The Ragdoll is a relatively large and very attractive and docile pointed cat with a semi-long coat.
The body is long and substantial, with a broad chest and heavy in the hindquarters. The legs are not too high and medium strong, with large round paws. The boning is solid.
The head forms a broad wedge, the skull is rather flat, the cheeks are full and rounded, the muzzle is rounded. The neck is short and strong.
The ears are medium sized, wide at the base, and set wide apart on the skull, when viewed in profile the ears show a slight forward tilt.
The nose is medium long and shows a gentle curve in its upper third.
The eyes are large and oval, and have an intensive deep blue colour.
The coat is dense, soft, silky and semi-long, a characteric bib can be seen on the chest. Around the shoulders the coat is quite short and becomes gradually longer at the flancs down to the rump. The Ragdoll is a pointed cat. It exists in three patterns: bicolour, mitted and colourpoint.
The tail is long and bushy.

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Owner Jacqueline Freudenthaler

Three patterns

Bicolour

The Ragdoll, which is a pointed cat, has also white. In the face there is a white blaze (in the shape of an inverted "V"), which extends down to the chin, i.e. the chin is also white. Chest and stomach are white as well as the legs and paws. The back and the flancs are coloured, but the colour tone is paler than that in the face and on the ears, where the mask of the points is clearly visible. Sometimes white patches may appear on the back. The tail is coloured.

Mitted

This is a very special pattern in the Ragdolls. The cat shows the typical points of pointed cats - a mask in the face, coloured ears, legs and tail. On the nose bridge a white stripe can be seen, and the chin is white. The back and the flancs are coloured, the colour tone is paler than that of the points, but the paws are white. If one inspects the underside of the cat, a broad white stripe, running over from the chest down to the stomach, should be seen.
Unfortunately the white stripe on the nose bridge is not always present, thus this pattern can only be recognized through the white chin and the white paws.

Colourpoint

The cat shows the typical Siamese points, mostly quite dark in colour, legs and paws are also coloured. The body is shaded in the same colour tone, but paler than that of the points. Chest and stomach are also shaded with colour.

Colours

All colurs exist in all three patterns, in bicolour, mitted and colourpoint.

Self colours	seal
	The colour is a very dark brown, like bitter chocolate.
	blue
	The colour is bluegrey.
	chocolate
	The colour is a rather pale chocolate brown.
	lilac
	The colour is a pale dove grey.
	red
	The colour is orange.
	cream
	The colour is a very pale pastel cream.
tortie colours	seal tortie
	The colour is patched in seal and red.
	blue tortie
	The colour is bluegrey and cream patched, both colours are very pale.
	chocolate tortie
	The colour is milkchocolate and red patched.
	lilac tortie
	The colour is patched in lilac and cream.
Tabby pointed	All colours, mentioned above, can also have stripes. In the face the typical markings on the cheeks in the shape of spirals can be seen, the legs and the tail are ringed, the body rather does not show any tabby stripes. Tabbypoints are also called Lynxpoints. Tortie Tabbypoints are also called Torbies.
	seal tabbypoint blue tabbypoint chocolate tabbypoint lilac tabbypoint red tabbypoint cream tabbypoint sealtortie tabbypoint bluetortie tabbypoint chocolatetortiet tabbypoint lilactortie tabbypoint.

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History

The Ragdoll is a very young cat breed. Around its origin several fairy tales are passed on. It is said the the first Ragdolls had been bred by Mrs. Ann Baker in the 1960s, a woman living in Riverside, California. She crossed a white longhaired domestic cat, named Josephine living in her neighbourhood, with a male similar to a Birman, out of this mating the first seal mitted Ragdoll male originated, which was called Raggedy Ann Daddy Warbucks. This male was crossed back to his mother Josephine by Mrs. Baker, from where the first bicolour Ragdoll female originated, which was called Raggedy Ann Fugianna. The male Daddy Warbucks was corssed with a cat named Burmes, from where the first seal colourpoint Ragdoll female originated, which was called Taggedy Ann Buckwheat. Thus today's Ragdolls can trace back their pedigrees to the first foundation Ragdolls.
In 1965 the Ragdolls were registered as separate breed in the USA. In the 1980s the first Ragdolls had been brought to Germany.

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Temperament

The Ragdoll is a very docile, gentle and quiet cat. Nothing can disturb this cat and it seems to have a 'nothing bothers me' attitude. Ragdolls love human companionship, they make endearing and lovely companions. The cats appear to love being carried around, also by children.

Grooming

Ragdolls are easy going cats, their silky coat has no tendency to mate or to get knots. As Ragdolls are longhaired cats, they should be brushed on a regular basis, to get rid of old and dead hairs in their fur.

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