Ragdoll Cat Colour Types
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Ragdoll cat colour types. Traditional mink and sepia ragdolls color continues to deepen and darken as they mature until they are up to 3 years old. The six point colors are seal blue chocolate lilac red and cream. And parti colored or tortie. Seal dark brown points on a lighter body colour and.
Solid point ragdolls have the same elegant markings as siamese cats but on a fluffy ragdoll physique. Solid ragdolls can have green gold blue aqua blue or a rainbow of other eye colors but most often have green or gold eyes. The tica ragdoll breed standard for the ragdoll cat allows the following colors. The points of color are on the ears feet and tail and sometimes a little of the color shows up on the body.
Allowance should be made for darker color in older cats as ragdolls generally darken with age but there must be definite contrast between body. Ragdoll kittens are born white acquiring their coloring and coat pattern as they age. Ragdoll cat colors patterns explained someone a while ago asked me what colors and patterns ragdoll cats can come in. This may vary from a light gray all the way to a russian blue like dark gray with a full shine.
There are other colours now available that have been brought into many bloodlines by out crossing. The typical colors for raggies were the four standard himalayan seal chocolate lilac and blue. Blue the term used by cat breeders is blue but the color seen in this type of ragdoll cat is gray or sometimes in certain light a taupe like color. I will show pictures of each blaze later in this.
This wonderful breed comes in seal blue lilac chocolate flame cream and tortie. But i love both my babies for who they are. As for the patterns these were solid points from their siamese part mitted from their birman part and bi colors. Hourglass my all time favorite and i will totally own one one day star diamond and broken.
A mitted ragdoll has white fore paws resembling mittens. However i personally now only breed with the traditional ragdoll colours of seal and blue as i much prefer a cat with no out crosses in their pedigree particularly those to balinese and birman. Colorpoint ragdolls are marked similarly to a siamese with a light colored body and darker fur on the nose ears tail and paws. The standard ragdoll cat colours are seal and blue only.
There are also various patterns they can display such as bi color van. Blue steely grey colour with a lighter body colouring. Blue ragdolls may come in various patterns such as blue colorpoint blue tortie blue lynx colorpoint blue lynx bicolor or blue lynx mitted. The rear paws are white to the hock as if the cat was wearing boots.
All ragdolls are pointed but points are partially overlaid with white in the mitted and bicolor. Seal mitted ragdoll cat caymus. Seal seal is a very dark brown. Point colors may be solid lynx including tortie lynx.
Zeezee note the dark seal colouring on ears and around eyes chocolate chocolate ragdoll coats range from a light brown to dark chocolate brown. Mitted ragdolls may have a blaze on their foreheads there are 4 types of blazes. Ragdolls with this in colourpoint are very reminiscent of siamese cats. The ragdoll has a bunny soft semi longhair coat which does not require extensive grooming.
Full color development may not be evident until 2 3 years of age.