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 Lady Godiva of Coventry, Our Seal Mink Mitted Girl

Where Traditional Ragdolls are born all white, Mink Ragdolls are born in color.  This is the first difference you notice about a Mink Ragdoll.  The second difference that one will notice is that as bunny soft as the fur is for a traditional ragdoll, the mink coat is even silkier.  The coat also often seems to stand out from the body more, and they often have an extremely plush tail.  The third thing that is noticable is that Minks have Aqua colored eyes (sea blue green eyes) instead of the blue that the Traditional Ragdolls have.   The coat of the Minks can be described as richer in color than the Traditional Ragdolls.  The mink coat seems to require a little more brushing in the warmer climates and when the weather changes rapidly.

How can I tell a Mink Ragdoll from a Traditional Ragdoll?

Mink Ragdolls are born with their color and have Aqua colored eyes by the time they are 12 weeks old.  Traditional Ragdolls are born completely white and start slowly aquiring their color starting around 4 to 14 days old.  Aqua eyes can vary from blue with just a small hint of green to almost fully green eyes but the most common is a very even blue green as pictured below (Seal Mitted Mink Ragdoll Pictured):

Minks and Sepias are part of the foundation lines which produced the Ragdoll.  When researching the Ragdoll breed you will find that Ann Baker’s early pedigrees show that Buckwheat was a solid black cat who carried the sepia gene and Josephine was a solid white cat who carried the mink gene -- thus tracing the solids and minks back to the origination of the Ragdoll. 

Contrary to some rumours, mink ragdolls are indeed purebred and the breed is officially acknowledged by the SBT (StudBook Tradition) and The International Cat Association.  This makes them eligible for cat shows.