Blue Point Ragdoll Kittens

What blue means

Blue is seal with the pigment thinned by the dilution gene. The points are slate gray, cool and even, with none of the brown that a seal shows, and the body is a bluish white that shades to a soft gray on the back with age. Nose leather and paw pads on a blue colorpoint are slate; on a blue bicolor like our queen the nose is pink inside the white V. In sunlight a blue Ragdoll has a faint sheen that photographs badly and looks lovely in the room.

How the color comes in

Blue comes in later and more slowly than seal. A blue kitten can look nearly white at four weeks when its seal littermate already has a mask, and the gray keeps deepening until three or four years. Ace, at eleven weeks, has the darker points of our two blues; Milo is paler and will catch up.

Blue bicolor, blue mitted, blue colorpoint

Our queen, Ace and Milo are blue bicolors: slate ears, a slate mask outside the white inverted V, a slate tail and saddle, white legs and belly. A blue mitted has a full gray mask with white mittens and boots and a white chin. A blue colorpoint has no white anywhere and is the quietest, most elegant version of the color. Colorpoint explained; mitted explained.

Gray Ragdoll, silver Ragdoll, blue Ragdoll

They are the same cat. "Gray Ragdoll" is what most buyers type, "blue" is what breeders write, and "silver" is a word that belongs to a different gene and a different breed. If you are looking for a gray Ragdoll kitten, you are looking for a blue, and there are two on this site.

Why we breed blue

Because our queen is blue and she is the best-natured cat we have owned, and because blue against white is, to our eye, the softest version of the Ragdoll look. Every kitten of hers inherits her pattern or her color or both, and, more importantly, her habit of going limp the moment she is lifted.