Colors
and Patterns Of Ragdolls
Please note; Ragdolls are born ALL white with their color coming in slowly and full color isn't reached until they are 3 years old.. So, most of the pictures you will see, especially of kittens, will be of a mostly white cat except for the points, which will have color.
The Colors and Patterns of Ragdolls
is pretty easy to understand once you get the hang of it. I'll mention the name of one or
two of my cats as a reference throughout this. So here goes........
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COLORS - There are 3 basic colors. Seal, Blue and Red ( also called Flame ). With each of these there is a dilute color.
SEAL, ( Tiffany ) which is a dark brown that's almost black, has a dilute color called Chocolate ( Sebastian ) that is best described as a chocolate brown.
BLUE, ( Kayla
) which is a dark bluish grey, has a dilute color called Lilac ( Ashley ) that is a noticeably lighter shade of blue/grey.
RED or FLAME, which is much like most
red cats you've seen, has a dilute color called Cream that is noticeably lighter shade of
red.
OK, that sums up the
COLORS and leads us to the PATTERNS, where I think most of the confusion
comes in....
PATTERNS - There are 5 basic patterns. Colorpoint, Mitted, Lynx, Bicolor and Tortie.
COLORPOINT, ( Sebastian
) is a cat of any of the colors mentioned above, that has just one color on its body. Bear
in mind that a colorpoint has a darker shade of its body color on its POINTS. The points
on a Ragdoll are its paw tips, tail, ears and face.
MITTED, ( Tiffany and
Samantha ) is a cat much like the colorpoint and comes in Seal, Chocolate,
Blue, Lilac, Red and Cream, but has white at some of the points. So a mitted Ragdoll has
white on its front paw tips, white on its rear legs and as an added attraction, has a
white chin and chest. The ears and tail are the same as described for the colorpoint.
LYNX, ( Ashley
) is a pattern of any of the colors mentioned above, but has dark stripes of the same
color that's on the body. But.. a Lynx Ragdoll has white inside its ears, and a reddish
nose leather. LYNX Ragdolls ALSO combine patterns. There are Colorpoint AND Mitted Lynx
Ragdolls.
BiCOLOR, is a pattern of any of the colors
mentioned above that has 2 distinct colors on its face. The color on its ears and top of
the head are the body color, only darker, and with an inverted white "V" on the
lower part of the face. A BICOLOR Ragdoll has white legs and white on the face, with a
body that may be mostly white with splashes of color OR with solid color covering the
body.
TORTIE, is a pattern that's gender specific. Only females
will be Tortie. When a kitten has a Red father or mother and a Seal as the other parent,
some of the female kittens will be Tortie. A Tortie Ragdoll has splashes of dark color on
her face and body that's mostly Cream colored. A BLUE CREAM is a female Ragdoll that
had one Blue parent and one Red parent, but is really a Tortie.
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