Ragdoll cats Breed Profile
Coat Type, Color & Grooming:
The Ragdoll coat
is moderately long, with abundant guard
hairs, shorter fur on front legs, longer on
rear legs. A wide array of pointed colors is
available in bi-color, van, mitted, shaded
and smoke patterns:
Colourpoint - Point coloured mask to
the face,
point coloured ears, feet, and tail. A
colourpoint has no white whatsoever.
Mitted - Point coloured mask, ears,
tail and legs, with white mittens on the
front feet and short white boots on the back
feet. White on chin, ruff and stomach.
Bi-Colour - White inverted
“V” in the mask, white legs, feet, ruff
and stomach. Point coloured ears and tail.
Physical Attributes:
Ragdoll cats are large well-balanced cats with no extreme features. The head forms a broad equilateral triangle, modified by a gentle rounded muzzle. Their bodies form a long rectangle, are broad and solid with “medium to heavy” bone structure. They have long legs and a long well plumed tail.
Personality:
Loving, placid and easy going and as such they make wonderful house or apartment cats. They are intelligent and can easily be trained. They have a unique temperament, usually sweet and docile – and are not fighters by nature.