Ragdoll Characteristics

Ragdolls are large, loving, laid-back medium-longhaired cats with stunning blue eyes. Their fur is rabbit-like in texture, non-matting and low shedding. Their sweet-natured, non-aggressive, easygoing personality makes the Ragdoll an ideal house companion. Ragdolls thrive on human companionship and develop a strong bond with their owners, meeting you at the door and following you from room to room. Ragdolls are intelligent and playful, they can be taught to retrieve and walk on a leash.

Colors and Patterns
Ragdolls are pointed cats, which means that they have color on their ears, faces, legs and tails with a much lighter, contrasting body color. They come in the standard colors of blue, lilac, seal and chocolate as well as the newer tortie, flame and cream.

1. Blue body color is ivory or bluish white with slate blue to silver grey points.

2. Lilac body color is milky white with lilac or pinkish beige points.

3. Seal body color ranges from fawn to cream with deep seal brown points.

4. Chocolate body color is ivory or cream with points like milk chocolate.

5. A tortie is a multi-color cat. A seal tortie has patterns of seal and orange patches on a seal body or a blue tortie has shades of gray and peach patches on an ivory body. The ideal tortie will have a split color face.

6. Flame point Ragdolls have a white to copper colored body with darker points.

7. Cream Ragdolls will be white or ivory and their points will be cream to light peach in color.

The 4 basic Ragdoll patterns are bicolor, mitted, colorpoint and lynx.
1. Bicolor Ragdolls have points on their ears, face and tail with a white inverted "V" extending from their muzzle up into the darker mask on their face. They have white on their legs, feet, ruff and belly. Bicolor's have a pink nose and pink paw pads.

2. Mitted Ragdolls are pointed on their face, ears, legs and tail with a white chin and white mittens on their front feet and white boots on their hind legs.

3. Colorpoint Ragdolls have darker color on their ears, face, legs, feet and tail. Their body color is lighter than their point color.

4. Lynx Ragdolls adds a striped effect to the face, legs, tail and a contrasting white on the inside of their ears, without affecting the color or the basic pattern.