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Comprehensive Health Testing on Every Ragdoll Kitten: Our New Standard When you bring home a kitten from Kitten Around Ragdolls, you’re getting more than just a beautiful cat. You’re getting our commitment to breed for health, temperament, and lifelong wellbeing. Today, I’m sharing an update to how we deliver on that commitment: we now send […]

How We Ensure Every Ragdoll Kitten Is Healthy: Our Complete Cattery Protocol When families are choosing between Ragdoll breeders, the single most important thing they can look at isn’t the website. It isn’t the photos. It isn’t even the prices. It’s the health protocol — what the breeder actually does, step by step, to ensure […]

How to Buy a Ragdoll Kitten: A Breeder’s Complete Guide to Getting It Right You’ve decided you want a Ragdoll. Congratulations — you’re about to bring home one of the most affectionate, family-oriented cat breeds in the world. Now comes the hard part. Because if you’ve spent even a few hours researching Ragdoll breeders online, […]

Is Your Ragdoll’s Belly (or Ears, or Nose) Trying to Tell You Something? Recognizing Food Allergies Early Here’s a pattern we’ve been seeing lately — and hearing about from other Ragdoll breeders we trust. A family brings home a beautiful Ragdoll kitten. Everything goes great for the first several months. Then something starts. A little […]

When we started Kitten Around Ragdolls, one of the first things we had to figure out was where our mama cats should give birth. Like a lot of new breeders, we tried the traditional approach first — open-top cardboard whelping boxes, custom-built wooden queening boxes, even repurposed plastic storage bins lined with soft bedding. Every […]

Here’s a comparison that trips up even experienced cat people — sometimes in person, at shows, and in adoption photos. Ragdolls and Siberians can look remarkably alike: both are big, both are gloriously fluffy, and one particular type of Siberian is so Ragdoll-like that a quick glance genuinely isn’t enough. As Ragdoll breeders, we love […]

They’re both big, both fluffy, and both impossibly charming — so it’s no wonder people mix up Ragdolls and Maine Coons all the time. But once you know what to look for, these two gentle giants are surprisingly easy to tell apart. As Ragdoll breeders, we get this question constantly, so here’s an honest side-by-side […]

If there’s one thing that surprises new Ragdoll owners, it’s just how much cat they end up with. Ragdolls are one of the largest domestic breeds out there — affectionately known as “gentle giants” — and watching a fluffy kitten grow into a long, substantial, lap-filling adult is one of the great joys of the […]

It’s one of the most common questions we hear from people who fall in love with the breed: are Ragdoll cats hypoallergenic? I want to give you the honest answer rather than the one that’s easiest to sell — because if you or someone in your home has allergies, you deserve the truth before you […]