![]() ![]() Ragdoll cats are famous for being one of the most friendly and affectionate cat breeds. But does their color shape their personality too? The cat in the photos accompanying this article is a blue bicolor lynx Ragdoll. They also have a white triangle on their nose, and usually a band of white fur running around the back of their neck. That is, their legs, belly, bib, and chin. BicolorĪ blue bicolor lynx Ragdoll cats has white markings covering most of their lower half. They also have a small white blaze on their forehead. Mittedīlue mitted Ragdoll cats have white socks or mittens which partly conceal the blue tabby markings on their paws. ![]() White patches are caused by the white spotting gene series, and depending how much of a Ragdoll’s body they cover they are known as either the blue lynx mitted pattern, or the blue lynx bicolor pattern. The besides the basic blue lynx point markings, blue lynx Ragdolls can also have white patches. Variations on the blue lynx point Ragdoll If you’re not sure whether you can make out stripes in the long fur on your Ragdoll’s legs or tail, take a look at their forehead for the characteristic ‘M’ that all tabby cats share. The final ingredient for blue lynx markings is the mackerel tabby gene, to provide the ‘lynx’ stripes. If Ragdolls were wild cats this would make blue point Ragdoll cats much rarer than seal point cats, but in captivity they’re fairly straightforward to replicate. The color dilution gene is special because it is recessive, which means it’s only expressed when a kitten inherits it from both parents. Seal Ragdolls with two copies of the color dilution gene produce less eumelanin and appear blue instead. Ragdoll cats with dense eumelanin pigment in their fur are seal colored. The color dilution geneĪll cats’ coats, no matter what the breed, are based on just two pigments: eumelanin, which is black, and pheomelanin, which is red. If you live in a region with very hot summers and very cold winters, you might notice their points ‘spread’ in winter, and their back gets darker too. Usually this only happens on their muzzle, ears, paws and tail – their ‘points’. This gene makes pigment production temperature sensitive, so that Ragdolls’ fur only has pigment in it where the surface temperature of the skin is below a certain threshold. This is also sometimes known as the Siamese albinism gene, after the breed most famous for carrying it. The high-contrast temperature sensitive albinism gene Lynx blue point cats are the result of three specific genes combining to magical effect. Their temperament is just the same as show standard individuals’, so for cat lovers outside the show community they make equally lovely and loving companions. Cats which vary from the physical ideal in some significant way are sometimes known as pet quality. However, not all kittens sold as pets will exactly meet these requirements in every respect, and that’s ok! After all, cat shows couldn’t operate if every single cat met the breed standard perfectly. ![]()
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