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IMPORTED lines from New Zealand - April 2009
Finally we can also share with you lines from
Australia/New Zealand in our dilute chocolate lilac Ragdoll program.
They consist of such Ragdoll bloodlines as KiwiMagic, DancingMist,
DollyWood, Kaiwara and PandaPaws. Welcome Grace (blue mitted
chocolate carrier) and Champayne (chocolate lynx color point).
Stay tuned to see announcements of their first
litters (possibly fall 2009) .... reserve today, as I am sure these
kittens will be going fast to compliment any breeding program.
Upcoming Kings & Queens from our Matings - spring
2009
We are now very pleased to have new children in our
program resulting from the matings of existing chocolate and lilacs
from within our cattery. So without further ado please welcome,
Blossom (blue mitted chocolate carrier) - 2nd generation, Snow White
(chocolate lynx bicolor) - 4th generation, Sasha (chocolate tortie
bicolor) - 3rd generation and finally Dusty (solid blue bicolor
carrying chocolate) - 2nd generation.
Needless to say our dilute chocolate and lilac
Ragdoll program is well underway, and only gets better every day. We
now have waiting lists for breeders around the globe interested in
importing some fine kittens for their breeding programs from the
RaggleRock and Sentimental bloodlines.
RaggleRock Continues to Grow - April 2008
RaggleRock purchases the Sentimental cattery, website
and TICA cattery name. All ragdolls are now under one umbrella. This introduces such cats as
Sentimental
Vintage Pearl (lilac point), Sentimental Fancy Pants (lilac mitted) and
Sentimental Canadian Moose (chocolate bicolor).
Elektra Arrives from Alberta
2008 brings us plenty of joy ... as
Evening's sister arrives at our cattery ... at birth she was named
Rosa but here we call her Elektra. She is a
solid chocolate mitted Ragdoll. Gorgeous, soft fur and such a
sweet temperament to boot. We look forward to her first litter of
kittens with us.
Our First Chocolate Babies born here ...
September 2007 brings the arrival of our first “real
chocolate” (not just carriers) Ragdoll kittens. We are so pleased. The
proud parents of this litter are Evening (a.k.a. Evie) and our
Champion Prince Kai.
The mother is doing wonderful … and produced a litter
of 6 kittens total. There are 2 solid chocolate bicolor males and 1
pointed chocolate bicolor female. Way to GO !! The other 3 kittens
although in colors of black, black/white and blue will also carry the
chocolate gene.
Tia Maria ~ chocolate point bicolor
Bear ~ solid chocolate bicolor
Here we go again …Good News / Sad News
By fall of 2006, we once again set our minds to
finding true dilute Ragdolls, only this time we went to well known
sources and established long time breeders who knew what they were
doing.
In October, we were extremely lucky
to find a chocolate solid Ragdoll. Visually
she was a true chocolate with white, no DNA testing was
required. In solid cats the color is either chocolate or black (black
solid = seal pointed). Our first true chocolate Ragdoll comes
home!! Welcome Sentimental Evening.
In November, we found and purchased a chocolate point
lynx mitted with a blaze from the United States. A sweet kitten, nice markings,
everything one could want … unfortunately less than 3 weeks later
(while still separated from the other cats in our home) she succumbed
to a viral disease. Not only were we down another cat, but also out
the money and time we had spent to obtain her from such a long
distance away. Very
disappointing and yet another set back in our saga of obtaining
dilutes for our breeding program. Sometimes you have to wonder.
Finally, long awaited DNA testing becomes available
University of California Veterinary Genetics
Laboratory announces that the long awaited DNA testing is available
for cat coat colors.
On August 5, 2006 we sent away for our first set of
DNA tests to be performed on the two Ragdolls sold to us as being
“chocolate” and a “chocolate carrier”. Surprise, surprise.
The results are in and NEITHER cat had any
chocolate what-so-ever … and although very nice cats and great
parents, we had been had! It had cost us a lot of money to obtain
these cats and like so many others out there, our chocolate just
simply turned out to be a lighter colored seal cat.
Back to the drawing board again !!
However, in the meantime we tested Prince Kai,
Cinnamon, Jaycee Elizabeth and others of our resident breeding cats to
find out we did have some chocolate carriers amongst our breeders.
Purely by accident … but it was a nice relief.
Sometimes it IS meant to be …
Born September 2005 was a gorgeous litter of mink and
pointed Ragdoll kittens.
One of those kittens was a sweet mink girl that stole
our hearts, she was to be off to Europe. Then as luck would have it,
the breeder who was to purchase her could not take her. By now our
girl was almost 12 weeks old and we hummed and hawed about what we
would do. As we did truly like her.
Finally a decision was made and we decided to keep
her. The kitten became known as Jaycee Elizabeth and is a mink blue
lynx bicolor. We took her out to the cat show to show her off and
although minks can not claim championship status, everyone loved her
in terms of conformation, size, coloring, sweetness and so forth.
We also took her to the cat show since we weren’t sure
of the coloring. Asking each judge produced a 50/50 answer, some
thought she was blue others thought lilac. So we eagerly waited for
the DNA tests to become available for her too!
Update: She is DNA tested and IS a
blue carrying the chocolate gene !! So we have another carrier in
our midst and could therefore produce true chocolates in mating the
two carriers together (Kai x Jaycee), also Jaycee being mink and lynx
in pattern, can thereby produce for us a possibility of chocolate mink
Ragdolls with/without the lynx pattern. FANTASTIC !!
Prince Kai & Cinnamon
Fall 2005, we came across a litter of bicolors kittens
that just caught our eye. They were simply irresistible, so they
entered our lives and stole our hearts. These two were later to be
known as Prince Kai and Cinnamon.
Since they were brother and sister we were also
astonished by the difference in coat color, once again thinking that
perhaps Cinnamon was a chocolate (but we’ve been down that road before
and it turned out a lighter seal) so I waited patiently as she grew
older.
Today, Prince Kai is a champion and working on his
GRAND CHAMPION status. He has also been DNA tested and IS a
chocolate carrier. Cinnamon has not yet been to a cat show but is a
wonderful mother, also DNA tested and IS a chocolate carrier.
Purchasing our first chocolate Ragdolls proves
frivolous
By the fall of 2004, we came across 2 very beautiful
Ragdolls. One was supposed to be a chocolate mitted while the other a
seal but carrying the chocolate gene due to the parentage/lineage seen
on the pedigree.
We knew the breeder was new to the world of breeding Ragdolls but her
mentor had been breeding a very long time and even claimed to have done
“test matings” in order to prove the status of her dilutes in her
program.
I was skeptical even after I received my two new members … as I
compared them with seal kittens and cats that I had in our cattery and
although the “chocolate” one was lighter it was still doubtful to me
that she was actually a chocolate coloring. Especially since Ragdolls
take 2+ years for their coat coloring to come in fully these are very
difficult colors indeed.
Well you can tell by the tone of post, that as they became older I was
more and more doubtful?
In The Beginning ... Decision to include the dilute
colors in our breeding program
In 2002 we saw our first diluted Ragdolls in chocolate
and lilac colors. We thought they were stunning lighter versions of
the seal and blue colors and could not wait to integrate these into
our breeding program.
We knew this might be difficult as many breeders
claimed to have the dilutes (chocolate and lilac) and yet in fact did
not. Mainly this was due to the inexperience in truly recognizing
these colors and the inability to somehow test these kittens/cats for
their true coat colors.
Well our search continues.
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