Saw the "first" solid/self-coloured ragdoll imported into Australia for breeding... I was quite shocked to see it. How can they be ragdolls if they don't have blue eyes and don't LOOK completely ragdoll? Does anyone know if Australia is thinking about making these cats an acceptable variant?
Hopefully not. These seem very much a newbie supported variant and more experienced breeders will hopefully not allow them to be accepted. However, it will all depend on the breeders in each association. There seems little chance of their acceptance in the major associations in the foreseeable future.
Yes luckily the association we are registered with do not allow it. I wouldn't think the others would either, but there you have it! There has already been a litter born, half are solids and half are points. All with blue eyes I think. It seems strange to me why someone would take the chance of introducing a ragdoll like this :$
Newborn solid cats would have blue eyes (as with babies), but the color would change away from blue.
I like them- from my experience veiwing them they're beautiful cats. Please don't hail me with angry comments it's just my opinion. My and Kim's red bicolor boys have a self coloured ragdoll father and they're just stunning.
Maine Coons and Bengals are stunning too. They are just not Ragdolls.
Thats ok Matthew
Admittedly I haven't seen one in person, just pictures and I guess its just my taste that I'm not particularly fond of the colour in Ragdolls! The kittens I saw had inherited the seal colouring from the mother, but as the kittens were self-coloured they were very black all over! Can self-coloured raggies have blue eyes too?
Blue eyes go with white coat colors in solid cats. Blue eyes in pointed cats are from the pointed genes themselves and all will have blue eyes, including seal colorpoints.
Kittens all have blue eyes, which gradually turn into their underlying eye color as their iris pigment develops, kind of like how human babies start out with blue eyes even if they end up with brown eyes. So the non-pointed kittens with blue eyes will probably not have blue eyes when they get older (with the exception of blue-eyed whites and a few with random mutations like a friend's cat who is cream and white and has blue eyes in spite of being non-pointed, but that is very rare)
One of the kittens is a self-coloured blue mitted (who I personally think is adorable!), the other three are black mitteds (with various blazes). Then there is the three pointed kittens, I believe they were all seal mitteds but I am not sure. Mum is a Seal Point, and Dad is a self-coloured Chocolate High Mitted (bicolour). All self-coloured kittens will be registered with TICA so they can be registered as Ragdolls rather then the Sibellas (which are what self-coloured Ragdolls are registered as in Australia). I have seen them too, as the breeder is a well respected breeder on another forum I'm a part of. I don't like that they are called Ragdolls but I do think they can be very good looking.