Replace July 2024:
Beginning Could 1, 2025, TICA will acknowledge mink, sepia, and strong giant semi-longhaired cats of the reasonable sort as Cherubim (CB), and not as BEP (blue eyed pointed) Ragdolls (RD).
Cherubim distinguishes them from the Ragdoll (RD), a big semi-longhair, blue-eyed pointed cat of reasonable sort.
Kristin Demko of CottonBlues Ragdolls who sits on the Ragdoll Breed Committee for the Ragdoll breed for TICA mentioned: “CFA and FIFE don’t register minks, sepias, and solids as a result of Ragdolls have at all times been a blue-eyed pointed breed from the time they had been accepted as a purebred for registration. And even in TICA, they’re a DQ and might’t be proven for authentic titles and awards. So, on Could 1, 2025, these cats can be modified to their very own breed, Cherubim, and can be acknowledged and legitimized as purebred and might compete for titles and awards underneath the title Cherubim. Accountable breeders take into account pedigrees and lineage when breeding and keep on with a normal so we will protect the breed. With out that, we wouldn’t have a breed. Whereas it’s true that outcrossing passed off to usher in sure colours like lynx, reds, torties, and in some circumstances the chocolate gene, you can see lots of the basis cats that helped to convey these colours in, no less than 20 to 25 years again within the pedigree. And so long as these colours are blue-eyed pointed cats with a legit pedigree and paperwork, they meet the Ragdoll normal and are purebred Ragdolls. I hope individuals can embrace the change as a step in the correct route for each Ragdolls and the brand new breed Cherubim. The Cherubim have intentionally been bred in opposition to the Ragdoll normal, so now BOTH could have a normal to breed in direction of so each breeds of cats may be preserved.”
For a real show-quality Ragdoll with TICA, the pointed markings are a should.
So, what’s a Mink Ragdoll anyway?
6 months to 18 months to 4 years
Picture Credit score: Jerri Ok.