News – Ragdoll Kittens for Sale in CA

Please be careful about buying kittens that need to be shipped to you.  100% chance that they are a scam.  I can not even tell you how many people call me crying that they were scammed out $$$.  Don’t fall for it.  The scammers steal the pictures of our kittens and charge some cheap amount for them and then when they have your money they start with shipping charges.  The kitten will never arrive.  There is no kitten.  Drive to the person’s house and get the kitten.  Don’t give your money to scammers.

Fellow Ragdoll Breed Group Members and Ragdoll Lovers –

This current election for Breed Committee member is extremely important to the future of our Ragdoll Breed.   Do you want to keep the Ragdoll as a blue-eyed, pointed breed in the standard colors?  There are breeders who are currently pushing for us to change our standard to accept non-standard variants such as mink, sepia, and solids for championship status. It seems their suggestion is to accept any Ragdoll with 5 generations of only registered Ragdolls in the pedigree for championship, regardless of color.  Adding these colors, or non-pointed, or other eye color would be a drastic change to the breed and one that no other major cat association recognizes. There are 4 people, who I know of, that are running for Ragdoll Breed Committee this year with a goal of changing our Ragdoll standard to allow for these colors.

This past term I made several attempts to present ideas to the TICA Board that would prevent this changing of the Ragdoll breed to include these non-standard variants.  I failed but I learned a lot.  The entire breed committee supported me and helped with ideas and information.  We worked hard to tighten our standard and keep our Ragdolls from taking on the look of one region or one group of catteries.  But that is not enough to prevent the non-standard variant breeders from pushing forward with their goal of changing the Ragdoll. What I learned in my attempts to stop this from happening has made me better prepared to succeed at this challenge.

There are other goals for the next breed committee to accomplish such a seminars and better training materials. When you have a good group of people that are all working toward the same goals, these things can also be accomplished.  I am proud of what our committee did accomplish.

It was nice to have a committee that represented lots of areas of the world.  Ragdolls are loved all over the world and it is important to hear your voice.  I intend to set up an online forum where you can submit ideas and concerns to the breed committee and get answers back from them so your input will be visible to the entire committee and responded to by a number of committee members.

We really need your help to keep the Ragdolls so that they look like Ragdolls – blue-eyed, pointed, and conforming to our current standard.

I would appreciate your support to be elected to the breed committee for another term.

There are a lot of Ragdoll “breeders”.  How can you tell good from bad?

• When you first look at the website – Good Breeders will be proud of their cats.  Their cats will have the cattery names of where it came from and of the Breeder that owns it now.  For example, Marlcreek Love Again of Creekcats.  This boy is from my dear friend and excellent Canadian breeder, Charmayne, Marlcreek is her cattery.  Love Again is his name and Creekcats is my cattery.  In the case of Kip, we are limited to the number of letters so he is Marlcreek Steven Lil Keeper – no room to add Creekcats.  But Marlcreek is the cattery that bred him and that cattery is always listed.
• All reputable breeders send their kittens home no younger than 12 weeks.  There are lots of reasons for that and a good breeder is willing to put the time into making sure the kitten thrive in his new home.
• All kittens are spayed/neutered before leaving the breeders home.  No agreement to get it done later.  Again there are lots of reasons for this and if you adopt a kitten and don’t get around to having it spayed/neutered and it is spraying or peeing on you new sofa you will be very unhappy.  It is not the cat’s fault.  It is the breeder’s fault.  Most breeders that do not spay/neuter are probably saving money and selling because they think they will get rich.  Good breeders, are making their next show cats or working on a trait or line and they are definitely not getting rich.
• 2 vaccinations – usually 8 week and 12 weeks
• Parents are neg/neg for the HCM Ragdoll gene.
• TICA Registration is included with the kitten.  Yep.  Good breeders register their litters and are proud of the parents.
• Good breeders stand behind their cats.  Usually genetic guarantee is 2 or 3 years but in reality, good breeders whan to know if your cats dies of a genetic defect regardless of the age.  These are our lines.  We care about them and if something should show up, we want to find out so we can see if it was just a one time thing or if there is a genetic problem that needs attention.  Ragdolls are a healthy breed.  We would like to keep it that way.
• The breeder is available to talk to you if you have a question.  Always contact them before you spend lots of money going to the vet.  It is not uncommon for a kitten to get diarrhea or sneezes after going to a new home.  The breeder can often give you helpful hints to try before going to the vet.
• Promises, promises, promises.  If a breeder promises your cat will sit on your lap or not scratch the sofa or will talk to you – be worried.  No one can promise anything about personality.  They can say what they see, and what their experience is with those parents but they are cats.  All those cat cartoons would be out of business if we didn’t all know that there is a lot of truth in the saying that you can train a dog but a cat trains you.

Ragdolls are great pets.  Please be careful and buy from a reputable breeder.

Someone wrote me ans asked for baby photos.  Was it you?  Please write again and i will forward pictures to you.  Sorry I misplaced your email.

Roxann

Happy 8th birthday to Pandora and thank you to her people for taking such good care of her!  Pandora is loved by Erin, Ariana, and Emilia.