03-18-2010, 06:12 PM
Teresa, welcome! I looked at you website and you have some beautiful Ragdolls. It mush be so much fun having so many. I look forward to getting to know you and all of your fur-babies.
03-18-2010, 06:12 PM
03-18-2010, 06:54 PM
welcome to the forum! i hope you enjoy yourself on here 
03-18-2010, 07:17 PM
Hi Teresa! You must have a lot of love and purrs with 16 raggies! Can't wait to meet them Welcome.
Welcome.03-19-2010, 04:18 PM
Wow thanks for all the welcomes- Yes we share our home with 16 ragdoll cats! Max who is our main stud boy - he lives outside most of the time, because he loves the ladies and doesnt take too kindly to having to share them with our young boys! The 2 young boys are in the house most of the time (all the cats take turns in going out during the day for some fresh air in the cattery). The rest are the girls we have a mixture of patterns, in the traditional colours of seal and blue, we have one blue cream bi colour girl who is in our eyes beautiful! She has a white tail tip and is part of our ongoing breeding program for white tips, we have 2 other white tips which consistently produce white tips for us.
We also have the solid ragdoll- I share a breeding program with another breeder in the UK, we are the only breeders with TICA registered solids in the UK- hopefully we will both have kittens later this year
We are active on the show bench in the UK and have been actively showing cats and dogs since the late 1970's! In the past 5 years solely showing cats.
So I hope this answers everyones questions -Perhaps you would all like to give me a quick run down on yourselves x
We also have the solid ragdoll- I share a breeding program with another breeder in the UK, we are the only breeders with TICA registered solids in the UK- hopefully we will both have kittens later this year
We are active on the show bench in the UK and have been actively showing cats and dogs since the late 1970's! In the past 5 years solely showing cats.
So I hope this answers everyones questions -Perhaps you would all like to give me a quick run down on yourselves x
03-19-2010, 05:36 PM
How long have you had and been breeding Ragdolls?
03-19-2010, 06:24 PM
(03-19-2010 04:18 PM)tumbledownragdollcats Wrote: [ -> ]Wow thanks for all the welcomes- Yes we share our home with 16 ragdoll
We also have the solid ragdoll- I share a breeding program with another breeder in the UK, we are the only breeders with TICA registered solids in the UK- hopefully we will both have kittens later this year
What's the difference between a solid 'Ragdoll' and a Ragamuffin?
The cats will remain TICA registered as GCCF will never recognise them.
03-19-2010, 06:28 PM
(03-19-2010 04:18 PM)tumbledownragdollcats Wrote: [ -> ]we are the only breeders with TICA registered solids in the UK
Solids, as can any variant in any TICA breed such as curled ears or hairless "coats," can be registered in TICA by any Ragdoll breeder, even just one acting totally alone. The solids are not accepted in the TICA Ragdoll breed standard, which specifies that Ragdolls are only blue eyed, pointed cats. So, the registration status only means that TICA will keep track of the pedigrees of the cats registered with them and does not mean a cat is within the breed standard.
(03-19-2010 06:24 PM)Dustysmum Wrote: [ -> ]The cats will remain TICA registered as GCCF will never recognise them.TICA does not recognize them either. They are not within the standard in TICA. They are an unaccepted variant.
03-19-2010, 10:49 PM
(03-19-2010 04:18 PM)tumbledownragdollcats Wrote: [ -> ]The rest are the girls we have a mixture of patterns, in the traditional colours of seal and blue, we have one blue cream bi colour girl who is in our eyes beautiful! She has a white tail tip and is part of our ongoing breeding program for white tips, we have 2 other white tips which consistently produce white tips for us.
Welcome to the forum. I am curious about white tips. Linus is a lilac bi and has a white tip. As much as I love it, I thought it was a "defect" for lack of a better word. As I understand it, ragdolls should be pointed on the ears and tail. Why do you want to breed white tips? Is it now acceptable for breed standard? Thanks, and again welcome to the forum.
03-19-2010, 11:09 PM
White tail tips are acceptable in CFA and a pattern penalty in TICA on the mitted and bicolor. They are not a DQ on those patterns. One complication of tail tips is whether they can be kept off of colorpoints, where they would be a DQ. They are fairly popular among breeders and some are shown, including in TICA. Early, they were between acceptable and desirable, particularly on mitted kittens. They were moved to undesirable status in TICA, although there is discussion of moving them back to a no pentalty status for bicolors and mitteds. They are rather common in the breed and are a recessive of some sort - and recessives are rather hard to breed out without DNA testing, and few seem much interested in breeding them out.
03-20-2010, 07:48 AM
(03-19-2010 06:28 PM)JanH Wrote: [ -> ](03-19-2010 04:18 PM)tumbledownragdollcats Wrote: [ -> ]we are the only breeders with TICA registered solids in the UK
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(03-19-2010 06:24 PM)Dustysmum Wrote: [ -> ]The cats will remain TICA registered as GCCF will never recognise them.TICA does not recognize them either. They are not within the standard in TICA. They are an unaccepted variant.
That's what I thought Jan, I don't know the system within TICA but recall Sassy, a Main Coon x Ragdoll could have been reg as a hybrid with TICA, I guess that's the same as a variant on a referance register within TICA?