Breed Features
Reading a Ragdoll listing: colour, pattern and modifiers
A 'blue lynx bicolor' is three separate pieces of information. Once you can decode them, browsing Ragdoll listings gets much faster.
By Marcus Vance · Published 2026-05-08 · Updated 2026-08-01 · 8 min read
Base colour
Seal, blue, chocolate, lilac, red (flame) and cream. Blue is the dilute of seal; lilac is the dilute of chocolate; cream is the dilute of red.
Pattern
Colorpoint has no white. Mitted adds white feet, a chin and a belly stripe. Bicolor adds an inverted white V on the face and much more white on the body.
Modifiers
Lynx adds tabby striping to the points. Tortie adds mottled red or cream. Together they produce torbie. So 'seal tortie lynx mitted' is one cat, described precisely.
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