Colors and Patterns
Almost all ragdoll kittens are born primarily white and within two weeks the cat's color pattern will begin to show up. There are 5 color patterns: mitted, bicolor, colorpoint, lynx, and tortie. The patterns may be mixed depending on the specific cat's genetic pattern. The colors include: seal, blue, lilac, flame, chocolate, and cream. And whoever came up with the names of the colors of these cats is clearly a colorblind, idiot.
Mitted:White spots typically on the feet and face. Like they're cold and put on a pair of gloves.
Lynx: Also called tabby, this is typically characterized with stripes.
Tortie: A multicolored cat. Only female cats can have this color marking. Girl power.
Bicolor: This is any color but has two distinct colors marked on the face. Because one color wasn't enough.
Colorpoint: One color spread over the cat. This is the boring one.
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I repeat, not siamese, if you please. Seal is a dark brown almost black.
These are actually grey cats, but they had to get fancy and call these bad boys blue.
Chocolate is a warm medium brown. Sometimes if the breeder is trying to scam ya, then these are marked up because they'll say they're mink or sepia.
Lilac is not even a light purple but rather a lighter blue-grey with a pinkish tone. I guess they couldn't decide what crayon they're gonna use.
This cat is on fire... Not literally, flame coloring is marked by the appearance of dark orange/red. Definitely not the color you see in a fireplace.
Cream colored is a lighter shade of red or orange. If this was the color of the cream I put in my coffee I'd be very, very afraid.
Patterns
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