~ Profiles of the Ragdoll, Sibella & Burmilla~

 

~Burmilla~

Temperment:

The Burmilla has the best features of both the Burmese & the Chinchilla. They have the playful nature of the Burmese without being overly active, and the quiet, laid back nature of the Chinchilla. Burmillas love to play, and access to toys & scratching posts are important, as is daily attention from their owners as they are an affectionate cat & enjoy being a part of the family.

Description:

Burmillas are medium-sized with muscular bodies, round faces, short muzzles and tend to weigh between 8-10 lb. A burmilla's eye color is usually green, although some cat societies accept blue (and yellow eyes are permitted in kittens). Black cats have eyeliner in black; other colours may have no lining or soft brown. The shape of their eyes are almond-shaped.

Coat length comes in three variants: The most common (standard) coat is the short-hair. This is a short, close-lying coat similar in appearance to the Burmese but with a softer, silkier feel. In addition there is a recessive longhair gene producing the Longhair Burmilla. These cats have a semi-longhair coat lying close to the skin, with a soft, silky feel and a large plumed tail. T

Colours:

A variety of coat colours, including black, blue, brown, chocolate and lilac. Although red, cream and tortoishell (calico) varieties are currently going through breeding program so they can be recognised. In addition the undercoat is either Silver or Golden, depending on the colour in the Persian heritage. The Burmilla's shading comes in three major coat patterns which relate to the depth of colour. These are Tipped, Shaded and Smoke. Tipped Burmillas have at least 3/4 of their fur in the underlying colour (Silver or Golden) and the remainder is a light dusting of "colour" over the top. In the case of Silvers, these cats appear almost white. Shaded Burmillas have 1/4 - 1/2 as their colour, and Smoke have almost all colour with only a faint pale base to each hair. The cats have nose leather which is red to pink (smoke cats have solid colour corresponding to their coat). In addition their paw pads correspond to the coat colouring: Black cats have black paw pads, Chocolate have brown-black, Brown cats have brown, both Blue and Lilac have pink.

Black Shaded Male

~Ragdoll~

Temperment:

They are a gentle cat who put up with the endless love and attention of a child and will be devoted to any other person who will adore and shower affection on them. They are a layback cat for strictly indoors which love and depend upon their owners for their safety, as they do not have a defensive nature, and are unable to protect themselves against the outside world and all of its dangers. 

In return for you supplying them with a warm, caring and safe home, they will give their owners, an endless supply of love and affection.

Description:

As adults they range from 6 - 8 kg for the males, sometimes heavier, and 4 - 6 kg forthe females, not reaching full maturity until they are 3 or 4 years of age.They have a broad, medium sized head, large stunning blue eyes and a medium lengthnon-matting soft silky coat, which requires very little grooming, but they love nothing more than lying on your lap and being stroked with the brush, this is very good for their coats.

Colours:

Chocolate

Chocolate Point
The body should be ivory, shading gradually to lighter color on the belly and chest. The points ranging from warm milk chocolate to bittersweet chocolate, all with rose undertones. The paw pads should be a brownish salmon pink and nose leather a rose brown.

Lilac

Lilac Bi Colour

Body magnolia white. Points a pale dove grey with pinkish tones to a warmer deep lavender, the dilute pigment permitting the flesh tones to show through. Paw pads and nose leather lavender pink.

Seal

Seal Point

The body color should be ranging from ivory to pale fawn beige, shading gradually into a lighter color on the belly and chest. The points will range from a warm seal brown to a deep brownish black. The paw pads and nose leather to be a seal brown to brownish black.

Blue

Blue Mitted with a Blaze

The body should be a bluish white to platinum grey, cold in tone, free of any tinge of brown, shading gradually to lighter color on the belly and chest. The points will be blue- grey to deep slate. The paw pads and nose leather dark blue. 

Flame + Cream Explanation:

Flame is red and Cream is the recessive of Flame. The reds take a long time to get their full color and it can take a lot longer to know the pattern of the flame or cream Ragdoll kitten. Sometimes they leave to their new homes before we know if a flame or cream Ragdoll kitten has mitts or not.

Flame or Red

Flame Bi Colour

 The points (nose, ears, paws, tail) have an orange to red colouring.
The body is cream with a tinge of orange.
Colour points have a pink nose and pink pads on their paws

Cream

Cream Lynx

The points (nose, ears, paws, tail) have a pale orange tinge.
The body is a creamy white colour.
The nose and paw pads are pink.

Patterns:
Colour Point

SEAL POINT

The points, ears, mask, feet and tail are to be dark with the color well defined. The body should have definite contrast between it and points. Soft shadings of color are allowed on the body, as the cat gets older. Nose leather is the color of the points. Must have Blue eyes.

Mitted

Dark Chocolate Mitted

The points are to be dark and contrasting to the body, with matching white mitts on the front feet, and white going up the back legs at least to the hock. The chin must be white, and there should be a white belly stripe from the chin down the bib, and running to the base of the tail. This pattern may have a single white blaze between the eyes or a broken blaze between the eyes and on the nose. Blaze may not extend into the nose leather. Nose leather is the color of the points.

Some patterns can come with a Blaze

Blue Mitted with Blaze
A Blaze is the white colour between the eyes or a broken blaze between the eyes and on the nose. Blaze may not extend into the nose leather. A Blaze can come in all sorts of shapes and sizes.

Bi Colour

Blue Bi Colour

The Ears mask and tail to be well- Defined in the darker color. The mask is to have an inverted "V" which should be as symmetrical as possible and should not extend beyond the outer edge of the eye on either side. The nose leather must be pink.  

The chest, stomach, all four legs, feet and ruff are to be white. The white should reach above the elbow on the front legs, and above the hock on the rear legs.

The back may have shading in a lighter shade of the point color, with various markings of white and color patches.

Lynx Point

Chocolate Lynx or Tabby

Overlays any one of the above patterns. The Lynx pattern shows as tabby markings on the face in what appears to be the letter "W".

Tortie

Seal Tortie Bi Colour

Overlays any of the above patterns. Tortie Points, color-wise, will generally have Red or Cream mixed with one of the other colors.

~Sibella~

( Self Coloured Ragdoll ) :

Chocolate Lynx Sibella & Choclate Tortie Ragdoll

The self coloured pattern can have different eye colour where a point must be blue. Some colours aregreen or yellow.
The colour is even all over the cat, but can come with patterns within the colour of Bi colour/Tortie/Mitted/Lynx/Van.
You can not have a seal in a solid it comes out as black. Silver is also not permitted in this program.

Blue Lynx Sibella

 

Controversial Ragdolls

Mink:

Mink Ragdolls have been around since the beginning of the Ragdoll breed. YES, minks are purebred, SBT and TICA registered Ragdolls.  A look at early pedigrees from the Ann Baker cattery, called Raggedy Ann, you will see the names of such Ragdoll cats like Josephine (a solid white), and Buckwheat (a black Burmese type) which confirm this statement.

The coat of a Mink is smoother and much softer, and develops a darker and more richer point color, than the Traditional Ragdoll.   The body color of a Mink is a few grades lighter than their points.

The eye colors of a Mink are aqua (can vary from green/blue to blue/green).

Sepia:

Points are very dark - body colour is very close to the same shade as the point colour (not quite the exact colour).
The colour is a warm colour.

These solids, Sepia and minks do share the same heritage and ancestry as the standard Ragdoll, and even more importantly have the same physical type and Ragdoll qualities, so many breeders are working with them to try and have them recognized in the Ragdoll standard. Like the Self coloured (Sibella), the Sepia/Mink lines also go back to IRCA breeders. It was Buckwheat who threw in the sepia gene. At birth, the mink kittens are significantly darker in body color than their pointed littermates and the sepia kittens are even darker than their mink littermates. The points of an adult sepia, mink and pointed Ragdoll look quite similar but the body color is really different.

 

Not all the pictures on the profile page are of my cats. This is a page for people to learn the difference in colours and patterns of the Ragdoll.