* RED and CREAM are two new colors in the Ragdolls.  The Ragdolls had to use cats from other breeds to bring in the reds, so make sure the pedigree of your Angel has a long history of true Ragdoll cats so that your Angel will have the wonderful personality of the Ragdoll.  (See below for more information on the Reds.) 

 

The Chocolate Point Ragdoll: 

The body color of the chocolate point should be an ivory color all over, shading if at all to be in the color of the points. The points should be a warm milk chocolate color. Paw pads to be a salmon pink color, nose leather a burnt rose.  I often explain that a chocolate cat looks like a milk chocolate color, while a Seal looks like a dark chocolate verging on black color.

My Color is CHOCOLATE; My Pattern is MITTED with a BLAZE!  (See Patterns for more information)

Lonerock's Chocolate Dust

(Father of our Annaliese)

The LILAC Point Ragdoll:

The body color of the lilac point should be an even milk white color, almost white in appearance.  The points (see Pattern page for more information on points) should be a lilac gray or pinkish light grey tone. The dilute pigment of lilac permitting the flesh tone to show through.  Paw pads a coral pink tone, nose leather a translucent old lilac hue.

My Color is LILAC; My Pattern is COLORPOINT! (see Patterns for more information)

Blueyed Ima Lilak

(Relative of our Princess Gabriella)

Photo Courtesy of Fred and Linda Smith of Blueyed Cattery

The Blue Point Ragdoll:

The body color of the blue point should be an even platinum gray or bluish tone.  Shading gradually into a lighter color on the belly and chest.  Points should be a deeper grayish-blue tone.  Paw pads and nose leather to be a dark blue-gray.

My color is BLUE; My pattern is COLORPOINT! (see Patterns for more information)

AngelGirls Blue Bombay (now "Chester")

 (One of our own kittens from Princess Gabriella and Apollo) 

 The Seal Point Ragdoll:

The body color of the seal point should be an even pale fawn or cream, shading gradually into a lighter color on the belly and chest. Points should be a dense, deep, dark brown. The color of a dark Hershey bar when younger...

Secondary COLORs:
Introduced into the Ragdoll Breed recently.

The ROYAL REDS!

 Red being a dominant color (genotype known as "O" ) and Cream being its lighter counterpart.   Since red is a sex-linked gene, it acts differently than the standard colors, therefore making for the most unique and unusual of colors and markings on the FEMALES, known as the "torties."  No two patterns are ever the same on the girls who carry "Oo", and so the color and patterns are never the same on the torties.  

The red gene is only carried on the X (female) chromosome. All females are xx, where males are xy.  That is why a male can be red, but not a mixed color, like a female tortie, unless he has the unusual situation of having an additional chromosome, which would also most likely make him sterile.  (This does not happen very often, and accounts for the wive's tale about calico's never being male).  Since females carry two xx genes, they can carry either two red genes (OO), and SHOW red, or they can carry one red gene (O) and one other color gene (o), and show two colors over white.  One of the colors being red or cream (O), and the other being one of the traditional colors (o) which is when they are called a "Tortie" (Oo).

 In summary, a male Ragdoll can be seal, blue, chocolate, lilac, or the new shades of red, or cream.   A female Ragdoll can show all of the above colors, plus she can be a seal tortie, chocolate tortie, blue tortie, or a lilac tortie.