#leafstranger

This is my girl from her first litter (currently DGP IGP Ashvale Gaia Loghrif, CCA and CFA), at 1y3mo. She and her brother have the late-developing coat type that I think is more typical of EU lines, but her ear set is generally praised, as is her muzzle and tail. I'm still learning a lot about the different types; I fell in love with Maine Coons from Anne McCaffrey's books, where she snuck her Maine Coons in wherever she could, though hers tended to be polydactyl.

But anyway, that cattery's working with both EU and US lines now; their main hopes are with a JRCoons patched tabby queen:

And a Wildwater girl who is mostly EU lines but not heavily type-y.

She also does yearly echos on all breeding cats as opposed to the once-and-done echos, and the requisite DNA testing, so fingers crossed we've avoided a lot of the pitfalls of the overtyped/EU MCs.

Colour genetics are so neat though; she's a black tortie, but both parents are tabby (Black silver tabby mom, red classic tabby dad) and she tried SO hard to be a red girl. All her siblings are tabbies, too.

Anyway, thank you for your glossary and articles/comparisons of the EU and US types; I wish I'd found them sooner.

Thank you for sharing all of these gorgeous cats - it sounds like you’ve found yourself a wonderful breeder, and Gaia truly is a stunner!

I've wanted Aragorn's canonically greying hair for ages and there it is + an incredible character design.

I hope you got to take a good ramble with Hamlet in your afternoon off, and wish you all the best for the year ahead.

Can also use an empty wine bottle or other cylinder of appropriate diameter as a rolling pin!

I love silly kids' jokes, like... "What colour is the wind?" "BLUE!!!!" or "What's brown and sticky?" "A STIIIIICK!"

THE STICK JOKE IS LEGITIMATELY ONE OF MY FAVORITES

My other favorite:

Is there a good comparison out there of what the differences are?

I’m not as familiar with the different “type” of Ragdoll, unfortunately. It was @floatingdandelions who first alerted me to the falsified pedigree issue so they might be better equipped to discuss the ordeal.

From my understanding the “Chinese-type” Ragdoll we’re beginning to see are beginning to display almost Persian-like features - shorter muzzles, bigger eyes, rounder head with low-set ears, etc.

Here’s a 5 month old from Naga Ragdoll with this “new” type.

And here’s an even more extreme one from Miya Ragdoll, also pictured at 5 months.

Here are a couple of ~5 months old cats from Ranchin’ Ragz with mroe typical structure.

And here is a nice looking Junior Champion out of Chatterie des Souffleurs compared to an extreme-style cat from a cattery in Shanghai.

There definitely seems to he a focus on a more “doll-like” appearance with the extreme/new-type Ragdolls and heavier photo-editing to heighten those features seems common.