, her
cats are not lacking for comfort or love.
Many garden variety cats look like Ragdolls. A seal colorpoint Ragdoll
resembles a longhaired applehead Siamese to the novice cat lover. Cats
of this type can be born to two ordinary feral cats who carry the
recessive gene for colorpoints. I cannot tell you how many times folks
have looked at Kelsey and called him a longhaired Siamese because of
his markings, blue eyes, and normal "cat face". The mitted Ragdolls
(white chin, chest & feet) and bicolor (white legs, stomach and feet plus
an inverted V of white in the face) are more unusual looking and therefore
not usually subjected to the misconceptions. I personally think the
bicolors are the most beautiful.
The standard calls for a long, muscular cat, with back legs longer than
the front. Females are shorter than the males. Males are said to
average 15-18 lbs. but the average is usually 12-13 (Kelsey is only
10-11). Females average 8-10 lbs. The head is a modified wedge with a
medium length nose, ears are medium sized and tilt slightly forward,
eyes are a deep china blue, oval shaped with a slight lift at the
corners, set wide apart. The coat is of medium length and silky and
very rarely matts (just don't ask Barbara Ives about this, or my friend
who owns Kelsey's sister and spends the winter months cutting out matt
after matt after matt. Kelsey himself gets a few matts on his
underside but not nearly as many as his sister. Like any breed, coat
length and texture varies between individual cats).
There is more to the standard which differentiates between acceptable
characterisitcs of each pattern but I don't have that information
available to me. Your neighbor can write to either CFF or TICA to
obtain a copy of the standard, or perhaps Connie herself can provide
one.
--Roberta
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my sister in law is looking for a Ragdoll kitten. does anyone have
any info as to breeders, price, availability, etc.??
Thanks, Debbie
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