Colors & PatternsCarolina Mink Ragdolls Diamond: CMRText Box: Specializing in Dilute Ragdoll Kittens Text Box: Please send an email to MinkRagdolls@outlook.com OR Call or Text (843) 608-6028 This web page was updated Tuesday, August 3, 2010 Text Box: Please send an email to MinkRagdolls@outlook.com OR Call or Text (843) 608-6028 Text Box: Standard Colors: DESCRIPTIONS FOR TRADITIONAL RAGDOLLS: SEAL: Points are a deep seal brown. The seal color is the equivalent to a dark brown ranch mink. The body color can range from fawn or cream to warm brown. CHOCOLATE: Points are milk chocolate color. The body color can range from ivory to cream. BLUE: Points are slate blue to silvery blue-gray. The body color is ivory or bluish white. LILAC / FROST: Points vary from frosty-gray lilac to pinkish beige. The body color is a warm magnolia color. FLAME: Point color is a tangerine color. Body color is pure white, sometimes with hints of tangerine. SMOKE COLORS: Color near the root will be lighter than the tip of the fur, almost appearing to have a silvery look in darker varieties, i.e.: a Smoke Black will be a “softer black” than a pure solid black Ragdoll. The undercoat may appear “silvery” in appearance. CREAM POINT: The body should be creamy white with the points ranging from pale sand to deep cream. The overall impression is dull, cool buff beige. The paw pads and nose leather are pink. MINK RAGDOLLS HEVE THE SAME SHADES, HOWEVER THE BODY COLOR IS A FEW SHADES LIGHTER THAN THE POINTS. Text Box: HIGH MITTED: This mitted has two mitted genes instead of one. There is often a little breakthrough spotting on the limbs, but otherwise a High Mitted looks like a Bicolor. If the pattern fits the Bicolor standard, a High Mitted can be shown as a Bicolor. Text Box: Standard Patterns: COLOR POINT: Pointed Ragdolls have the classic Siamese-type markings. The color point has darker points than the rest of the body. The contrast between the points and the body can vary a lot. Strong contrast is preferred. The is no white, though the body color may be nearly white in some Ragdolls. The nose and paw pads should match the point color. MITTED: Similar to the Color Point, but with added white “mittens” and boots on the cat’s paws, a white chin, a white bib on the chest, and a white streak along the abdomen. Sometimes a mitted Ragdoll will also have a white blaze on the nose, which is usually Text Box: BICOLOR: The lower part of the body is white, while the upper part maintains the color point pattern. A large inverted “V” white/contract color pattern is on the cat’s face. They may have a splash or two of white on their backs. Only their tails, ears, and the outer part of their masks show the darker markings. The degree of white on the Bicolors varies. Te nose leather and paw pads are pink. Text Box: HIGH WHITE BICOLOR/VAN: Vans look like they are nearly drowned in whipped cream. Only the top of the mask, ears, and tail, and perhaps a few spots on the body show darker markings. There is usually no “saddle” on the back. The “V” on the mask extends almost to the top of the ears. This pattern can sometimes be shown as a “Van” if the cat is marked like a Turkish Van cat. Text Box: LYNX POINT: This pointed variety carries the striped gene, otherwise known as the Tabby marking in the solid Ragdoll. The Lynx pattern will usually dilute the point color and make it appear lighter than in the Mitted or Color Point versions. A Seal Lynx Point will generally never have points as dark as it’s Color or Mitted counterpart because the striping breaks up the color making it appear lighter. The Lynx will usually have a “peach” colored diamond on the nose and appear like it is wearing eyeliner. Text Box: TORTIE: Torties carry the red gene and can only be females. They can be the “patched” variety or a “mottled” look. No two Torties will ever be alike. Each has it’s own distinctive look unlike Color Points and Mitteds, which at times are barely able to be distinguished from one another. Text Box: TORBIE: A Torbie carries the red gene for the Tortie plus the striping gene called Lynx in the Pointed variety of Ragdoll and Tabby in the Solid variety. Like their Tortie counterparts, this marking only occurs in females. While some Torbies will have dominant striping patterns looking like Tiger cats with patches of red and orange through the coats, others will be predominately patched with very faint striping on the legs which is barley discernable. Text Box: MACKEREL TABBY: This pattern occurs only in the Solid variety of Ragdoll. This marking pattern has vertical striping and in some cats appears like a “ticking” pattern. Brown Mackerel Tabbies may appear black and white with diffuse areas of brown (pale beige) throughout the striping pattern. This is called a “Cold Brown Mackerel Tabby”. They can also come in other colors, such as Red Tabbies, as this is a marking pattern, not a color pattern. CLASSIC TABBY: This pattern also occurs in the Solid variety of Ragdoll. This striping pattern appears to be in a circular pattern on the belly, but appears the same as the Mackerel Tabby on the legs.